Lamborghini shall be taking part within the LMDh endurance racing within the 2024 season at Daytona and Le Mans. Now, it’s reported that the expertise utilized in these racing vehicles may very well be purchased into the longer term street authorized vehicles that the corporate makes. LMDh makes use of a hybrid powertrain and Lamborghini’s announcement of racing on this matches with the carmaker’s plans to introduce hybrid powertrain in its vehicles within the close to future.

Expertise of the LMDh racecar

This automobile will take part within the IMSA SportsCar Championship. Lamborghini shall be equip the automobile with a twin-turbo V8 engine together with an electrical system. This powertrain has a mixed output of 670 HP. A 7-speed hybrid gearbox by Xtrac will deal with the transmission duties . The automobile weighs simply 2,270 lbs. and is among the high contenders for the FIA World Endurance Championship. The Lamborghini’s race automobile will even function applied sciences that can at some point be seen on the automobile’s within the showroom.

Racecar to Roadcar Journey

Lamborghini’s motorsport division in addition to the R&D division have already got an in depth relationship. Many staff work in each departments which implies a larger collaboration with observe and street automobile groups. Additional, this collaboration might be witnessed within the track-focused Huracan STO. This may solely pave the best way for the longer term the place the race automobile is just like the R&D for street authorized vehicles.

Upcoming hybrid powertrain for Aventador substitute

Whereas the race automobile will use a V8 engine, we all know that Lamborghini shall be sticking to a V12 for the Aventador’s substitute. That stated, it would nonetheless get electrical help expertise. This will even end result within the electrical variations of the Urus and the Huracan.

This additional confirms the truth that future Lamborghini vehicles won’t simply function hybrid powertrains but additionally outperform their conventional ICE choices.

Supply : CarBuzz