Year one has gone quite well for Pfaff Motorsports’ new weapon, the No. 9 Lamborghini Temerario GT3. The car earned its first victory Sunday in the six-hour Motul SportsCar Endurance Grand Prix, fittingly doing so in a special Motul-themed livery that adorned the newly minted Italian bull machine.
Combined with a podium finish on the streets of Detroit in May, the Canadian team’s debut campaign has continued to showcase both the platform’s early success and its promising future.
“It’s absolutely massive,” Sandy Mitchell, one of the team’s two drivers in Sunday’s victory, said. “I think there’s so much work behind the scenes throughout this year, as well as developing the car last year. Continuing that development into this season, whether that’s at the race events or testing in the background, has been huge.
“I’m just super proud of everyone at Lamborghini and Pfaff for continuing to push forward with the car. Of course, it’s been challenging at times. It’s never easy to come into such a competitive championship like IMSA and be competitive straight away. To have a P2 and a P1 at this point in the championship is more than we would have expected.”
Andrea Caldarelli echoed Mitchell’s sentiments following the team’s landmark victory, which marked Pfaff’s first IMSA win since the 2023 Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring.
Caldarelli, who has played an instrumental role in the development of Lamborghini’s new GT3 platform, said the result was especially rewarding given the level of competition in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
“Well, we cannot spice it up more than that. I don’t know what we can do more than that,” Caldarelli said with a smile. “Six hours is enough. It was a great race. We knew last year this place deserved an endurance race. It was a bit of chaos last year with a lot of penalties and so on. Since then, I feel everything has started to chill out a little bit more with the driving.
“I really love this series for that. You have to go out there and be smart with your strategy, but at the same time have good skill in traffic and fighting. It really means a lot to us, this win, because it’s such an iconic race. For a new car in its first year, it’s really, really special.”
While Sunday’s triumph was not the Temerario GT3’s first victory worldwide—having scored its maiden win earlier this season in DTM—it further strengthens what has already been an encouraging launch for Lamborghini’s newest GT3 contender.
Although the building blocks are still being laid, Pfaff Motorsports Team Manager Steve Bortolotti has already seen one of the team’s primary objectives accomplished with three GTD Pro races remaining on the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship schedule.
“Completing every lap of every race would be Goal No. 1 from here on out to Petit,” Bortolotti told GT REPORT at Sebring in March. “Then Goal No. 2 would be to have more than one podium by the end of the year.”
Just months later, Pfaff has already surpassed that second benchmark with a podium finish in Detroit and a breakthrough victory at Road America.
With many teams preparing to retire the Lamborghini Huracán GT3 at the end of the season, the Temerario is already establishing itself as a worthy successor ahead of its expected widespread global adoption in 2027. Much of that early momentum can be credited to the development work and race execution of Pfaff Motorsports.
Pfaff Motorsports and the No. 9 Lamborghini Temerario GT3 will return to action August 21-23 at Virginia International Raceway, where the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s GTD Pro and GTD classes headline the season’s standalone GT event.
