A Silver Cup Championship and a Mugello Double: Lamborghini’s Weekend Haul
On a single October weekend, the Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2 proved it still has plenty of fight left. At Barcelona, GRT Grasser Racing Team sealed the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup Silver Cup championship. Some 800 kilometers south at Mugello, VS Racing’s Mattia Michelotto and Edoardo Liberati grabbed a victory and a second place in the Italian GT Championship Sprint Cup. Two circuits, two countries, and Lamborghini customer teams collecting silverware at both.
The GRT trio of Glenn van Berlo, Benjamin Hites, and Clemens Schmid needed a podium finish and a result ahead of their nearest championship rivals to clinch the Silver Cup crown. They delivered more than that. Both GRT Huracán GT3 EVO2s dominated the combined qualifying session, filling the front row for the three-hour endurance race. The #85 car qualified on pole and finished second, while the sister #58 machine of Sam Neary, Fabrizio Crestani, and Gerhard Tweraser claimed the class victory, completing a Lamborghini one-two that removed any remaining arithmetic from the title fight.
For readers less familiar with the GT World Challenge Europe structure: the Silver Cup sits within the broader Endurance Cup championship and is reserved for driver lineups classified below the top professional tier. It rewards consistency across a full season of multi-hour races at circuits like Spa, Paul Ricard, Monza, and Barcelona. Winning it requires a car that gentlemen drivers and silver-rated professionals can trust over long stints, not just raw qualifying pace. That distinction matters, because it speaks directly to the Huracán GT3 EVO2’s core design philosophy and to the broader argument these late-career titles are making about Lamborghini’s naturally aspirated racing platform.
Mugello: Michelotto and Liberati Close the Gap in the Sprint Cup
At Mugello, the story played out with a different rhythm but an equally compelling result. Michelotto secured pole position for the opening one-hour race on Saturday morning and led comfortably through multiple safety car interventions. After handing the car to Liberati, the #63 VS Racing Huracán dropped to fourth, but a 60-second penalty issued to the leading VSR Lamborghini of Artem Petrov and Riccardo Cazzaniga reshuffled the order. On the final lap, Baptiste Moulin in the sister VSR car allowed Liberati through for second, a team-orders moment that secured critical championship points.
Sunday’s second race proved even more dramatic. Michelotto and Liberati started from second on the grid. Liberati held position through the opening stint before handing over to Michelotto, who emerged from the pit cycle in second behind Ferrari’s Stuart White. With less than nine minutes remaining, Michelotto took the lead and held it to the flag, winning by approximately 3.5 seconds.
The result leaves Michelotto and Liberati five points behind the leading BMW pairing with two one-hour races at Imola still to run. That deficit is entirely manageable, and the momentum clearly sits with the Lamborghini crew heading into the finale. Taken alongside the Barcelona title, the Mugello weekend underscored a pattern: the Huracán GT3 EVO2 keeps delivering results across different formats and different teams, even as its competitive lifecycle enters its closing stages.
A striking green Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo race car navigates a sharp turn on the circuit.
Why the Huracán GT3 EVO2 Keeps Winning in Its Final Seasons
The competitive longevity of the Huracán GT3 EVO2 deserves closer examination, because it explains why results like Barcelona and Mugello keep coming. Introduced by Squadra Corse in 2022 and based on the Huracán STO road car, the EVO2 brought revised aerodynamics, an updated intake system, and improved electrical driver aids including traction control and ABS systems specifically calibrated for low-grip conditions. That last detail is easy to overlook, but it explains a lot about why customer teams keep choosing the platform.
GT3 racing lives and dies on accessibility. The cars need to be fast enough to win in professional hands and forgiving enough that a gentleman driver can complete a double stint at Spa in the rain without binning it into Eau Rouge. The Huracán GT3 EVO2 threads that needle with a naturally aspirated V10 that delivers predictable power and a rear-wheel-drive chassis that rewards smooth inputs. In an era where turbocharged GT3 competitors can catch drivers out with sudden torque spikes, that linear throttle response remains a genuine competitive advantage during driver changes. It is no coincidence that the Silver Cup, a category built around mixed-ability lineups, became one of the platform’s strongest hunting grounds.
