Mitja Borkert, Director of Design at Automobili Lamborghini, shares an insider perspective on the design and engineering relationship between the Lamborghini Temerario — the brand’s latest hybrid HPEV super sports car — and its dedicated competition counterpart, the Temerario GT3, which made its racing debut at the 12 Hours of Sebring in mid-March.
“When we started designing the Temerario, we wanted to create a car full of visual adrenaline — a car that immediately looks like a Lamborghini, expressing our iconic and essential design language, with athletic proportions combined with sharp lines,” Borkert begins. “The Temerario GT3 is a proud result of the collaboration between the Squadra Corse racing department and Centro Stile. Lamborghini is always about design and performance, and we transferred the road-going Temerario DNA into a car conceived to race at the highest GT international level.”
“The Temerario is a milestone in Lamborghini’s lineage,” Borkert states. “It fuses pure performance with electrified technology while preserving the visceral emotion that defines our cars.” The Temerario combines a new twin-turbo V8 internal-combustion engine with three electric motors for a combined output of 920 PS, paired with an eight-speed dual-clutch gearbox. This plug-in hybrid architecture not only delivers breathtaking acceleration and a top speed of over 340 km/h, but also maintains Lamborghini’s signature driving character in everyday use. “Both the road-going Temerario and the Temerario GT3 are conceived to transform pure adrenaline into form, proportion, sound and movement. Whether expressed through advanced hybrid technology for the road or through uncompromising race-focused solutions for the track, the goal remains the same: to give a tangible, emotional shape to performance.”
Borkert explains that the design philosophy for the road car was always conceived with adaptability and future racing potential in mind. “From the very earliest sketches, we knew Temerario needed to express strength, purity, and dynamism,” he says. “Those same design cues — the sharp athletic surfaces, the aerodynamic sculpting, the purposeful stance — would later inform the racing machine keeping the core identity of the car.”
