GRT Grasser Racing Team will join DTM in 2022 with a four-car, factory supported Lamborghini GT3 effort.
The Austrian outfit will field four Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evos in the championship, which kicks off at Portimao at the end of April.
The switch means that the team’s existing efforts in other series, including the IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship, will be discontinued.
“DTM is something really big in motorsport, something I have been following intensely myself for over 20 years,” said team principal Gottfried Grasser. “The entire package is making DTM the premier class in GT3 racing. The media figures are impressive and we have seen in 2021 that innovative solutions such as the BoP, Balance of Performance, are working well in DTM. It is all very professional.
Campaigning four cars in one of the world’s most thrilling and most popular race series is a great challenge that we are delighted to be taking on. I would like to thank Lamborghini Squadra Corse for its unbelievable support in this project.
From now on, our full focus is on DTM, we will be ending all our other involvements. One can only do DTM with utmost concentration. Our goal is to be well up front in the first year already and deliver a professional package. The gaps are unbelievably small, everything has to be spot-on.”
Grasser Racing Team previously was a steady presence in American and European enduros, notably taking back-to-back class victories at the Rolex 24 at Daytona in 2018 and 2019.
Its programmes in other notable series, including the ADAC GT Masters and GT World Challenge Europe will also be scrapped.
With the switch to DTM, the team becomes the second squad to field Lamborghini’s V10-powered Huracan in the series after T3 Motorsports raced in the season last year with full-season efforts for Esteban Muth and Esmee Hawkey.
“We at Lamborghini Squadra Corse are highly delighted to expand our commitment in DTM together with the GRT Grasser Racing Team,” said Giorgio Sanna, head of Lamborghini Squadra Corse. “Since the beginning of our collaboration, we have forged a unique relationship, achieving very important milestones with the Lamborghini Huracán GT3.”
΅DTM is a valuable marketing platform and a challenging competition for us to move ahead into the future. We have high hopes and are looking forward to a successful campaign in 2022.”
