Following recent tests of its new SC63 LMDh car recently completed at Daytona International Speedeway and Circuit of The Americas, Lamborghini Squadra Corse and Iron Lynx have finalized the lineups for the cars that will contest the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and FIA World Endurance Championship in 2024. Edoardo Mortara and Matteo Cairoli join the Sant’Agata Bolognese supercar manufacturer as factory drivers.
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Both drivers tested the car during the team’s final two-day test of the year at COTA this week. The pair, who got their first taste of the SC63 at Jerez in September, will team up with fellow factory drivers Mirko Bortolotti, Andrea Caldarelli, Romain Grosjean and Daniil Kvyat.
Mortara will partner Bortolotti and Kvyat for the FIA WEC season, giving the SC63 its competitive debut in the season-opening Qatar round on March 2. Caldarelli, Grosjean and Cairoli will tackle four rounds of the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup season, starting at Sebring on March 13-17. Both crews will then line up together for the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June.
“We are thrilled to welcome Edoardo and Matteo into our Lamborghini Squadra Corse family,” said Giorgio Sanna, Lamborghini head of motorsport. “Both drivers have a lot of experience and not only bring with them impressive speed and professionalism to the LMDh project in FIA WEC and IMSA, but also the opportunity to use them strategically in some of the biggest GT3 races and championships.”
Swiss driver Mortara, who also holds French and Italian citizenship, brings over a decade of experience racing in high level single-seater and sports car series.
“I am super happy to be joining Lamborghini Squadra Corse, which is allowing me this incredible opportunity to compete in the Le Mans 24 Hours and the World Endurance Championship, both of which I have wanted to take part in for a long time,” said Mortara. “It is a very proud moment for me, and I hope we can achieve some good results next season.”
Italy’s Cairoli, 27, has achieved multiple successes in the WEC and European Le Mans Series in the LMGTE Am category. He was also part of the winning squad in the 24 Hours of Nurburgring in 2021.
“I want to thank Lamborghini Squadra Corse, Giorgio, and the Iron Lynx family, for this amazing opportunity and for believing in me. I am ready to give the best of myself next year; clearly, it’s a dream I have been chasing for a long time and to do it with an Italian brand as an Italian driver has given me even more motivation. The aim is to learn as much as possible about the car for next year, but I am already pumped for the start of the season.”
The SC63 underwent extensive testing in Europe before moving its program to the U.S. Iron Lynx had two days of testing at Daytona during IMSA’s official homologation test last week, where the car proved on pace with the other GTP cars, and tested at COTA this week.
“The Austin test concludes the development phase of the SC63 ahead of the racing debut in Qatar,” said Rouven Mohr, Lamborghini Chief Technical Officer. “Overall, we are satisfied with the maturity of the project so far, which was demonstrated at the Daytona test where we set the fastest time on the first day. Of course, there is still a lot of work behind the scenes to be done before Qatar.”