We’ve been casually waiting to determine what Lamborghini would do with its face-lifted 2013 Gallardo with respect to racing, and we now have a solution: it’s teaming up with a German racing company to develop a chain of cars called the GT3 FL2, and planning to race within the 2013 season.

The car is the manufactured from a deal between Lamborghini and German racing house Reiter Engineering; while Reiter Engineering usually takes stock Gallardos and develops racing versions of them in-house, that is the primary time that the 2 companies have pooled resources and worked directly with one another.

The cooperation shows: the GT3 FL2 has new heavy-duty brakes nicknamed “24-hour brakes” in a nod to endurance racing, and all manner of changes to the body kit to enhance aerodynamics and decrease weight. Included in that aerodynamic kit is a rear diffuser that borrows heavily from the stock unit suited to the Gallardo Super Trofeo road car (which was really only a road-going version of the Gallardo Super Trofeo race car), in addition to a brand new front splitter. Lamborghini claims that the GT3 FL2 is 55 pounds lighter than the former-generation Gallardo GT3 racer. The pricetag for all of this Italian performance: $430,112.

That’s some huge cash, for sure, nevertheless it does finally buy you access to Lamborghini’s engineering and development staff. Lamborghini says it’s making a division of the corporate called the Squadra Corse (literally: “racing team”) that allows you to back up Lamborghini’s efforts in GT3 racing, in addition to the continuation of its single-marque Blancpain Super Trofeo series. It’ll also include some fun for Gallardo owners inside the sort of “Esperienza” (experience) driving events and Lamborghini Academies to assist owners harness the performance in their cars.

As for the races, the Gallardo GT3 FL2 will reach some European and Asian teams in March, at which point it’ll compete within the Blancpain Eudrance Series, Asia Le Mans Series, and the Italian GT3 Championship. It’s unclear exactly where this may increasingly happen, but Lamborghini says it’s ready for a 2014 GT3 expansion into the yank market.

Speaking of $400,000 Lamborghinis and American markets, the corporate decided to celebrate the discharge of its new Aventador roadster (starting price: about $381,000) with a pleasing display of the Aventador’s ruthless performance — but in place of shipping some journalists to a track, it went one (or two) steps further. The corporate made a treat the Federal Aviation Administration to take advantage of among the many runways at Miami-Dade Airport (in between flights starting off and landing) to permit a couple of drivers to drop the hammer within the 217-mph convertibles. In keeping with Lamborghini, in any case one Aventador Roadster was clocked at 210 mph, something like 50 mph faster than a jet at take-off speed.

Source: Lamborghini