Mul Sweeps Silverstone with a Commanding Double Victory
Jeroen Mul left no ambiguity at the second round of the 2014 Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Europe season. The Dutch driver, racing the No. 22 Gallardo Super Trofeo for Automobili Lamborghini Racing Team Germany, won both races at Silverstone on May 25, 2014, controlling each from lights to checkered flag. In a one-make series where every car runs near-identical hardware, that kind of dominance reveals the driver, not the machine.
Mul led from start to finish in both encounters. The GRT Grasser Racing Team pairing of Gerhard Tweraser and Sandro Bickel crossed the line second overall in Race 2 after clawing back from 11th on the grid, claiming the PRO-AM class win in the process. Giovanni Venturini, debuting with Eurotech Engineering, took third overall and second in the PRO class. In the AM category, Italian Simone Pellegrinelli collected his fourth consecutive class victory of the season, a streak that underlined just how sharply the competition stratified across experience levels.
One report from the weekend indicates Mul’s Race 1 margin stretched to roughly ten seconds over Milos Pavlovic of Bonaldi Motorsport, a gap that borders on the absurd in a series built around parity. Race 2 followed a similar script: Mul out front, Tweraser recovering heroically through the field, and Venturini quietly confirming his credentials as a future name to watch. Taken together, the results amounted to a weekend that crystallized what the Gallardo Super Trofeo series could produce: a dominant winner, a dramatic recovery, a promising debutant, and a gentleman racer on a tear. Every car identical, every result earned.
What a Double Win Actually Means in a One-Make Series
Winning one race in the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo is a solid weekend. Winning both at the same circuit, leading every lap of each, represents something closer to total control. The format strips away the variable that dominates most motorsport: the car. Every entrant races a Gallardo Super Trofeo with the same V10 engine, the same sequential gearbox, the same aerodynamic package. The differences come down to setup choices, tire management, racecraft, and nerve.
Mul could not lean on a power advantage or a lighter chassis. He simply extracted more from the same equipment than a field that included experienced PRO-AM pairings and quick debutants like Venturini. The 2014 PRO Class European Crown and World Final title ultimately went to Edoardo Piscopo and Milos Pavlovic, so the caliber of competition Mul outpaced at Silverstone was genuine.
The class structure itself deserves a note. PRO runners are typically aspiring professional or semi-professional drivers. PRO-AM pairs a professional with a gentleman driver, and AM rewards pure amateur competitors. Pellegrinelli’s four-win AM streak, running concurrently with Mul’s PRO dominance, illustrates how the series created competitive narratives at every level. Buyers considering the Super Trofeo program could find meaningful racing whether they arrived with a karting championship on their resume or a weekend track-day habit. That layered appeal was central to the series’ commercial logic and, ultimately, to the broader customer racing infrastructure Lamborghini was building around the Gallardo platform.
The Gallardo Super Trofeo as Lamborghini’s Racing Foundation
The Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Europe series launched in 2009, and the Gallardo was the car that made it possible. Before the Super Trofeo, Lamborghini’s modern motorsport presence was limited. The Gallardo marked a genuine return to one-make racing and gave the brand a structured customer competition platform for the first time in decades.
The car itself was a stripped, caged, track-only derivative of the road-going Gallardo. Lightweight panels, competition suspension, aggressive aero, and a locked-in sequential shift mode transformed a grand touring supercar into a proper race tool. Forum discussions among enthusiasts on Lamborghini-Talk describe the Super Trofeo Gallardo as capable of 2.1G under braking, a figure that illustrates how far the car sat from its road-legal siblings in terms of mechanical commitment.
