Deftly drifting the all-wheel drive Lambo around the seaside bends, and threading it through the traffic, the handling remains instantaneously familiar. Our opponents dart around the sluggish locals, some successfully, some less so, as a rudely shunted sedan is sent spinning into our path. There are not just walls and guardrails to avoid here, but civilian cars. This segment demands a little more finesse than the foot-to-the-floor blast through some unfortunate Italian farmland. The off-road adventure is cut short when the race re-joins the road and begins winding along the ocean. Plants are scattered and threshed by the screaming pack of supercars bearing down on them. It’s a brief but frantic off-road stampede as cars jockey for position while hurtling across the bumpy paddock. “The racers hit the gas and, almost instantly, the bulk of them divert through a nearby field of crops in a desperate scramble to save a few seconds on the way to the first checkpoint.
