by Lamborghini will not participate in his SC63 LMDH prototype next season after announcing that he was putting his GTP class attack against the Sportscar Insa championship.
The Italian manufacturer facilitates his decision against the continuation of his IMSA campaign, which includes endurance towers with a solo car led by Riley Motorsports, as a “break” resulting from a “strategic realignment of his engine sports activities”.
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Lamborghini has ended his involvement in the hypercar class of the World Endurance Championship with the SC63 before this season and has played any return prospect, which means that it is certain that its LMDH will not run next year.
Lamborghini suggested that this could be the end of his participation with the LMDH.
He said that he will now focus on his programs with the new GT3 Temerario launched in July before a version in 2026 to customers and a Super Trofeo version of the car due to the broadcast in 27.
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The use of the term break echoes the rhetoric of the automaker belonging to Volkswagen at the end of last year when he announced that he would not continue with the SC63 in WEC.
Rather, he chose to focus on North America with an attack on the IMSA endurance cup with five laps.
# 63 Automobili Lamborghini Squadra Corse Lamborghini SC63: Mirko Bortolotti, Romain Grosjean, Daniil Kvyat
# 63 Automobili Lamborghini Squadra Corse Lamborghini SC63: Mirko Bortolotti, Romain Grosjean, Daniil Kvyat
After the end of its partnership with the Italian team Iron Lynx, which ride assault on a car across the WEC and four of IMSA enduros in 2000, Lamborghini was forced to fully finance the campaign of this year and signed Riley as a service provider.
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This did not hide the fact that another partner took to come for ’26 if the program should continue.
Lamborghini’s technology director Rouven Mohr said at the launch of the Temerario runner at the Goodwood Festival of Speed that “Time turns” on his aspirations to continue in GTP.
“We are always looking for opportunities to have an interested team because for the moment we are exploiting the car by ourselves, it is sure with the support of Riley, but in the end, we direct the program and pay the program,” explained Mohr.
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“It is clear for us, we must find a financial balancing.”
From a return to the WEC, he added: “We would like to do it, but it’s even more expensive [than IMSA] Because you have to have two cars, you have more races abroad, more mileage overall – and the mileage costs the costs. »»
Lamborghini referred to the change of rules for this year’s WEC which required that manufacturers must align two hypercar cars in Monday’s declaration on its IMSA participation.
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# 63 Automobili Lamborghini Squadra Corse Lamborghini SC63: Mirko Bortolotti, Romain Grosjean, Daniil Kvyat, Edoardo Mortara
# 63 Automobili Lamborghini Squadra Corse Lamborghini SC63: Mirko Bortolotti, Romain Grosjean, Daniil Kvyat, Edoardo Mortara
“The conditions on which the program was based has changed considerably,” he said. “As the project has developed, requests for resources – both in terms of budget and technical complexity – have increased beyond original projections.”
The new regulation was a key factor in the withdrawal of Hypercarghini from Hypercar, the company stressing that it is a small business compared to its competitors carrying out the Hypercar LMDH and Le Mans machines.
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Mohr admitted to Goodwood that Lamborghini had “perhaps underestimated” the costs involved in the development of an LMDH, which he undertook in conjunction with Ligier Automotive.
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The best results for the SC63 were a pair of sevenths in IMSA at the Sebring 12 hours last year and the Watkins Glen 6 hours this year, as well as a 10th place in Le Mans 24 hours in 2024.
It has been confirmed that the Riley SC63 managed by the Corsican banner of the Lamborghini Squadra Lamborghini Automobili will finish its 2025 program in the last two enduros of the IMSA, the 6 hours of Indianapolis and Petit Le Mans in Road Atlanta in September and October respectively.
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Lamborghini also underlined his long -term commitment to motorsport, describing him as “an integral part of his brand DNA”, and said that he “will continue to assess future race opportunities”.
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