Lamborghini competes in each the IMSA SportsCar Championship and FIA World Endurance Championship with its SC63 LMDh and Huracán GT3 race automobiles.
Nonetheless, the automaker introduced on Nov. 22 that it’ll put its World Endurance Championship program on maintain subsequent season.
In an announcement, Lamborghini mentioned the WEC’s new guidelines requiring a minimum of two automobiles to be fielded within the premier Hypercar class, the place Lamborghini competes with the SC63, don’t align with its present technique.
Lamborghini has not indicated when, or if, it plans to return to the WEC with its SC63. Nonetheless, the SC63 will nonetheless compete within the premier GTP class of the SportsCar Championship subsequent season, permitting Lamborghini to proceed growing the automotive.
Lamborghini Temerario
Lamborghini additionally said it is going to withdraw from the WEC’s decrease LMGT3 class subsequent season, the place it beforehand competed with the Huracán GT3. This determination will enable the automaker to deal with growing a alternative GT3 race automotive primarily based on the not too long ago unveiled Temerario, the V-8 plug-in hybrid supercar that succeeds the Huracán.
The brand new Temerario GT3 race automotive is presently present process testing and is scheduled to be revealed subsequent 12 months.
Lamborghini’s present associate within the WEC, Iron Lynx, will crew up with Mercedes-Benz AMG within the LMGT3 class subsequent season. It should mark the primary time AMG competes within the WEC with a race automotive primarily based on its GT sports activities automotive.
One other new entry within the WEC subsequent season would be the Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR-LMH, which can compete within the Hypercar class. Aston Martin will area the Valkyrie in collaboration with America’s Coronary heart of Racing.
