Grosjean drove the hybrid prototype that can carry Lamborghini’s hopes in each the World Endurance Championship and the IMSA SportsCar Championship within the arms of the Iron Lynx crew from subsequent 12 months on the Almeria circuit in southern Spain over three days this week.
The check at which Andrea Caldarelli additionally drove was the primary vital run for the SC63 developed along with Ligier Automotive for the reason that first chassis sustained main injury in testing at Paul Ricard.
It was described by Iron Lynx crew principal Andrea Piccini because the “first correct check” for the automobile since Mirko Bortolotti crashed the automobile throughout its second full check on the French circuit within the third week of August.
The crash at Ricard resulted in a short lived halt in Lamborghini’s improvement programme, together with the cancellation of a check outing at Spa-Francorchamps in the beginning of September.
Piccini performed down the impression of the crash on improvement of the SC63, stating that there had been “some on-track working on smaller tracks in Italy” with out elaborating on their extent or timing.
“These items occur in motor racing; you take care of it and transfer on,” he informed Autosport.
“Now we have needed to reshuffle our programme a bit bit between what we plan between the USA and Europe.”
Lamborghini SC63 LMDh
Picture by: Lamborghini Squadra Corse
Requested if he had issues that improvement is now delayed, he replied: “There are at all times issues with such an enormous and complex programme; I would not say they’re any higher than earlier than.
“Clearly it could have been higher to not have misplaced time, however I nonetheless suppose we are able to hold to our schedule.”
Piccini said that it’ll start testing within the USA “very quickly” and instructed it’s seemingly that testing may even proceed in Europe in parallel to the US programme.
“This ought to be the plan, however we’re nonetheless defining our schedule as we await our homologation slots,” he defined.
“It’s not a straightforward course of when it’s a must to homologate the automobile on two sides of the world.”
The automobile that ran in carbon black at Almeria was a brand new chassis, Piccini confirmed.
However he insisted that it was a chassis already being constructed earlier than the accident and never a direct substitute for a automobile that ran in livery at Ricard.
It accomplished roughly 2000km on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday within the arms of Grosjean and Caldarelli.
Romain Grosjean, Lamborghini Iron Lynx, Lamborghini SC63 LMDh
Picture by: Lamborghini Squadra Corse
The Lamborghini SC63 was given a shakedown at Vallelunga in the beginning of August earlier than starting testing correct at Imola in the midst of the month.
Caldarelli, Bortolotti and Daniil Kvyat drove the automobile over the course of two days at Imola.
The Lamborghini’s race debut would be the opening spherical of the 2024 WEC in Qatar in the beginning of March.
It has by no means deliberate to contest the Daytona 24 Hours IMSA season-opener in January as a part of its assault on the Michelin-sponsored Endurance Cup rounds of the North American collection.