Writes about grand tourers, luxury flagships, and the finer side of automotive life. Believes a great GT should be as comfortable crossing continents as it is crossing the speed limit.
At nine o’clock on the morning of May 8, 2013, 350 Lamborghinis fired their engines in a parc fermé in Milan and set off on a 270-kilometer drive south to Forte dei Marmi, the exclusive Tyrrhenian coast resort that served as the cradle of Italian bourgeoisie beach culture in the 1960s. The convoy th
Two fifth-place finishes do not sound like the stuff of headlines. Yet the way Imperiale Racing’s Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 FL2 earned them tells a more compelling story than the raw classification suggests, because chassis 0971073 was the oldest platform on the grid by a comfortable margin, and it s
On May 4, 2013, Giacomo Barri placed the freshly homologated Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 FL2 third on the grid at the opening round of the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo. The result arrived under pressure: a red flag interrupted the compressed 20-minute qualifying session, limiting every driver’s win
On May 7, 2013, a column of 350 Lamborghini super sports cars gathered in Milan’s Piazza Castello and set off on a five-day, 1,200-kilometer procession across Italy, bound for Sant’Agata Bolognese, the small Emilia-Romagna town where Ferruccio Lamborghini started building cars in 1963. Lamborghini c
Rounds three and four of the 2013 Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo landed at Misano, the coastal Rimini circuit sitting roughly 160 kilometers south-east of Sant’Agata Bolognese. Lamborghini designated the pair of races as official “home” fixtures, a label the company does not hand out casually. T
Lamborghini brought three cars to the 2013 Shanghai Motor Show to mark its golden anniversary: a Gallardo LP 560-2 50° Anniversario in Bianco Opalis, an Aventador LP 700-4 Roadster in Bianco Isis, and a Gallardo LP 560-4 Spyder in Grigio Telesto. Each wore a cockpit emblem crafted from Lamborghini’s
Lamborghini could have marked its 50th birthday at the 2013 Techno Classica fair in Essen with the full timeline: Countach, Diablo, Murciélago, the then-current Aventador. Instead, the company shipped exactly two cars from the museum in Sant’Agata Bolognese to pavilion 7. A 1964 350 GT, the first ma
In 2013, Lamborghini did something it arguably should have done decades earlier. The company formalized its entire motorsport and driver engagement operation under a single banner, Lamborghini Squadra Corse, creating a structured division responsible for everything from introductory driving events t
Swiss driver Marc Hayek, alongside Dutchman Nico Pronk and countryman Peter Kox, drove the new Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 FL2 to victory in its competitive debut, giving the car a perfect start to its racing career. The win came in challenging conditions, with the trio delivering what Lamborghini desc
On June 20, 2012, Lamborghini inaugurated a preliminary showroom at Het Koopmanshuis in the Netherlands, but the evening was less about square footage than about a strategic bet. Sant’Agata Bolognese was formalizing an exclusive national partnership with Pon Holdings, one of the largest family-owned
