Lamborghini Develops Its First LMDh Hybrid Sports Car

Utkarsh Agarwal May 17, 2022

Lamborghini’s motorsport department, Squadra Corse is developing its first LMDh (Le Mans Daytona hybrid) prototype, which will debut in 2024 in the FIA World Endurance Championship (Hypercar class) and the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship (GTP class). LMDh is the new sports prototype race car category, which will debut in 2023.

For the company, the LMDh program will run in addition to Squadra Corse’s GT platform, consisting of Super Trofeo and GT3.

Since 2015, Lamborghini has been competing in the GT racing and now the company says that this racing car will be the step into the top level of sports car racing and will allow Lamborghini to compete for overall victories at the world’s most prestigious endurance races, such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, 24 Hours at Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring.

Squadra Corse is also taking the step into a motorsport landscape driven by hybrid propulsion. Therefore, this racing car is Lamborghini’s transition to hybrid technologies and the company says that by the end of 2024, the entire Lamborghini range will be hybridized.