Alex Rullo is an Australian driver with long experience of V8 Supercars and currently in the Australian Rally Championship, driving a Hyundai. Since this year, he has also been driving, in the Time Attack discipline, a Lamborghini Gallardo R-EX modified, and entered under the IntelliSpatial Fleetcare Racing banner.
Maximum aerodynamic support!
The basis is a Gallardo that was homologated for GT3 racing, powered by a 5.2-liter V10. For the record, this was the last Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 built by Reiter Engineering, the German structure that prepared the Lamborghini Murcielago GT1 and Gallardo GT3 in the years 2000-2010, before the Italian marque switched to the Huracan platform in 2016, under the aegis of Lamborghini Squadra Corse.
Rullo's car features a number of modifications, the most obvious of which is the spectacular aerodynamic package, designed by Sydney Composites, to provide the car with maximum downforce: a much larger rear spoiler, in the vein of the "Pikes Peak" spoilers, accentuated side skirts, a prominent diffuser and a front blade with side drifts, topped by appendages on the wings. In short, the Gallardo's aesthetics are butchered, but in a hotlap challenge, every extra kilo of downforce is worth taking... Other chassis modifications include a modified Öhlins suspension.
A twin-turbocharged engine
Although naturally aspirated at the time of homologation, this car features an engine with forged pistons and, above all, a pair of "Precision 6870" turbochargers, all calibrated by a complete Motec electronic management system. The top-of-the-range, American-made turbos feature forged aluminum compressor wheels for increased strength and optimized airflow.
All these improvements mean that the Gallardo can now develop up to 1500 hp! The team reverse-engineered the original wiring and hardware to make it compatible with the new MoTeC equipment. The acceleration of this Gallardo Time Attack is demonic, as the videos taken at Sydney Motorsport Park attest.
A promising start
The beast is entered in the EMTRON Pro class of the Yokohama Word Time Attack Challenge 2025. This is the ultimate time-trial category, where the most advanced engineering and unrestricted regulations allow teams to aim for the absolute lap limit. In his first event, Rullo finished second overall in the EMTRON Pro class behind reigning champion Todd Hazelwood. For the record, Rullo clocked 1'22.7 at Sydney Motorsport Park, just 4'5 off the best time set by the Nissan Silvia R13. The GT3 record is 1'26", and the Gallardo was on a par with the F3 single-seaters.
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