Lamborghini Strips The Temerario Of Its Hybrid System To Go Gt3 Racing

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It's ever difficult for a successor to unrecorded up to its predecessor, and Lamborghini has a gangly task up of it. The Italian automakers unveiled nan Temerario GT3 connected Friday astatine nan Goodwood Festival of Speed. The racing type of the upcoming hybrid sports car is group to switch Huracán GT3 now that accumulation is ending of its road-going counterpart. The Huracán will beryllium a difficult enactment to travel aft nan venerable instrumentality spent a decade successful title pinch awesome endurance victories astatine Daytona, Sebring and Spa.

The powertrain is nan first important quality betwixt GT3 and accumulation versions of nan Temerario. Current GT3 regulations prohibit nan usage of hybrid systems, truthful nan motor and its associated components had to beryllium redesigned arsenic a result. The GT3 car will still usage nan aforesaid twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V8 engine, but pinch smaller turbos and a redesigned airbox. While nan road-going motor tin nutrient up to 789 horsepower, nan powerplant will beryllium restricted to 550 hp for nan ruleset's equilibrium of performance.

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As pinch astir modern GT3 machinery, Lamborghini focused connected optimizing nan Temerario for a playing section that perpetually shifts to guarantee parity. The production-based aluminum abstraction was lightened and simplified pinch hot-swappable beforehand and rear subframes. The shaper produced c composite bodywork to drape complete nan chassis, again, designed to beryllium quickly assembled and disassembled. Lamborghini CTO Rouven Mohr said:

"The Temerario GT3 has been designed pinch nan extremity personification successful mind. Everything has been considered, from nan ratio of nan aerodynamics to nan powerfulness curve to nan measurement successful which nan squad is capable to run nan car. The car operates successful a somewhat different area of nan capacity windows, that are utilized to equilibrium nan cars of different configuration, compared to its predecessor. We are assured that it will beryllium competitory successful position of thigh time, while besides bully to thrust successful a wide scope of conditions, including astatine nighttime and successful nan rain. The improvement squad has worked difficult to guarantee nan car has a wide operating window, and that nan teams are amended capable to activity connected it."

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It's not uncommon to spot manufacturers usage cars that easy transcend GT3 capacity specifications to pare them down for competition. With equilibrium of performance, powerfulness output isn't arsenic important arsenic handling characteristics, easiness of repair and capacity windows. However, Lamborghini is only nan 2nd automaker to ditch an full hybrid strategy to spell racing successful nan category. The first was Ferrari, of course. The rival Italian shaper introduced nan 296 GT3 successful 2022, earlier becoming nan company's first car to triumph nan 24 Hours of Nürburgring successful 2023.