How Barwell's Pit Strategy at Spa Made the Huracán GT3 a Title Machine

Four wins from five rounds in the 2017 British GT Championship

Phil Keen and Jon Minshaw drove the #33 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 to a 14-second victory in Race 1 of the 2017 British GT Championship at Spa-Francorchamps on July 9, marking their fourth win of the season.

The V10's throttle response that made the out-lap gamble work

The Huracán GT3's naturally aspirated V10, derived from the road car's 5.2-liter engine, provided the linear throttle response Keen needed to push immediately on cold tires after Barwell timed its pit stop to coincide with two safety car deployments.

Lamborghini racing at Spa-Francorchamps

Barwell Motorsport operated as an independent customer team, not a manufacturer works effort, so every victory served as a proof point for Lamborghini's customer racing model.

The pit-wall decision that reshaped the race

Barwell used the two safety car deployments to execute their mandatory stop at the optimal moment, and Keen emerged from pit lane ahead of the Bentley Continental GT3 and Aston Martin Vantage entries that represented his closest championship rivals.

Consistency across a multi-manufacturer GT3 grid

Winning against four or five different manufacturer platforms, repeatedly, across different circuits and conditions, is a program advantage rooted in the same strategic intelligence that turned two safety cars at Spa into a 14-second margin.

Shared V10 DNA across the Volkswagen Group

Audi's R8 LMS shared much of its DNA with the Huracán, both using variations of the same V10 architecture and aluminum spaceframe philosophy from within the Volkswagen Group, making the R8 a particularly interesting benchmark for Barwell's results.

A Teams' Championship to cap the 2017 campaign

Barwell Motorsport went on to secure the 2017 British GT Teams' Championship title, capping a season that validated the Huracán GT3 as the car to beat in the UK's premier GT series.