For the Grasser team – if team boss Gottfried Grasser is to be believed – it looks good that the Lamborghini squad will remain loyal to the DTM in 2025. “We are in good final negotiations,” says the Austrian in an interview Motorsport-Total.com. “The probability that we will continue in the DTM is over 90 percent.”
Everything looks “very positive,” said Grasser. “There is nothing that speaks against it.” The 45-year-old had made his stay in the traditional series, in which the Grasser team has been competing for three years, dependent on the support of his sponsors.
There is optimism in this regard for 2025, as Lamborghini’s longest-serving GT3 team would also like to field two Huracan GT3 Evo2s in the coming season. The budget per vehicle in the DTM is over 1.5 million euros.
Will Engstler stay with the Grasser team?
It will be exciting to see which drivers will drive the cars if the program goes ahead as planned. Luca Engstler, who celebrated his first two DTM victories with the Grasser team in 2024 and will also be at the start with Grasser at the GT sprint classic in Macau this week, says he is hoping for a cockpit and is one of the candidates.
“At the end of the day, I feel very comfortable with the Grasser family,” said Engstler, who has also been part of the Lamborghini junior squad this year. “I think that the Elli [Elisabeth Grasser] and Godfrey [Grasser] give up their last shirt to build fast cars.”
But a comeback by DTM champion Mirko Bortolotti, whose SSR performance team is facing an uncertain future, does not currently appear to be out of the question due to the confusing Lamborghini situation.
Grasser is planning a large-scale GTWCE deployment
Above all, the confirmation that a fully synthetic fuel from P1 will be used in the DTM for the first time in 2025 is “really positive for Grasser. Such fuels need to be tested and have a future. This is the right path and is good for the sport.”
Aside from the DTM, the Grasser team based near the Red Bull Ring also wants to race two Lamborghinis in all races in the GT World Challenge Europe next season – both in the sprint and endurance series -bolides start at the start. “And we are also thinking about continuing in the ADAC GT Masters,” says Grasser.
