Motorsports

Despite its long heritage in the motoring world, Lamborghini is in fact a relative newcomer to motorsport. With numerous successes across a range of GT3 racing classes, Lamborghini Motorsport Division Squadra Corse (in English, “racing team”) reliably gives customers exciting motor racing experiences.

Lamborghinis for GT championships around the world are developed and manufactured at the company headquarters in Sant’Agata Bolognese. Both the Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 and the GT3 EVO2 roll off the same production line as normalroad vehicles – but they are assembled by the specialist technicians at Squadra Corse.

The many title successes since 2015 attest to the quality of the work that Squadra Corse experts do. Noteworthy victories include the 2017 Blancpain GT Series, the 12 Hours of Sebring in 2018 and 2019, and three consecutive wins in 2018, 2019, and 2020 at the 24 Hours of Daytona in the GTD class. The company also swept the Blancpain GT Series, in all three categories in 2019: Overall, Endurance and Sprint.

The next year, Squadra Corse claimed an additional 15 victories in various categories, including multiple class wins. Another 15 victories followed in 2021. Most notably, Squadra Corse achieved its 100th GT3 victory in the GT World Challenge America en route to the drivers’ and teams’ titles. And that wasn’t the only title in 2021: the company clinched a second successive British GT Championship crown, the International GT Open title and another GT World Challenge Europe ‘triple crown’ of Overall, Endurance and Sprint titles in the Silver Cup. In 2022 the success story did not stop. With more than 10 victories in various categories, Lamborghini claimed the 2022 ADAC GT Masters Team title, the GT World Challenge America and International GT Open Championship. All told, Automobili Lamborghini and its customer teams have taken more than 43 international titles since 2015.

In 2022, Lamborghini Squadra Corse began development work on its SC63 LMDh (Le Mans Daytona hybrid) prototype, with which it will compete in the top GTP and Hypercar classes of the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship and FIA World Endurance Championship respectively this season. The V8 twin-turbo engine which powers the SC63 is the first bespoke racing engine produced by Lamborghini since the V12 LE3512 that was used in Formula One in the early 1990s. It is also the first hybrid engine to be utilized by Lamborghini in motorsport activities. Following a rigorous testing regime in Europe and the United States, the SC63 will make its eagerly anticipated racing debut in Qatar for the opening round of the FIA WEC campaign in March 2024, with its US bow coming a fortnight later in the Sebring 12 Hours.

In addition to its GT3 and upcoming LMDh program, Squadra Corse operates a unique international motor racing series: the one-make Lamborghini Super Trofeo championship. Here, only Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 models can participate. Since its inception in 2009, the championship’s categories (Pro, Pro-Am, Am and Lamborghini Cup) have attracted enthusiastic private and professional drivers to jump aboard the 5.2-liter V10 machines to race circuits in Europe, North America and Asia. The traditional season-ending Grand Finals bring together drivers from each of the regions to fight for the Lamborghini ‘world champion’ title.

To meet special customer wishes, Squadra Corse also manufactures track-only hypercars. With just 40 units delivered to selected customers, the Essenza SCV12 is a highly limited edition, with a V12 aspirated engine.