With the 2025 FIA WEC and IMSA WeatherTech Championship seasons now quick approaching, a couple of key items to the entry checklist jigsaw puzzles for each championships stay. And maybe the most important query marks encompass the Iron Lynx Lamborghini SC63 program, the place it should race and in what capability.
Rumors had been circulating throughout the WEC’s go to to Japan final month over the potential for Lamborghini to reverse its authentic plan to scale as much as two Hypercars for 2025 and depart the championship on the finish of the present season. Usually in these circumstances, one may assume that there’s no smoke with out fireplace; nevertheless, background enquiries from RACER to key sources have revealed that, on the time of writing, no agency selections concerning the 2025 program have but been made. The clock is ticking, although, and the higher-ups in Lamborghini’s motorsport division are absolutely conscious they need to do the sums and make up their minds quickly.
So why is Lamborghini on the fence about returning to the FIA WEC’s Hypercar class in 2025 for the SC63’s sophomore season? The difficulty, principally, is that the automobile requires vital growth to turn into the race winner that the model desires it to be. Whereas it has proven flashes of kind — most notably at Le Mans the place each automobiles completed after a gentle run — consideration to the dampers, drivability and weight of the automobile is required to take the following step.
The SC63 confirmed promising kind at Le Mans however extra work is required to place it on par with the category heavyweights. JEP/Motorsport Pictures
In some ways, this all stems from the disastrous car-destroying accident at Paul Ricard early within the SC63’s take a look at program, which led to Lamborghini scrambling to prepared itself for the homologation deadline. This resulted in it having to make some conservative selections, the knock-on impact being a prolonged prevailing job checklist of growth duties.
Sadly, that checklist and the time pressures related to it, coincide with the introduction of the WEC’s “two-car rule,” which requires a manufacturing unit staff to enter two automobiles in Hypercar from subsequent season. The mixed fiscal influence of the second entry, plus the specified growth program, is known to take the manufacturing unit past its at present agreed funds.
Add into the combination that the LMGT3 program in WEC with the Huracan LMGT3 EVO2 just isn’t going to plan, with only a single podium end (for the No. 60 automobile at Spa) on the 2024 scoreboard via seven races and you’ve got a big drawback. Thus, there have been rumblings that service supplier/program accomplice Iron Lynx could also be different choices in LMGT3, ought to issues with Lamborghini transfer in a route they’re sad with.
So what are the obtainable choices? In Hypercar, Lamborghini may choose to enter a pair of SC63s for the 2025 season, constructing on its maiden single-car marketing campaign this 12 months. The laws don’t allow it both to area a single manufacturing unit automobile, nor a privately entered Lamborghini, if two factory-nominated automobiles aren’t entered. Successfully it’s two, or none.
For IMSA, the chances in GTP are considerably extra versatile. A single automobile for the complete season, a single automobile for the Endurance Cup, each, or two in both the complete season or Endurance Cup are on the desk. At current a single automobile is listed for the Endurance Cup — however that would change.
Iron Lynx is about to proceed with its Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2, however the Iron Dames could also be fielding a unique automobile. Jakob Ebrey/Motorsport Pictures)
In LMGT3, Iron Lynx seems set to proceed with Lamborghini however the all-female crewed Iron Dames effort could change to Porsche, mirroring its European Le Mans Collection program, however with Manthey working the automobile quite than Proton.
This shift would see the Dames change LMGT3 championship winner Pure Rxcing because it switches to LMP2 within the Asian LMS and ELMS along with TF Sport. In that case, the Dames would possible discover themselves racing alongside one other new signing for Manthey: Ryan Hardwick, one among Proton’s present Bronze drivers for its Ford Mustang LMGT3 undertaking.
Crucially, there appears to be no threat of the FIA WEC organizers counting out an LMGT3 effort as a standalone, within the wake of a pause within the Hypercar program. They appear set to play the lengthy recreation.
Lamborghini’s new GT3 automobile — based mostly across the simply launched Temerario highway automobile — is due in 2026 and monitor testing is believed to be getting underway any time now. There may additionally be potential for the SC63 to return to the FIA WEC down the road if it walks away over the winter. Lamborghini Squadra Corse could, for example, choose to take a sabbatical with the WEC program and push within the background to unencumber the following growth funds required to enhance the automobile.
Making a ultimate name on the above is now very pressing, not least as a result of among the many choices to interchange the SC63s within the WEC entry are a pair of Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evos. And people automobiles want time to be put via the LMGT3 homologation course of, which AMG won’t undertake with no assure of entries.
