Three Continents, One Weekend, Five Podiums
In a single May 2019 weekend, Lamborghini’s Huracán GT3 EVO collected podium finishes across Italy, England, and Japan. For a customer racing platform still in its first full season of EVO-specification competition, the breadth of those results signaled something more durable than a good day at the office. It signaled a car that could fight anywhere, and a motorsport operation beginning to punch well above its historical weight.
At Vallelunga, Vito Postiglione and Jeroen Mul drove the #63 Imperiale Racing Huracán GT3 EVO to victory in the opening round of the Italian GT Championship Sprint. Postiglione started third, took the lead from pole-sitter Andrea Fontana by the third lap, and after a safety car compressed the field on lap eight, Mul extended the gap to 17 seconds over Riccardo Agostini’s Mercedes at the finish. In a rain-soaked Race 2, the pair added a runner-up result to leave Vallelunga atop the championship standings.
At Brands Hatch, Lamborghini Factory Driver Mirko Bortolotti and Christian Engelhart brought the #63 Grasser Racing Team Huracán GT3 EVO home third in the opening Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe race, finishing behind a pair of Mercedes AMGs but comfortably clear of fourth. In the second Blancpain race, Andrea Caldarelli and Marco Mapelli delivered a runner-up finish for the #563 Orange1 FFF Racing entry after starting 11th on the grid. At Fuji, Takashi Kogure and Yuya Motojima claimed third in the SuperGT GT300 round aboard the #88 Manepa Huracán GT3 EVO. Five podiums. Three championships. Three time zones. The message was unmistakable.
Why the EVO Mattered More Than Its Predecessors
None of this happened by accident. The Huracán GT3 EVO was not a clean-sheet design but a careful, strategic evolution of the original Huracán GT3 that Squadra Corse first fielded in 2015, refined with improved aerodynamics and mechanical upgrades developed alongside Dallara Engineering. The car kept its naturally aspirated 5.2-liter V10, a powerplant derived directly from the road-going Huracán and adapted for GT3 regulations. In a racing class increasingly populated by turbocharged rivals, that engine choice remained a deliberate philosophical statement.
GT3 is the dominant class of customer sports car racing worldwide because it allows manufacturers to sell competitive, turnkey race cars to private teams, creating a self-sustaining ecosystem where brand credibility is earned lap by lap. Lamborghini says the Huracán GT3 platform is built and sold by Squadra Corse to private teams, which means every result on track reflects not just factory effort but the reliability and competitiveness of the product in independent hands.
The 2019 EVO results at Vallelunga, Brands Hatch, and Fuji mattered precisely because they validated the first major update cycle. Winning with a new car is expected. Winning with an evolution, across multiple teams and regulatory environments, proves the engineering pipeline works. That distinction is the thread connecting every subsequent chapter of the Huracán GT3 story.
From EVO to EVO2: Building on Proven Ground
Those 2019 results were only the beginning. The Huracán GT3 EVO went on to win the GTD class at the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring in its debut year, according to one report. The platform’s third generation, the Huracán GT3 EVO2, arrived to comply with 2022 FIA technical regulations and continued the winning pattern, featuring an aluminum and carbon fiber hybrid structure with a 42/58 front-to-rear weight distribution and bodywork again developed in partnership with Dallara.
The continuity is the point. Each generation refined rather than reinvented, allowing customer teams to carry forward institutional knowledge while gaining incremental performance. More recently, a VSR crew driving a Huracán GT3 EVO2 won the 3 Hours of Monza in the Italian GT Endurance Series, finishing ahead of two Ferrari 296 GT3s. That result, years after the EVO’s initial victories, demonstrates how deeply the platform’s competitive DNA runs and how effectively Squadra Corse has sustained it across regulation cycles.
The Huracán GT3 EVO2 is now reportedly in its final full season of top-level competition before the Temerario GT3 arrives. As Car and Driver reported, the Temerario GT3 will be the first race car entirely designed and developed at Lamborghini’s Sant’Agata Bolognese facility, replacing the Huracán as the brand’s factory-backed GT3 effort. The transition from naturally aspirated V10 to the Temerario’s twin-turbocharged V8 will reshape everything customer teams know about driving a Lamborghini in competition.
Lamborghini’s GT3 Strategy Against Ferrari and Porsche
Customer racing programs serve a dual purpose for supercar manufacturers: they generate revenue through car sales and parts supply, and they build brand credibility that feeds back into road car desirability. Lamborghini entered this arena later than Porsche and Ferrari, but the Huracán GT3 platform’s sustained competitiveness compressed that timeline considerably.
Porsche and Ferrari both field GT3 cars that dominate entry lists at major endurance events, and the Ferrari 296 GT3 represents a direct generational rival to the Huracán GT3 EVO2. The fact that Lamborghini’s aging V10 platform can still beat newer Ferrari machinery at circuits like Monza speaks to how well Squadra Corse optimized the package within Balance of Performance constraints. For teams considering which manufacturer to align with, the Huracán GT3’s track record over three generations offers a compelling argument: consistent competitiveness, strong factory support, and a parts ecosystem refined across nearly a decade of racing.
The transition to the Temerario GT3 will test whether that loyalty carries forward, but the foundation built by results like those 2019 Vallelunga victories gives Lamborghini a credibility reserve that newer programs cannot replicate overnight. Credibility, in customer racing, is not a marketing concept. It is a balance sheet built from podiums.
What the Huracán GT3’s Legacy Means for the Temerario Era
The practical question for anyone following Lamborghini’s motorsport trajectory is whether the Temerario GT3 can sustain what the Huracán built. Moving from a naturally aspirated V10 to a twin-turbocharged V8 changes the car’s character fundamentally: throttle response, heat management, power delivery, and the acoustic signature that made the Huracán GT3 unmistakable from the grandstands.
Lamborghini has not disclosed detailed specifications for the Temerario GT3 beyond confirming it will use a modified version of the road car’s twin-turbo engine. What the company has disclosed, through years of results from Vallelunga to Monza to Daytona, is that Squadra Corse knows how to develop a GT3 platform iteratively and keep it competitive across regulation cycles. The 2019 EVO victories were the first proof point in that argument. Every subsequent win reinforced it.
Whether the Temerario GT3 arrives with the same immediate competitiveness remains an open question. But the engineering culture that produced three generations of winning Huracán GT3 cars does not disappear when the engine configuration changes. It transfers. For Lamborghini enthusiasts who care about the brand’s competitive standing, that continuity matters more than any single weekend result.
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