Osram is putting a brand new contender on the racetrack: the Lamborghini from Raeder-Motorsport, adorned with Osram logos in orange aluminium and fitted with innovative automotive lighting. With "Xenarc", the brightest xenon light, "Night Breaker" halogen headlamps and energy-efficient LEDs for daylight driving, the highly tuned Lamborghini with Osram branding on the front and side wings will be all set to race ahead at the long-distance championships on the Nürburgring racetrack. "Innovative and persevering are epithets that apply equally well to the Lamborghini as they do to OSRAM. And this is why we believe that a Lamborghini is the ideal place to display our brand logo", explained Rick Leaman, head of Osram's Automotive Lighting Business Unit.

The brothers Nicolas and Martin Raeder, who will be sending the "Osram Lamborghini" to the racetrack, have tuned the Gallardo to bring it into the ultimate technical condition. With about 550 HP, V10 engine, 7700 rpm and 110.9 HP/l, the Lamborghini Gallardo is among the best in its class. The three team drivers, Hermann Tilke, Dirk Adorf and Peter Oberndorfer, regularly put the car – the world's only pure racing version of the Lamborghini Gallardo – through its paces on the north loop.

Each year, the Nürburgring long-distance race (VLN) attracts countless spectators. The highlight of the event is the ADAC Zurich 24-hour race on the Nürburgring, which is one of the largest motor sports events in the world. On the demanding north loop stretch, famously dubbed "green hell", some 220,000 spectators were able to admire the Osram Lamborghini from 22-25 May this year while 143 TV channels broadcasted the race around the globe.