Lamborghini’s Legendary V12 Once Powered Racing Boats

Until the turn of the century, Lamborghini didn’t have much involvement in racing. Ferruccio Lamborghini just wasn’t as interested in seeing his cars on the track as rival Enzo Ferrari, whose crude approach to customer service was allegedly Lamborghini’s inspiration for making cars, and not just tractors. But for decades there was a place where Lamborghini raced—and won. It just wasn’t on pavement. Lamborghini began adapting its V12 engines for marine use just a few years after it started putting them in cars. From the 1980s to the 2000s, those engines would become a force to be reckoned with in offshore powerboat racing, as this video from the YouTube channel…

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