Amid months of hypothesis over who will run this system, Lamborghini has reaffirmed its dedication to GTP by getting into IMSA’s 5 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship endurance rounds in 2025.
“Supported by the technical and sporting departments of Lamborghini Squadra Corse, the automotive will proceed its presence within the North American-based championship with the complete program for the SC63 to be confirmed in the end,” Lamborghini wrote with out providing specifics on its chosen service supplier.
The dedication to IMSA’s Michelin Endurance Cup with a single Lamborghini SC63 GTP will look unchanged on the surface, however RACER understands the operator behind the scenes has modified.
Though it’s unconfirmed by the Italian model, the SC63 driver rotation of Mirko Bortolotti, Romain Grosjean, Daniil Kvyat and Edoardo Mortara is anticipated to be operated by Invoice Riley and his Riley Motorsports group. Iron Lynx, which ran manufacturing facility efforts for the Italian supercar producer in IMSA’s GTD and GTP lessons final season, and fielded the SC63 in November on the Daytona Worldwide Speedway take a look at, has aligned with Mercedes-AMG for a brand new FIA World Endurance Championship marketing campaign in LMGT3.
The GTD Professional effort has been moved to Canada’s Pfaff Motorsports and now, with North Carolina’s Riley Motorsports in play to subject the Lamborghini SC63 beginning at January’s Rolex 24 At Daytona, the parting of how with Iron Lynx seems to be nearing its completion.
By way of their Riley Applied sciences and Riley Motorsports companies, the daddy and son duo of Bob and Invoice Riley have a protracted historical past of designing and working main prototype applications in partnership with automotive giants like Normal Motors with the Chevy Intrepid GTP, with Cadillac’s first foray into prototypes later within the Nineteen Nineties, and within the creation of Grand-Am’s most profitable Daytona Prototype, which carried Chip Ganassi Racing, Wayne Taylor Racing, and different groups to main victories and titles.
Extra lately, the Rileys, whose founder Bob was inducted into IMSA’s Corridor of Fame in October and handed weeks later on the age of 92, led Dodge to an IMSA GTLM championship and delivered championships to the Robinson household in LMP3.
