There are customer teams eager to race Lamborghini’s SC63, but with the rollout of the Temerario GT3 and the development of the Super Trofeo model at a critical juncture, it remains unlikely we’ll see the Italian brand’s LMDh prototype race again anytime soon.
During a sit-down with Lamborghini’s chief technical officer and interim motorsport boss, Rouven Mohr, at the Rolex 24 last weekend, DSC asked for an update on the prospects of the SC63 returning to competition in the foreseeable future.
He explained that with Squadra Corse laser-focused on its newest customer racing products and appointing a new motorsport boss in time for the start of the European racing season (to replace the departed Maurizio Leschiutta), it cannot currently justify the expense or attention required to get its prototype programme back up and running.
As a result, the SC63 project remains “on pause” after being shelved at the conclusion of the 2025 IMSA season, which saw a single Riley-supported chassis contest the five Michelin Endurance Cup races.
Lamborghini’s initial plan was to develop the car during 2025 while competing as a factory team and then shift to a customer-focused model from 2026 onwards. However, despite the SC63 taking steps forward with a significant Joker update focused on the car’s rear suspension, and a suite of potential customers coming forward to explore running the car, Mohr made a firm choice to keep the SC63 project on ice for 2026.
“There is still potential (for it to come back), but on certain boundary conditions,” he explained. “I can tell you that we received a lot of requests, even though we were surprised that there were at least five or six serious requests from customers in the US, Europe, for teams that said they had sponsors and asked if we wanted to continue or if we were available.
“But we said we were not available, not because we are not in general available, but because we made the decision based on the focus needed for Squadra Corse. Our first priority is making the GT3 car successful, then pushing the Super Trofeo because it’s the baseline of our motorsport pyramid.
“If these two things are on a stable baseline, we see everything, we deliver to teams, if the success is coming, then we can speak again and see if someone is still interested in continuing with the LMDh programme. From an organisational size, we are not sized to develop two cars, plus get the LMDh programme on a high level.
“The LMDh cars will never really be only customer cars,” he continued. “I know Porsche has some customer teams, but my perception is that teams will need support, and because the competition is so high, you have to evolve the car. You cannot wait three years for an evo kit; you have to continuously work, which means you have continuous effort in the factory, even if you sell it as a customer programme.
“There are teams that are able to do it, but you cannot step out of the manufacturer side, and this would generate on our side a layer of effort that we cannot have at the moment if we have new GT3 and Super Trofeo cars.”
The level of competition in the FIA WEC’s Hypercar class (where manufacturers must enter two cars to be eligible to compete) and IMSA GTP is sky-high. Both championships also require huge budgets to compete.
There is a third option about to open for any potential Lamborghini SC63 programme, though, and that’s in the Asian Le Mans Series.
The SC63 will be eligible for the series’ new Pro/Am Hypercar class, which is due to debut in the 2026/27 season and promises to be a more customer-friendly arena (despite projected budgets believed to be in the 4-6 million Euro range per car, per season). Notably, DSC is aware of a customer who has made a serious approach to Lamborghini to purchase an SC63, with a view to campaigning it in the Asian Le Mans Series.
Mohr admitted that the Asian Le Mans Series presents an “interesting” prospect for the SC63 moving forward, but he reiterated that Lamborghini would not risk fumbling the launch of its GT3 and Super Trofeo models over the next 12 months to pursue an entry.
“It could be interesting. But only if the entire constellation is the right one, with the team, with financial support, perhaps a sponsor,” he said.
“We observed in these two years (racing with the SC63) the financial effort. It’s not our aim to run as a factory, as we are structured to support customer racing. On the GT3, for instance, we are not like other manufacturers; we want to sell the cars, we want to have cars sold worldwide, not that we sell 20 or 35, as is needed, and then we are not interested in more. That’s not our business model.”
On the bright side, Lamborghini has breathing room to work with, as the SC63 will remain eligible to compete for years to come under the current ruleset. And with the shift to a single platform (which many key manufacturer sources believe could allow the current LMDh cars to live on into the 2030s) seemingly on the horizon, there should be plenty of scope to revisit the SC63 as the Temerario platform matures.
For that reason, Mohr and Lamborghini Squadra Corse are keeping abreast of developments regarding the future of the top-class prototype regulations.
“We are following it, we are in contact,” he said. “We are in a lucky situation because we are part of the Volkswagen Group, and Porsche is quite strong on this.
“We are keeping an eye on it, but it’s not our priority now to influence. We are also too small to influence it. We have to be realistic about what is possible from our side.”
