Leitch Claims European Pro Title in Thrilling Lamborghini Super Trofeo Finale That Crowned Champions Across Three Continents

Vallelunga’s Final Day Settled Three Continental Championships at Once

Autodromo Vallelunga, tucked into the rolling hills north of Rome, played host to the last regular-season round of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo across all three continental series: Europe, North America, and Asia. The compressed format meant that Pro, Pro-Am, Am, and Lamborghini Cup titles in each region came down to a single weekend, and the racing delivered accordingly. Contact, penalties, safety cars, and at least one championship decided on the very last lap made this finale one of the most consequential in the series’ history.

Five titles still hung in the balance when cars rolled onto the grid. By the time the checkered flags fell on Sunday, Leipert Motorsport’s Brendon Leitch owned the European Pro crown, VS Racing’s Andrzej Lewandowski became the first driver in Super Trofeo history to win five Pro-Am class titles, Gabriel Rindone captured his maiden Am championship, and the father-and-son pairing of Luciano and Donovan Privitelio took the Lamborghini Cup by a margin of just 1.5 points. In North America, Anthony McIntosh and Glenn McGee locked up the Am title before they even started the final race, choosing to sit it out entirely after qualifying secured the necessary point. The Asian series saw Absolute Racing’s Marco Giltrap and Chris van der Drift cap a dominant Pro campaign with their 11th win from 12 starts, while Thai drivers Aniwat Lommahadthai and Pasarit Promsombat and Lamborghini Cup winner Supachai Weeraborwornpong completed the roster of new champions.

The Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2: Why the Car Makes the Championship Worth Watching

The car itself is what elevates the Super Trofeo beyond a gentleman-racer playground. The Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 is a purpose-built, rear-wheel-drive race car occupying a fascinating performance gap between road-going Huracáns and Lamborghini’s GT3 machinery. Because Lamborghini controls the regulations for its own one-make series, the EVO2 runs without the restrictor plates and Balance of Performance adjustments that govern GT3 racing. The result, according to one source, is a car producing 620 CV from its 5.2-liter naturally aspirated V10, mated to a six-speed sequential X-Trac gearbox and weighing roughly 1,270 kg dry.

Leitch himself offered a telling comparison in an OMP Racing interview, characterizing the EVO2 as possessing “all the mechanical grip of the GT3 model, but with more horsepower and a little less downforce.” That combination puts enormous emphasis on throttle management and racecraft. With less aerodynamic grip to lean on, drivers cannot simply trust downforce to carry them through high-speed corners the way a GT3 car allows. The car rewards precision and punishes overconfidence, which is precisely the skill set a driver needs before stepping into endurance-level GT3 competition. Every championship battle described below played out on this unforgiving platform.

Brendon Leitch’s European Pro Title: A Masterclass in Controlled Aggression

Leitch’s championship campaign distills what the Super Trofeo is designed to produce: a driver who can manage pressure across an entire season rather than simply win individual races. OMP Racing reports that Leitch recorded 10 podium finishes in 12 races, including victories at the Nürburgring and Valencia. Consistency, not dominance, carried him.

The Vallelunga finale illustrated the point perfectly. In Race 1, Leitch chased down a six-second deficit to VS Racing’s Mattia Michelotto and Gilles Stadsbader, made contact while fighting for the lead at turn 11, then allowed Stadsbader back ahead. He lost that race by half a second. With just 1.5 points separating the two entries heading into Race 2, Leitch started fourth overall and found himself boxed behind a tactical Loris Spinelli, who twice faked pit entries to disrupt Leitch’s rhythm. A late safety car bunched the field for a five-minute shootout. Michelotto passed Leitch on the final lap but could not overcome accumulated time penalties, and Leitch’s third-place finish (with a 0.6-second pit-stop penalty of his own) was enough.

“The trick was just to not make any mistakes and get to the finish. Loris made it really, really difficult for me but I knew I just had to keep a cool head.”

Those post-race comments read like a textbook for the kind of driver Squadra Corse wants to promote. According to the same OMP Racing report, Leitch now mentors young driver Matt Day, who is set to debut in a Lamborghini Huracán GT3. That pipeline, from Super Trofeo champion to GT3 mentor, is the system working as intended.

