Lamborghini Squadra Corse will make history by entering the premier class of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship as an official factory team for the first time, competing for overall honors at this weekend’s season-opening 24 Hours of Daytona.
The Lamborghini SC63, competing as Automobili Lamborghini Squadra Corse, starts its second racing season after debuting in both the IMSA and FIA World Endurance Championships in 2024. This year, Squadra Corse has chosen to focus solely on the Michelin Endurance Cup rounds of the North American series.
Lamborghini Squadra Corse, which made its IMSA debut at Sebring last season, is now starting on its first full season in the Endurance Cup, with the highly experienced foursome of Mirko Bortolotti, Romain Grosjean, Daniil Kvyat, and Edoardo Mortara driving for the opening round of the year.
Bortolotti and Kvyat go from the WEC to the IMSA Endurance Cup, where they will compete in all five rounds in the #63 Lamborghini SC63. They will be joined by Grosjean, who returns to Lamborghini after a string of brilliant performances in 2024, most notably in the early stages of the Battle on the Bricks in Indianapolis, when the Frenchman mastered wet conditions to lead. The three will benefit from Mortara’s knowledge and proficiency at Daytona before the Swiss driver embarks on a GT3 campaign with Lamborghini for the rest of 2025.
Lamborghini will also compete in a full season of IMSA in the GTD Pro class, with Canadian squad Pfaff Motorsports joining as a factory-supported team in both the Sprint and Endurance Cup competitions. For Daytona, full-season drivers Andrea Caldarelli and Marco Mapelli will be joined by fellow Lamborghini factory driver Jordan Pepper, while former IndyCar Series and long-time Pfaff Motorsport driver James Hinchcliffe will be the Endurance Cup co-driver.
Wayne Taylor Racing returns to the GTD for another full-season attack. Danny Formal, a Lamborghini Young Professional driver, and Trent Hindman, winner of the 2017 Lamborghini Super Trofeo World Finals, spearhead the team’s efforts. Graham Doyle joins for the five Endurance Cup races, while Kyle Marcelli, last year’s full-season driver, will compete at Daytona. To build on the previous two successful seasons, Forte Racing will run a full-season entry of Misha Goikhberg and the seasoned Mario Farnbacher, with Franck Perera competing in the Endurance races. Parker Kligerman, a NASCAR veteran, has joined the team at Daytona.
Lamborghini has an excellent track record in the Daytona 24 Hours, winning the race three years in a row from 2018 to 2020. Two years after its debut, Grasser Racing Team (Mirko Bortolotti, Rolf Ineichen, Rik Breukers, and Franck Perera) won their first race. It won again a year later in a red-flag race, and it finished the hat-trick in 2020 with Paul Miller Racing (Andrea Caldarelli, Marco Mapelli, Rolf Ineichen, and Corey Lewis).