KW: With the Lamborghini SC63 to Le Mans 🎥

As official technical partner of Lamborghini Squadra Corse, the motorsport department of the sports car manufacturer, KW takes the next important step and enters the top class of the sports car world championship FIA WEC and the IMSA Weather Tech Sportscar Championship with its suspension technology. The new KW dampers V6 Formula Racing CPR Heave and V5 Formula Racing CPR Roll will be used for the first time in the Lamborghini SC63.

Prototypes with hybrid drive

In recent months, the Lamborghini SC63 had a successful test phase after tuning work on the KW 7 Post driving dynamics test bench (center gallery), during which KW accompanied the Lamborghini Squadra Corse on the racetracks as a technical partner. Now the suspension manufacturer from Fichtenberg in southern Germany is proud to be able to equip Lamborghini's first LMDh prototype with hybrid drive for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring as well as for the entire endurance championship.

Next generation at the start

The new Formula series from KW is based on through-rod displacement technology and is available in different versions for prototype sports cars such as Le Mans hypercars, LMDh hypercars and formula cars as CPR heave, CPR roll and CPR wheel dampers. What is new is that KW uses a continuous piston rod for the V6 Formula Racing CPR heave damper and V5 Formula Racing CPR roll damper used in the SC63. Due to their design, such displacement piston dampers with their continuous piston rod construction have the great advantage that there is no throttle extension force and the after-effect is lower. This means that temperature fluctuations in the damper have no influence on the ride height of the racing car. This is particularly important for vehicles with a lot of downforce.

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