Continental Titles Settled, World Finals Next
A five-second penalty that flipped a Pro title. An Am crown won by a single point after a last-gasp surge. A first-lap collision in Asia that nearly destroyed a Pro-Am campaign before the champion clawed it back anyway. The 2025 Lamborghini Super Trofeo regular season wrapped up at Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli with every class championship across three continents decided, and the common thread is how little separated glory from heartbreak.
The same Italian venue now hosts the 12th edition of the Lamborghini World Finals on November 8 and 9, where all three continental grids converge for two days of qualifying and racing. Lamborghini says 112 drivers representing 35 nationalities and 36 teams will compete across combined Pro/Pro-Am and Am/Lamborghini Cup races. Qualifying opens Saturday morning, with the first Am/LB Cup race at 13:45 and the Pro/Pro-Am event at 16:20. Sunday closes the season: Am/LB Cup at 12:15, final Pro/Pro-Am at 14:30. All of it will be livestreamed on the Lamborghini Squadra Corse YouTube channel.
Europe: Penalties, Contact, and a Champion Who Admits He Lacked Outright Pace
Adam Putera’s European Pro title is one of the more interesting championship campaigns in recent Super Trofeo memory, primarily because Putera himself seems almost surprised by it. His words after clinching the crown for VSR:
“Coming into the season, I knew I was probably the least experienced driver in Europe, and maybe we didn’t have the outright pace all year. But we maximised every race we could, learned as much as possible and it paid off in the end.”
Putera’s #6 VSR Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 moved into the Pro points lead after Race 1 at Misano, though not because he won. The guesting Leipert Motorsport entry of Brendon Leitch took the victory despite receiving a five-second penalty, while the title-contending Oregon Team car of Josef Knopp and Enzo Geraci was hit with its own five-second penalty for contact with a backmarker, dropping them to seventh and costing them the championship lead.
Race 2 carried the same theme. With just six points separating Putera and the Knopp/Geraci pairing, Putera got ahead early and handed the car to co-driver Paul Levet. Another five-second penalty followed, but Levet brought the car home in eighth, enough to seal the title. Leitch and Nicolas Stati dominated both races as guest entries. The fastest car on the weekend didn’t factor into the championship, which tells you everything about how the Super Trofeo rewards racecraft over single-lap heroics.
The Am class fight was even tighter. Massimo Ciglia and Pietro Perolini (Oregon Team) clinched the title by a single point over VSR’s Stéphane Tribaudini and Piergiacomo Randazzo, producing a late surge in Race 2 to secure the position they needed. Karim Ojjeh (Rexal Villorba Corse) wrapped up the Lamborghini Cup title before Race 1 even started, courtesy of the extra point for pole position.
A vibrant red and green Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 leads the pack around a challenging track turn.
North America: Wayne Taylor Racing’s Century Mark and a Pro-Am Finish for the Ages
Wayne Taylor Racing’s dominance in the North American championship produced a stat line worth noting. Hampus Ericsson and Danny Formal wrapped up the Pro title with a race to spare after winning Race 1 at Misano, and that victory was also WTR’s 100th Super Trofeo race win. For Formal, it represents a third Pro title. For Ericsson, competing in his first American season, it validates an immediate adaptation to a new team and continent.
The real drama played out in the classes below, where the one-point pattern struck again. The Pro-Am title fight between Conrad Geis/Jason Hart (TR3 Racing) and Darius Trinka/Tadas Karlinskas went to the wire. Karlinskas and Trinka entered the final race with a three-point cushion and led on either side of the pit window. Hart took over from Geis and produced a remarkable charge, catching and passing Karlinskas under braking for turn eight with just 12 minutes remaining. Even then, the positions on track would have given Karlinskas and Trinka the title by one point. Nico Jamin (Ansa Motorsports) changed everything by passing Karlinskas with two laps to go, dropping him to third and handing the championship to Geis and Hart by that same one-point margin.
WTR’s Glenn McGee and Graham Doyle secured the Am title with a second-place finish in the finale, while Lindsay Brewer and Jem Hepworth took a well-earned Am race victory after early leader Mateo Siderman received a penalty for contact with his own teammate on the opening lap.
A pit crew member intently watches two Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 race cars speed past on the pit lane.
