Lamborghini's Outgoing Huracán GT3 Just Won Again — In the Year of Its Replacement
Rodrigo Testa and Leonardo Moncini led every lap from pole at Hockenheim, giving the 10-year-old Huracán GT3 a win in the season its successor arrived.
Lamborghini's Huracán GT3 EVO2 is on its way out, officially replaced this year by the all-new Temerario GT3. Nobody told the car. At Hockenheim on Saturday, Rodrigo Testa and Leonardo Moncini drove the #63 Scuderia Villorba Corse Huracán to a lights-to-flag victory in the International GT Open — Lamborghini's first win in the series in years, and the first of the season.
Moncini, 22, set up the result in qualifying, taking pole with a 1:37.189 that was roughly three-tenths clear of the field. He controlled the opening stint of the 70-minute race, holding off the chasing #33 McLaren through an early safety-car restart and setting the fastest lap before handing over to Testa at the mandatory driver change.
The McLaren had to serve an extra five-second success handicap at its stop, and from there the race was effectively decided. Testa, 20, stretched the gap through the second stint and crossed the line 13.196 seconds ahead.
Both drivers are members of the Lamborghini GT3 Junior Driver Program, and this is their first win in the championship after a podium at Spa-Francorchamps earlier in the season. They now sit sixth in the drivers' standings with two rounds left. Lamborghini says it's the brand's first GT Open victory since 2024; for Villorba Corse, which returned to the series' top class this year, it ends a much longer drought — the team hadn't won in GT Open since Paul Ricard in 2015.
The timing is what makes the result notable beyond the paddock. The Temerario GT3 made its race debut at the Sebring 12 Hours in March as the first competition car designed, developed, and built entirely in-house at Sant'Agata Bolognese. But with early production limited — the race car shares an assembly line with the in-demand road-going Temerario — customer teams are running the Huracán through the end of 2026. The old car's record stands at more than 200 wins and 99 major championship titles over a decade, and it clearly isn't done adding to it.
"We showed the pace in qualifying and that the Huracán is still a very fast car," Moncini said after the race.
Sunday's second race didn't go the same way. Testa qualified ninth, the crew climbed as high as eighth, but worsening rain and late chaos dropped the #63 to 17th at the flag.
The GT Open season continues with the Monza endurance round on September 26–27 — home ground for the Treviso-based Villorba Corse squad — before the finale at Barcelona on October 24–25.
