RE: Lamborghini Huracan Performante at the 'ring
Sunday 26th February 2017
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.
Lamborghini Huracan Performante at the 'ring
No lap time yet but Lamborghini ramps up the pre-Geneva hype for its super hot Huracan
'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.
Discussion
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?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.
Yipper said:
Work in facts
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 ?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.
Guess you must be fairly high up in the Lamborghini ranks to have all the apparent/rumoured "facts" to hand
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?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.
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
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.
Awesome turn of phrase there 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.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)
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