Writes about grand tourers, luxury flagships, and the finer side of automotive life. Believes a great GT should be as comfortable crossing continents as it is crossing the speed limit.
Lamborghini Squadra Corse confirmed a fourth continental chapter for its one-make racing series in late October 2016: the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Middle East, with an inaugural season slated to begin in February 2017 at circuits in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The championship would run identically to the
Marvel Studios held the world premiere of Doctor Strange in Los Angeles on October 20, 2016, and the expected star power was present: Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong. The less expected co-star sat on the red carpet under the flashbulbs, drawing it
At the Shanghai International Circuit in October 2016, Andrea Amici and Edoardo Liberati drove the FFF Racing Team’s Lamborghini Huracán GT3 to the GT Asia Series Championship. The title was confirmed across two rain-soaked races at the sixth and final round of the season: a seventh-place finish in
On September 23, 2016, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi walked through the same Sant’Agata Bolognese production halls where the Huracán and Aventador take shape, then stepped into a construction zone that told a very different story about Lamborghini’s future. CEO Stefano Domenicali guided the de
When Lamborghini opened its eighth UK dealership in Bristol on 22 September 2016, the building itself was not the story. What mattered was what it represented: the first physical expression of a completely new global corporate identity, conceived to accommodate a brand that planned to double its ann
Heavy rain turned Fuji International Speedway’s 4.5-kilometer ribbon of asphalt into something closer to a drainage canal than a racetrack, and Lamborghini’s Blancpain Super Trofeo Asia field lined up behind the safety car anyway. Pit crews scrambled to bolt on wet-weather tires, officials delayed t
Before a single Huracán Super Trofeo fired its engine on the Fuji International Speedway grid, 45 Lamborghini road cars paraded around one of Japan’s most storied circuits. Forty-five owners willing to bring their cars to a racetrack, line up in formation, and publicly declare their allegiance to th
When Lamborghini commandeered Tokyo’s Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery in September 2016 for a weekend it called “Lamborghini Day,” the company was not simply throwing a party. It was staging a thesis: that a brand’s heritage and its most extreme new hardware are not separate selling propositions but
From September 15 to 18, approximately 80 Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo race cars will compete simultaneously across three continents. The Nürburgring hosts the fifth round of the European series. Fuji Speedway stages the Asian championship’s return to Japan. The Circuit of the Americas in Austin
In September 2016, Automobili Lamborghini did something no other supercar manufacturer had attempted: it launched an international architectural competition to physically reshape the entrance to its hometown. Titled Lamborghini Road Monument, the contest invited young architects and designers to pro
