Giorgio Sanna, head of the Lamborghini Squadra Corse motorsport department, has stated that Iron Lynx will remain the manufacturer’s sole representative in both series over the full life-cycle of the new SC63 unveiled at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on Thursday.
Sanna stopped short of describing Iron Lynx, which was announced as Lamborghini's partner for the LMDh programme for 2024 last November, as a factory squad, preferring the term “reference team”.
But adding a second such operation or making customer cars available over the course of the four-year programme up to the end 2027 is not in the plan, he explained.
“We were not looking to have more than one team for the simple reason that to approach LMDh in a customer racing way like we are doing in GT3 [with the Huracan], or like some other manufacturers like Porsche are doing, you need an organisation that today is not the one of Squadra Corse,” said Sanna.
“We have to keep in consideration the size and the capability of our structure, and at the moment we prefer to keep focused on one team whether we are managing one car, two cars, four cars, because the programme is very demanding.
“The target is to have Iron Lynx only as our reference team.”
That represents a change of stance from earlier comments by Sanna.
He had previously stated that Lamborghini would follow its business model in the GT3 arena by working with customer teams, which would receive significant factory support.
Iron Lynx will run one SC63 in the Hypercar class in a full WEC campaign and a second in GTP division in the North American Endurance Cup rounds of the IMSA series in 2024.
Source: Autosport