This past weekend, I had the opportunity to go out to North Carolina with some folks at Mobil 1 for a weekend filled with automotive insanity. We made a stop to a very famous shop on the outskirts of Charlotte, Underground Racing. It's a shop that houses hundreds of thousands of horses under its roof and is an automotive fan boy's wet dream.
Like, how stealth can you be when two of the over-the-top, twin-turbo Lamborghini Gallardos you’ve built for your customers practically own the Texas Mile standing-mile shootout? (Longtime customer Kyle Bennett did 241 mph last summer and Richard Holt’s lighter Superleggera killed the two-fifty mark this past March.)
The big winner of the Texas Mile event on March 26-28, 2010 was Richard Holt for piloting an Underground Racing Twin Turbo Gallardo Superleggera 250.1 MPH with an E-Gear transmission. The first few days at The Texas Mile proved to be grueling as the Team experimented on both Gallardos with different turbos and suspension settings achieving a top speed of 220mph by the half mile. When the Supra's and Ford GT's started getting faster each run on Saturday it was time to stop and prepare them for full attack mode and be ready for a Sunday kill.
On Wednesday, November 4, PlayStation hosted the 7th annual Gran Turismo (GT) Awards in Las Vegas, taking place in conjunction with the 2009 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show. Underground Racing had the privilege of displaying their 1,100 HP twin-turbo Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 in the Mobil 1 booth at the Sema Show. After submitting the car for consideration in the GT Awards, it won the 2009 Gran Turismo Best European Import Award.
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to go out to North Carolina with some folks at Mobil 1 for a weekend filled with automotive insanity. We made a stop to a very famous shop on the outskirts of Charlotte, Underground Racing. It's a shop that houses hundreds of thousands of horses under its roof and is an automotive fan boy's wet dream.
Like, how stealth can you be when two of the over-the-top, twin-turbo Lamborghini Gallardos you’ve built for your customers practically own the Texas Mile standing-mile shootout? (Longtime customer Kyle Bennett did 241 mph last summer and Richard Holt’s lighter Superleggera killed the two-fifty mark this past March.)
On Wednesday, November 4, PlayStation hosted the 7th annual Gran Turismo (GT) Awards in Las Vegas, taking place in conjunction with the 2009 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show. Underground Racing had the privilege of displaying their 1,100 HP twin-turbo Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 in the Mobil 1 booth at the Sema Show. After submitting the car for consideration in the GT Awards, it won the 2009 Gran Turismo Best European Import Award.