Lamborghini Temerario GT3 Breaks Cover Looking Ready to Race
The Temerario GT3 is the first race car entirely designed and developed by Lamborghini at the brand's Sant'Agata Bolognese facility.
As is required by GT3 regulations, the Temerario GT3 car will feature a modified version of the same twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V-8 as the road version.
All good things must come to pass, including factory support for homologated race cars. And as the Lamborghini Temerario succeeds the Huracán on the roads, so too does the Temerario GT3 inherit the Huracán GT3 Evo's position as Lamborghini's factory-supported GT3 car.
When it officially takes over racing duties, the Temerario GT3 will take the baton from the Huracán GT3 Evo 2, which has been homologated since 2022, and itself took over for the Huracán GT3 and Huracán GT3 Evo, which were homologated in 2015.
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Like every GT3 car, the chassis was pulled from the factory production line and converted for racing by stripping away anything that isn't essential. That includes simplifying the front and rear subframes for quick removal and reattachment while racing. A big part of that included removing the electric motors from the production car, as they don't comply with GT3 regulations.
The bodywork is, unsurprisingly, made entirely from a carbon composite to keep the weight of the car down. Lamborghini says the bodywork is a result of collaboration between the aerodynamics team at Squadra Corse and the team at Lamborghini Centro Stile. As with many race cars, the challenge for Lamborghini was to make the race car unmistakably a Temerario, while also creating room for the enlarged cooling systems.
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Following the GT3 rulebook, the Temerario sources its power from the same twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V-8 as the production model, though the racing version gets new, smaller turbochargers. The eight-speed dual-clutch transmission from the road car is gone, with the racing version using a six-speed transverse gearbox instead. By dropping the hybrid and sticking to the balance of performance rules, the race car actually makes considerably less power than the road car (550 horsepower versus more than 900).
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Lamborghini says the powertrain of the production model was designed with motorsports integration in mind from the first concept phase. In fact, the Italian automaker says the Temerario GT3 is the first competition car entirely designed and developed by the brand at its facilities in Sant'Agata Bolognese.
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