Lamborghini companions with Iron Lynx for 2024 LMDh marketing campaign

Lamborghini will be 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 whose first season will probably be 2023. It’s eligible for each the Hypercar class of the WEC in addition to the brand new GTP class of the SportsCar Championship, identical to the rival LMH class, and depends on spec chassis much like present LMP2 chassis.

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

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

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

Lamborghini remains to be creating its LMDh. We all know the automobile will use a chassis sourced from Ligier, one among 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 regarded as associated to the twin-turbo 4.0-liter V-8 fitted in Lamborghini’s Urus SUV. The hybrid part will probably 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 automobiles within the inaugural 2023 season. ByKolles, Ferrari, Glickenhaus, Peugeot, and Toyota are all dedicated to the rival LMH race automobile class.