The Grand Finale: Sixty Drivers, Three Continents, One Circuit in Valencia
Lamborghini’s fourth World Final descends on Valencia’s Ricardo Tormo circuit from December 1 through 4, 2016, gathering roughly sixty drivers from the European, Asian, and North American legs of the Blancpain Super Trofeo into a single, compressed weekend of championship racing. The event returns to European soil after the 2015 edition drew 66 cars to Sebring, Florida, and it carries a weight that goes well beyond trophies. For Lamborghini, the World Final functions as the annual proof point for its entire customer motorsport operation, a stage where the Huracán Super Trofeo is the only star and the brand’s racing credibility is measured in real laps, not marketing slides.
Twelve races totaling 600 minutes of competition, nearly eight hours of additional on-track activity across qualifying and free practice, champions crowned in four classes (PRO, PRO-AM, AM, and Lamborghini Cup), the Lamborghini Air Show running during the final two days, and every session available via live streaming on the Squadra Corse website. The format is deliberately immersive, designed to keep the Huracán at the center of attention for four straight days and to demonstrate that this one-make series has outgrown its origins as a regional European program.
More Than a Race: Why Lamborghini Stages a World Final at All
Plenty of supercar manufacturers run one-make series. Ferrari has its Challenge, Porsche its Carrera Cup, and both draw loyal fields of gentleman drivers and aspiring professionals. What makes the World Final concept distinctive is how Lamborghini uses it as a brand consolidation exercise. The Super Trofeo series originated in Europe in 2009, expanded to Asia in 2012, and reached North America in 2013. The inaugural World Final at Vallelunga, Italy, in 2013 was the first time those regional grids collided.
By the fourth edition, the event has become a traveling spectacle, rotating between continents (Vallelunga, Sepang, Sebring, now Valencia) in a way that reinforces the series’ global footprint. Lamborghini could simply mail out trophies based on points tallies. Instead, the company flies its entire customer racing ecosystem to a single venue, stages an air show, and broadcasts the whole thing online. The commercial logic is straightforward: every driver, team owner, and sponsor who attends becomes a deeper stakeholder in the Lamborghini motorsport ecosystem. For prospective entrants watching from home, the spectacle lowers the psychological barrier to writing a very large check.
The World Final also serves as a talent pipeline. Drivers who distinguish themselves here have historically moved into Lamborghini’s GT3 program, which competes in international endurance racing. The Super Trofeo is where Lamborghini identifies who can handle its cars at the limit before handing them something even faster.
The Huracán Super Trofeo on Valencia’s Tight, Technical Layout
Ricardo Tormo stretches just over four kilometers and is known for its tight, technical character, a layout that rewards precise braking and clean corner exits over raw straight-line speed. For the Huracán Super Trofeo, a rear-wheel-drive machine built around the LP 620-2 platform, that means traction management becomes paramount. One source indicates the Huracán LP 620-2 was introduced to the Super Trofeo series for the 2015 season, replacing the Gallardo-based car and bringing a stiffer aluminum-carbon chassis, improved aerodynamics, and a naturally aspirated V10 that rewards drivers willing to chase the top of the rev range.
The rear-drive setup is a deliberate choice by Squadra Corse. While road-going Huracáns are available with all-wheel drive, the race car’s rear-drive configuration forces drivers to develop throttle sensitivity and car control that translates directly to higher-level GT racing. It also produces a more spectacular, more visibly demanding style of racing, which does not hurt when the cameras are rolling.
The four-class structure (PRO, PRO-AM, AM, Lamborghini Cup) means the grid accommodates everything from seasoned semi-professionals to wealthy enthusiasts running their first season, and the World Final puts all of them on the same piece of asphalt. That breadth of talent is part of the point: the series is designed as a competitive but structured environment where you learn to race a proper Lamborghini, not a sanitized track-day toy.
The Lamborghini Huracan safety car, featuring a distinctive checkered livery, awaits action at the Valencia World Final.
Championship Battles Worth Watching Across All Three Series
The European series arrives in Valencia with its PRO title genuinely undecided. Danish driver Dennis Lind leads with five victories for Raton Racing, but Latvia’s Harald Schlegelmilch trails by just six points, with Italian Vito Postiglione and nineteen-year-old Croatian Martin Kodric (who took his first win at the Nurburgring) both within realistic striking distance. Four drivers separated by a handful of points across a 50-minute race format means Valencia’s PRO grid could produce drama from the first corner.
The PRO-AM battle features an intriguing generational subplot. Eighteen-year-old Rik Breukers, a new entry in Lamborghini’s Young Drivers Program racing for GDL Racing, is chasing the Swiss-Finnish pairing of Adrian Amstutz and Patrick Kujala, the latter a 2015 PRO champion and Sebring World Final winner. That kind of contest is exactly what the Young Drivers Program is designed to produce.
In Asia, the overall title is already settled. Japanese driver Toshiyuki Ochiai and Malaysian Afiq Yazid (the 2015 PRO champion) locked up the championship at Fuji with eight wins and three consecutive double victories, a dominant run that left little room for debate. Remaining intrigue sits in the PRO-AM class, where Armaan Ebrahim and Dilantha Malagamuwa hold a 16-point advantage over Max Wiser, a two-time former champion, and Low Zen.
North America’s PRO title belongs to Shinya Michimi and Prestige Performance, clinched before Valencia. But the PRO-AM and AM classes remain live, with Craig Duerson and Trent Hindman defending a narrow lead in PRO-AM and Canadian Damon Ockey holding a 13-point AM advantage over Luis Rodriguez Jr. of Change Racing. Across all three series, the pattern is consistent: enough titles are decided to validate the season’s dominant performers, while enough remain open to guarantee that Valencia’s final laps will matter.
What the Super Trofeo Means for Lamborghini’s Motorsport Future
Lamborghini’s one-make series operates in a landscape where Ferrari Challenge and Porsche Carrera Cup are the obvious reference points. All three programs serve the same fundamental purpose: giving wealthy enthusiasts a structured, manufacturer-supported environment to race identical cars while building brand loyalty and identifying future GT3 talent. The differences lie in philosophy and execution.
The World Final’s deliberate global rotation (Italy, Malaysia, the United States, now Spain) signals that Lamborghini views its customer racing program as a tool for market development in specific regions, not just a European tradition with international guests. Ferrari Challenge holds its own Finali Mondiali, but the Super Trofeo’s continental rotation carries a different strategic message. For a brand that sells far fewer road cars than Porsche or Ferrari, the Super Trofeo punches above its weight in terms of grid sizes and geographic reach. The 66 cars at Sebring in 2015 would be a respectable number for any manufacturer’s one-make championship.
The four-class system and the Young Drivers Program represent a deliberate effort to lower barriers for new entrants while maintaining a credible competitive pyramid. Looking ahead, the real question for Lamborghini enthusiasts is how the Super Trofeo evolves as the Huracan platform gives way to its successor. The series has already proven it can transition from the Gallardo to the Huracan. Whether the next generation can preserve the visceral, naturally aspirated character that makes the current car so appealing on track is a question Squadra Corse will eventually need to answer. For now, Valencia offers one more weekend to appreciate the V10 at full volume.
