Following its official withdrawal final week from the FIA World Endurance Championship, Lamborghini finds itself with an pressing have to determine the service suppliers(s) who will run its GTD PRO and GTP automobiles in IMSA’s WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
The Italian model confirmed its exit from the WEC’s Hypercar class because of the FIA’s new-for-2025 mandate that every producer area two manufacturing facility automobiles — a doubling for Lamborghini if it went ahead — by stating how the regulation “adjustments the phrases on which Lamborghini entered the championship this 12 months and is now not aligned with the corporate’s technique,” and likewise reiterated its intent to proceed within the U.S., including that “Lamborghini has subsequently evaluated its choices and elected to take a seat out the 2025 FIA WEC whereas remaining dedicated to SC63 growth by persevering with within the IMSA SportsCar Championship in the US.”
Lamborghini’s departure from the WEC coincides with a change in relationship with longstanding associate Iron Lynx, who just lately introduced it has aligned with Mercedes-AMG to symbolize the German auto producer within the WEC’s LMGT3 class.
Change has been anticipated between Lamborghini and Iron Lynx with its Huracan GT3 effort in IMSA’s GTD PRO class as nicely, and doubtlessly in GTP with the Lamborghini SC63 hybrid, which has been run by PREMA Racing beneath the Iron Lynx banner.
RACER understands a brand new GTD PRO service supplier could possibly be ready within the wings if Iron Lynx doesn’t return. One potential choice could possibly be discovered with Canada’s Pfaff Motorsports, which led Porsche’s manufacturing facility effort to a GTD PRO championship in 2022, represented McLaren within the class final season, and has put the McLaren 720S GT3 up on the market on a number of web sites. So far, the crew has not declared its plans for subsequent season.
With the GTP program, which ran beneath the course of Iron Lynx/PREMA in the course of the Nov. 15-17 IMSA check at Daytona, the trail ahead is claimed to have extra choices for Lamborghini to contemplate, together with a continuation with PREMA if it severs ties to Iron Lynx. The place the GTD PRO effort is prone to be a full-season dedication, Lamborghini’s second season of GTP racing is focused for the five-race Michelin Endurance Championship, which excludes the shorter 2h40m and 100-minute occasions.
Reached for remark, a Lamborghini consultant instructed RACER its IMSA program will likely be introduced quickly, however declined to supply any particulars.
