Bonaldi’s Double at Spa: Victory Through Chaos
Bonaldi Motorsport left Spa-Francorchamps with both trophies from the fourth round of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe, a result that looks clean on paper but was anything but. James Pull and Kelvin Snoeks opened the weekend with a Race 1 win on Friday. On Saturday, teammates Patrick Kujala and Fredrik Blomstedt completed the sweep in Race 2, a contest shaped by rain at the start, a safety car deployment, a violent collision with barriers, and a red flag that ended proceedings eight minutes early.
The collision between Blomstedt and Lucas Mauron brought the race to an immediate halt. Blomstedt’s Huracán struck the barriers, and several track marshals at the impact zone were transported to hospital for medical checks. Lamborghini confirmed that both Blomstedt and all marshals were later declared out of danger. Because the red flag froze the classification on the previous completed lap, Blomstedt and Kujala retained the lead they had built, and the win stood.
It is a peculiar kind of victory, one decided not by a chequered flag but by a timing freeze. For Bonaldi Motorsport, the circumstances hardly diminish the achievement. Kujala’s opening stint in changeable conditions and Blomstedt’s aggressive charge to the front after the pit window were both genuine performances. The crash simply prevented anyone from contesting the result on track.
Rain, Tyre Gambles, and the Safety Car
Spa’s weather did what Spa’s weather always does: it made strategists earn their salaries. Light rain on the formation lap forced race control to deploy the safety car for the start, and several teams scrambled to change their tyre strategy at the last possible moment. The gamble was straightforward in theory but brutal in execution: commit to wets and risk overheating them on a drying track, or start on slicks and pray the rain stayed light.
Dennis Lind, who started from pole in the Target Racing car, chose dry tyres and admitted afterward that he drove with extreme caution in the opening laps. That restraint paid off. Lind held the lead through the worst of the conditions, handed over to Simon Larsson during the pit window, and the pair claimed the PRO-AM class victory. Kujala, starting from the second row, used the damp early phase to challenge for the overall lead before the pit stops reshuffled the order and Blomstedt took over to push for the front.
The Lamborghini Super Trofeo, inaugurated in 2009, runs exclusively with Huracán Super Trofeo EVO machinery, meaning every car on the grid carries identical core hardware. When the equipment is equal, the margins live in tyre choice, pit timing, and driver nerve. Spa’s mixed conditions amplified all three.
Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo EVO race cars compete on the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, showcasing vibrant liveries.
Championship Implications: Imperiale Racing Takes the Lead
Bonaldi took the silverware, but Imperiale Racing may have taken something more valuable. Vito Postiglione and Karol Basz finished third in Race 2, a result that vaulted them to the top of the overall championship standings. Their gain came partly at the expense of Giacomo Altoè, whose Antonelli Motorsport entry slipped to fifth after teammate Daniel Zampieri took over driving duties. That single position cost Altoè the championship lead.
In a series where a maximum of 16 points are available per race, consistency matters more than occasional brilliance. Postiglione and Basz did not win either race at Spa, yet they left Belgium in the strongest position of anyone in the field. The math favours drivers who finish on the podium every weekend over those who alternate between victories and mechanical retirements.
Elsewhere in the standings, Andrej Lewandowski and August MacBeth of VS Racing extended their AM class dominance with another victory, their fourth of the season following wins at Silverstone and Friday’s Race 1 at Spa. Lewandowski remains atop the AM classification. Joseph Collado of AGS Events matched that productivity in the Lamborghini Cup, taking both races to close the gap on championship leader Gerard Van der Horst.
From the Cockpit: What the Drivers Said
“It was a very eventful race that started in the rain. When the track started to improve, I managed to gain some positions. We made an excellent pit-stop and Fredrik took the lead and maintained his position until the accident occurred.”
Kujala’s post-race summary captured the weekend’s character with Finnish understatement: Lind, whose pole-to-victory run in PRO-AM required patience that most racing drivers find physically painful, credited his teammate Larsson for the result’s second half. Lewandowski, leading the AM standings, acknowledged losing positions early before clawing them back with progressively faster laps. Collado, now within realistic striking distance of Van der Horst for the Lamborghini Cup title, framed his double win in purely mathematical terms: “I am pleased to have taken this second win, which allowed me to get closer to Van der Horst in the championship.”
What none of them mentioned, but what anyone who follows one-make racing understands, is how narrow the performance window is in these cars. The Huracán Super Trofeo EVO was specifically designed for this series, and when everyone runs the same naturally aspirated V10 architecture, the difference between a podium and a mid-pack finish often comes down to a single tyre call or half a second of pit-stop execution.
Customer Racing as Brand Proving Ground
Lamborghini’s Super Trofeo program, organized by Squadra Corse, functions as more than a weekend spectacle. It is the competitive ecosystem where the company’s customer-facing motorsport identity gets tested under genuine stress. The series runs across Europe, North America, and Asia, with all regional champions converging at the annual World Finals. All races stream via the Lamborghini Squadra Corse YouTube channel, giving the program visibility well beyond the paddock.
The Huracán Super Trofeo EVO represented the peak of the company’s naturally aspirated V10 racing platform. As Autoblog reported, the recently unveiled Temerario GT3 marks a significant milestone as Lamborghini’s first competition car fully designed, developed, and built entirely in-house, signaling a new chapter for Squadra Corse’s ambitions. The lessons learned running hundreds of identical Huracáns in anger at circuits like Spa, Silverstone, and the Nürburgring fed directly into the engineering philosophy behind that next-generation program.
For prospective competitors and collectors alike, the Super Trofeo cars occupy an interesting niche. While primarily track-only machines, Autoblog noted that some Huracán Super Trofeo examples have been titled for road use by certain dealers, a testament to the car’s desirability beyond its intended purpose. The program’s growth since 2009 suggests the value proposition resonates with the gentleman-driver market that also sustains Ferrari’s Challenge series and Porsche’s Carrera Cup.
Next Stop: Nürburgring and Vallelunga
The penultimate round moves to the Nürburgring on September 15-16, where the championship picture will either clarify or get considerably messier. Postiglione and Basz carry the overall lead, but the margins are tight enough that a single bad qualifying session could reshuffle everything. Lewandowski will defend his AM advantage, and Collado’s pursuit of Van der Horst in the Lamborghini Cup adds a subplot worth tracking.
The European series wraps up at Vallelunga in mid-November, where the final round runs alongside the World Finals. For Bonaldi Motorsport, riding the momentum of a double win at one of Europe’s most demanding circuits, the remaining calendar looks like opportunity. For everyone else, Spa proved that in the Super Trofeo, the weather, the marshals’ flags, and the barriers all get a vote in who takes the championship home.
