Lamborghini endured a challenging debut season in the Hypercar class of the World Endurance Championship, and the Italian outfit are already facing issues over their future.
The team ran just one car in the 2024 campaign with the No. 63 SC63 with drivers Mirko Bortolotti, Daniil Kvyat and Edoardo Mortara.
Lamborghini could not get anywhere near the pace of Toyota and Porsche, who claimed the manufacturers’ and drivers’ titles at the WEC season finale in Bahrain respectively.
The Italian outfit were also limited to the amount of data they could collect over a race weekend with just one car, especially compared to the likes of Ferrari who ran three cars and Porsche, who including the two customer teams alongside the factory team, had five cars in the Hypercar class.
Lamborghini also ran two cars in the LMGT3 class and compete in North America in the IMSA SportsCar Championship. Despite being part of the Volkswagen group, they are much smaller than their rivals and their programme in WEC is in serious doubt.
Lamborghini could ‘scrub’ their endurance programme as ‘all options are possible’
For the 2025 season, WEC announced that Hypercar entries must run at least two cars in the class rather than just one like Lamborghini, Cadillac and the now folded Isotta Fraschini did in 2024.
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This presents an issue for Lamborghini who are now facing ‘unforeseen’ problems to adequately support their WEC and IMSA operations.
Speaking on the Autosport F1 & Motorsport Podcast, Gary Watkins revealed that Lamborghini’s re-evaluation of their endurance programme means that ‘all options are possible’, including scrapping it entirely.
“Lamborghini are re-evaluating the programme and they’re basically saying all options are possible,” he said.
“And that goes from running two cars in WEC and one in IMSA, running two cars in WEC and not IMSA, running no cars in WEC and an IMSA programme, presumably one car, and scrubbing the programme altogether.
“Now, Rouven Mohr, who is chief technical officer at Lamborghini, but also acting motorsport boss, he was in Bahrain and I managed to get a word with him and he basically explained this to me and knew that these are the options.
“And I asked him, is axing the programme the least likely option? And he said: “yes, that is the case. We do want to continue, but right now we can’t say that because all these options are on the table.”
Lamborghini endured a torrid debut season in the Hypercar class
Despite optimism from Kvyat heading into the 8 Hours of Bahrain, Lamborghini’s disappointing debut season in WEC went out on a whimper as a water pressure issue forced them to retire.
This marked the third retirement of the season for the No. 63 as they desperately struggled for consistency across the year.
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Bortolotti, Kvyat and Mortara only scored points once all season as they came home 10th to grab two points at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Lamborghini finished bottom of the Manufacturers’ Championship with just 11 points, that is if Isotta Fraschini are not included, who did not score a point in the first four races before leaving WEC ahead of Lone Star Le Mans in Austin.