A Deep Field Meets a Resurfaced Circuit
Wayne Taylor Racing arrives at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca for Rounds 3 and 4 of the 2025 Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America season carrying five wins from six possible at Sebring, a clean sweep of the Pro class by Danny Formal and Hampus Ericsson among them. The question now is whether that dominance survives a venue change that alters nearly every variable the team optimized for in Florida.
Lamborghini says 41 cars across four classes will take the grid in Monterey, with ProAm (12), Am (11), and LB Cup (10) all reaching double-digit entries and the Pro class returning its full eight-car contingent from Sebring. The field is stacked, and the circuit itself has changed. Laguna Seca underwent a full repaving prior to 2024, transforming what was once a dusty, abrasive, tire-eating surface into something significantly smoother. For teams that built their Sebring setups around managing degradation on rough pavement, the new Laguna Seca demands a recalibration of approach. Muscle memory from previous visits may not translate cleanly.
That tension between proven Sebring form and an unfamiliar version of a familiar track defines the entire weekend. Wayne Taylor Racing, representing Lamborghini Palm Beach, dropped only the ProAm class victory in Round 2 at Sebring, losing it in the closing laps. Everywhere else, the operation was comprehensive. Whether that comprehensiveness holds at a circuit where other teams have historically thrived is the central storyline heading into Monterey.
Formal and Ericsson: The Pro Benchmark After Sebring
Danny Formal and Hampus Ericsson set the standard in the Pro class at Sebring in their No. 1 Huracán Super Trofeo Evo2. Lamborghini says the pair led both practice sessions, scored both poles, won both 50-minute races, and collected the maximum 32 points available across the weekend, split as 15 for a win and 1 for pole in each race. That is about as clean a two-race sweep as the format allows.
Ericsson’s backstory adds an interesting layer. The younger brother of 2022 Indianapolis 500 winner Marcus Ericsson, Hampus made his Super Trofeo North America debut at Sebring after racing solo in Europe the previous year. The North American format introduced him to pit stops for the first time.
“Sebring was my first pit stop ever as I was solo driving last year in Europe. Danny had done a great job saving the tires, so I could do whatever I wanted, basically.”
He also offered a candid read on the difference between European and American circuits, calling Sebring “so rough” and praising its character compared to the smoother tracks he knew from across the Atlantic. Laguna Seca’s newly repaved surface will feel closer to those European references, which could play to his strengths, though whether that advantage is real or theoretical remains to be seen on track.
The Pro class returns with the same eight-car entry it fielded at Sebring. Will Bamber and Elias de la Torre IV, who took a pair of runner-up finishes in their No. 29 TR3 Racing Huracán representing Lamborghini Miami, look like the most immediate threat to the Wayne Taylor Racing pair. ANSA Motorsports enters with Colin Queen and Enzo Geraci in the No. 4 Huracán backed by Lamborghini Broward, looking to improve on a pair of fifth-place finishes at the opener.
ANSA’s Monterey History and the Teams Looking to Unseat WTR
Sebring form is one thing. Laguna Seca carries its own competitive history, and it does not belong to Wayne Taylor Racing. ANSA Motorsports swept Monterey in 2024 with Nico Jamin and Kiko Porto dominating the Pro class. That pairing no longer races together in 2025, but the ANSA operation knows this circuit and what it takes to win here. In a one-make series where the cars are mechanically identical, institutional knowledge of a track’s quirks, from the blind crest into the Corkscrew to the way temperatures shift through the day in Monterey, can translate directly into qualifying pace and race-day confidence.
World Speed Motorsports brings a geographic edge. Based in nearby Sonoma, California, the team fields its No. 22 Huracán representing Lamborghini Hawaii and will benefit from familiarity with the conditions and paddock logistics. Those small operational advantages matter more than most fans realize when every car on the grid shares the same mechanical specification.
Nick Persing, driving Wayne Taylor Racing’s fourth car (the No. 8 Huracán), won here in ProAm last year. His return to a circuit where he already found success gives WTR an additional anchor in the support classes. Still, the team did not sweep Monterey in 2024 the way it swept Sebring this year, and the rivals lining up behind it have reason to believe the venue change works in their favor.
ProAm, Am, and LB Cup: Where the Grid Gets Deep
The real depth of this Laguna Seca entry shows up outside the Pro class, and it is in these categories that the weekend’s competitive picture grows most unpredictable.
