How Bonaldi Motorsport Turned a Botched Rival Pit Stop Into a Barcelona Title Sweep

Bonaldi Motorsport Seals the Pro Title with a Barcelona Double

Loris Spinelli and Max Weering wrapped up the 2022 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe Pro championship at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya on Saturday, then went out and won the second race on Sunday for good measure. Starting sixth on the grid in the #61 Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2, the pair capitalized on a costly pit lane delay for the leading Target Racing entry to claim their eighth victory of the season, completing a weekend sweep that left no statistical doubt about who owned this championship.

The details of how they clawed from sixth to first in 50 minutes tell a story about patience, pit strategy, and the kind of opportunism that separates consistent champions from occasional race winners. The title itself was already secure after Saturday’s Race 1 victory. Sunday’s encore was, in Spinelli’s own words, partly a test session: “Even though we won the championship yesterday, today the goal was the same, to win the race and to fight our best. We just used the rest of the race as a test, so we could try more things on the car.” Using a live race as a development opportunity while still finishing first captures the gap between Bonaldi and the rest of the Pro field in 2022.

Race 2: Safety Cars, a Slow Pit Stop, and the Moment Everything Flipped

Barcelona’s second race was chaotic from the formation lap onward. Target Racing’s Marzio Moretti led from his first Super Trofeo pole position, holding the front through two early safety car interventions that compressed the field and wiped out whatever gaps the leaders had built.

Both neutralizations stemmed from a messy opening lap. Rexal FFF Racing’s Marc Rostan spun at turn four, while Leipert Motorsport’s David-Mihai Serban was turned around at turn 10 by newcomer Arturs Batraks of RD Signs Racing, who later received a 10-second post-race penalty. Rostan then triggered the second safety car by hitting the barrier at turn five. For Weering, stuck in traffic during the first stint, the interruptions only compounded his frustration. “I was stuck in a lot of traffic and there were the two safety cars too which made it a little bit difficult,” he explained. “That’s why we made the pit-stop at the first opportunity, to get out of traffic and put Loris in.”

That early pit stop decision turned out to be the race. When Moretti finally came in at the end of the pit window, a slower Am-class car blocked his entry into pit lane, costing Target Racing an estimated five seconds. By the time Milan Teekens emerged in the #54, Spinelli already held the lead. Teekens spent the remaining laps defending second from Daniel Keilwitz rather than chasing the Bonaldi car. Keilwitz, sharing with Lennart Marioneck, claimed his second podium of a strong debut weekend after a decisive pass on BDR Competition’s Amaury Bonduel under braking for turn one following a full course yellow restart.

The sequence illustrates something fundamental about one-make racing: when every car on the grid produces the same power from the same naturally aspirated V10, the margins live in pit lane execution, tire management, and the ability to read a chaotic race in real time. Bonaldi read this one perfectly.

Anatomy of a Championship: Why Eight Wins in One Season Is Extraordinary

Eight victories from a season spanning six double-header rounds represents a level of dominance that goes beyond raw pace. In a spec series where every team runs the same Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 chassis, sustained winning demands driver consistency, crew discipline during mandatory pit stops, and strategic flexibility when races go sideways. Barcelona proved Bonaldi had all three.

The team’s approach in 2022 extended beyond the Pro class. Bonaldi fielded competitive driver pairings across multiple categories, including Pro-Am and Am, which meant their engineering staff gathered data and race intelligence from several cars simultaneously. That breadth of information fed back into setup decisions and strategic calls for the lead Pro entry. Weering’s comment about the Barcelona pit stop is revealing: the team chose to pit at the first opportunity specifically to clear traffic, accepting the risk of a longer second stint in exchange for clean air. It worked because Spinelli’s outright pace on fresh tires was strong enough to build a buffer before the leaders pitted.

The Super Trofeo Europe series, established in 2009, runs at some of Europe’s most demanding circuits, with Spa-Francorchamps the only venue to have appeared on every edition of the calendar. The competition attracts a mix of professional GT racers and gentleman drivers, and the mandatory driver-swap format in each 50-minute race adds a layer of complexity that pure sprint series lack. Winning once at this level requires a good weekend. Winning eight times requires a program, and Bonaldi’s Barcelona sweep was the clearest proof of how thoroughly they had built one.

Beyond the Pro Class: Am Drama and Lamborghini Cup Battles

The Pro title grabbed the headline, but Barcelona’s second race delivered compelling stories further down the class structure, reinforcing the depth of competition that makes the Super Trofeo format work.

Yury Wagner and Louis Wagner secured their first Am class victory in dramatic fashion, overtaking points leader Andrzej Lewandowski on the final lap. The lead changed hands multiple times after the pit window, with Leipert Motorsport’s Gabriel Rindone, Antonios Vossos, and Cedric Leimer all taking turns at the front before errors shuffled the order. Lewandowski looked set for the win entering the closing laps, but traffic on the final tour opened a door at turn four that Wagner charged through. Lewandowski later received a 10-second penalty and dropped to fourth, adding a bitter postscript to a race he nearly won.

In the Lamborghini Cup, François Grimm of Boutsen Racing took his second victory of the weekend after overtaking early leader Donovan Privitelio following the pit stops. Grimm made his decisive move after a full course yellow restart, taking second and then the lead in quick succession. These lower-class battles matter because they represent the core of what customer racing programs sell: competitive, unpredictable racing where gentleman drivers experience genuine wheel-to-wheel drama in serious machinery. That the same weekend produced a dominant Pro champion and a last-lap Am upset speaks to the health of the series as a whole.

The Huracán EVO2’s Racing Legacy and What Comes Next

Every victory the Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 accumulates now adds to a closing chapter. The Huracán road car was succeeded by the plug-in hybrid Temerario in 2024, and Lamborghini’s racing future points toward the Temerario GT3, which marks Lamborghini’s first entirely in-house designed and built competition car. Where previous Lamborghini race cars relied on external partners for development and construction, the Temerario GT3 keeps everything under Squadra Corse’s roof.

For the Super Trofeo series itself, the transition raises questions Lamborghini has not yet fully answered. The current EVO2’s naturally aspirated 5.2-liter V10 defines the character of the one-make series, delivering a predictable, linear power curve that rewards throttle precision and driver skill over turbo management. Whatever replaces it will need to preserve that competitive balance while reflecting the new powertrain architecture. Ferrari and Porsche both run established one-make series with their own loyal customer bases, and the quality of Lamborghini’s transition will determine whether teams like Bonaldi continue to build their programs around Sant’Agata’s machinery.

Results like Barcelona’s 2022 sweep set a high benchmark. Eight wins, a championship sealed with a round to spare, and a Race 2 comeback driven by strategic clarity rather than luck: that is the standard the next generation of Lamborghini customer racing will be measured against.

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