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Lamborghini open to new LMDh companions for WEC return
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Lamborghini open to new LMDh companions for WEC return

By Miles Cooper January 30, 2025
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Lamborghini will begin on the lookout for new accomplice groups to proceed its LMDh mission past 2025 if it may well show the competitiveness of the automobile on this yr’s IMSA SportsCar Championship.

The Italian producer has taken over the lead of the race programme for this yr with an IMSA-only assault on the 5 endurance rounds following its cut up with Iron Lynx.

Nevertheless it has outlined a imaginative and prescient to return in 2026 in IMSA and the World Endurance Championship with factory-supported buyer groups.

“It’s not our ambition sooner or later to be a racing crew,” defined Lamborghini chief know-how officer Rouven Mohr.

“It’s clear that if we go to the subsequent step and enlarge the programme, it makes solely sense if the automobile is sorted and the efficiency of the automobile is on the degree of our GT3 automobiles [in terms of competitiveness] and we will put the automobile in buyer fingers.

“We’ll choose the longer term programmes relying on how briskly we’re progressing with the efficiency improvement.”

Lamborghini open to new LMDh companions for WEC return

#63 Automobili Lamborghini Squadra Corse Lamborghini SC63: Mirko Bortolotti, Romain Grosjean, Daniil Kvyat, Edoardo Mortara, #25 BMW M Workforce RLL BMW M Hybrid V8: Marco Wittmann, Sheldon Van Der Linde, Robin Frijns, Rene Rast

Picture by: Andreas Beil

Mohr added that he’s “super-positive” that Lamborghini Squadra Corse, its in-house motorsport division, will be capable of make the SC63 aggressive over the course of this yr.

However he insisted that it stays too early to decide to plans for 2026.

“One step after the opposite: first we now have to think about the development of the LMDh after which if we’re aggressive and we discover the curiosity of a crew or groups to re-enter, let’s see,” he stated.

Lamborghini advised that the WEC stays very a lot in its plans.

Firm CEO Stephan Winkelmann described the Le Mans 24 Hours, the centrepiece spherical of the WEC, as a race that “provides a whole lot of visibility” and that he would “like to be again as quickly as attainable”.

Rohr wouldn’t go into element concerning the cut up with Iron Lynx, which is believed to not have been absolutely resolved.

The Italian crew was a key accomplice within the SC63 mission and ran a full season with a single automobile within the 2024 WEC and in addition entered 4 of the 5 IMSA enduros with one entry.

“Our future pursuits had been a bit of bit totally different and we determined to go our separate methods,” he stated.

That divergence included the choice to face down from the WEC because of the rule change demanding that producers within the Hypercar class should run two automobiles.

Iron Lynx crew principal Andrea Piccini stated on the WEC finale in Bahrain final November that the crew was “able to run two automobiles”.

Mohr defined that the transfer by Squadra Corse to take over the race programme was motivated by a need “to have full management on additional improvement of the automobile”.

“Final yr we had been seeing some potential, and we stated that if we now have extra management we will higher develop the efficiency,” he defined.

Lamborghini has employed the Riley Motorsports squad to supply the spine of the crew working the solo SC63 entered beneath the Automobili Lamborghini Squadra Corse banner within the five-race IMSA Endurance Cup, starting with final weekend’s Daytona 24 Hours.

The deal was put collectively on the final minute following the divorce from Iron Lynx, which remained concerned up till the official IMSA take a look at at Daytona in November.

Riley received the SC63 it ran at Daytona in early January and it’s understood that it’s a improvement chassis fairly than one of many automobiles that Iron Lynx fielded final yr.

New Squadra Corse boss Maurizio Leschiutta defined {that a} plan is in place to introduce a minimum of one evo joker over the course of the 2025 season.

He defined that improvement will give attention to “automobile dynamics, suspension and aero” which he described as “the three ache factors” of the SC63 because it stands.

Lamborghini’s GTP entry pushed by Mirko Bortolotti, Romain Grosjean, Daniil Kvyat and Edoardo Mortara retired from Daytona after 58 minutes with what had been described as powertrain points associated to the cooling system.

Solely Bortolotti, who ran as excessive as eighth after beginning ninth, received to drive the automobile within the race.

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Gary Watkins

IMSA

Lamborghini Squadra Corse

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