Lamborghini to release exclusive padel racket

Italian supercar doyen Lamborghini has announced a collaboration with French padel racket manufacturer Babolat to produce a 50-piece, limited edition Babolat BL001 padel racket.

Babolat was founded in 1875, inventing the first tennis strings while padel is a high-octane blend of a racket sport adapted from both tennis and squash. The sport that’s played in a smaller court compared to tennis uses a solid, perforated paddle, as opposed to a strung racket, and it's a new lifestyle rage with many padel courts popping up all over SA towns.

Aldric Bourgier, chief innovation and development officer at Babolat joined Lamborghini's chief manufacturing officer Ranieri Niccoli to celebrate their manufacturing union.

“We have 150 years of know-how in racket sports overall, and we are committed to padel for more than 20 years already” said Bourgier, “but we are always keen to collaborate with experts in their field. And Lamborghini is a connoisseur of carbon composite technologies as well as leather and paint. We can produce something very special, very unique.”

“Personally, I love [padel],” said Niccoli. “I started to play, and it’s an easy sport to pick up initially, and then you realise how strategic it can be. It’s fast, interesting to play and watch, it’s a convivial sport, drawing people together in their passion.”

“When I was playing padel, I realised the synergies between Lamborghini and Babolat,” says Niccoli. So we talked and realised we share not only a technological but also passionate about sharing our respective expertise and pushing ourselves to deliver on this new challenge.”