RE: Murcielago GT1: You Know You Want To

RE: Murcielago GT1: You Know You Want To

Tuesday 23rd December 2014

Murcielago GT1: You Know You Want To

It's a V12 Lamborghini racing car, what more do you need to know?!



Everyone wants to be a racing driver at some point in their lives. Who wouldn't want the glamour, the excitement and the riches? Obviously many don't make it through a lack of funding, bad luck or, dare it be suggested, not quite enough talent. But the dream remains for many.

Better without livery?
Better without livery?
This Lamborghini Murcielago LP670 R-SV GT1 is not a cheap way into motorsport. It's £360,000 and I'm not actually sure which (if any) championship you could use it in. However, this is a racing version of one of the wildest supercars of modern times and it is therefore worthy of considerable attention. And maybe some dribbling.

Look at the spec. The roadgoing LP670 was already really quite fast. This racing version is over 400kg lighter at 1,150kg. Much like the Bentley GT3 car, it's baffling how something so huge can weigh so little. That's less than kerbweight of a Fiesta ST!

Best of all, it uses exactly the same specification of V12 as the road car. That glorious old lump that could trace its roots back to the Miura at 670hp in a car that weighs 1,150kg. Noise? Click here.

This is what engines should look like
This is what engines should look like
After that they're probably shouldn't be an awful lot of explaining left to do. It actually has some notable drivers on the race history list including Peter Kox, Tomas Enge, Oliver Gavin, Jan Lammers and Norman Simon. The livery comes off easily to leave with you possibly the most evil racing car ever created. Look at it! It's even got some decent results behind it including a few podiums in the 2010 FIA GT1 championship and a win at Spa.

Imagine turning up at a test day with this. It would surely be superb at somewhere like Silverstone GP, wide and open and fast enough to get some sense of the car's ability. Although having said that, where you could use a GT1 Lamborghini must be fairly dependent on which noise tests it passes...

Perhaps it's obsolete. The money involved would be obscene. But it's a Lamborghini racing car! As this isn't a factory car it would be more hassle to use than something like a Ferrari FXX built and cared for by the manufacturer. That is also a lot more expensive and not an actual racing car though. This car is in fact built by Reiter Engineering, the same team behind that fantastic Camaro GT3. Should make a nice pair... Now, back to that video!


LAMBORGHINI MURCIELAGO GT1
Price:
£360,000
Why you should: V12. Lamborghini. Racing car.
Why you shouldn't: Where to use it?

See the original advert here.

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Luca Brasi

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Tuesday 23rd December 2014
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I remember when one of these was entered in the Spa 24 a few years ago. Probably one of the best sounds I ever heard. lick