The Global Grid: A Three-Continent Super Trofeo Showdown
From September 15 to 18, approximately 80 Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo race cars will compete simultaneously across three continents. The Nürburgring hosts the fifth round of the European series. Fuji Speedway stages the Asian championship’s return to Japan. The Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, runs the penultimate round of the North American season. All on the same weekend.
Lamborghini’s Squadra Corse division deliberately synchronizes its continental series to create a single, unified spectacle, and that coordination reveals something larger about the company’s ambitions. The Blancpain Super Trofeo is not simply a collection of regional race weekends; it is the connective tissue of a global motorsport strategy that binds customer loyalty, driver development, and brand identity into one operation. All three series converge at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit in Valencia on December 1 and 2 for the 2016 World Finals, where the top drivers from each continent race for a global championship. That convergence gives the entire season a narrative arc most one-make series lack, and it gives Lamborghini a stage no showroom event could replicate.
Why Super Trofeo Matters More Than the Lap Times Suggest
One-make racing series serve a dual commercial purpose that rarely gets discussed openly. They sell race cars, and they bind wealthy customers to the brand through shared experience and competition. The Huracán Super Trofeo is a purpose-built, track-only machine, not a converted road car with a roll cage. A gentleman driver who spends a season traveling to circuits across Europe or Asia, surrounded by Lamborghini hospitality, is unlikely to defect to Maranello for the next purchase.
Lamborghini launched the series in 2009 with the Gallardo Super Trofeo, making it the company’s first dedicated one-make championship. The European series came first, followed by Asia in 2012 and North America in 2013. By structuring the program around PRO, PRO-AM, AM, and Lamborghini Cup classes, Squadra Corse created entry points for young professionals chasing a career and for owner-drivers who simply want competitive seat time in a controlled, well-supported environment. The practical effect is a global community of Lamborghini loyalists who race each other, attend the World Finals together, and form the kind of brand attachment no advertising campaign can replicate.
The series also functions as a talent pipeline. Drivers who excel in Super Trofeo can progress toward GT3 competition, a path that becomes even more significant now that Lamborghini’s Temerario GT3 program represents the company’s first competition car fully designed, developed, and built in-house by Squadra Corse, according to Autoblog. Super Trofeo provides the operational infrastructure, the customer relationships, and the driver talent pool that a factory GT3 program needs to function. Ferrari and Porsche built their customer racing ecosystems over decades. Lamborghini compressed the process into seven years and now fields a genuinely global grid.
Continental Rivalries Heading Into the Final Rounds
The tightest championship battle sits in Europe, and it illustrates exactly why the synchronized weekend matters: every point scored at the Nürburgring, Fuji, and COTA directly shapes who arrives in Valencia with a realistic shot at a world title.
Dennis Lind, the young Dane racing for Raton Racing, leads the European PRO class with five victories but holds only a nine-point margin over Vito Postiglione of Imperiale Racing. A single bad weekend could flip that standings page entirely. In the European PRO-AM class, Patrick Kujala and Adrian Amstutz of Bonaldi Motorsport carry an 11-point lead over 18-year-old Rik Breukers of GDL Racing. Le Mans winner Frank Biela will line up with Dörr Motorsport on his home circuit, adding genuine motorsport pedigree to the grid.
North America’s PRO class looks closer to settled. Shinya Michimi, racing for Prestige Performance out of Cincinnati, owns six wins from eight races and a commanding 43-point lead over Emmanuel Anassis. The PRO-AM fight is far tighter: Craig Duerson and Trent Hindman, also with Prestige Performance, lead Brandon Gdovic by just three points heading into COTA. Ross Chouest, meanwhile, remains perfect in the North American Lamborghini Cup, standing on the top step of the podium at every round so far.
In Asia, Toshiyuki Ochiai and co-driver Afiq Yazid aim to defend their lead at Fuji, a circuit the series first visited in 2015 for the continental debut of the Huracán Super Trofeo. Yasuyuki Uchida and Jono Lester sit in second and will have the advantage of Fuji’s long straights and heavy braking zones to mount a challenge.
How Super Trofeo Stacks Up Against Rival Programs
Ferrari Challenge remains the most direct competitor, running a similar multi-continental structure with regional series feeding into a World Finals. Porsche’s Carrera Cup operates on a larger numerical scale in certain markets but lacks the single unified World Finals format that gives Lamborghini’s series its narrative climax. What distinguishes the Super Trofeo is the combination of a purpose-built race car, a clear class structure accommodating drivers from amateur to professional, and the deliberate synchronization of global rounds that turns a regional race weekend into a worldwide event.
That synchronization is the strategic point. By staging all three continental rounds on the same dates, Squadra Corse forces the motorsport world to acknowledge the program’s scale rather than treating each regional series as a footnote. For a brand that built its identity on road-car theater, the quiet expansion of its racing operation into a genuinely global championship may be the most strategically significant thing Squadra Corse does all year.
Where to Watch and What Comes Next
Both European races from the Nürburgring and the North American rounds from COTA will stream live at squadracorse.lamborghini.com/live-streaming. Italian viewers can catch the European rounds on Nuvolari TV. Race replays go up on Lamborghini’s official YouTube channel.
Only one round remains after this weekend before the World Finals in Valencia. Lind’s nine-point cushion in Europe could evaporate in a single race. Michimi’s dominance in North America looks secure, but the PRO-AM and AM classes remain wide open. The weekend at the Nürburgring, Fuji, and COTA is not just another set of races on the calendar. It is the moment when Lamborghini’s bet on a unified global series either tightens the championship battles heading into Valencia or settles them early, and either outcome proves the same thing: the program has grown large enough, and competitive enough, to matter.
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