Lamborghini Temerario Driven

The Huracán replacement is a 907bhp hybrid rocketship, but is it missing something?

- RICHARD MEADEN

THIS IS NUTS. WE'VE BEEN SITTING IN THE NEW LAMBORGHINI Temerario for barely two minutes and yet here we are, barrelling into a braking area at 190mph. It's quite the introduction. One that highlights the raw speed of this ultra-techy 907bhp hybrid supercar, but also the absurd ease with which you can access and deploy its performance.

We've been waiting a while for this opportunity. Appetites were whetted by the initial reveal (evo 326), in which details emerged of an all-new hybridised 10,000rpm twin-turbo V8 designed and built in-house at Lambo's Sant'Agata factory; the long-awaited Huracán replacement didn't so much promise to take the fight to Ferrari as launch a full-scale assault on Maranello.

As with the Revuelto back in 2023, our first drive of the Temerario is on track only, the company awaiting the formality of final homologation once again being cited as the reason we can't yet drive it on the road. It's frustrating, for it means we can't give you a complete assessment of the car, but as first tastes go it's a hundred times better than the dreaded dynamic passenger ride. We're at Estoril in Portugal. Resolutely old-school with little in the way of runoff, this legendary circuit long since fell off Fl's roster, but if you're a student of the sport it will always be where Ayrton Senna scored his first win. Thankfully we're spared the torrential rain in which Senna's talent shone so brightly, but Estoril is still a bold place to let the world's motoring media loose in your brand-new bullet-fast supercar.

And let loose we most certainly are. Tucked in the wake of an instructor-driven lead car with a little over 300kph (186mph) showing on the dash display, we plunge into the downhill braking zone for Estoril's second-gear Turn 1. It's serious speed in any car, let alone the new baby of Lamborghini's supercar range.