[2] However, the team struggled to find sponsorship, and Unipart were the only firm to fund the project.

[3] Three more no-shows followed, most notably including the 1986 24 Hours of Le Mans, before the car finally was run by Spice Engineering at the 500 km Kyalami in November 1986.

[9] This would be the only time the Countach QVX would compete in an international event; despite Portman Lamborghini making two further entries in 1987, at the 1000 km of Silverstone and the 24 Hours of Le Mans, they did not attend either race and the Countach QVX was retired.

[4] The financial issues that the team had suffered from simply proved insurmountable and it would be another few years before another Lamborghini-engined car, the Konrad KM-011, entered a major sportscar race, in 1991.

It would be ten years before a Lamborghini (the Diablo) appeared in top-class sports car racing again.