Lamborghini Is Developing Its First LMDh Prototype Hypercar For 2024 WEC And IMSA

Lamborghini Squadra Corse is developing its first LMDh prototype, which will debut in 2024 in the FIA World Endurance Championship (Hypercar class) and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (GTP class). The company's commitment to the LMDh class is a step into the top level of sports car racing, allowing Lamborghini to compete for overall victories at the world's most prestigious endurance races. For Lamborghini, the LMDh program will run in addition to Squadra Corse's GT platform, consisting of Super Trofeo and GT3, which remains the core of its customer motorsport operation.

Our first hybrid racing car is being developed, and it's going to be eligible to compete at the highest levels of endurance racing.#Lamborghini @LamborghiniSC #LeMans24 #WEC

— Lamborghini (@Lamborghini) May 17, 2022

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Giorgio Sanna, Head of Motorsport, Lamborghini said, “I am absolutely delighted that Lamborghini will be taking the next step in our motorsport journey, the step into LMDh and the top level of sports car racing. LMDh will play a special role in Lamborghini's Motorsports strategy, giving us the unique opportunity to expand our customer racing activities to new platforms and enforce our long-term partnership with customer teams and drivers.”

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In keeping with the company's racing credentials and heritage in innovation, Squadra Corse is making the step into a motorsport landscape driven by hybrid propulsion. LMDh is, therefore, the perfect fit with Lamborghini's transition to hybrid technologies, and by the end of 2024, the entire Lamborghini range will be hybridized.

LMDh stands for Le Mans Daytona hybrid and gives the name to the new sports prototype race car category debuting in 2023, giving the possibility to compete in both the FIA World Endurance Championship and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in the highest class.