Isotta Fraschini Reveals Tipo 6 LMH Competizione In Milan

Revived Italian automotive manufacturer Isotta Fraschini has revealed a fully built Tipo 6 LMH Competitzione in Milan today. The first car produced for the programme is now ready for further development work and testing ahead of the brand’s planned FIA World Endurance Championship top class programme, which is due to get underway later this year.

The Isotta Fraschini staff were joined by team representatives from UK team Vector Sport, which is set to run the cars in the FIA WEC, at the unveiling. Team manager of the current LMP2 outfit Gary Holland was one of the group in attendance.

The car has already been on a 4WD dyno and is set to begin wind tunnel testing imminently, with Vector Sport set to get involved in the testing and development of the car.

As it stands Isotta Fraschini, which filed for a full-season FIA WEC entry this year but wasn’t granted one by the selection committee, has shifted its focus to entering on a race-by-race basis later in the season ahead of a full-season effort in 2024.

Notably, the team also has a second chassis on site at its Michelotto headquarters ready to be built up. It is not clear yet though, whether it exists for testing purposes (including an FIA crash test), or to be built up as the first Tipo 6S road car.

The Tipo 6 LMH Competizione is set to be powered by a 4WD hybrid system and a six-cylinder turbocharged ICE. It has been developed by HWA exclusively for the programme.

During the presentation, the Isotta Fraschini Milano’s president Alessandro Fassina also announced an industrial plan with an investment of 100 million euros, almost a third of which has already been allocated. He also clarified that the annual production of Tipo 6 cars will be in the order of 50 units over 5 years, while a new two-seater hypercar will arrive from 2026 which in the following years will settle on 30/40 units per year.

“Today, we are exactly where we predicted 4 months ago, when we announced that Isotta Fraschini would be back and that it would do so, according to tradition, with a racing car,” said Claudio Berro, director of Isotta
Fraschini’s motorsport programme.

“The Tipo 6 LMH Competizione is now in its complete and real configuration and the intentions for the 2023 season remain those of competing in the 2023 WEC championship with the “race by race” formula, as soon as the car is homologated by the FIA. In the meantime, we will be grinding kilometres together with the team Vector Sport to ensure we will be ready as soon as possible.”

Images courtesy of Isotta Fraschini

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