Lamborghini open to recent LMDH partners for WEC Return

Lamborghini will start on the lookout for recent partner teams to proceed the LMDH project outside 2025, if it will probably prove the competitiveness of the automobile on this yr's IMSA Sportscar Championships.

The Italian manufacturer took over the racing program this yr because of the IMSA assault into five endurance rounds after the division with Iron Lynx.

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But he presented a vision of returning in 2026 in IMSA and World Endurance Championship with factory -supported clients' teams.

“In the future, it is not our ambition to be a racing team,” explained the director of Lamborghini Rouven Mohr technology.

“It is clear that if we go to the following step and enlarge this system, it only is sensible if the automobile is sorted and the automobile's performance is at the extent of our GT3 cars [in terms of competitiveness] And we are able to put the automobile in the shopper's hands.

“We will evaluate future programs depending on how quickly we proceed with the development of the results.”

#63 Lamborghini Automobile Squadra Corse Lamborghini SC63.

Photo: Andreas Beil

Mohr added that it’s “great extra” that Lamborghini Squadra Corse, his internal motor sports department, will have the ability to do SC63 during this yr.

But he insisted that he stay too early to become involved in plans for 2026.

“One step after the other: first we must consider the improvement of LMDH, and then, if we are competitive and we think that the interest of the team or teams re-entering, let's see,” he said.

Lamborghini suggested that WEC stays very in its plans.

The General Director of Stephan Winkelmann described 24 hours Le Mansa, the central WEC round, as a race that “gives great visibility” and that “he would like to come back as soon as possible.”

Rohr wouldn’t go into details concerning the division with the iron Lynx, which is believed that it has not been fully solved.

The Italian team was a key partner within the SC63 project and ran a full season with one automobile in 2024 WEC, and in addition entered 4 out of 5 IMSA enduros with one entry.

“Our future interests were slightly different and we decided to go separate roads,” he said.

This discrepancy included the choice to withdraw from WC in consequence of adjusting the rule that requires that manufacturers within the Hypercar class had to begin two cars.

The director of the Iron Lynx team, Andrea Piccini, said throughout the Wec final in Bahrain in November last yr that the band was “ready to drive two cars”.

Mohr explained that moving Squadra Corse to take over the racing program was motivated by the need “full control over the further development of the car.”

“Last year we saw some potential and said that if we have more control, we can better develop performance,” he explained.

Lamborghini hired the Riley Motorsports team to make sure the spine of the team leading the Solo SC63, which got here under the banner of automobili Lamborghini Squadra Corse in five IMSA Endurance Cup races, ranging from the last weekend of Dayton 24 hours.

The agreement was merged on the last minute after divorce with Iron Lynx, which remained included within the official IMSA test in Daytona in November.

Riley got SC63, which he led in Daytona originally of January and is known that it is a developmental chassis, not considered one of the cars that Iron Lynx issued last yr.

New Squadra Corse, Maurizio Leschiutta, explained that there’s a plan to introduce not less than one Evo Joker throughout the 2025 season.

He explained that development is concentrated on “vehicle dynamics, suspension and aero”, which he described as “three points of pain” SC63 in the present situation.

The entry of GTP Lamborghini led by Mirko Bortolotti, Romain Grosjean, Daniil Kvyat and Edoardo Mortara retired from Dayton after 58 minutes with what was described as issues related to the cooling system.

Only Bortolotti, which also lasted eight after the beginning of nine, could drive a automobile within the race.