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which now runs a slightly bigger tire, to
help reduce understeer through high-
speed corners.
The previous Huracán GT3 had a repu-
tation for being tricky at the limit. The
Evo package is intended to make it easier
for gentleman drivers to handle. But
Lamborghini Squadra Corse chief engi-
neer Leonardo Galante sounds a slightly
ominous warning as I squirm into the
cockpit: “I don’t think you will find this
as much fun as the Super Trofeo.”
The GT3 doesn’t have the same elastic
surge of acceleration out of corners
and down the straights as the muscular
Super Trofeo, carrying 6 to 8 mph less
speed on the entry to the Curva Grande,
for example. But it feels fantastically
more responsive, changing direction
the instant I move the steering wheel.
The extra downforce steadies the car Bortolotti, the GT3 has a much narrower
more under brakes and keeps it planted operating window than the Super Trofeo:
through the faster corners. “Gentleman drivers like the Super Trofeo
After the thunderously playful Super because it’s playful. The GT3 is not
Trofeo, the GT3 feels like a precision playful. The more you slide, the slower
tool, a serious, professional-grade racing through fast corners is one thing. The you are.” True, that.
car. I love it. But my lap times have real challenge is in slower corners, where The Huracán GT3 Evo is unforgiving in
gone backward. the GT3 Evo demands absolute precision the sense that it punishes sloppiness and
On fast tracks like Monza—and, ahem, and consistency in terms of the line on over-driving, sometimes with deceptive
Vallelunga—its extra downforce and corner entry, how and where you get on subtlety. It can easily feel faster than the
stickier tires should enable the GT3 to and off the brakes, where you clip the Super Trofeo—that razor-sharp turn-in
match the Super Trofeo. But the pace apex, and when you get back on the gas. response, the greater high-speed grip
doesn’t come easily. Trusting the That means, says Lamborghini and stability. But don’t be surprised if the
downforce and mechanical grip Squadra Corse team driver Mirko telemetry tells you otherwise. Q

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