Lamborghini will run a single cars in the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup and the FIA World Endurance Championship next year, the team has confirmed to MotorsportWeek.com.
This means the team will run single entries in FIA WEC, in a full-time programme, and in IMSA, albeit just the longer endurance rounds, held at Daytona, Sebring, Watkins Glen, and Road Atlanta, and not the shorter rounds which comprise the full IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship.
Lamborghini initially announced its LMDh entry last May, will a project entry date of 2024. This has now been confirmed, although this far out the Italian manufacturer cannot say when exactly it will make its race debut with the as-yet unveiled car.
While the company, which has partnered with Italian sportscar team Iron Lynx to run the factory programme, will only enter single cars in both championships, it may enter both cars into the WEC’s crown jewel race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It has also signed Mirko Bortolotti, Andrea Caldarelli, and former F1 driver and current IndyCar star Romain Grosjean as factory drivers, although it has not been decided, or at least announced publicly, where drivers will race or in which series yet.
A Lamborghini Squadra Corse spokesman told MotorsportWeek.com, ‘We are evaluating a double effort at Le Mans with both cars in 2024 but it is still to early to confirm that.’
The car is being built in co-operation with Ligier, which is providing the chassis tub. It will be paired with a Lamborghini V8 twin-turbo engine. A planned rollout and testing programme is scheduled for later this year.
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