Win 199: Barwell Locks Out the Front at Donington
Sandy Mitchell and Alex Martin drove the #78 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2 to victory in the British GT Championship season finale at Donington Park, with teammates Rob Collard and Hugo Cook completing a Barwell Motorsport one-two in the #1 car. The margin told its own story: 30.945 seconds back to the third-placed Mercedes of Maxi Götz, both Lamborghinis clear of the field despite rain arriving in the final hour.
The result would be noteworthy on any weekend. What elevates it is the number attached: Lamborghini says this is the 199th victory for the Huracán GT3 platform since the original car debuted in 2015. One more win, from any team running the car anywhere in the world, and Squadra Corse reaches a milestone no other manufacturer’s single GT3 chassis generation can claim.
Collard and Cook topped combined qualifying to start from pole, but the #1 car carried an additional 10-second success penalty from its previous podium finish. That extra stationary time during the pit stop handed the effective lead to Mitchell, who managed the gap through changeable conditions for the remainder of the race. Lamborghini confirms this is the marque’s 31st win in British GT history and Barwell Motorsport’s 28th championship race victory. It is also Lamborghini’s second win of the 2025 season.
A Decade of Evolution: GT3, EVO, EVO2
The original Huracán GT3 broke cover in 2015, built around the road car’s naturally aspirated 5.2-liter V10 but converted to rear-wheel drive per GT3 regulations. One report indicates the GT3 EVO variant followed in 2018, refining the aerodynamic package and extending the platform’s competitive life against newer rivals from Porsche, Ferrari, and Mercedes-AMG. The GT3 EVO2, first revealed in 2022 with styling cues drawn from the Huracán STO road car, incorporated a new aerodynamic package and a full carbon fiber body.
The longevity is the real headline. As Road & Track noted in its analysis of the Temerario GT3, eleven brands released entirely new GT3 cars during the decade Lamborghini stuck with updated versions of the same basic Huracán. Porsche alone cycled through three distinct GT3 platforms in that span. Squadra Corse kept winning with iterative updates rather than clean-sheet replacements, a testament to the fundamental soundness of the original design and to the depth of engineering knowledge accumulated over nearly 200 race victories.
Barwell Motorsport, which has consistently campaigned Lamborghini Huracán GT3 models in British GT since 2016, exemplifies the kind of long-term team relationship that makes customer racing programs work. Familiarity with the platform compounds over seasons. Engineers learn its behavior in every weather condition, on every tire compound, at every circuit. That institutional knowledge showed at Donington, where the team’s strategy calls during the rain-affected final hour kept both cars well ahead of the field.
A large field of race cars, led by two Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evos, charges down the track.
What Customer Racing Success Actually Buys Lamborghini
GT3 racing is, at its core, a customer program. Manufacturers sell homologated race cars to independent teams, provide technical support, and benefit from the brand exposure when those cars win. The economics only work if the car is competitive enough to attract buyers and reliable enough to keep them coming back. By that measure, 199 victories across a decade represent an extraordinary return on Lamborghini’s investment in Squadra Corse.
The Huracán GT3’s wins span far beyond British GT. In 2024, Mirko Bortolotti secured the DTM drivers’ championship in the EVO2, according to one report marking the first time an Italian brand and driver won that title in 31 years. The platform’s reach extends to ADAC GT Masters, the Italian GT Championship, and endurance events including the 24 Hours of Spa. Each victory reinforces the same message to prospective customers: this car wins, and the support infrastructure behind it is proven.
For Lamborghini as a brand, the racing program serves a function that no amount of marketing spend can replicate. Road car buyers, particularly those spending north of $300,000 on a Huracán-derived model, want to know the engineering is validated under the most demanding conditions. A decade of GT3 podiums provides that validation more convincingly than any press event or track day demonstration.
Victorious drivers celebrate on the podium with their trophies and champagne at the British GT Championship.
The Temerario GT3: Inheriting a Legacy, Changing the Formula
The Huracán GT3’s successor was unveiled at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed, and the Temerario GT3 represents a fundamental departure. Where the Huracán used a naturally aspirated V10, the Temerario GT3 runs a modified version of the road car’s twin-turbocharged V8, capable of revving to 10,000 RPM. As Car and Driver reported, the Temerario GT3 is the first race car entirely designed and developed by Lamborghini at its Sant’Agata Bolognese facility. The hybrid system from the road car is stripped out per GT3 regulations, leaving the twin-turbo V8 to do the work alone.
The transition raises real questions for teams currently running the Huracán. Turbo lag management, different weight distribution from the new powertrain, and the loss of that characteristically linear V10 power delivery all represent adjustments that experienced Huracán crews will need to navigate. Barwell and other long-standing Lamborghini customer teams will carry a decade of race craft and data into the new platform, but the car itself will demand new setups, new strategies, and new instincts.
Road & Track observed that GT3 racing became more professional, more complicated, and more factory-focused during the Huracán’s entire competitive lifespan, and Lamborghini soldiered on with the same basic car through that entire transformation. The Temerario GT3 is Squadra Corse’s answer to that accumulated competitive pressure, arriving into a field where Ferrari’s 296 GT3, Porsche’s 911 GT3 R, and Mercedes-AMG’s latest GT3 Evo all represent clean-sheet or heavily revised designs.
The Road to 200
Lamborghini’s GT3 rivals are not standing still. Ferrari’s 296 GT3 brought turbo power to GT3 racing with immediate success. Porsche continues to iterate on the 911 GT3 R, a platform with its own deep competitive history. Mercedes-AMG’s GT3 program remains a consistent front-runner across multiple championships globally. The Huracán’s 199-win tally is impressive precisely because it was accumulated against this level of opposition, not in a vacuum.
The Huracán GT3 EVO2 remains active in multiple series worldwide. Barwell continues to field three cars in the 2026 British GT Championship, and the platform competes in ADAC GT Masters, Italian GT, and other regional championships. Win number 200 could come at any round, from any team, on any continent. Full-season driver Hugo Cook finished the 2025 British GT campaign as runner-up in the championship standings, with Martin and Collard fourth overall. Mitchell, despite contesting only a partial campaign, finished eighth. Those results, combined with the Donington one-two, confirm the EVO2 remains competitive at the sharp end of British GT even as it enters what will likely be its final full seasons before the Temerario GT3 takes over.
Ten years, three evolutionary steps, 199 wins. Somewhere in the coming weeks or months, a Lamborghini customer team will cross the line first and push that number to a round 200. When it happens, it will close one of the most quietly dominant chapters in modern GT racing, and the Temerario GT3 will inherit a standard that even Squadra Corse might find difficult to match.
The #78 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo crosses the finish line, greeted by the waving checkered flag.
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