One report indicates the Huracán GT3 EVO can be purchased as a standalone car or as an upgrade kit for existing Huracán GT3 chassis. That upgrade path kept the platform’s grid numbers healthy across multiple seasons, because teams could evolve their existing investment rather than write a check for an entirely new car. It also meant Squadra Corse accumulated a massive data set from customer operations worldwide, feeding continuous small improvements back into the program.
The Huracán GT3 lineage, across its various evolution steps, accumulated over 40 international titles according to Lamborghini’s own accounting. Whether you take that number at face value or discount it slightly for the way manufacturers count regional championships, the volume of success is difficult to argue with.
Squadra Corse’s Customer Program: The Infrastructure Behind the Trophies
Championship-winning race cars do not operate in isolation. Behind GRT Grasser Racing Team’s Silver Cup title and VS Racing’s sprint results sits Lamborghini’s Squadra Corse customer racing infrastructure, which provides technical assistance, spare parts logistics, and on-track engineering support tailored to each team’s needs. That support reportedly extends from initial shakedowns through to race weekends, and it is a key reason the Huracán GT3 EVO2 has remained competitive so deep into its lifecycle.
GRT Grasser Racing Team, based in Austria, exemplifies how this relationship works. The team ran two Huracán GT3 EVO2s at Barcelona and extracted enough performance from both to lock out the front row in qualifying, a result that reflects not just driver talent but also deep mechanical preparation and setup knowledge built through years of working within Lamborghini’s ecosystem. The #58 car’s class victory at Barcelona represented the team’s third win of the season and sixth podium in five races.
This kind of customer team consistency matters more than any single headline result. Porsche and Ferrari both run extensive GT3 customer programs, and the competition for team loyalty is fierce. When a privateer team evaluates which manufacturer to partner with, they weigh the car’s raw pace against the quality of factory support, parts availability, and the manufacturer’s willingness to help solve problems at the track. Lamborghini’s ability to retain teams like GRT and attract operations like VS Racing and Barwell Motorsport, a long-standing customer competing in British GT and GT World Challenge Europe, suggests the support package is competitive with the best in the paddock. The Huracán’s late-career title haul is as much a testament to that infrastructure as it is to the car’s engineering.
Two victorious drivers proudly display their trophies on the podium after a successful race.
The Temerario GT3 Looms: What These Final Titles Mean
Every championship the Huracán GT3 EVO2 wins now carries a bittersweet footnote. The platform’s competitive lifecycle is winding down, and Lamborghini’s next GT3 contender, the Temerario GT3, represents a fundamental architectural shift from a naturally aspirated V10 to a twin-turbo V8. One report indicates the Temerario GT3 made its European competition debut at Paul Ricard in the opening round of the 2026 GT World Challenge Europe season, meaning the transition from one generation to the next is already underway.
For customer teams, this changeover is the most consequential decision they will face in the next two seasons. The Huracán’s V10 character, its linear power delivery and distinctive engine note, defined how drivers approached the car. A turbocharged replacement alters the fundamental driving experience: different torque curves, different heat management, different turbo lag characteristics that drivers and engineers need to learn. Lamborghini reportedly plans to concentrate its Temerario GT3 support on fewer, more performance-oriented teams, prioritizing quality over quantity. That strategic shift could mean tighter factory integration for the teams that make the cut, but it also signals a more selective approach than the broad customer base the Huracán program cultivated.
Viewed in that light, these late-career Huracán GT3 EVO2 championships are not just victory laps. They represent the final data points in an argument about whether Lamborghini’s naturally aspirated racing philosophy can remain competitive against newer, turbocharged rivals from Ferrari, Porsche, and Mercedes-AMG. The Silver Cup title at Barcelona and the Italian GT Sprint Cup fight at Mugello suggest the answer, at least for now, is emphatically yes.
Lamborghini’s relationship with SRO Motorsports Group, which organizes the GT World Challenge, stretches back to the mid-1990s when SRO was established to oversee the Lamborghini Supertrophy. That history gives the brand institutional knowledge within the series that newer entrants lack. As the Temerario GT3 begins its own competitive journey, it inherits not just the Huracán’s championship record but also decades of accumulated operational relationships, data, and paddock credibility. Whether the new car can match the old one’s ability to win titles in the hands of customer teams will be the defining question of Lamborghini’s next racing chapter.
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