Lambo Urus one-make race series announced

There will soon be a onemake Lamborghini Urus race series. The Italian manufacturer has announced the new Urus ST-X isn’t a Navara ute as you were thinking but instead a dedicated track-only version of the twin-turbo V8 SUV.

We know what you’re thinking. But before you cry “Do we really need another one-make tarmac race series?” the hook to this championship is that the circuits will be a mix of track and off-road racing.

Okay. Tell us more.

Each four-wheel drive Urus STX will develop 477kW peak power and 850Nm of torque. The race edition Uruseseses will be fitted with an FIA-approved roll-cage and fire safety system and have had around 25kg of internal gubbins removed from underneath the sheet metal in order to have them race fit. The first round of the series “proper” is scheduled for late 2019.

That doesn’t sound too bad, especially when you throw in the leveller of dirt track action. While they’re at it, an exciting support race to the support race would be to stage some gravity-defying stadium truck racing with original Lamborghini LM002s. Now that would be a spectacle. Although we’re presuming the world’s modest supply of LM002s are either a) too priceless or b) too thoroughly unreliable, so that’s not likely.

But just maybe an Urus dressed up in Mad Max battle mode would suffice? It should be more entertaining to watch than yet another straightforward circuit race series for rich dudes.