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When Lamborghini pulled the covers off the Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo during Monterey Car Week in August 2014, the car it replaced told most of the story. The Gallardo Super Trofeo had anchored Lamborghini’s one-make racing series since 2009, but it was fundamentally a road car stripped down and
On August 18, 2014, Lamborghini pulled the covers off its next-generation one-make race car at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering: the Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo. The venue was deliberate. Pebble Beach week concentrates the world’s most serious collectors and racing enthusiasts along one coastal
When a driver goes from struggling to sweeping an entire weekend, the championship math changes in a hurry. Sebastian Merchan, the Ecuadorian racing a Lamborghini Gallardo for Bonaldi Motorsport, did exactly that at the Circuit Paul Ricard on June 28, 2014, claiming both PRO-AM Class victories in th
In May 2014, Lamborghini confirmed its participation in a research consortium called Newspec, short for “New cost-effective and Sustainable PolyEthylene based Carbon fiber for volume market applications.” Launched in November 2013 with 12 global companies, the project posed a question that sounds al
Andrew Palmer, the reigning Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo World Final champion, opened the 2014 North America season at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca by making the rest of the field look like it was running a different race. Driving the No. 14 Lamborghini Beverly Hills Gallardo LP 570-4 Super Trofe
Dilantha Malagamuwa and Tomas Enge had almost nothing in common at the end of March 2014 except this: both drove a Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 FL2, both botched their starts, and both won anyway. That shared pattern of recovery tells a story not just about two talented drivers but about a car engineere
When a championship comes down to its final two races, the math either comforts or torments. For Cédric Leimer, heading into the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo season finale in Germany’s Eifel Mountains, it does both. The Swiss driver carries an 11-point advantage into the weekend, a buffer that
Most automakers claim motorsport heritage for their track-focused road cars. Lamborghini, with the Gallardo LP 570-4 Squadra Corse, skipped the usual filtering process and dropped a genuinely unmodified race engine into a street-legal shell. Unveiled at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show, the car took its
Lamborghini’s newly formed Squadra Corse motorsport department needed a calling card, something that would prove the division was more than an organizational reshuffling. The Gallardo LP 570-4 Squadra Corse, debuted at the 65th Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2013, delivered exactly that: a road-l
Lamborghini’s Blancpain Super Trofeo sells a seductive idea: race a purpose-built Lamborghini in a professionally managed championship, and you might just earn your way into a GT3 cockpit. Organized by Squadra Corse, the series launched in Europe in 2009 and later expanded to Asia in 2012 and North
