Leschiutta Out, Mohr In: Squadra Corse Gets Its CTO Back
Maurizio Leschiutta will leave his position as Head of Lamborghini’s motorsport division at the end of 2025, barely a year after taking the role. His replacement, at least for now, is someone Squadra Corse already knows well: Chief Technical Officer Rouven Mohr, who will lead the department on an interim basis while Lamborghini searches for a permanent successor.
The timing matters more than the personnel shuffle itself. Mohr inherits direct oversight of two programs that will define Lamborghini’s competitive credibility for the next decade: the Temerario GT3, scheduled to debut at the 12 Hours of Sebring in 2026, and the Temerario Super Trofeo, set to enter the European, North American, and Asian one-make championships from 2027. Both cars replace the long-serving Huracán race platforms, and both carry the weight of being Lamborghini’s first clean-sheet competition designs in a generation.
Leschiutta’s tenure was brief but productive. Lamborghini credits him with a key role in Squadra Corse’s 2025 results, including an overall victory at the 24 Hours of Spa alongside Grasser Racing Team and factory drivers Mirko Bortolotti, Luca Engstler, and Jordan Pepper. He also shepherded the Temerario race car development programs through critical early phases. The company thanked him formally and wished him well, offering no further detail on the reasons for his departure.
Why Mohr Is the Obvious Interim Choice
Placing a CTO in charge of a racing division sounds unusual until you consider Mohr’s specific history. He previously served as interim head of motorsport activities when Giorgio Sanna departed in early 2024, a period that included oversight of the SC63 hypercar program for international endurance championships. That earlier stint gave him direct operational experience with Squadra Corse‘s engineering teams, supplier relationships, and competition logistics.
Mohr’s background reinforces the logic. Born in 1979 in Saarbrücken, Germany, he studied engineering at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and earned a PhD in Numerical Mechanics before joining Audi’s R&D department in 2008. He moved to Lamborghini in 2017, overseeing development of the Aventador, Huracán, and Urus, then became CTO in January 2022. In that role, he shaped the hybridization strategy behind the Revuelto and Temerario road cars.
The practical upshot: Mohr already understands the Temerario’s architecture at a molecular level. He knows the twin-turbocharged V8, the chassis philosophy, and the engineering trade-offs required when stripping a road car down to GT3 regulations. For a transition period measured in weeks rather than years, Lamborghini could hardly find someone better positioned to keep the Temerario GT3 program on schedule.
The Temerario GT3: Why This Transition Cannot Afford a Stumble
The Temerario GT3 is the first race car entirely designed and developed in-house by Lamborghini at Sant’Agata Bolognese. Previous GT3 efforts relied heavily on external partners for race car conversion. Bringing the entire process under one roof represents a philosophical shift for the brand, one that carries both opportunity and risk.
As Road & Track noted in a detailed analysis, Lamborghini stuck with updated versions of the same basic Huracán race car for a full decade while competitors cycled through multiple entirely new GT3 platforms. The Temerario GT3 closes that gap, but it also means Lamborghini’s customer racing teams will be adapting to a fundamentally different car: new powerband characteristics from the turbo V8, different weight distribution, and unfamiliar aero behavior.
For the dozens of private teams that form the backbone of Lamborghini’s customer racing ecosystem, continuity in technical leadership during this handover is not a corporate nicety. It directly affects parts supply, technical support quality, and the confidence teams need to commit six-figure budgets to a new platform. Mohr’s presence at the top, even briefly, signals that Lamborghini views this as an engineering problem first and a management question second.
A Very Short Window Before Audi Calls
The complicating factor: Mohr’s interim role comes with a hard expiration date. He is confirmed to join the Board of Management of Audi AG as Chief Technical Officer starting March 1, 2026. That gives him roughly two months of direct oversight before handing the keys to whoever Lamborghini appoints permanently.
Two months is not a lot of time to reshape a racing division. But it may be enough to lock in the technical direction for the Temerario GT3’s Sebring debut, which falls in the same March 2026 window. Mohr’s job, in practical terms, is to ensure the car arrives at Sebring with its development philosophy intact and its support infrastructure organized for customer teams who will run it through the 2026 season and beyond.
Lamborghini has not disclosed what profile it seeks in a permanent Head of Motorsport, or whether the search is already underway. What the appointment does reveal is a preference for technical depth over managerial continuity during the most sensitive phase of a new race car’s life. Whether that philosophy extends to the permanent hire will say a great deal about how seriously Lamborghini intends to compete at the sharp end of GT3 racing in the years ahead.
What This Means for Lamborghini’s Racing Future
Lamborghini paused its SC63 hypercar program for 2026, according to Road & Track, citing a strategic decision to refocus resources. That makes the Temerario GT3 and Super Trofeo programs even more important: for the foreseeable future, they are the primary vehicles through which Lamborghini competes on the world stage and feeds technology back into its road car portfolio.
The broader pattern is worth watching. Lamborghini’s motorsport division has now cycled through three heads in roughly 18 months, from Sanna to Mohr (interim) to Leschiutta and back to Mohr. That kind of turnover would normally raise questions about organizational stability. The constant, though, is Mohr himself, a CTO who keeps getting pulled back into the racing side because the technical demands of the current moment outweigh the organizational chart.
For enthusiasts tracking the Temerario GT3’s progress toward Sebring, the practical takeaway is reassuring: the person who oversaw the road car’s engineering architecture will personally shepherd its race car derivative through the most critical pre-competition phase. The open question is what happens after March, when Mohr leaves for Ingolstadt and Squadra Corse needs a permanent leader capable of sustaining the technical ambition he set in motion.
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