The Lamborghini Huracán STO and caterhamcars Seven 420 Cup are two very different ways to get your trackday thrills, both delivering the purest performance possible, as JethroBovingdon discovers -
pull the crowd from the pit-wall down into the pitlane the moment their engines fire. Compared with the likes of the SF90, these are simple cars. The 420 Cup is simple compared with any car. But they have a magnetism. They’re headliners in their own right.
There are other numbers to interrogate. Peak speeds, minimum apex speeds, lateral G force and overall lap times. They can wait. In the STO there is no time to think beyond the next gearshift, the next braking point, the next time you feel the nose lock onto line and the rear follow obediently before it gently, inevitably, deliberately starts to adopt yaw.
Almost unbelievably, the Caterham is just as exciting, even more challenging and has a bizarrely similar balance: the front is nailed on line and the rear is completely dictated by throttle inputs. Of course, it requires a little more dedication to reach this point than most cars. Even a luminous Lamborghini. First, you need to climb onto the top of the roll-cage.
And, once you’re on top of it, the Caterham is utterly sublime. The front has so much grip and if you’re confident to really lean on it on turn-in, the rear is instantly alive. Measure the power correctly and you’ll sense the car pivoting, almost as if it’s about to slide into oversteer. But as there’s so little weight to contain and so much grip on hand, the 420 Cup simply stays neutral and allows full throttle unnaturally early.
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