Lind’s Double Victory Reshapes the PRO Championship
Dennis Lind left Circuit Paul Ricard with something no other driver in the 2016 Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Europe season can claim: a clean sweep. The twenty-three-year-old Dane, driving for Raton Racing, won both Race 1 and Race 2 at the third of six rounds, bringing his season total to four victories and vaulting to the top of the PRO class standings with a nine-point advantage over Vito Postiglione.
The weekend’s significance runs deeper than raw points. Lind had won Race 1 at both Monza and Silverstone earlier in the season, but Race 2 kept slipping away. At Paul Ricard, he started Race 2 from pole and controlled the field from the front, finally breaking a pattern that Lamborghini’s own championship coverage had been tracking for three rounds.
Postiglione, the Imperiale Racing driver who finished second in Race 1 and looked poised to challenge again on Sunday, suffered a rear left wheel problem with less than ten minutes remaining in Race 2. The unscheduled pit stop dropped him to sixth and handed the momentum squarely to Lind. In a one-make series where every car runs identical Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo machinery, that kind of mechanical misfortune is the difference between a tight title fight and a commanding lead.
Race 2 Podium: Kodric and Bonaldi Motorsport Capitalize
Postiglione’s retirement from contention opened the door for nineteen-year-old Croatian Martin Kodric, who inherited a podium spot for Bonaldi Motorsport after finishing third in Race 1. In a series designed to reward consistency, back-to-back podiums at his age mark Kodric as a driver to watch through the second half of the season.
Latvian Harald Schlegelmilch, representing Artline Team Georgia, followed Kodric across the line. Bonaldi Motorsport placed a second car in the top four as well, with the pairing of Rolf Ineichen and new entry Jeroen Bleekemolen finishing fourth. Bleekemolen, a name familiar to endurance racing fans, adds depth to a grid that Lamborghini says fielded a record 84 cars across its three continental championships in 2015. The European field remains the most competitive of the three.
Breukers: From AM Domination to PRO-AM Winner at Eighteen
If Lind’s sweep confirmed the PRO class pecking order, the result that reveals where Lamborghini’s one-make series is headed came from Rik Breukers. The eighteen-year-old Dutchman, racing for GDL Racing, was promoted to the PRO-AM class for this round after accumulating three victories in the AM category. His response to the step up was immediate: he won again.
That fourth career victory, combined with a remarkable fifth place overall in Race 2 and the second-fastest time in qualifying, earned Breukers a one-point lead in the PRO-AM standings over the Bonaldi Motorsport pairing of Adrian Amstutz and Patrick Kujala. Kujala himself delivered a strong second stint to claim third in class, behind Nicolas Armindo and Henry Hassid of Konrad Motorsport.
Breukers recently joined the Lamborghini Squadra Corse Young Drivers Program, and his trajectory illustrates exactly why the program exists. Lamborghini monitors its junior drivers across single-lap pace, consistency, technical feedback with engineers, and professionalism on and off the circuit. The goal is to identify talent inside the Super Trofeo grid, develop it under factory oversight, and eventually feed the best drivers upward into GT3 and potentially beyond. For an eighteen-year-old to dominate AM, earn a class promotion, and then win immediately is the kind of proof point that justifies the whole structure.
A gold Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo leads a multi-car race on the Paul Ricard circuit under a bright sky.
AM Class and Lamborghini Cup: Debut Wins Across the Board
The same pattern of fresh talent surfacing played out further down the grid. Matteo Desideri and Mikhail Spiridonov, racing for Antonelli Motorsport, won the AM class in their first appearance at Paul Ricard. Desideri brought useful experience from the Italian GT Championship, where Lamborghini says he currently sits second in the Super GT Cup class, also racing a Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo. Winning on debut in a new championship suggests the car’s characteristics translate well across different series regulations, which matters for drivers building multi-series careers.
Amir Krenzia of Vincenzo Sospiri Racing took second in AM, while Swiss driver Philipp Schlegel of Sportec Motorsport completed the podium on his own one-make series debut, following a Race 1 victory the day before. Two debut winners in one class, at the same round, is unusual and reinforces the impression of a grid that keeps attracting capable newcomers.
In the Lamborghini Cup, Tim Richard of Toro Loco extended his championship lead with two more victories. Richard now looks increasingly difficult to catch in the category.
The Proving Ground: Why Paul Ricard’s Results Echo Beyond This Weekend
Established in 2009 with just eleven cars, the Super Trofeo now operates across Europe, Asia, and North America. Its growth from a boutique gentleman-driver series into a genuine proving ground for professional talent is one of the quieter success stories in Lamborghini’s motorsport portfolio, and Paul Ricard offered a concentrated example of why.
The beauty of a one-make series built around identical Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo race cars is that it strips away the engineering variable. Every car runs the same rear-wheel-drive layout, the same V10, the same aero package. What separates drivers on the grid is racecraft, tire management, and the ability to communicate technical feedback to their engineers. For a manufacturer trying to identify which young drivers deserve factory backing, that controlled environment is invaluable. The Squadra Corse Young Drivers Program formalizes the pathway: drivers who impress in Super Trofeo can progress toward GT3 seats, where the stakes and the competition are both considerably higher.
For anyone following Lamborghini’s motorsport ambitions, the practical takeaway from Paul Ricard is clear: watch the young names. Breukers, Kodric, and Desideri are exactly the kind of drivers this series was built to surface.
Championship Standings and What Comes Next at Spa
With three of six rounds complete, Lind’s nine-point PRO class lead over Postiglione is significant but far from decisive. Postiglione’s pace at Paul Ricard before his mechanical issue showed he can match Lind on raw speed; the question is whether reliability and fortune will cooperate over the remaining three rounds.
In PRO-AM, Breukers holds the slimmest possible advantage: one point over Amstutz and Kujala. That fight will likely come down to the final round.
The championship heads to Spa in the last week of July, running alongside the 24 Hours of the Blancpain GT Series. Sharing a weekend with one of endurance racing’s marquee events puts the Super Trofeo grid in front of the exact audience Lamborghini wants watching: team principals, sponsors, and factory representatives scouting for their next program signing. For drivers like Breukers, Spa represents an opportunity that extends well beyond championship points.
