Las Vegas Concours 2025: Racing Cars

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Although the highlight of the Las Vegas Concours was the vast sea of supercars (which you can read about here: https://motorsportformentalhealth.com/2025/11/16/supercars-at-the-wynn-concours-2025/) However, there were lots and lots of other cars at the show including a lot of modern and historic racing cars.

The Las Vegas Grand Prix falls a couple of weeks after the Concours at the Wynn, and Formula 1 is celebrating it’s 75th anniversary in 2025, which makes the Concours a perfect event to gather some current and historic Formula 1 cars.

Including this chrome 2025 promotional car:

McLaren unveiled their new ‘Project Endurance’ LMDh (LeMans Daytona hybrid – top tier endurance racing) that will be competing in WEC events for 2027.

Interestingly these will be available to customers – be that privateers who want to compete in the WEC or very, very rich people who want the coolest track toy in the pits.

The NILU27. I wasn’t sure whether to feature this here or in the supercar post, but that post was already astronomically long.

The NILU27 was designed by Sasha Selipanov (who has been on the design team on a number of projects at Bugatti, Koenigsegg and Lamborghini)

The NILU27 features a 6.5 litre V12 built by Hartley Engines that will rev to 12,000rpm. Power will be put to the ground through a 7 speed, gated manual gearbox (fans of the click rejoice!).

15 track only cars will be built along with 54 street cars.

The SCV12 is a track only supercar built by Lamborghini’s motorsport division Squadra Corse.

It features the same naturally aspirated V12 as the Aventador SVJ (with a different intake and exhaust pushing power up to 820bhp) but spun 180 degrees so the gearbox can be mounted right at the back of the car.

The gearbox in the SCV12 is a 6 speed sequential manual as opposed to the automated unit in the production Aventador, and SCV12 is rear wheel driven as opposed to four wheel driven.

Also from Lamborghini was this Diablo GTR as raced in the Lamborghini Supertrophy series.

Back in the day Leaseplan could lease a Diablo GTR for a monthly fee to entice privateers into the Supertrophy series.

30 GTRs were built in the end. 29 were raced with one, a yellow one, becoming a garage queen.

A pair of rallying Porsche 911s.

Wright Motorsports’ IMSA GTD Porsche 911.

The Porsche 935 was based on the 930 generation 911 for Group 5 racing in the mid to late 1970s.

Unlike other manufacturers competing in Group 5, Porsche offered the 935 for sale to customers. A lot were sold and raced, and of the 370 races the 935 was entered into, it won 123.

I love the 1970s vibe livery on this one.

the 962 Group C car in the iconic Jagermeister livery.

Speaking of liveries I always thought the Totip livery is underrated. It’s very colourful and eye-catching.

I’d quite like to play the actual Totip game one day, just out of curiousity. It occasionally pops up on eBay in Italy from time to time.

The Oldsmobile Aerotech cars. These were speed record cars built to promote Oldsmobile’s range of ‘Quad 4’ engines.

You’ll note that one car has a long tail and the other a short tail.

The long tail car reached 267mph whilst the short tail reached 257mph in August 1987.

We’re going to end today with some classic Jaguars. Firstly we have the stunning C-Type built from 1951 to 1953.

The C-Type was suprisingly followed by the D-Type. The D-Type came out in 1954 and won LeMans in ’55 ’56 and ’57. It had a monocoque chassis which was rare in the mid ’50s, and was made from mostly aluminium.

I’ve never heard a D-Type running in person until this event!