Lamborghini's motorsport division, Squadra Corse, produces GT3 cars and cars for the Lamborghini Super Trofeo series based on the Gallardo and Huracán platforms, and builds cars upon customer request.
Gallardo LP 570-4 Super Trofeo
Gallardo LP 560-4 Super Trofeo
Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo
Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo EVO
Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo EVO2
Huracán Super Trofeo GT2
Huracán GT3
Huracán GT3 Evo
Huracán GT3 Evo 2
Squadra Corse has also built special cars upon customer request: the Essenza SCV12, the SC18 Alston, and the SC20.
The Super Trofeo is a series of events using Super Trofeo model vehicles (currently the Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2). It runs in three continental series — America, Asia, and Europe — each consisting of six rounds with free practice, qualifying, and two 50-minute races per round. Driver categories are Pro, Pro-Am, Am, and Lamborghini Cup. Each continental season concludes at the Lamborghini Super Trofeo World Final.
The Lamborghini GT3 programme uses Huracán GT3 cars complying with FIA GT3 regulations. More than 60 private race teams participate in the events, which are open to any Huracán GT3 customer. The current specification is the Huracán GT3 Evo 2.
Lamborghini supplied engines in Formula One from 1989 through 1993. The teams supplied were Larrousse (1989–1990, 1992–1993), Lotus (1990), Ligier (1991), Minardi (1992), and the Modena team (1991). Lamborghini's best F1 result came with Larrousse at the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix, when Aguri Suzuki finished third on home soil. The 1992 Larrousse–Lamborghini was largely uncompetitive and was noted for spewing oil from its exhaust, leaving cars following it coloured yellowish-brown by the end of the race.
The same engine, re-badged as Chrysler (Lamborghini's then-parent company), was tested by McLaren towards the end of the 1993 season with the intent of using it in 1994. Although driver Ayrton Senna was reportedly impressed with the engine's performance, McLaren withdrew from negotiations in favour of a Peugeot engine, and Chrysler ended the project.
Lamborghini developed the Murciélago R-GT as a production racing car to compete in the FIA GT Championship, the Super GT Championship, and the American Le Mans Series in 2004. Its highest placing that year was third from a fifth-place start at the opening round of the FIA GT Championship at Valencia, entered by Reiter Engineering. In 2006, at the opening round of the Super GT Championship at Suzuka, a car run by the Japan Lamborghini Owners Club took the first class victory for the R-GT. A Murciélago R-GT entered by All-Inkl.com Racing, driven by Christophe Bouchut and Stefan Mücke, won the opening round of the FIA GT Championship at Zhuhai International Circuit — the first major international race victory for Lamborghini.
Two racing versions of the Diablo were built for the Diablo Supertrophy, a single-model racing series held annually from 1996 to 1999. The Diablo SVR was used in the first year; the Diablo 6.0 GTR for the remaining three years.
Ferruccio Lamborghini decided early that there would be no factory-supported racing, viewing motorsport as too expensive. This led to tensions with engineers; the closest the company came to a true race car under Ferruccio's management were highly modified prototypes built by factory test driver Bob Wallace, including the Miura SV-based "Jota" and the Jarama S-based "Bob Wallace Special".
In the mid-1970s, while under the management of Georges-Henri Rossetti, Lamborghini entered an agreement with BMW to develop and manufacture 400 cars to meet Group 4 homologation requirements. Due to Lamborghini's financial difficulties, it fell behind schedule; BMW took the programme in-house, contracted Baur for production, and delivered the first M1 in October 1978.
In 1985, Lamborghini's British importer developed the Countach QVX with Spice Engineering for the 1986 Group C season. One car was built but sponsorship could not be found. The QVX competed in only one race — the non-championship 1986 Southern Suns 500 km at Kyalami, driven by Tiff Needell. Sponsorship again failed and the programme was cancelled.
In 1991, a Lamborghini F1 motor was used in the Konrad KM-011 Group C sports car, but the project was cancelled after a few races.
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