RE: Lamborghini Huracan Performante at the 'ring

RE: Lamborghini Huracan Performante at the 'ring

Sunday 26th February 2017

Lamborghini Huracan Performante at the 'ring

No lap time yet but Lamborghini ramps up the pre-Geneva hype for its super hot Huracan



That Lamborghini is to launch a track-focused Huracan Performante at Geneva and do it with a scene-stealing Nurburgring lap time is a fairly open secret. Open enough that Lamborghini itself is now boasting about the fact on its YouTube channel, its latest video sharing details of the features that have helped the car storm to what is expected to be a faster lap than even the Aventador SV.


'Nurburgring was dominated by ALA (Aerodinamica Lamborghini Attiva)' is the video's clickbait-friendly title, the fairly obvious takeaway from that and the animations therein that the Performante features active aerodynamics. This would include a flap in the intake for the front splitter that can open and direct air under the car to reduce drag and increase top speed and what looks like some kind of duct that can do the same with the massive fixed rear wing. Clearly the aim is for a perfect match of high-downforce aero grip to maximise cornering speed with low-drag slipperiness for carrying it down the straights too. The Nordschleife, of course, has both and in the snippets of footage the Performante looks suitably nailed down and quick.

How fast though? The word would indicate something in the low 6min 50sec range, which would be decisively quicker than the 918 Spyder's 6min 57sec and a sign Lamborghini has been 'allowed' to make a naturally-aspirated, lightweight junior supercar go faster than Porsche's hybrid hypercar technical showcase.

We're promised full details next week. Stay tuned and all that.

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BVB

Original Poster:

1,097 posts

152 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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That the Huracan can spank a 918 is incredible. And lest not forget, the 918 spanked the P1.

CitySlicker

300 posts

92 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Give it to SportAuto for an independent and comparable test!!

RamboLambo

4,843 posts

169 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Where's Juno ???????

RacerMike

4,192 posts

210 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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I heard a fairly ludicrous lap time through a couple of friends in the know. The whole 'Ring time battle is getting pretty ridiculous...

Yipper

5,964 posts

89 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Lambo is now crushing Ferrari, Porsche and McLaren. The only company with 2 roadcars under the benchmark 7min Ring time. There is a new king in town.

br d

8,388 posts

225 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Yipper said:
Lambo is now crushing Ferrari, Porsche and McLaren. The only company with 2 roadcars under the benchmark 7min Ring time. There is a new king in town.
Do you work in advertising?

n17ves

591 posts

177 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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BVB said:
And lest not forget, the 918 spanked the P1.
How did you come to that conclusion? ...please don't say a certain car show.

Never you mind

1,507 posts

111 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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n17ves said:
How did you come to that conclusion? ...please don't say a certain car show.
Because if the P1 was quicker than the 918 then McLaren would have been shouting it from the roof tops.


n17ves

591 posts

177 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Never you mind said:
n17ves said:
How did you come to that conclusion? ...please don't say a certain car show.
Because if the P1 was quicker than the 918 then McLaren would have been shouting it from the roof tops.
Conclusive evidence I see.

isaldiri

18,412 posts

167 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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CitySlicker said:
Give it to SportAuto for an independent and comparable test!!
^ this. A customer spec (or even magazine press car for that matter) performante will be nowhere even close to a 918 imo.

Yipper

5,964 posts

89 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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br d said:
Yipper said:
Lambo is now crushing Ferrari, Porsche and McLaren. The only company with 2 roadcars under the benchmark 7min Ring time. There is a new king in town.
Do you work in advertising?
Work in facts wink

For example, the Huracan Performante is ~30secs faster round the Ring than the 488 GTB and ~40secs faster than the F12. The gulf, now, is like night and day.

Never you mind

1,507 posts

111 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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n17ves said:
Conclusive evidence I see.
There is no proof that the P1 did beat the 918 or the LaF either. No official ring time for P1 exists. I would question the reason why not?

