Steve Sutcliffe: Lamborghini Gallardo. When you switch off traction control

You are driving along, and it seems like a fun idea to reach for your car’s ESP stability control button, so it’s just you in control of machine.

But is it a wise idea?

Steve Sutcliffe decided to find out, driving the hugely grippy and stable, four-wheel drive 2013 Lamborghini Gallardo supercar.

Despite its amazing performance figures, he found that even at moderate motorway speeds, an awful lot could go wrong, very quickly indeed.

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Andy Rasool

Founder - Although he has been a Certified Ferrari Tifosi since the age of 10, his fate was sealed when at the age of 14 he persuaded a Ferrari dealer in London that he wanted to buy a new Ferrari. A phone call to his dad the following day soon put an end to that! His therapist suggested that to overcome the addiction a healthy dose of Ferrari Blogging and Spotting will help, and with that SupercarTribe.com was born!