The covers came off a car to be known as the Lamborghini SC63 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on Thursday.
Its nomenclature combines the SC used on a trio of specials developed by the Lamborghini Squadra Corse motorsport department and the racing number used successfully by teams running its Huracan GT3, which is taken from the year of the establishment of the Italian marque, 1963.
The Italian Iron Lynx team that will field factory Lamborghini LMDhs on the global stage and in North America is running Huracan GT3 EVO2s numbered #63 in both IMSA and the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup in 2023.
The SC63 has been developed in partnership with French constructor Ligier Automotive around its next-generation LMP2 design.
More technical details of the bespoke engine developed for the car have been revealed.
The twin-turbo V8 is 3.8 litres in capacity with the turbos mounted on either side of the engine rather than inside the vee.
Lamborghini’s SC63 exploits the freedoms in the LMDh rule book that allow a manufacturer to impart its design code on the car.
Mitja Borkert, the marque’s head of design at its Centro Stile styling department, explained that the brief was “to create a car that is immediately recognisable as [a] Lamborghini”.
Source: Autosport