49 Huracán EVO2s at Spa: Lamborghini’s One-Make Series Celebrates 60 Years Where It All Began

Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe Returns to Its Spiritual Home

Forty-nine identical Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 race cars will line up at Spa-Francorchamps this weekend for Round 2 of the 2023 Super Trofeo Europe season. The setting could hardly be more fitting. Lamborghini says Spa is the only circuit to appear on the series calendar every single year since the championship launched in 2009, making the Belgian Ardennes venue something close to a spiritual home for the program. Two 50-minute races, both requiring mandatory pit stops, will run as support events to the prestigious Spa 24 Hours.

The 7.004-kilometer layout rewards bravery and precision in roughly equal measure. Eau Rouge, Blanchimont, and the long Kemmel Straight expose every weakness in car setup and driver nerve, which is precisely why a one-make series thrives here. When every car on the grid produces the same power, runs the same Hankook tires, and carries the same aerodynamic package, Spa becomes a pure distillation of talent, racecraft, and team strategy. That purity is the entire point of the Super Trofeo concept, and few tracks illustrate it more clearly.

Timed track action opens on Thursday with two one-hour free practice sessions. Qualifying follows on Friday morning, with the first race scheduled for 16:35 on Friday afternoon and the second at 10:35 on Saturday, just ahead of the 24 Hours main event. Both races will stream live on the Lamborghini Squadra Corse YouTube channel and Facebook page.

A Small Orange Detail Tells a Bigger Story

Look closely at the side mirrors of the EVO2 cars this weekend and you will spot a vibrant orange cap bearing a “60 Anniversario” logo. It is a small detail, easy to miss in the blur of a 260-km/h pass through Eau Rouge, but it carries real weight. Lamborghini turned 60 in 2023, and the company chose to thread that anniversary through its entire motorsport program rather than confine it to a single special-edition road car or a corporate gala.

One report indicates that 2023 also marked the 10th anniversary of Lamborghini Squadra Corse, the dedicated motorsport division responsible for everything from the Super Trofeo series to the SC63 hypercar prototype that would debut later that year at Goodwood. The overlap of those two milestones gave the season an unusual sense of occasion. Squadra Corse was not simply running another championship round at Spa. It was demonstrating that Lamborghini’s racing infrastructure, built over a decade of sustained investment, now operates at a scale and professionalism that rivals any manufacturer program in GT racing.

The Super Trofeo series spans three continental championships (Europe, Asia, and North America), each typically consisting of six double-header weekends, and culminates in a World Final where drivers from all regions compete for a global title. That global footprint, combined with the anniversary branding visible on the cars, signals how central customer racing became to Lamborghini’s identity. The 60 Anniversario logo on a race car mirror is not decorative nostalgia. It is a statement about where the brand intends to compete for the next 60 years.

The Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2: A V10 Race Car Built for Equal Competition

The Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 sits at the sharp end of Lamborghini’s customer racing ladder. Introduced in 2022 as the latest evolution of the platform, it replaced the earlier EVO specification and continued a lineage stretching back to the Gallardo-based cars that populated the series in its earliest seasons. The concept is deliberately simple: give every team the same weapon and let driving ability decide the result.

According to one source, the EVO2 uses a 5.2-liter naturally aspirated V10 producing 620 horsepower, paired with a sequential six-speed X-Trac gearbox and racing ABS. A hybrid carbon and aluminum chassis keeps weight down, while the aerodynamic package, with its aggressive front splitter and prominent rear wing, generates meaningful downforce without the complexity of active aero systems. Hankook supplies the spec tire across the entire grid.

What makes this relevant beyond pure motorsport is the philosophy it embodies. In an era when road-going Lamborghinis are transitioning to hybrid powertrains (the Revuelto’s V12 hybrid, the Temerario’s twin-turbo V8 hybrid), the Super Trofeo EVO2 remains a monument to the naturally aspirated V10. Every team on the grid hears the same unfiltered engine note screaming past 8,000 rpm, and every driver manages the same rear-wheel-drive dynamics through Spa’s fast sweepers. For enthusiasts who worry about what electrification means for the character of Lamborghini’s track cars, the EVO2 offers reassurance: the old-school approach still works brilliantly in competition.

Ownership circles on forums like Lamborghini-Talk tend to view the Super Trofeo cars with a mix of reverence and curiosity. Multiple enthusiasts describe the race-spec Huracáns as among the most visceral expressions of the platform, stripped of road-car compromise and focused entirely on lap time. A few even end up titled for road use in permissive jurisdictions, which says something about the desirability of the package even outside a racing context.

Why Spa Punishes and Rewards in Equal Measure

Spa-Francorchamps is not simply another stop on the calendar. The 7-kilometer layout through the Ardennes forest combines high-speed compressions, blind crests, and abrupt elevation changes that reward committed driving and punish hesitation. For a rear-wheel-drive, naturally aspirated race car like the EVO2, the track presents a specific set of challenges that differ markedly from the smoother, flatter circuits that dominate modern motorsport schedules.

