Sunday, October 25, 2020

Lamborghini’s Huracán Evo RWD is made for maximum fun, not lap times

"Hang back for a second so I can show you the course," Dean DiGiacomo says over the radio as we approach the skid pad in a pair of 610hp (455kW), Skittle-colored Huracáns.

A professional racer and the chief instructor for Lamborghini's various performance schools—which range from customer track days to an intensive training program for the automaker's Super Trofeo wheel-to-wheel racing series—DiGiacomo takes a moment to explain the vehicle settings I'll need to select before he sets off on a demonstration pass.

The matte-purple machine arcs gracefully from one cone of the figure eight to the next, V10 wailing as it turns rubber into smoke. Before I know it, DiGiacomo is already back in the pit area and it's my turn to give it a go. "Now, do it just like that," a photographer says to me with a knowing grin. We share a laugh. But how hard can it be, right?

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