As the official technical partner of Lamborghini Squadra Corse, the motorsport division of the Italian car manufacturer Lamborghini, we now equip another race car with our KW Racing dampers alongside the Lamborghini SC63 LMDh.
The new six-way adjustable KW V7 Racing solid-piston dampers make their debut in the Lamborghini Temerario GT3. But more on that later—let’s first take a closer look at the newest bull in the Lamborghini Squadra Corse racing stable.
The Lamborghini Temerario GT3 is the first GT3 race car from Lamborghini to be fully designed, developed, and built at the company’s headquarters in Sant’Agata Bolognese, Italy. In addition, the Temerario GT3 will replace the Huracán GT3.
Less power than the production model
While the Temerario is a hybrid in its production version, featuring two electric motors on the front axle and an additional electric auxiliary unit on the rear axle, international GT3 regulations do not permit hybrid powertrains. Lamborghini had already taken this into account during development, so the road-going version of the Temerario was designed with a drivetrain architecture that would not stand in the way of a future GT3 customer racing car.
Instead of the 800 horsepower in the production version, the 4.0-liter V8 twin-turbo engine produces up to 550 horsepower, depending on the Balance of Performance classification. In the race car, the V8 revs up to 10,000 rpm. This high rev range is made possible by a flatter crankshaft (cross-plane crankshaft) and titanium connecting rods. Due to the smaller turbochargers compared to the production model, the entire intake system had to be redesigned. The pure rear-wheel-drive car features a sequential six-speed gearbox.
One of the great things about modern GT3 race cars is that, thanks to manufacturers’ customer racing programs, they are comparatively easier to drive than older race cars. At first glance, they still bear a strong resemblance to their production counterparts, even though they are largely built with entirely different components. This is also true for the Lamborghini Temerario GT3. The body is based on the aluminum spaceframe taken from the production model, which has been specifically reworked for racing and significantly reduced in weight in many areas.
On top of this sits an entirely new carbon-fiber body that follows the design lines of the Temerario while optimizing overall aerodynamics for maximum downforce and minimal drag, in addition to achieving the greatest possible weight savings. Lamborghini Squadra Corse worked closely with the body designers at Centro Stile Lamborghini to develop it. Lamborghini states the dry weight of the GT3 is 1,300 kilograms.
Designed for easy maintenance by customer racing teams
The body and aerodynamic components of the new Lamborghini GT3 customer race car are made entirely of carbon fiber and are designed with a modular structure, allowing them to be removed. In case of damage or maintenance, parts such as the headlights, engine hood, rear diffuser, and the four-piece underbody can be quickly detached. A newly developed, removable rear frame houses the engine and transmission.
Lamborghini Squadra Corse also integrated an FIA-compliant roll cage into the central section of the single-frame chassis. The front subframe was also modified, as the electric motors for the front axle are omitted in the race car.
Six-way adjustable solid-piston damper: the new KW V7 Racing
While Lamborghini unveiled the new GT3 race car at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed, we presented our new KW V7 Racing dampers to an international audience. The KW V7 Racing dampers used in the Lamborghini Temerario GT3 are a consistent evolution of the KW V6 Racing dampers previously used in the Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Evo, BMW M4 GT3 Evo, and Porsche 911 GT3 R. Like the V6 Racing, the new V7 Racing is also based on KW’s solid piston technology, which covers a wide force range.
In this design, the valves are separated from the piston. The working piston displaces the hydraulic column toward the valves. This setup allows significantly greater forces to be generated even at low gas pressures. The offset and flow-optimized valves ensure cavitation-free operation, while the entire system enables minimal hysteresis.
The KW V7 Racing dampers cover a wide characteristic curve range between 1,000 N and 12,000 N. The system operates with high precision even under minimal suspension travel and high aerodynamic loads. Depending on the Balance of Performance classification, current GT3 cars generate around 900 kilograms of downforce at top speed on the Döttinger Höhe section of the Nürburgring Nordschleife. This corresponds to more than two-thirds of the vehicle’s total weight. The offset and flow-optimized valves are adjustable in both the high-speed and low-speed compression stages, as well as in the high-speed and low-speed rebound stages.
n addition, the V7 Racing damper features a blow-off adjustment in both the compression and rebound stages, allowing for a flatter damping curve in the high-speed range. This has the advantage of keeping the race car well controllable even when aggressively cutting curbs during a race.
The KW V7 Racing damper is manufactured from a high-strength aluminum alloy. Using shim inserts, the vehicle height can be adjusted without affecting suspension travel via the spring perch. The Lamborghini Temerario GT3 will make its racing debut at the 12 Hours of Sebring in March 2026.