Record Breakers and Family Affairs: Pro-Am, Am, and Lamborghini Cup

Lewandowski’s fifth Pro-Am title is a record that deserves more attention than it typically receives. Lamborghini says he now holds seven total series victories when including two World Finals wins. Five class championships in a single one-make series speaks to sustained competitiveness and deep familiarity with the Huracán platform that few amateur-class drivers anywhere in motorsport can match. His Vallelunga weekend was characteristically efficient: victory in Race 1 alongside team-mate Spinelli, with the title wrapped up before Race 2 began.

Rindone’s Am championship arrived with considerably more drama. He trailed Badawy by 4.5 points entering the final race, survived a collision with Randazzo in the closing stages, and benefited from Badawy’s retirement due to a technical issue. Sometimes championships require luck as well as speed, and Rindone acknowledged as much, noting he “didn’t expect it” after crashing the car in practice.

The Lamborghini Cup title produced the weekend’s most emotionally satisfying result. Luciano and Donovan Privitelio, a father-and-son combination racing with Iron Lynx, led Race 2 from start to finish while their closest rival, Jürgen Krebs, was overtaken on the final lap by Kenneth Linthout. The Privitelios won the championship by 1.5 points without knowing the outcome until after the checkered flag. Four years of racing together, culminating in a title decided by someone else’s overtake on the last lap. Motorsport rarely scripts things better.

North America and Asia: Dominance and Tactical Withdrawals

Wayne Taylor Racing’s Kyle Marcelli and Danny Formal delivered one of the most lopsided Pro campaigns in recent Super Trofeo memory on the North American side, taking 10 victories from 12 races. Their dominance was so complete that the real drama in the North American paddock came from the Am class, where McIntosh and McGee secured their title on qualifying points alone and elected not to start the final race. Choosing not to race when you do not need to is its own form of strategic maturity.

In Asia, Giltrap and van der Drift’s Absolute Racing entry won 11 of 12 races, including eight consecutive victories. Their margin of victory in Race 1 exceeded one minute. At that level of superiority, the competitive interest shifts to the classes behind, where Lommahadthai and Promsombat’s Am title and Weeraborwornpong’s Lamborghini Cup championship provided the genuine suspense. Weeraborwornpong’s path to the title was aided by the retirement of main rival Kumar Prabakaran, a reminder that reliability plays a role in championship outcomes even when the entire grid runs identical machinery.

From Super Trofeo to GT3: The Ladder Lamborghini Built

The practical question for anyone following this series is what happens next, both for its champions and for the platform itself. The Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 remains the backbone of Lamborghini’s customer racing ladder, but the Temerario GT3, which Autoblog reported debuted at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed as Lamborghini’s first competition car fully designed and built in-house, signals a generational shift in how Squadra Corse approaches motorsport.

The Super Trofeo’s value to Lamborghini extends well beyond trophies. It functions as a controlled environment where drivers learn car management, team coordination, and the mental discipline of multi-race championships before graduating to GT3 endurance events with mixed-manufacturer grids. Leitch’s experience across multiple GT3 platforms, including reported stints in Audi, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, and Aston Martin machinery according to OMP Racing, illustrates the breadth of career opportunities that a Super Trofeo title can open. For aspiring racers evaluating where to invest their budget, the series offers something that raw track days cannot: a structured competitive record that GT3 teams actually look at when selecting drivers.

Lamborghini has not disclosed exact costs to participate in a full Super Trofeo season, and the direct career pathway from champion to factory GT3 seat remains informal rather than contractual. What the series does provide is proximity to Squadra Corse’s engineering and operational infrastructure, exposure at the annual World Finals, and a racing credential tied to one of the most recognized names in motorsport. Whether the next generation of this ladder will be built around a Temerario-based Super Trofeo car remains unconfirmed, but the logic of the brand’s product cycle points strongly in that direction.

All three regional champion crews now advance to the Lamborghini World Finals, where they will race against each other for the overall Super Trofeo title. Those races will be livestreamed on the Lamborghini Squadra Corse YouTube channel, giving enthusiasts a chance to see whether Vallelunga’s champions can carry their form into one final weekend.

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