Edoardo Mortara linked to DTM comeback with Lamborghini

Edoardo Mortara is poised for a return to the DTM in 2025, six years after his final season within the class, Motorsport.com understands.

The Swiss driver seems set to accomplice reigning DTM champion Mirko Bortolotti at Abt this 12 months following the squad’s change from Audi to Lamborghini equipment over the winter.

It follows affirmation from the Italian producer that Mortara will “be a part of a GT3 programme with Lamborghini within the remaining 12 months of 2025”.

Mortara joined Lamborghini as a manufacturing facility driver in 2024 to race its new SC63 LMDh prototype within the World Endurance Championship, but the marque’s participation in the Hypercar class ended after just one season, leaving him with out a full-time prototype seat.

Though Mortara was entered for final weekend’s Daytona 24 Hours, he isn’t included in Lamborghini’s line-up for the remainder of its marketing campaign within the endurance leg of the IMSA SportsCar Championship.

The GT3 programme that Lamborghini alluded to for Mortara now seems to be within the DTM, the place fellow works driver Bortolotti received the 2024 title in a factory-supported SSR Efficiency entry.

SSR isn’t anticipated to proceed within the DTM in 2025, making Abt the probably selection for Mortara’s DTM comeback.

The 38-year-old has a earlier relationship with Abt, having spent three seasons with the then Audi manufacturing facility squad between 2014-16 and completed runner-up within the championship in his third try.

One other driver in body for the vacant seat at Abt is Jordan Pepper, who made his DTM debut on the Sachsenring final 12 months as a alternative for Grasser driver Christian Engelhart.

Nonetheless, it’s understood that Mortara, not Pepper, will find yourself racing for the a number of championship-winning outfit.

Mortara spent a complete of eight seasons within the DTM, initially with Audi squads Rosberg and Abt earlier than shifting to Mercedes for the ultimate two years of its participation with the Class One-spec C63 AMG in 2017-18. 

Throughout that point, he claimed 10 wins, 27 podiums and 5 pole positions.