5.30 de la mañana. Día de verano. Despierto. Al segundo parpadeo, salto del sofá como un resorte y me activo. Me quedé dormido viendo el tenis. Me ducho. Entro a ver a Nerea, duerme; Elena, también. Diez minutos después salgo de casa dirección Terminal 2 del aeropuerto internacional Adolfo Suárez Madrid Barajas, donde a las 6.30 embarco para Roma. El motivo merece la pena: probar el extremo Lamborghini Huracan STO.
There is bustle at the airport;Not as a few months ago when he was flying to Bologna in a similar situation, when his absence was synonymous with fear.We embark normally on the flight of Air Europa that will take us to Rome and from there to the Vallelunga circuit, to meet the beast.
Hurricane Sto: Derived from the Daytona winner
I confess that when I land when I get the row number 26 I am nervous.I have the European vaccination passport, double negative antigens test and I have filled the sheet with all the data where I come and where I go that they are responsible for not the damn bug.
The surprise is capitalized when leaving the fiquecin airport without anyone questioning me to ask me any kind of document in a wonderful ode to traceability and that suggests those comparisons between Italy and Spain, that they almost always twin and move us away from theneighbors of the northern European Union.
To all this, a driver with the Lamborghini poster has picked me up my suitcase and on the way to him towards an Audi A8 that will move to the hotel where I will join the delegation of the dynamic presentation of the Lamborghini Huracan Sto.
I arrive at the hotel located next to the Piazza del Popolo, easily recognizable by its central obelisk and for the followers of the Saga of the writer Dan Brown, since Professor Langdon looks for clues against the Illuminati in the church of Santa María del Popolo, in Ángelesand demons.
It just takes half an hour to leave the suitcase, drink coffee, when another driver asks me if I am ready, to which I answer yes.He invites me to accompany him, he opens the back door of a Lamborghini Urus, fluorescent orange.The Romans and tourists look at that vehicle with amaze.
It is a unique path, like everyone else, perfect for developing the vehicle set: minimum straight, fast open curves, slow forks, an average chicane, to combine strong braking with steps per fast curve.
Is your first time in Vallelunga? They ask me.Yes, I answer, while I think that I do not get on a hurricane since its international launch, in that descent from Ascari to Marbella on that wonderful road...When it is not very loaded with vehicles and is dry.
Sto: Super Omologatta Trophy
Because before me the new creation of Lamborghini, Hurricane Sto (means Super Trophy omologatta) is shown, it is a creation that derives from the competition according to Stephan Winkelmann, which has returned to take the reins of the brand since last January after its passageBy Bentley and Audi Sport (Quattro GmbH)."After winning three years in a row at 24 hours of Daytona, you can now enjoy this sports car that derives from the competition, but we also want our clients to use beyond the circuit".
If we look at Hurricane Sto and its physiognomy, it does not seem the most comfortable vehicle to go to super or to take children to school.In addition, with so much carbon fiber everywhere (except doors and roof that are made of steel, the rest of the body is of said material) seems to be a sacrilege to leave half of the front spoiler in a bump or overcome a zebra step turned intoBadén.
Because when I enter my box, and I say my box because on top of the door it puts Felix García Fernández, I meet a fluorine green hurricane with orange strokes.Lamborghini's customer does not want.
COFANGO: Like the Miura or the Sesto Element
One of the brand's engineers explains what Cofango is.It is a term invented by Lamborghini that derives from Cofan.It encompasses in a unique piece - as in the Miura and the most recent semi -element - the front body.This combination is made to be able to repair the mechanical elements that are below it faster if any problem arises in a competition.
It incorporates a new front that directs the air flow through the low of the vehicle to the rear diffuser.It has two openings in the upper central part to redirect the air flows to the rear side where the intelligent shark fin and the majestic aleron emerges with three possibilities of aerodynamic load depending on the pilot needs and that is capable of generatingbetween 323 and 420 kilos of force to hit the hurricane sto to the ground.In addition to reducing 13% the vibrations of the back of the vehicle.
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Mechanics: a v10 natural sound
The Lamborghini Huracán Sto mounts the already known engine of this model that shares architecture with that of the Audi R8 and with his brother the Hurricane Performant.It is the atmospheric V10 that gives 640 horses, located in the back of the vehicle.The motor torque is 565 nm to 6.500 rpm, although stretches up to 8.500 laps.The transmission is double clutch and seven speeds, sending the motor force to the rear axle.
I put the helmet, belt and close the door.Pulse the boot and floor button the accelerator to which it accompanies a beautiful firecrow that emanates from the exhaust pipe.It is natural and not electronically modified as it happens in many sports now that they have succumbed to Turbo.Lamborghini will also do it but, for the moment, for 2021 and 2022 the brand is celebrating its farewell to the atmospheric engines and the V10 is one of them next to the V12 of the Aventador.
It is easy to find the driving posture with the manual seat and steering wheel adjustment.I am used to my stature not to see the end of the morro of the vehicle in all the supercar.I am struck that the driving mode is the lower part of the steering wheel.By default, the car starts in Sto, if we press down trophy and with a more touch to Poggia.The latter is like the Porsche 911 Wet mode for when it rains a lot or we circulate on slippery asphalt.