Anyway... the performante looks fantastic and what an achievement for Lambo if the rumours are true.

RamboLambo

4,843 posts

169 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Yipper said:
Work in facts wink

For example, the Huracan Performante is ~30secs faster round the Ring than the 488 GTB and ~40secs faster than the F12. The gulf, now, is like night and day.
When did you get your private viewing of the official figures then ?

Guess you must be fairly high up in the Lamborghini ranks to have all the apparent/rumoured "facts" to hand

br d

8,388 posts

225 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Yipper said:
br d said:
Yipper said:
Lambo is now crushing Ferrari, Porsche and McLaren. The only company with 2 roadcars under the benchmark 7min Ring time. There is a new king in town.
Do you work in advertising?
Work in facts wink

For example, the Huracan Performante is ~30secs faster round the Ring than the 488 GTB, a similarly priced car. The gulf, now, is like night and day.
Well we've still got to see some real world figures, or indeed any confirmed figures at all but you have to admit Yippers old chap that your post up there is dripping hyperbole.

I may well be in the market for this car if it turns out to be the miracle it's being touted as, if not I'll head over to McLaren for a 720S but we need to look at an awful lot more than a Ring time before getting carried away here.
McLaren have already said the 720S is hitting 125mph in 7.8 seconds (and judging by their previously released stats I expect it will be a genuine figure), now that's bloody quick. And of course the car will be supremely comfortable, have all the gizmos and grip like a crab on a tramps pube. Now if the Performante has all this too, as well as this legendary Ring time it'll be getting my money.

But so far it all seems to be about this one facet. If the Lambo turns out to be stripped out, noisy, animal like track car then it won't be quite so impressive.

If I'm going to spend this sort of money on a car I will apply an equation:
How often will I drive it at the Ring/How often will I drive it everywhere else?
That'll work out at a ratio of about a million to one for me so factors other than it's Ring time become crucial.

Of course if you are in the fortunate position to be able to buy one purely to take to the Ring then it's looking bang on!

However as in all these things I will be happy to be proved wrong, either car will do.

Edited by br d on Thursday 23 February 16:39

markcoznottz

7,155 posts

223 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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The standard huaracan was mighty fast round the top gear track, does seem a genuinely fast piece of kit, my mate saw one run a sub 11 second quarter at the pod, which shocked me, maybe I'm just getting old.

n17ves

591 posts

177 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Never you mind said:
n17ves said:
Conclusive evidence I see.
Anyway... the performante looks fantastic and what an achievement for Lambo if the rumours are true.
That I do agree on. Huge achievement to get even close!

MikeGalos

261 posts

283 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Yipper said:
Lambo is now crushing Ferrari, Porsche and McLaren.
Of course they are, they're actually following the traditional Lotus playbook of reducing weight while everybody else just boosts engine size and output.

isaldiri

18,412 posts

167 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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br d said:
And of course the car will be supremely comfortable, have all the gizmos and grip like a crab on a tramps pube.
hehe Awesome turn of phrase there thumbup

MikeGalos said:
Of course they are, they're actually following the traditional Lotus playbook of reducing weight while everybody else just boosts engine size and output.
Erm.. I think you will find every Mclaren produced (well outside of the P1 that's hybrid) is lighter than the performante.....probably spiders included.

jason61c

5,978 posts

173 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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n17ves said:
Conclusive evidence I see.
Pretty much what would have happened though.

I also don't like how Maclaren refer to the p1 as legendary! The F1 is. P1 isn't.

Maldini35

2,913 posts

187 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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CitySlicker said:
Give it to SportAuto for an independent and comparable test!!
this ^^^^^

Only Lamborghini seem able to extract the claimed performance out of their cars.
More than a little suspicious.

It also needs to be A customer car (not 'golden' press car with tuned engine minus all sound deadening and unnecessary electrics and sticky race tyre compounds)