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title: "Watch the Lamborghini Centenario Tear Up the Nardo Ring"
description: "The extrovert's Lamborghini looks awfully good on the track."
date: "2016-08-02"
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# Watch the Lamborghini Centenario Tear Up the Nardo Ring

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Months after its triumphant reveal at the Geneva Motor Show, the [Lamborghini Centenario has hit the famed Nardo Ring](<https://www.autoblog.com/2016/08/02/lamborghini-centenario-nardo-video/>) is in all its Ferruccio-saluting glory. [Supercar spotters have already caught this Lambo on the roads](<https://www.thedrive.com/supercars/4131/see-the-2-5-million-lamborghini-centenario-hit-the-streets-in-italy>) of Italy; now it's time for the supercar to hit the track.

To mark the supercar's upcoming release into the wild, [Lamborghini unleashed the multi-million dollar Centenario](<https://www.lamborghini.com/en/models/centenario-lp-770-4/overview/>) at Italy's famed Nardo Ring track, now home to Porsche's Nardo Technical Center. (Based on the font seen at 0:16, we're guessing the Lambo guys stole the satellite image from their corporate cousins, but that's neither here nor there.) Let loose in the midst of a pack of Aventadors, the carbon-fiber-bodied wonder manages to do the impossible as it bobs and weaves along the track's twists and turns: It makes other Lamborghinis look plain.

Latest in a long, proud line of limited-edition, ridiculously-expensive supercars, [the Lamborghini Centenario is based on the Aventador](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/2408/lamborghini-centenario-lp770-4-ferruccios-birthday-present>); it shares the "plebeian" supercar's V12 engine, albeit cranked up to 760 horsepower for duty in the car designed to pay tribute to [the 100th anniversary of founder Ferruccio Lamborghini's birth](<https://www.thedrive.com/supercars/2344/lamborghini-centenario-teaser-is-full-of-bwooommmp>). And while that wide carbon-fiber body could make a Humvee feel skinny, the Centenario's claimed curb weight of a little more than 3,000 pounds means it can rip from 0 to 60 miles per hour in a claimed 2.8 seconds on the way to a reported 217 mph top speed, according to its maker. Not quite as extreme as some of the [other supercars in the $2+ million category](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/2378/the-2017-bugatti-chiron-might-break-your-brain>), sure—but few cars past or present can match the Centenario when it comes to visual pizzaz.

Oh, by the way, Lamborghini: Don't think we at *The Drive* didn't notice that frame of the electronic sign reading "LAMBORGHINI CENTENARIO 1st MEDIA TEST." We noticed. Just as we noticed the lack of an invitation in our collective inboxes.

https://youtube.com/embed/hOd4lKt0JcQ

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

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