Lamborghini Huracan STO officially revealed

The Lamborghini Huracan STO has been fully revealed overnight, giving us our first official look at the wild Italian McLaren 765LT rival that will arrive in Australia in mid-2021 and be priced from about $620,000.

You can read our first drive of a near-production prototype of the Huracan STO (Super Trofeo Omologata), while here we can see that the supercar draws heavy influence from the Huracan Super Trofeo Evo racer that has nabbed victory at the 24 Hours of Daytona three times.

Created to rival cars like the track-bred Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series and McLaren's 765LT, the Huracan STO's naturally-aspirated 5.2-litre V10 doesn't get any more power – boasting the same 470kW as the Lamborghini Huracan Performante – while torque actually drops to 575Nm (down from 600Nm).

Making up the deficit, Lamborghini has trimmed 43kg from the kerb weight through measures such as switching from all-wheel drive to rear-drive only, stripping out the interior and fitting carbon-fibre body panels and magnesium alloy wheels.

With all that power, the Huracan shaves 0.3 seconds off the Performante's 0-100km/h sprint, requiring only 3.0 seconds flat to reach the mark.

Reflecting its obsession with nailing the perfect lap, the Huracan STO gets a dramatic makeover that includes ditching the Performante's active aero for a massive adjustable rear wing.

Ahead of the rear wing, there's a new louvred engine cover and shark-like central fins that look as though they're lifted from a Le Mans prototype racer.

In addition, there's also a cool roof-mounted snorkel intake to feed air to the hungry V10.

Related: Read the Lamborghini Huracan STO Prototype 2021 Review

Up front there's a huge splitter that divides air to either cool the front radiators or brakes that are supplemented by massive ducts in the bonnet to direct air exiting through the radiators over the roof and across the rear wing.

It doesn't stop there in the pursuit of downforce; there's also vented front fenders that help reduce turbulence within the arches and suck out hot air generated from the enormous front discs.

The result is 53 per cent more downforce than the Huracan Performante, plus 37 per cent great efficiency.

In total, Lamborghini claims that the Huracan STO now produces up to 450kg of downforce at 280km/h.

Tailoring its handling to hot lapping, the STO gets significant chassis revisions that involve a wider track, stiffer bushing, a redesigned anti-roll bar and the car-maker's next-gen MagneRide 2.0 active dampers.

Further changes involve adding rear-wheel steer and replacing the variable-ratio steering rack with a more direct fixed-ratio steering system.

Three new driving modes have also been calibrated, an STO mode for road, Trofeo for track and a Pioggia setting for poor weather conditions.

Maximising track times, there's two Bridgestone Potenza tyres – one for the road and another softer compound for track work.

The brakes, meanwhile, feature carbon ceramic materials borrowed from F1.

Inside, the stripped-out cabin gets full carbon-fibre seats, roll protection and a four-point safety harness.

Creature comforts are few and far between. All the carpet and sound deadening you'd normally find in the standard Huracan Evo have been dumped to save weight, although there is a new storage bin introduced in the cabin that, handily, can stow a driver's crash helmet between sessions on the track.

In Europe, Lamborghini has confirmed the Huracan will cost around 30 per cent more than the Performante which should see it cost around $620,000 (plus on-roads) when it lands in Australia in the middle of 2021.

Related: Read the Lamborghini Huracan STO Prototype 2021 Review