Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann has announced the launch of a new GT3 racing car for international customer racing in 2026. The successor to the current Huracan GT3 Evo2 will receive a new name, which the brand boss announced on the sidelines of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a round with selected media representatives, including Motorsport-Magazin.combut not surprisingly didn’t want to reveal it yet.
“It’s slowly becoming difficult with the names,” joked Winkelmann, whose sports cars are often closely linked to the names of famous bulls, analogous to the brand logo. “It will be named after a fighting bull. The name should have a sound that sounds cool around the world. There has to be a story behind it and the name must not be protected.”
New GT3 Lamborghini: Racing debut announced for 2026
Lamborghini plans to present its future GT3 model to the public next year, and the racing debut could take place at the 24 Hours of Daytona in January 2026. The Italian sports car manufacturer is currently using its Huracan GT3 in the second Evo expansion stage in the DTM, the World Endurance Championship (WEC), the US IMSA and the GT World Challenge, among others.
At the beginning of 2023, Lamborghini launched the second update kit, which currently has five Huracan GT3s in the DTM and thus form the largest contingent in the starting field. The original Huracan had its track premiere in 2015 and succeeded the Gallardo. The name of the series successor to the Huracan has not yet been publicly announced. The only thing that is certain is that a 4-liter V8 biturbo will replace the powerful V10 naturally aspirated engine that is popular with sports car fans.

Lamborghini CTO Rouven Mohr: Clear commitment to customer sport”
The LMDh car, with which Lamborghini is making its debut in the WEC and IMSA this year, already features a newly developed V8 biturbo with a standard hybrid. “The engine in the LMDh car is completely independent and was developed just for this car,” said Lamborghini technical director Rouven Mohr, who is also interim head of motorsport. “The GT3 and Super Trofeo cars are based on a series engine, not the one in the LMDh. But because there is a balance of performance, the engine has to be modified.”
In the in-house high-speed one-make cup, the Lamborghini Super Trofeo, Mohr announced a successor for 2027 – one year after the GT3 launch. “This is a clear commitment from our brand to customer sport,” explained the former Audi employee Mohr. “This is not a given.”
The situation is different for the VW Group subsidiary Audi, which is phasing out the R8 and, following a board decision, is no longer supporting customer teams financially since this year. However, this did not stop the private team Scherer Sport PHX from winning the Nürburgring 24-hour race with an Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo2…
Lamborghini: Hybrid in series, but not yet in customer racing
In the past, the Audi R8 and the Lamborghini Huracan shared a technical platform – but that will no longer be the case in the future. Mohr: “We have built up a good reputation in GT3 racing over the past ten years and achieved some success. As a brand, we do not question this pillar (customer racing; ed.). LMDh is at the top, but we must continue to work at the base. We have a very clear direction within the brand.”
The topic of hybridization has now reached the series range at Lamborghini – as with the over 1,000 hp V12 Revuelto as the successor to the Aventador – but it is still too early for customer sport. All manufacturers currently agree on this. Mohr put it succinctly: “If you have high tension in the racing car, you exclude many teams because they then need a different structure in their racing team. We do customer sport for our customers. That is not a statement against hybrid drives, but we have to stay focused.”