A First Win and a New Championship Leader
In a one-make series as tightly matched as the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Europe, championships swing on single incidents. Silverstone’s Race 2 proved the point. Vito Postiglione picked up his first victory in the series on Sunday, and the result did more than fill a gap on his résumé. It vaulted the Imperiale Racing driver to the top of the PRO standings, displacing the very man who had looked untouchable all weekend.
Dennis Lind, the Raton Racing driver who won Race 1 on Saturday and claimed both pole positions, led comfortably after two early safety car periods. Then contact with a lapped car dropped him to eighth, handing Postiglione clean air and a path to the flag. Postiglione acknowledged the break.
“Dennis Lind had a good pace. But then he had a contact with a lapped car and for me it was easier. My team did a great job, today the car was perfect. This victory pays me after the bad luck that had deprived me of the success in the first of the two races at Monza.”
Postiglione entered Silverstone chasing Lind; he left leading the championship. That kind of reversal underlines a reality that gentlemen drivers and aspiring professionals learn quickly in these sprint formats: raw pace on Saturday means nothing if Sunday’s race falls apart.
Race 2 in Detail: Lind’s Misfortune and Mapelli’s Charge
Lind’s misfortune was only the most consequential twist in a race full of them. Harald Schlegelmilch of Artline Team Georgia, who started from the front row, suffered early contact that forced an unplanned pit stop and dropped him to 14th, removing another potential challenger from the sharp end.
The chaos rewarded those who stayed clean. Loris Spinelli and Enrico Fulgenzi of Antonelli Motorsport finished second overall, with Lamborghini crediting both drivers’ stints as strong and consistent. Martin Kodric of Bonaldi Motorsport repeated his Race 1 result with another third-place finish, a quietly impressive display of weekend-long reliability from the young Croatian.
The most remarkable individual drive, though, belonged to Marco Mapelli. Competing with Vincenzo Sospiri Racing in his debut weekend in the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo, Mapelli started 41st on the grid and finished seventh overall. Climbing 34 positions in a field of identically prepared Huracáns, where the performance window between cars is razor thin, requires a combination of racecraft, patience, and outright commitment that few drivers can sustain over a full race distance. His charge through the field illustrated precisely why the Super Trofeo works as a proving ground: it strips away the engineering variable and exposes the driver.
Former Formula 1 driver Nicola Larini, running with Petri Corse, finished sixth after placing fourth on Saturday. Larini’s presence adds name recognition, but what stands out is how competitive the field around him remains. Finishing sixth in a one-make Huracán series, even for someone with F1 experience, is no formality.
Class Winners: Breukers Builds a Commanding AM Lead
The PRO-AM championship lead changed hands as well. Adrian Amstutz and Patrick Kujala, who celebrated his 20th birthday on race day, now sit atop the PRO-AM standings. Kujala described his battle with Mapelli as the highlight of his weekend.
“It was a very interesting race. I enjoyed it a lot, especially when I reached Marco Mapelli and we had an exciting battle. This race was the best gift for my birthday!”
In the AM class, 17-year-old Rik Breukers of GDL Racing completed a Silverstone double, bringing his season win total to three and strengthening what already looks like a commanding championship position. For a driver that young, the Super Trofeo functions as a genuine proving ground. Breukers is learning wheel-to-wheel racing in a car that demands respect, surrounded by experienced competitors, and the results suggest he is absorbing those lessons quickly.
The Lamborghini Cup class saw Franck Metzger and Carlos Sarrea of Driving-Evolution by Autovitesse claim their first victory of the season. Tim Richards of Toro Loco retained the class lead despite not winning Race 2, having already banked two victories from the opening four races.
The Super Trofeo as Lamborghini’s Talent Pipeline
What competitor coverage of these race reports rarely explores is what the Super Trofeo series actually produces beyond trophies. Lamborghini’s Squadra Corse division built this championship, launched in 2009, as a structured environment where paying customers race alongside aspiring professionals. The class system (PRO, PRO-AM, AM, Lamborghini Cup) exists specifically to accommodate that range, but the deeper function is talent identification.
Drivers who prove themselves in the Super Trofeo regularly progress to GT3 competition, where the stakes, the competition, and the engineering complexity all increase. Mapelli’s debut performance at Silverstone is a useful example: a driver entering the series with obvious raw ability, using the Huracán Super Trofeo as the platform to demonstrate it. The series gives Squadra Corse a controlled environment to evaluate drivers before committing them to higher-profile programs.
With the Temerario GT3 now confirmed as Lamborghini’s first fully in-house competition car, according to Autoblog, the pipeline from one-make series to factory-supported GT racing becomes even more strategically important. Ferrari runs a similar model with its Challenge series, and Porsche with the Carrera Cup. The difference for Lamborghini is scale: a smaller grid means each driver gets more visibility, and the path from customer racer to factory-supported competitor is shorter.
Next Round: Le Castellet Alongside the Blancpain Endurance Series
The Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Europe moves to France’s Le Castellet circuit for the last weekend of June, running alongside the 1000 km of Paul Ricard, the third round of the Blancpain Endurance Series GT Cup. A shared paddock with GT3 teams will give Super Trofeo competitors a direct window into the level of competition that awaits those who graduate from the one-make series, reinforcing the pipeline that makes weekends like Silverstone matter beyond the immediate silverware.
Postiglione leads the PRO standings, Breukers looks increasingly difficult to catch in AM, and the PRO-AM battle is wide open. Le Castellet will test whether Silverstone’s new championship order holds or whether another round of contact, safety cars, and debutant heroics resets the picture entirely.
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