Squadra Corse’s First Road-Car Performance Kit Turns the Huracán STO Into a Factory-Built Track Weapon

A One-Off V10 Tribute, Built by the Racing Division Itself

Lamborghini chose its World Finals 2023 at Vallelunga to pull the covers off the Huracán STO SC 10° Anniversario, a singular Ad Personam Opera Unica marking ten years of Squadra Corse. The car wears an SC63-inspired livery in Verde Mantis green over Nero Noctis black, a tricolor band stretching across the cofango and roof, and “Squadra Corse 10° Anniversario” logos on both doors. It looks every bit the rolling trophy for a racing division that accumulated more than 50 GT3 titles and three consecutive GTD class wins at the 24 Hours of Daytona.

But what elevates this beyond a commemorative paint job is the engineering underneath. Lamborghini states this is the first road-legal vehicle for which Squadra Corse engineers developed a dedicated performance kit. That distinction matters. Plenty of manufacturers celebrate anniversaries with special liveries and numbered plaques. Fewer hand the brief to the same people who set up their GT3 cars and tell them to make the road car faster on circuit. The STO was already the most track-focused Huracán in the lineup. The SC 10° Anniversario treats it as a starting point, not a finished product.

SC63 on the Skin: Connecting Combustion Past to Hybrid Racing Future

Wrapping a road car in the colors of an unreleased prototype is a deliberate statement. The SC63 is Lamborghini’s hybrid LMDh contender for the Hypercar/GTP class, built to race the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 12 Hours of Sebring in the 2024 season. By painting those colors onto a naturally aspirated, rear-wheel-drive V10, Lamborghini connects its pure combustion past to its hybrid racing future in a single visual gesture.

The full carbon fiber package adds a Rosso Mars red stripe that wraps the entire body, while the Squadra Corse logo sits on the rear fin running from the airscoop to the opposite edge of the rear hood. Every surface communicates dual citizenship: road car by registration, race car by intent. For collectors watching the Huracán’s final production chapter, the SC63 livery also functions as a timestamp, tying this car permanently to the moment Lamborghini committed to hybrid endurance racing at the highest level.

Decoding the Squadra Corse Performance Kit

Strip away the livery and the real story is mechanical. Two new carbon fiber flicks mounted on the bonnet work in concert with a rear wing set three degrees steeper than the standard STO. Lamborghini says these modifications increase downforce at both ends of the car. Three degrees sounds modest on paper, but in aerodynamic tuning, small angular changes at the rear wing produce disproportionate effects on high-speed stability and braking-zone confidence. Combined with the front flicks, the package rebalances the aero map so the car loads both axles more evenly under hard cornering.

The suspension swap is arguably the most consequential upgrade. Racing-derived four-way adjustable shock absorbers replace the STO’s standard active dampers. Four-way adjustability means independent tuning of rebound and compression at both high and low shaft speeds, the same granularity a race engineer uses when dialing in a GT3 car for a specific circuit. On a road car, this level of control is unusual. It lets a driver soften low-speed compression for curb compliance while keeping high-speed compression stiff for aero platform stability, or vice versa. The trade-off is real: you lose the electronic adaptability of the active system, which means the car no longer self-adjusts between road modes. This is a car that expects you to arrive at the track with a setup sheet, not a comfort setting.

Bridgestone developed bespoke tires on a new compound specifically for this car, targeting consistent grip and durability across extended track sessions. An Akrapovic titanium exhaust rounds out the kit, shaving weight from the standard system while amplifying the V10’s frequency range. Anyone who has heard an STO at full song through a titanium system knows the difference is visceral, not cosmetic.

Inside the Cockpit: Track-Ready, Not Track-Adjacent

The interior reinforces the car’s purpose without pretending to be a stripped-out race car. Sport seats in Nero Ade Alcantara with Verde Fauns green stitching are paired with four-point seat belts, and an aluminum roll bar protects the cabin. Carbon fiber covers the floor, replacing carpet with something you can hose down after a sweaty session. A carbon fiber plaque on the rear firewall certifies the car’s unique status.

Official imagery shows the standard STO’s driver-focused layout: Alcantara-wrapped steering wheel, digital instrument cluster, and the central touchscreen. Nothing revolutionary for the platform, but the combination of harnesses, roll bar, and stripped floor covering signals that this car was configured for someone who will actually use it, not park it in a climate-controlled garage. Whether the eventual owner follows through is another question entirely. In the world of Opera Unica commissions, track use is often aspirational rather than habitual.

A Precedent Set at the End of an Era

Ferrari’s XX Programme and McLaren’s track-only specials operate in a similar philosophical space, but with a critical difference. Ferrari’s FXX-K Evo and its predecessors are not road-legal. They exist in a curated ecosystem where Ferrari stores, maintains, and transports the cars for approved track events. McLaren’s long-tail models are road-legal but typically engineered by McLaren’s main R&D team rather than a separate racing division.

The SC 10° Anniversario occupies a distinct niche: a road-legal car with a performance kit authored by the same engineers who run Lamborghini’s GT3 and now Hypercar programs. The philosophy implies that Squadra Corse’s ten years of track data, suspension tuning knowledge, and aerodynamic development feed directly into a product a customer can drive to the circuit, race, and drive home. Whether Lamborghini extends this model to future Temerario-based specials remains unconfirmed, but the precedent is now set.

With Huracán production winding down and remaining allocations reportedly sold out, this one-off sits at the intersection of V10 finality and factory-backed track capability. Lamborghini did not announce pricing, and as an Opera Unica, the car was commissioned rather than offered through a traditional sales process. Its value will be shaped by scarcity, the Squadra Corse provenance, and the broader market’s appetite for naturally aspirated V10 Lamborghinis as the brand pivots to hybrid powertrains with the Revuelto and Temerario. The SC 10° Anniversario captures a specific moment in Lamborghini’s engineering history, one where the racing division looked at the road car and decided it could do better.

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