Lamborghini makes a commitment in favor of GTP: The hypercar SC63 will not be discontinued in 2025 and will contest the five IMSA endurance races
Strong signal from Lamborghini for its LMDh car: After long deliberations, the Italian sports car brand announced at Christmas that it will continue its program in the GTP class of the IMSA SportsCar Championship in 2025.
Exact information has not yet been announced, but it is certain that Mirko Bortolotti, Romain Grosjean, Daniil Kwjat and Edoardo Mortara will form the driver quartet. Which drivers will be competing in which races will be announced at a later date. Andrea Caldarelli and Matteo Cairoli are therefore no longer part of the LMDh squad.
The real news, however, is that the LMDh program is continuing at all. After pulling out of the World Endurance Championship (WEC), the program was in jeopardy. The explicit option was to completely abandon the project.
This option is now off the table at least for 2025. The car will compete in all five IMSA endurance races, starting with the 2025 Daytona 24 Hours. That race will be a first for the car, as it was unable to race at Daytona in 2024 due to a homologation date for the WEC.
The other races in the IMSA Endurance Cup are the 12 Hours of Sebring in March, the 6 Hours of Watkins Glen in June, the six-hour “Battle on the Bricks” at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in September and the Petit Le Mans season finale in October.
However, questions remain, because Lamborghini is currently without an operating partner due to disagreements with the Iron Lynx team. Officially, the team is registered as “Lamborghini Iron Lynx” and the Italian team also carried out the operation during the test drives in Daytona in November. However, that still fell within the 2024 timeframe.
It remains to be seen whether Lamborghini Squadra Corse – despite the big name, just eleven years old, significantly smaller than the motorsport departments of other established manufacturers and actually busy developing the Temerario GT3 – will manage the effort on its own, whether Iron Lynx will still fulfill its contract in the IMSA despite the disagreements, or whether another team will be found. Time is of the essence.
In the WEC, Iron Lynx will field two Mercedes-AMG GT3 in 2025. In addition, the team is considered a possible development driver for a potential LMDh car from Mercedes-AMG, but so far this is only speculation.
