Lamborghini will be a part of the ranks of top-level motorsports come 2024 when it enters each the FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA SportsCar Championship with a brand new LMDh race automobile.

LMDh is a brand new race automobile class which can have its first season in 2023. It’s eligible for each the Hypercar class of the WEC in addition to the brand new GTP class of the SportsCar Championship, similar to the rival LMH class, and depends on spec chassis just like present LMP2 chassis.

For its LMDh marketing campaign, Lamborghini will workforce up with Iron Lynx, and compete as Lamborghini Iron Lynx. Lamborghini will even work with Prema Engineering which gives operational, technical, and engineering assist for motorsports.

Iron Lynx is an Italian racing workforce that at present competes in GT racing with a Ferrari 488 GTE, together with within the WEC, however will change over to a Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo2 in 2023 to mark the brand new partnership with Lamborghini. Iron Lynx will even discipline a Huracán GT3 Evo2 by its Iron Dames all-female racing workforce.

“Ever since we introduced our intention to race within the LMDh racing sequence, it was clear to us that Iron Lynx was the suitable accomplice to take such an vital step with,” Stephan Winkelmann, Lamborghini’s CEO, stated in an announcement. “Through the years, Iron Lynx has confirmed to be a quick, robust and efficiently entity, similar to the Lamborghini motorsport division.”

Lamborghini remains to be creating its LMDh. The automobile will use a chassis sourced from Ligier, one in all 4 chassis suppliers for LMDh, and can run a V-8 hybrid powertrain, with the V-8 to be a brand new twin-turbo unit developed by Lamborghini’s personal Squadra Corse racing arm, although one considered associated to the twin-turbo 4.0-liter V-8 fitted in Lamborghini’s Urus SUV. The hybrid part shall be a single motor-generator built-in with a 7-speed transmission.

Lamborghini in July named Andrea Caldarelli and Mirko Bortolotti as its first drivers for the marketing campaign.

Whereas Lamborghini’s LMDh will solely begin racing in 2024, Acura, Alpine, BMW, Cadillac, and Porsche will all discipline LMDh race vehicles within the inaugural 2023 season. ByKolles, Ferrari, Glickenhaus, Peugeot, and Toyota are all dedicated to the rival LMH race automobile class.