Consider the run from La Source hairpin through Eau Rouge and up the Raidillon. The compression at the bottom loads the rear suspension violently before the car climbs steeply, demanding precise throttle application from a V10 that delivers its power without the progressive cushion of turbo lag. Get it right and you carry enormous speed onto the Kemmel Straight. Get it wrong and the consequences are immediate. In a one-make series where lap times are separated by tenths, the ability to commit fully through that sequence often determines qualifying positions and race outcomes.

The weather adds another variable. The Ardennes is notorious for localized rain, where one sector can be soaking wet while another remains dry. Tire strategy becomes critical, and team communication matters enormously. Lamborghini says the races include mandatory pit stops, which means driver pairings must also manage the handover cleanly. All of this makes Spa the kind of venue where a well-prepared Am-class team can occasionally embarrass a disorganized Pro entry, and where championship leads can evaporate in a single lap.

Championship Battles Across Four Classes

The Super Trofeo Europe splits its field into four classes (Pro, Pro-Am, Am, and Lamborghini Cup), and each arrived at Spa with its own storylines from the opening round at Paul Ricard.

In the Pro category, Lamborghini says Oregon Team’s Marzio Moretti and Sebastian Balthasar lead with 28 points after collecting a win and a second place in France. They hold a seven-point margin over VS Racing’s Mattia Michelotto and Gilles Stadsbader. Leipert Motorsport’s Brendon Leitch sits third, just one point further back, after a pair of third-place finishes as a solo driver. Iron Lynx’s Ugo de Wilde and 17-year-old Rodrigo Testa de Sousa are also within striking distance, and de Wilde will be racing on home soil. Two new entries join the Pro field at Spa: local driver Cedric Wauters with TotaalPlan Racing, and the Chinese-Malaysian pairing of Han Songting and Melvin Moh at Leipert Motorsport.

The Pro-Am class produced the most dramatic racing at Paul Ricard. Target Racing’s Alex Au and Frederik Schandorff lead the standings, but VS Racing’s Loris Spinelli and Andrzej Lewandowski trail by only three points. Iron Lynx cousins Emanuele Zonzini and Emanuel Colombini sit third, separated from the teams behind them by a single point.

In the Am class, Boutsen VDS’s Pierre Feligioni and Renaud Kuppens hold a slender one-point advantage over Egyptian newcomer Ibrahim Badawy. Leipert Motorsport’s Gabriel Rindone recovered from a collision in race one at Paul Ricard to win race two, putting himself within nine points of the lead.

The Lamborghini Cup belongs, for now, to Iron Lynx’s father-and-son team of Donovan and Luciano Privitelio, the only double winners from the opening weekend. Four-time champion Gerard van der Horst, who managed only a pair of fourth places in France, will be looking to mount a serious challenge at a circuit he knows well.

From Super Trofeo to GT3: Why This Series Matters Beyond the Podium

The Super Trofeo series exists for reasons that go well beyond weekend entertainment. It functions as Lamborghini’s primary customer racing ladder, a structured pathway that allows gentleman drivers and aspiring professionals to develop their skills in identical machinery before potentially stepping up to GT3 competition. Ferrari runs a similar concept with its Challenge series, and Porsche fields the Carrera Cup, but Lamborghini’s program carries a particular significance right now because of what comes next.

According to Autoblog, Lamborghini unveiled the Temerario GT3 at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed as the brand’s first competition car fully designed, developed, and built in-house. That car will eventually replace the Huracán GT3 Evo2 in customer racing, and the drivers cutting their teeth in the Super Trofeo today are the same people who will populate those future GT3 grids. The pipeline matters. A strong Super Trofeo field, with 49 cars at a single European round, demonstrates that Lamborghini’s customer base is deep enough to sustain a competitive transition from one platform to the next.

For prospective buyers watching from the grandstands or streaming at home, the practical takeaway is straightforward. The Super Trofeo is the most accessible entry point into Lamborghini’s racing world. Lamborghini has not publicly disclosed the full cost of a season’s participation, but the series provides the car, the technical support, and the competitive framework. What it asks in return is commitment, seat time, and the willingness to be measured against 48 other drivers in exactly the same machine. Few experiences in motorsport offer that level of purity, and fewer still come wrapped in a naturally aspirated V10 soundtrack that Lamborghini’s hybrid future will inevitably reshape.

The 60 Anniversario branding on those side mirrors at Spa is a quiet acknowledgment that this chapter of Lamborghini’s racing story is approaching its final pages. The Huracán platform, in both road and race trim, represents the last generation of pure V10 Lamborghinis. What replaces it will be turbocharged, hybridized, and almost certainly faster in absolute terms. Whether it will carry the same emotional charge through Eau Rouge at 8,500 rpm is a question the Temerario GT3 will eventually need to answer. For now, 49 cars at Spa offer a compelling argument that the old way still works.

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