The BC is powered by the Huayra's 6.0-liter twin-turbocharged V-12 engine but the power is up by 25 horsepower and there's more torque too, all kept in check by a more aggressive aerodynamic package. Now it's time for road racing veteran Randy Pobst to tell everyone about the time when he got to try out a member of the supercar world's upper echelons with all the others also in attendance.

The Huayra BC is a 745-horsepower monster

Pagani is known for making some of the world's most dramatic-looking cars in the world. However, unlike a Lamborghini Countach, Pagani's cars are as fast as they are jaw-dropping. Take the Huayra BC, for example.

Pagani unveiled the Huayra way back in 2011 as the replacement for the legendary Zonda. Five years later, the floor of the Geneva Auto Show shook as Horacio Pagani unveiled the Huayra BC, a faster, more powerful Huayra named in the memory of the late Benny Caiola, Pagani's first customer.

These aren't world-leading numbers anymore but they were quite astonishing four years ago. To add to that, the BC is lighter than a standard Huayra by almost 300 pounds. It makes sense, then, that driving one on Georgia's illustrious Road Atlanta road course would raise the hairs on the back of your neck.



Pobst got to drive the BC during a track day organized by Merit Partners in conjunction with the Driving Club at the Braselton track. Also out and about that day were a Porsche 918, a Ferrari LaFerrari, a McLaren P1, and a Porsche Carrera GT to name but a few of the cars that brazenly faced the chilly temperatures that made bringing brakes and tires into temperature somewhat of a tough job.

Throughout the video, the former Pirelli World Challenge regular talks about the Huayra in comparison to the members of the holy trinity: the 918, the LaFerrari, and the P1. Pobst speaks highly of the Porsche's confidence-inducing AWD system and its energy-recovering brakes that feed the electric motors. He points out that, in the 900 horsepower 918, you're approaching the chicane at the end of the lap going about 175 mph as you've gone down the winding back straight.

He also mentions how in the RWD-only P1 you "think about the walls" that line some portions of the track at Road Atlanta as the McLaren is a decidedly more "lively" car on turn-in, Pobst saying this is due to the Britons' love for an oversteer-y car. After a run in the LaFerrari, which he rates as having "maybe the best sound" but lacking in the brakes department, Pobst finally gets on about the "exotic" Huayra BC.

He goes out thinking it'll be somewhat skittish to drive because Pagani doesn't have an army of engineers to sort the cars like Porsche or Ferrari does but he's not kept on his toes for long. For starters, it's the way the mass is being transferred back to front under braking that impresses Pobst, which gets added to the neutrality of the front end upon corner turn-in. "This car feels better than the 918," Randy exclaimed in the video before adding that it is "one of the best handling cars that I've ever driven," one that made him "respect the manufacturer got it so right".