The Lamborghini SC63 LMDh started the take a look at on Thursday when it was photographed in action by Autosport and continued testing into Friday with Andrea Caldarelli, Mirko Bortolotti and Daniil Kvyat finishing up driving duties.
It was the second take a look at for a automotive that may start racing in 2024: the SC63 was given a shakedown at Vallelunga at the beginning of this month.
The automotive was run by a mix of crew from the Lamborghini Squadra Corse in-house motorsport division and the Iron Lynx squad that may solely discipline the automotive within the full WEC and the long-distance IMSA races subsequent yr.
A quick assertion from Lamborghini mentioned that the main target of the take a look at at Imola was on calibration and knowledge acquisition.
That included the primary monitor growth of the bespoke 3.8-litre twin-turbo V8 developed by Squadra Corse for the SC63.
Additional checks are deliberate at Paul Ricard after which Spa-Francorchamps over the rest of August.
Lamborghini is planning to maneuver its take a look at programme to the US as early as September when the second chassis comes on stream.
The SC63, developed on the spine of the next-generation Ligier LMP2 chassis, is scheduled to make its race debut on the opening spherical of the WEC in Qatar early subsequent March.
Lamborghini SC63 LMDh
Photograph by: Lamborghini S.p.A.
Lamborghini has said that it doesn’t count on to participate within the first of subsequent yr’s 5 North American Endurance Cup rounds of the IMSA sequence at Daytona in January.
Meaning its US debut might be on the Sebring 12 Hours two weeks after Qatar.
4 drivers have to date been introduced for the twin-pronged programme: Romain Grosjean was absent from final week’s Imola take a look at as a result of he was racing for Andretti Autosport within the IndyCar Sequence on the Indianapolis highway course.
Lamborghini said on the launch of the SC63 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July that it had already stuffed the remaining two seats.
A kind of drivers is believed to have been Mercedes GT star Raffaele Marciello, however it’s now expected that he will join BMW for its LMDh programme with the M Hybrid V8.