Compared to the cost and complexity of entering a GT3 or GTE program, the Super Trofeo offered a turnkey path to competitive racing under the Lamborghini banner. Teams like GRT Grasser Racing, which fielded Tweraser and Bickel at Silverstone, built their reputations within this ecosystem before graduating to broader GT racing. The series functioned simultaneously as a brand showcase, a driver development ladder, and a revenue stream for Squadra Corse. Rival manufacturers noticed. Ferrari’s Challenge series and Porsche’s one-make cups operate on similar logic, but Lamborghini’s version carried a distinct identity: louder, more theatrical, and unapologetically focused on spectacle alongside competition. Mul’s Silverstone dominance was the kind of result that validated the entire premise.
Beyond the Podium: Performances That Shaped the 2014 Season
Silverstone did not exist in isolation. Mul’s double fed into a broader championship narrative that played out across European circuits through 2014. His season also included a second-place finish at Monza, suggesting consistent front-running pace rather than a single-weekend anomaly.
Tweraser and Bickel’s recovery drive deserves specific attention. Starting 11th in Race 2 and finishing second overall while winning the PRO-AM class required aggressive overtaking through a densely packed midfield. In a one-make series, passing demands precision: the car ahead runs the same power, the same brakes, the same grip. Every position gained comes from outbraking, better traction on exit, or exploiting a rival’s mistake. Recovering nine positions in those conditions reflects team strategy and driver composure under pressure.
Venturini’s debut weekend with Eurotech Engineering was equally telling. Finishing third overall in both races on his first Super Trofeo outing pointed to raw talent that the series was designed to surface. The Super Trofeo’s value to Lamborghini extended beyond trophies: it identified drivers who could represent the brand at higher levels of competition. These supporting performances reinforced the depth of the Silverstone grid and, by extension, the seriousness of Mul’s achievement in clearing the field so decisively.
From Gallardo to Temerario: The Motorsport Ladder Keeps Climbing
The 2014 Silverstone round arrived at a transitional moment. Later that same year, Lamborghini revealed the Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo, a race-ready iteration of the Huracán that would replace the Gallardo in the one-make series. The handover was significant: the Huracán brought a more advanced chassis, improved aerodynamics, and a platform that would evolve through multiple EVO updates over the following decade.
As Autoblog reported when the Temerario GT3 debuted at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed, that car marks Lamborghini’s first competition machine to be fully designed, developed, and built in-house. The progression from the Gallardo Super Trofeo, a relatively straightforward race conversion of a road car, through the Huracán Super Trofeo EVO, a more sophisticated but still externally developed platform, to the Temerario GT3 traces a clear arc of increasing ambition and capability within Squadra Corse.
Lamborghini’s customer racing infrastructure, born from those early Gallardo Super Trofeo grids where drivers like Mul proved the concept worked, now supports a genuinely global program. The Super Trofeo series expanded to include North American and Asian championships alongside the European series, and the Temerario GT3 will compete in the broader GT3 ecosystem against Ferrari, Porsche, McLaren, and Mercedes-AMG machinery. The one-make series remains the entry point, but the ceiling keeps rising. That upward trajectory began with weekends like Silverstone 2014, when the format demonstrated it could produce real competition and real stories on a shoestring compared to full-factory GT programs.
Why the Gallardo Era Still Matters to Enthusiasts
Collector interest in the Gallardo Super Trofeo reflects its historical position. According to Autoblog, even low-mileage Huracán Super Trofeo EVO examples are now attracting serious collector attention, described as embodying Lamborghini’s golden era of pure, naturally aspirated racing. The Gallardo Super Trofeo, as the car that started this lineage, occupies an even more foundational spot in that narrative.
Lamborghini’s customer racing operation now generates revenue, develops technology, and builds brand equity in ways that would have seemed improbable when the first Gallardo Super Trofeo cars rolled onto the Monza grid in 2009. The Temerario GT3 will carry that mission forward with turbocharged hybrid power and in-house engineering. But the foundation was poured by weekends like Silverstone 2014, where a Dutch driver in a Gallardo proved that identical cars, sharp competition, and a well-run series could do more for the brand than any press release. Mul’s double victory was not just a personal triumph. It was a proof of concept for the entire customer racing blueprint that Lamborghini continues to build on today.
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