Asia: A Spinning Start, a Gearbox Failure, and a Champion Who Won Eight of Twelve Races
Alex Denning and Charles Leong Hon Chio (SJM Theodore Racing) put together the most statistically dominant campaign of any 2025 continental series, winning eight of twelve Asian Pro class races. Denning’s Race 1 at Misano was typical: he seized the lead from pole-sitter Nicolas Stati on the rolling start, opened an eight-second gap in the first stint, and Leong managed the advantage to the flag.
Race 2 added chaos. Pro-Am points leader Qikuan Cao was sent spinning on the opening lap after contact from Lu Zhiwei, who retired with damage. A safety car bunched the field, and the subsequent pit window brought further drama when Chris van der Drift hit the rear of Leitch at turn 10, earning a 10-second penalty. Jonathan Cecotto (BC Racing), who missed Race 1 entirely due to a gearbox failure, grabbed the lead from Denning and looked set to win before Denning repassed through lapped traffic on the final lap. Eight from twelve. Denning’s post-season quote captures the partnership:
“Me and Charles are two very different people, but we’ve made it work; we’ve helped each other and to win the championship together has been just reward for our efforts.”
Despite their opening-lap incident, Cao and Liu Kai Shun (LK Motorsport by Climax Racing) held on to win the Pro-Am title by three points. Suttilick “Bobby” Buncharoen clinched the Am crown in Race 1, and Supachai Weeraborwornpong took Lamborghini Cup honors.
A black and blue Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 leads another race car on the track, heading towards the 2025 World Finals.
The Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2: Still the Common Denominator
Every result above was produced by the same machine: the Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2. The naturally aspirated V10 remains the heart of Lamborghini’s customer racing pyramid, and the single-make format is what makes these championships genuinely interesting. When every car on the grid is mechanically identical, the variables shrink to driver skill, team strategy, and pit-stop execution. The penalty-laden results from Misano prove the point: multiple championships were decided not by who was fastest, but by who avoided the stewards’ attention.
The Super Trofeo’s multi-class structure, blending Pro, Pro-Am, Am, and Lamborghini Cup entries on the same grid, creates layered complexity that pure single-class series lack. A Pro driver navigating through Am traffic while managing a one-point championship gap is a fundamentally different challenge than racing in clean air against peers of identical ability. The Temerario GT3 program signals a turbocharged, hybrid future for Lamborghini’s racing efforts, which makes the current EVO2 the last chapter of a specific era.
What the 2025 World Finals Mean for Squadra Corse
The World Finals format is straightforward: two qualifying sessions and two races across the combined classes, with continental champions racing alongside each other for the first time all season. Lamborghini says the 2025 event included a parade of 80 customer road cars and track sessions for the Essenza SCV12, alongside official Squadra Corse factory drivers.
For anyone following the Super Trofeo as a competitive series, the World Finals present a genuine question: does continental form translate to global performance? Denning’s eight-win Asian campaign looks dominant on paper, but the European and North American grids produced tighter competition and arguably deeper talent pools. WTR’s momentum after five consecutive wins to close the North American season makes Formal and Ericsson obvious favorites. Putera’s consistency-over-speed approach will face a different test when the field is entirely new.
Past World Finals venues include Vallelunga, Sepang, Sebring, Valencia, Imola, Jerez, and Portimao. Misano, which hosted the regular-season finale, gives teams that raced there during the continental rounds a data advantage. Monza will host the 2026 edition from October 21 to 23, marking the first time the event visits that circuit. Whether the series will still be running the Huracán EVO2 by then, or whether the transition to a Temerario-based platform will begin, remains unconfirmed.
The grid of Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 race cars surges forward at the start of an exciting race.
The Storylines to Watch at Misano
The matchups to track are clear: Formal and Ericsson defending WTR’s honor against the combined European and Asian talent, the Am class showdown between Ciglia/Perolini and whoever emerges from the other grids, and whether Denning can replicate his dominant Asian form against stiffer opposition.
The 2025 season illustrates both the appeal and the reality of the Super Trofeo as a competitive entry point. The appeal is obvious: identical machinery, global competition, a legitimate pathway into GT3 racing, and a World Finals that feels like a proper event. The reality, visible in every penalty, contact incident, and one-point margin from this season, is that the competition is serious. Amateur and Pro-Am classes are not participation trophies. Drivers lose championships on pit-stop timing, steward decisions, and split-second judgment calls. What the 2025 season confirms is that the series delivers genuine competitive value, and this weekend at Misano is where it all converges.
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