Lamborghini will enter the ranks of top-level motorsport in 2024 when it competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA SportsCar Championship with a new LMDh race car.
LMDh is a new category of race cars that will have its first season in 2023. It is eligible for both the Hypercar elegance of the WEC and the new elegance of the GTP SportsCar Championship, as well as rival LMH elegance, and is based on the chassis specifications for the existing LMP2 chassis.
For its LMDh campaign, Lamborghini will partner with Iron Lynx and compete under the Lamborghini Iron Lynx name. Lamborghini will also work with Prema Engineering, which provides operational, technical and motorsport engineering.
Iron Lynx is an Italian racing team that lately competes in GT racing with a Ferrari 488 GTE, adding in WEC, but will transfer to a Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo2 in 2023 to mark the new partnership with Lamborghini. Iron Lynx will also box a Huracán GT3 Evo2, its all-female Iron Dames racing team.
Lamborghini LMDh trailer
“Since we announced our goal of competing in the LMDh racing series, it has been transparent to us that Iron Lynx is the right spouse with whom to take that step,” Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann said in a statement. “Over the years, Iron Lynx has proven to be a fast, strong and successful entity, just like Lamborghini’s motorsport department. “
Lamborghini is still uploading its LMDh. La car will use a chassis from Ligier, one of 4 chassis suppliers for LMDh, and will use a V-8 hybrid powertrain, with the V-8 set to be a new twin-turbo unit. evolved through Lamborghini’s own Squadra Corse racing arm, one of them is connected to the 4. 0-liter twin-turbo V8 installed in Lamborghini’s Urus SUV. The hybrid component will be a single engine-generator built into a 7-speed transmission.
In July, Lamborghini named Andrea Caldarelli and Mirko Bortolotti as its first drivers of the campaign.
While Lamborghini’s LMDh probably won’t start racing until 2024, Acura, Alpine, BMW, Cadillac and Porsche will compete LMDh race cars in the inaugural 2023 season. By Kolles, Ferrari, Glickenhaus, Peugeot and Toyota are all entered in rival LMH races. Car category.