I familiarly with the cams of change that are not solidarity with the steering wheel, I remember where the flashing (in the midst of the steering wheel) and I give an acceleration.Tremendous the sound of the atmospheric V10.Real, no sound created electronically and that comes clearly even with the helmet on.I adjust my competition belt and I realize that the car not only has the two goopro to record the image but I have cables and a mini switchboard on the co -pilot floor.
I'm lucky that they will give me a telemetry class.We go to the track, in which I have never entered and I only know digitally, with a 640 horsepower shows in which I have never climbed before.I go behind another hurricane with a tester pilot who guides me and, through the Walkie it tells me how I have to take the curves and in what relationship it would be more optimal to do it.
Wonderful.Still the car, memorize the curves and marches in each one on a return.To the second, the young Italian pilot considerably increases the rhythm and beginning to sweat a little.In the environment 39 degrees, on track 67 degrees.
Hurricane Sto.
The first thing that I check in the curvone that is passed in fifth by huting the accelerator pedal a little when entering and stepping on it again is what the tires transmit to the direction and to my clumsy hands.In your ass you feel like slight rear wheels but without losing adherence or speed.Lamborghini's control with a modified changer and with the vector control of lateral forces makes the hurricane stop.
We arrive at the first strong braking, reducing two marches, and they give us a tremendous trust of the brakes.Hurricane Sto has a double circuit hydraulic system with empty servofrane;With 6 pistons aluminum tweezers in front and 4 pistons behind, with carboceramic discs (CCR-R) ventilated and perforated that measure 390 x 34 mm in front and 360 x 28 mm behind.
Hurricane Sto enters perfectly into the double curve and surprises me for the speed of the double clutch gearbox when climbing marches;speed and subtlety in gear.When going in a trophy mode, accelerating especially if we go from 4.000 laps, it is necessary to have touch with the accelerator so that the rear train does not slide.
Although you can paste some whip, you feel it well in your ass and it is easy to correct the trajectory with a contravolant and thanks to the performance of the rear differential.What I try is not to slide (or do it the minimum) to finely draw the curves.Thus, while I try to memorize marches and circuit we consume the first round.
We enter the second and the one that will serve for telemetry.After the second curve, I forget the subject and I focus on enjoying Hurricane Sto and Vallelunga.Although Lamborghini's driver awaits me, it is hard for me to continue his rhythm.And when he sees me, he reminds me "Brake Hard, Second Gear"."Now, this was the slow curve," I think.
We finish the return, I get off with the sweaty snacks in the Camacho -style solera in the World Cup in Korea (I remind you that I am an old man according to the government) and they take me to the box to analyze the telemetry.To my surprise I have not done it auctionally badly.The biggest failure is that it does not brace as strong as it should enter the curve, something normal if you do not usually enter a circuit, and, a second failure, it must accelerate more progressively.The best, the trajectory: it is basic as with the accelerator to be progressive in the direction of the direction when you leave the curve, both the engineer and the Lamborghini tester pilot explain to me.
I still have three stines of four laps each, so the sooner.Now it's about enjoying.It is easy to do with this hurricane sto that weighs 43 kilos less and has 53% more aerodynamic load than its brother the performance.It helps to be lighter than hurricane sto is rear traction.Something you don't perceive if you don't go to the limit.If you manage to take the calm and trace fine as we have said before, you can go very fast in the passage through curve and have a lot of fun.
Thanks also to the specific Brigestone Race grip for this car.The Japanese Pneumatic Brand explains has developed two types of rubber for this hurricane sto.For daily use would be the sport, while the aforementioned Race would be for circuit and with an extra cost of 15% more.While it doesn't say how much each tire costs....
Cryogenized to temper emotions
I finish the stints with adrenaline through the clouds.I don't remember the virus.I am soaked.With more than 40 degrees of temperature and 65 in the circuit, it is normal.The surprise is that at the exit of the car they offer me the possibility of having a cold treatment in a cryogenization machine used by the Italian soccer team for the recovery of the players.
As we have come to play, I say yes.First, sign the consent in case your heart gives you an ax and you stay in the place.The two possibilities of treatment explain me.The first: two minutes at 110 degrees below zero;The second, three minutes at 140 degrees below zero.With the first one is enough, the coach tells me.Avanti.I change, I put some gloves and a tape on the forehead for the pain of the cold and I enter the cabin.
At first the feeling is fresh, I like.In 30 seconds I am cold.When a minute has passed (I know it because every 30 seconds the technician who asks from the outside if I am ok and I answer that with the thumb up), I start mentally counting 60 seconds.They made me long.
When leaving after two minutes, the countryman tells me that I'm going to sleep tonight and I will rest the double.At 4.30 in the morning the hotel room sounds.I answer asleep.Your traffic for the airport is waiting.The truth is that I don't know, if I rested more for treatment, what I know is that it has been short.
While I go to the airport I remember that Lamborghini Hurricán Sto is available in Spain since 301.789 euros and that Sant'agatha Bolognese will come out as many units as demand there is no limitation to its production.
