Lamborghini factory driver Romain Grosjean told reporters that Lamborghini’s IMSA team are a little behind due to a lack of pre-season testing
“Pretty good,” he told reporters, when he was asked how he was feeling about Lamborghini’s IMSA programme, at last weekend’s Indycar season opener at St Petersburg, Florida, where he was racing for his new team, Juncos Hollinger Racing.
“We’re a little bit behind because we didn’t have as many tests as we wanted prior to starting the season,” he continued.
“But the project is very interesting and going well. I think Sebring may be a little bit difficult next week because it’s going to be our first race in IMSA and Sebring being a difficult racetrack.”
Grosjean and his Lamborghini teammates, Andrea Caldarelli and Matteo Cairoli, will be going up against their GTP competitors in the IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship at Sebring. That list includes the likes of Cadillac, with the Action Express and Chip Ganassi teams, Acura’s Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti programme, the Porsche Penske team, and finally BMW Team RLL.
Lamborghini already made their prototype debut earlier this month in the FIA World Endurance Championship’s Qatar 1812km, finishing 14th in class with Mirko Bortolotti, Daniil Kvyat and Edo Mortara at the wheel.
Sebring, though, will be a completely different challenge: Qatar’s Losail International Circuit is billiard-table smooth while Sebring has a myriad of bumps, caused by the track’s surface’s decades-old concrete slabs shifting over time.
“It’s not going to be easy but if we can go to the end, if we can get mileage, if we can get an understanding of the car, it’s going to be important to prepare the big one at Le Mans 24,” he concluded.
