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https://www.quattroruote.it/prove/2017/lamb...erformante.html New lap record at Vairano track as well. Performante now holds 3 lap records contidrom, Autocar dry, and Vairano. Also Chris Harris likes the car at Top Gear https://www.topgear.com/videos/chris-harris...can-performante

https://www.quattroruote.it/prove/2017/lamb...erformante.html New lap record at Vairano track as well. Performante now holds 3 lap records contidrom, Autocar dry, and Vairano.

Some new info: "Maurizio Reggiani, Lambo’s chief engineer, says that downforce is boosted from just 40 kilograms at 300 kilometres an hour to over 350 kg" "Reggiani says that in standard trim, a Performante can generate as much as 1.3 g’s of cornering force; up its tire game to PZero Trofeos and the number approaches the magical one-and-a-half g’s mark." "Does it (ALA) actually work? Fantastically well, thank you very much. Even compared with the advanced 720S McLaren unleashed a couple of weeks ago (and the GT that Ford won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with last year), the Performante is a veritable track weapon, a car that literally puts the “super” in sticking to the road like glue." http://driving.ca/lamborghini/huracan/revi...can-performante

6:52:01 Nurburgring production car lap record. Bravo Lamborghini!

Motortrend article says that Nurburgring lap time is rumored to be 6:52.x which makes it faster than Porsche 918 and is a production car record. http://www.motortrend.com/cars/lamborghini...rive-downforce/

Cool R8! I do wish you supercharged the 560 though.

Sorry, this was a V Max event, not a drag race

Sorry, this was a V Max event, not a drag race Invalid Video Link

This race came off better than I expected. The Huracan is still a surprise after all this time.

Just saw this on another forum. Another pleasant surprise. I thought the Turbo S would always win in a drag race against its peers.

LP670 SV did 7:42. It was a slow lap relative to LP 640 (7:40). Maybe due to uncommitted driving. http://fastestlaps.com/laptimes/4b2df83e4566a.html

I have an idea for how Lambo can comply with the emissions rules that is causing this hybrid adoption in supercars yet stay awesome. Lambo should put the hybrid battery and motor in a removable module that snaps into the trunk of the car for emissions/fuel efficiency certification. When owners take home the new car, they can just snap the module out so the car returns to its pure form without the excess weight and complexity of hybrids. The hybrid module can be built cheap. A disposable item to be put away after the car is purchased. The rules are stupid, but we comply.

To the real Lambo owners, these N ring laptimes may be irrelevant. In fact, in practical terms its a pointless bragging contest for 99.9999% of humanity. For an arm chair racer like me however (a lambo fan with no lambo), the SV ring record drew a palpable change in attitude from Lambo fans and none fans alike. If you read other forums, everyone is saying they did not expect Lambo could go that fast. Attitudes are changing and the SV is smashing the Lambo stereotype. The best part is the SV is gaining all this new cred without loosing any of its essential lambo qualities - it still looks great, sounds great and 100% lambo DNA.

It would be great if Lamborghini can test the car on Pirelli Trofeo R tires at the Nring and beat the 918 time. Lambo can then offer the tire as an option for SV buyers. Ultimately I expect the 918 to beat whatever time the SV sets, but it would be nice to hold the series production car record even just for a few days or weeks.

CAR article: Lambo’s own computations estimated it would do a 7min 10sec run and they were pretty pleased with that, so the eventual 6.59.73 sent them crazy. Exclusive time at the ’Ring is so expensive that the actual time was achieved with just one flying lap. R&D boss Reggiani reckons that you can see the test driver making a couple of errors during the lap and that a clean run could cleave another three or four seconds off the total. That would make it quicker than a 918 Spyder, and I can't see that going down well at sister company Porsche. http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-reviews/l...sv-2015-review/

Evo article: That scary Nürburgring lap was done in a 15-minute window – a one shot deal. The driver ran the car in the lowest downforce setting in Corsa mode and with ESC on. He’s a Pirelli test driver called Marco Mapelli. It’s possible that the car could go quicker in the other downforce settings… the factory just don’t know as they haven’t set back-to-back laps. To be continued, then.

Autocar's article said: ... Forgive me, but I’m going to mention the Nürburgring Nordschleife for a moment. Lamborghini, with only a 15-minute window, decided it would have a crack at a Nordschleife lap time; with little notice, a Pirelli test driver set a time of 6min 59sec in this car. You must watch the video of the lap: there are some massively hairy moments, which Lamborghini’s Reggiani reckons were worth three or four dropped seconds. Now bear in mind that Porsche, after quite a lot of trying, made its 918 Spyder hybrid hypercar go only two seconds faster than that and you have an idea of the Superveloce’s latent pace. The fact that Porsche and Lamborghini are both part of the Volkswagen Group probably means Lamborghini won’t take the opportunity to go faster and reveal what might be an awkward truth: that this is the fastest car in the group's portfolio. And at £320,000, it's one you might – might - almost consider a bargain."

Very well written article. Great car!

... Lamborghi add capitalizing on the N Ring lap.

I was wondering if this was a production street legal AWD record at Nurburgring, but I recall that the 918 is AWD as well. It would be interesting to see what Chris Harris has to say now after his previous "poser car" opinion on Lamborgini. Lamborghini should go back with an SV on Trofeo tires and blow away the 918 time.

Interesting video

Motorauthority has an article that lists the R8 V10 plus as 602hp. http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1096995...neva-motor-show What is more interesting is that the R8 has a water cooled front differential that is not available in the current Huracan.

The Huracan is rated in metric as 610ps, which translates to 602hp. The R8 is probably the same but mistakenly listed by Car and Driver. Previously, Audi listed the R8 with a slightly lower hp compared to the Gallardo, but perhaps they have dropped that policy. Lamborghini did the same with the 2 wheel drive Gallardos, the LP550-2 vs the LP560-4. I have no idea if the lower hp rating of R8 and lp550 was real or just a branding exercise. The heavier weight of the R8 however should give the Huracan a slight edge.

Just my thoughts: Twin turbo of current V10 will make the car too powerful, it will too easily reach 700hp. That is good for consumers, but Lamborghini will have a problem of how to top it next when the Huracan replacement after the update finally gets a low displacement possibly V8 twin turbo. In other words the update might be more powerful or at least easily modable to eclipse the next generation car. Larger V10 with cylinder deactivation or other fuel saving measure is perhaps the purest upgrade, but gaining 50 plus horsepower to equal or get near the competition may be difficult unless there is still so much untapped power in the current V10 design. Adding an electric motor is difficult as there is no hybrid mid engine Audi/VW/Porsche in production yet except for the limited production 918. Also going hybrid for the mid life upgrade might not be consistent if your next generation car will not be a hybrid. So my choice is to add a supercharger to current engine. It will be a stop gap to give the mid life car competitive power but not so much that so the next generation car can be even more powerful even if displacement is reduced (twin turbo though).