WHAT’S THE TECNICA LIKE TO DRIVE?
Driving a late-development prototype Tecnica on track at Nardò is huge fun, even if it feels like a step down after the spikier adrenaline highs of the Huracán STO. The Tecnica is clearly more road focused than its race-inspired sibling.
That’s no bad thing: the STO’S refinement could politely be described as marginal. But it does make the Tecnica a less intense ten-tenths experience. Its V10 is noticeably quieter when being revved out – apparently, tougher drive-by regulations are partially to blame for that – and it has less darty front-end responses thanks to fixed-ratio steering.
Yet once turned in to Nardò’s many corners, the Tecnica produces huge grip and the exciting, edgy sensation that comes from big power and rear-wheel drive. The dynamic systems still keep guard, but the intermediate Sport dynamic mode allows a liberal amount of low-speed power oversteer. The more trackfocused Corsa setting actually prioritises grip over slip. The steering’s power assistance is still a little too generous compared with the junior supercar norm, but the brake pedal is weightier and easier to modulate than the STO’S.
The Tecnica is secure, exploitable and enormously quick on track – but I suspect real roads will suit it better.