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.
Calabogie Motorsports Park, tucked into Ontario’s Ottawa Valley, became the first Canadian circuit to host the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo when rounds 5 and 6 of the inaugural North American season rolled onto its tarmac. The venue was no accident. Lamborghini describes Calabogie as the longe
On the July Fourth holiday weekend of 2013, a grid of identically engineered Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 race cars rolled onto the tight, undulating ribbon of Lime Rock Park in Connecticut for what amounted to a quiet revolution. The Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Series, already four seasons
When Lee Davis and Ryan Eversley crossed the finish line first in Car #33 at Lime Rock Park, representing Lamborghini Beverly Hills, they did more than collect a trophy. They took the maiden checkered flag of the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Series in North America, the brand’s first dedicated
Lime Rock Park in the summer of 2013 carried more weight than a typical practice day. The Blancpain Super Trofeo series had started in Europe in 2009 with just eleven cars, one of them driven by Blancpain CEO Marc Hayek himself, then expanded into Asia in 2012 before crossing the Atlantic to North A
Andrea Mamé, the 41-year-old driver of car #11, was killed during the opening lap of a Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo race at Circuit Paul Ricard on June 30, 2013. A multi-car incident involving five competitors erupted immediately after the start at 9:20 in the morning, and the race was red-fla
Finished in matte black, the 2000th Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 rolled off the Sant’Agata Bolognese factory floor and into the hands of Thaddeus Arroyo, then Chief Intelligence Officer for AT&T. Lamborghini describes Arroyo as a passionate customer whose collection already included a Gallardo LP
Founded in 1963, Lamborghini chose to mark its half-century not with a press conference or a quiet museum retrospective but with a five-day, 1,200-kilometer rolling invasion of Italy. The Grande Giro concluded on May 11, 2013, at the factory gates in Sant’Agata Bolognese, gathering 350 super sports
On the morning of May 10, 2013, a 4.5 km procession of Lamborghini supercars pulled out of Rome and pointed north toward Bologna, the third major stop on the brand’s 50th Anniversary Grand Tour. The Grande Giro, as Lamborghini titled it, was a four-day, factory-organized rally covering more than 1,2
On May 9th, 2013, a convoy of 350 Lamborghinis stretched across 4.5 kilometers of Italian road, threading through Forte dei Marmi, past the Italian Air Force base at Grosseto, and into Rome. The procession, which Lamborghini called the largest gathering of its cars ever assembled, marked the second
Lamborghini’s newly formed Squadra Corse motorsport division needed a proof point, and it got one almost immediately. At the opening round of the 2013 Gran Turismo Campeonato Brasileiro, the Blau Motorsport team brought a 2013-specification Gallardo GT3 FL2 to the Anhembi street circuit in São Paulo
