Lamborghini Unveils First Hybrid Sports Prototype: The SC63
The luxury motoring world's newest Italian hypercar is set to make its appearance on the track in 2024, joining a new generation of hybrid racers.
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Lamborghini took to this year?s Goodwood Festival of Speed in West Sussex, England to unveil to the motoring world its first ever hybrid sports prototype, the SC63. Set to begin testing early in August, the prototype is slated to compete in the Hypercar class of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) World Endurance Championship (WEC) and the Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) class of the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) Sportscar Championship in 2024.
Hypercar Era
Between a full WEC season and an IMSA campaign, the new Lamborghini marque will make its first competitive appearance racing in two out of three crowns of endurance racing, the 24 Hours of Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring. It was not that long ago in the 60s when sports cars could barely complete endurance races before breaking down, forcing teams to park their cars in the pits or on the track right before the finish line to wait out the time limit before restarting their engines and risking one final crawl past the finish line. Today, the SC63 represents the dawn of hypercars in endurance racing in full bloom, being the latest contenders along with Alpine?s A242 to join 2023?s inaugural freshman cohort of LMDh entr...
The post Lamborghini Unveils First Hybrid Sports Prototype: The SC63 appeared first on LUXUO.
Photo: Lamborghini
Lamborghini took to this year?s Goodwood Festival of Speed in West Sussex, England to unveil to the motoring world its first ever hybrid sports prototype, the SC63. Set to begin testing early in August, the prototype is slated to compete in the Hypercar class of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) World Endurance Championship (WEC) and the Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) class of the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) Sportscar Championship in 2024.
Hypercar Era
Between a full WEC season and an IMSA campaign, the new Lamborghini marque will make its first competitive appearance racing in two out of three crowns of endurance racing, the 24 Hours of Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring. It was not that long ago in the 60s when sports cars could barely complete endurance races before breaking down, forcing teams to park their cars in the pits or on the track right before the finish line to wait out the time limit before restarting their engines and risking one final crawl past the finish line. Today, the SC63 represents the dawn of hypercars in endurance racing in full bloom, being the latest contenders along with Alpine?s A242 to join 2023?s inaugural freshman cohort of LMDh entr...
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