Oregon Team Delivers Lamborghini’s Fifth GT Open Crown in a Barcelona Decider
Leonardo Pulcini and Benjamin Hites clinched Lamborghini’s fifth overall International GT Open Championship at Barcelona, driving Oregon Team‘s #63 Huracán GT3 Evo to the drivers’ title while teammates Kevin Gilardoni and Glenn van Berlo won the season finale in the sister #19 car. Oregon Team also secured the teams’ championship, completing a clean sweep in what Lamborghini says was the squad’s inaugural GT3 season.
The title fight came down to the final race weekend. Pulcini and Hites carried a four-point advantage over their nearest McLaren rivals, Nick Moss and Joe Osborne, into Barcelona. A third-place podium in Saturday’s opener kept the buffer intact, and a fifth-place finish on Sunday proved enough to seal the crown. The #19 car, meanwhile, took its third victory of the season by 1.570 seconds, passing the leading Porsche in the closing stages to lock out the top result for Oregon Team.
Four race wins across the season for the #63 pairing told the broader story: consistent points-scoring, not a single dominant weekend, decided this championship. That kind of reliability across a full calendar is precisely what customer teams need from a GT3 platform, and it explains why the Huracán continues to attract new entrants even as its replacement looms.
Two victorious drivers pose with their vibrant Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo race car in the pit lane after a successful race.
The Enduring Legacy: Why the Huracán GT3 Evo Continues to Dominate
Five overall GT Open titles would be a remarkable haul for any manufacturer. For a platform whose original GT3 variant first competed in 2015, it borders on extraordinary. According to Road & Track, the Huracán GT3 racer was introduced roughly ten years ago, and production-based GT racing evolved dramatically in that span. The car kept pace through two major evolutions.
The GT3 Evo arrived in 2019 with revised aerodynamics developed alongside Dallara and a focus on reducing ownership costs for customer teams. It won on debut at the 24 Hours of Daytona and swept all three GT World Challenge Europe titles that year. The subsequent EVO2, introduced for 2023, incorporated styling cues from the Huracán STO road car along with an updated braking system and revised air intake. That version went on to claim the 2024 DTM championship with Mirko Bortolotti, marking the first time an Italian manufacturer won the German touring car title in 31 years.
The cumulative record, 96 titles and 187 race victories by one account, reflects something more meaningful than raw speed. Customer teams choose the Huracán because the package works: competitive out of the crate, durable across endurance formats, and supported by Squadra Corse’s infrastructure. Barwell Motorsport’s second-place finish in the British GT Championship with Sandy Mitchell and Adam Balon underscores that point. Even when a team falls just short of the top step, the car consistently puts its drivers in contention. Barcelona was not an outlier; it was the latest proof of a formula that has held up for a decade.
Behind the Barcelona Drama: Oregon Team’s Championship Journey
Set against the GT Open triumph, the other half of Lamborghini’s motorsport portfolio offers a useful contrast. The SC 63 LMDh prototype program, Lamborghini’s ambitious entry into the top tier of sports car racing, experienced an early retirement at the 24 Hours of Daytona due to powertrain problems. As Road & Track reported, that exit set up a difficult path forward, and Lamborghini subsequently announced a pause in its SC 63 IMSA and Le Mans program for 2026.
The contrast is instructive rather than damning. Customer GT3 racing and factory prototype programs operate on fundamentally different risk profiles. GT3 regulations enforce performance parity through Balance of Performance adjustments, rewarding the manufacturer that delivers the most complete, reliable, and driver-friendly package to its teams. Prototype racing at the GTP level demands bespoke engineering with far less margin for error, and Lamborghini entered that arena as a newcomer competing against programs with decades of institutional knowledge.
For Lamborghini owners and prospective buyers, the practical takeaway is clear: the brand’s motorsport credibility rests on a deep, proven foundation in customer racing, not solely on the headline-grabbing prototype effort. The GT Open title, the DTM crown, the Daytona GTD victories over multiple years: these results validate the engineering that underpins the road cars most owners actually drive. The SC 63 pause is a setback, not a verdict on Lamborghini’s racing DNA.
What the Temerario GT3 Must Inherit
The Huracán GT3 platform’s scheduled run through the end of 2025 means this Barcelona championship could be among its final major titles. The Lamborghini Temerario GT3, confirmed as the successor, represents a significant shift: Car and Driver reports it is the first race car entirely designed and developed in-house at Lamborghini’s Sant’Agata Bolognese facility. Previous GT3 cars relied more heavily on external partners like Dallara for chassis development.
The road-going Temerario trades the Huracán’s naturally aspirated V10 for a twin-turbocharged V8 within a 907-horsepower plug-in hybrid powertrain. GT3 regulations will strip the hybrid elements, but the fundamental architecture, a forced-induction engine in a mid-mounted layout, means customer teams will need to adapt to entirely different power delivery characteristics. For squads like Oregon Team that built championship-winning setups around the Huracán’s linear V10 response, the transition will demand significant recalibration.
That is the real weight of what Pulcini, Hites, and Oregon Team accomplished in Barcelona. They did not simply add another line to the Huracán’s trophy cabinet; they raised the bar the Temerario must clear from its very first race. Five GT Open titles, three consecutive Daytona GTD wins, and a DTM championship form the benchmark. If the successor can deliver even a fraction of that consistency in its opening seasons, Lamborghini’s position in customer GT racing will remain formidable. If it cannot, the Huracán era will look less like a foundation and more like a peak.
A Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo race car speeds across the finish line as the checkered flag waves, signaling the end of the race.
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