ProAm brings 12 cars, led by championship leaders Darius Trinka and Tadas Karlinskas. The Lithuanian cousins, who entered Super Trofeo as late additions, delivered a third and a first at Sebring in their No. 11 Kaizen Autosport Huracán representing Lamborghini Charlotte. Flying Lizard Motorsports, backed by Lamborghini Newport Beach, is a multi-time winner at WeatherTech Raceway and took a ProAm victory here last year with Andy Lee and Slade Stewart.
The Am class fields 11 cars. Wayne Taylor Racing’s Graham Doyle and Glenn McGee collected 31 points at Sebring with two wins and a pole in their No. 10 Huracán, falling just one point short of matching Formal and Ericsson’s maximum haul. RAFA Racing draws attention for fielding the all-female lineup of Jem Hepworth and Lindsay Brewer in the No. 2 Huracán representing Lamborghini Austin, a pairing that earned a third-place finish in Am Round 2 at Sebring. Additional Sebring Am podium finishers David Staab (No. 48, Lamborghini Palm Beach) and the Jackson Lee/AJ Muss pairing (No. 88, Lamborghini Greenwich) round out the contenders.
The LB Cup class tells the clearest growth story of the weekend. Ten cars are entered at Laguna Seca, up from six at Sebring. That kind of jump within a single season stop signals genuine interest from new participants. Nick Groat, who swept Sebring in the No. 57 One Motorsports Huracán representing Lamborghini Newport Beach, leads the class standings heading into Monterey.
For anyone curious about the dealership names attached to every entry, this is one of the distinctive features of the Super Trofeo ecosystem. Each car carries a Lamborghini dealership affiliation, from Palm Beach to Hawaii to Greenwich, tying the racing program directly to the retail network. Dealerships invest in these programs partly for brand visibility and partly because the customers who buy race entries often buy road cars, too. It creates a feedback loop between the showroom and the paddock that few other one-make series replicate as explicitly.
Laguna Seca’s New Surface and What It Changes
Understanding why the venue change matters so much requires appreciating just how different Laguna Seca feels after its pre-2024 repave. The old surface was famously punishing: abrasive, dusty, and hard on tires. Drivers who excelled here often did so by managing degradation better than their rivals, nursing rubber through the final laps while others fell off pace.
The smoother asphalt changes that calculus. Tire management still matters in any 50-minute race, but the surface no longer acts as the great equalizer it once was. Ericsson, whose European experience came on generally smoother circuits, noted the contrast when describing Sebring‘s roughness. Laguna Seca’s repaved surface may feel more familiar to him than the old version would have.
What the repave does not change is the layout itself. The elevation changes remain dramatic, the Corkscrew still demands commitment, and the blind entries on several corners still reward drivers who trust their marks. For a one-make field of 41 identical Huracán Super Trofeo Evo2 machines, the track’s geometry becomes the primary differentiator once the surface variable is reduced. Driver skill, team preparation, and setup choices carry even more weight when the pavement is no longer actively working against everyone. That is precisely the kind of environment where Wayne Taylor Racing’s operational depth could prove decisive, or where a team like ANSA, with fresh Monterey experience on the new surface, could exploit its local knowledge.
What to Watch at Monterey
The practical question for anyone following the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America season is straightforward: does Wayne Taylor Racing’s Sebring dominance carry forward, or does the shift to Laguna Seca reset the competitive order? Sebring’s rough, demanding surface rewarded a particular kind of preparation. Laguna Seca’s smoother track, combined with its unique elevation profile, could shuffle the deck entirely.
ANSA Motorsports proved last year that Monterey is its territory. Flying Lizard Motorsports also won here in 2024. Wayne Taylor Racing took a ProAm class victory through Persing but did not sweep the weekend the way it did at Sebring. With 41 cars across four classes, upsets are not just possible but likely in at least some categories.
The LB Cup class deserves particular attention. Growing from six entries to 10 between Sebring and Laguna Seca suggests the entry-level tier of Lamborghini’s customer racing ladder is attracting new participants at a healthy rate. For Lamborghini Squadra Corse, which organizes the series, that kind of organic growth in the grassroots class matters as much as headline results in Pro. A healthy LB Cup feeds future ProAm and Am entries, which in turn sustains the entire pyramid.
Races stream on Peacock, IMSA.TV, and the IMSA and Lamborghini Squadra Corse YouTube channels. For Lamborghini enthusiasts who want to see what the Huracán Super Trofeo Evo2 looks and sounds like in anger, with 41 of them funneling into the Corkscrew, this is one of the better weekends on the calendar to tune in.
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