Oregon Team’s Double Victory Turns the Pro Championship on Its Head
Dorian Boccolacci and Kevin Gilardoni, driving the #11 Oregon Team Huracán, swept both races at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya to claim back-to-back victories in the third round of the 2020 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe season. Their triumph mattered less for raw speed than for what it revealed about this championship’s defining characteristic: in a one-make series where every car produces the same power and runs the same aero package, the title will be decided not on outright pace but on discipline, composure, and the ability to capitalize when rivals falter.
Dean Stoneman entered Barcelona tied on 53 points with the Target Racing pairing of Miloš Pavlović and Raul Guzman at the top of the Pro standings. He now leads by just one point over Boccolacci and Gilardoni. Pavlović and Guzman never even took the start after a technical problem sidelined the #41 Target Racing car, handing Stoneman a clear opportunity to pull away. Instead, a pitlane speeding infraction cost Stoneman’s #33 Bonaldi Motorsport entry a drivethrough penalty, turning what should have been a points haul into damage limitation. He finished fourth.
The championship picture heading into Spa-Francorchamps could hardly be tighter. Three crews with realistic title ambitions, and two of them burned points at Barcelona through circumstances largely outside their control on the track itself. This was the weekend that scrambled the narrative and proved that in the Super Trofeo, the margins between triumph and damage limitation are vanishingly thin.
The Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2: A Platform Built to Expose These Margins
The Lamborghini Super Trofeo, inaugurated in 2009, operates on a principle that sounds simple but proves fiendishly difficult to execute well: give every team the same car and let driver skill decide the outcome. The series runs across three continental championships (Europe, North America, and Asia), each featuring 50-minute races. The Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2, powered by a 5.2-liter naturally aspirated V10 producing 620 CV, serves as the common platform.
Parity strips away the engineering arms race and amplifies everything else: pit strategy, tire management, driver composure under pressure, and the willingness to take risks on cold tires after a driver swap. When every car on the grid produces the same power, a pitlane speeding penalty or a moment of pre-start contact carries outsized consequences. Barcelona demonstrated this in concentrated form.
The EVO2’s naturally aspirated V10 represents something increasingly rare in motorsport: a high-revving, linear powerband that rewards precise throttle application. For drivers learning their craft before stepping up to GT3 competition, this builds habits that transfer well to faster machinery. The car’s track-focused aerodynamics, lightweight construction, and Öhlins-damped suspension create a platform forgiving enough for Am-class gentleman drivers yet demanding enough to separate the genuine professionals in Pro. That dual nature is precisely what made Barcelona’s penalty drama so consequential: when the car cannot be blamed, only the humans remain.
How Penalties and Misfortune Defined Race Day
Barcelona’s second race unfolded as a case study in how quickly fortunes shift when regulations are enforced to the letter. Gilardoni started from sixth on the grid and gained two positions inside the opening ten minutes, quietly building Oregon Team‘s race while the cars ahead dealt with their own problems.
The Leipert Motorsport #2 car of Noah Watt and Sebastian Balthasar drew a drivethrough penalty for contact with Stoneman before the race even started properly. The #9 Target Racing entry of Alberto di Folco and Kevin Rossel led from pole, and Stoneman shadowed them through the pit window. Then came the pitlane speed infringement.
Rossel, having taken over from di Folco, ran wide at Turn 3, briefly handing the lead to Stoneman before also losing second to Boccolacci. When Stoneman pitted for his drivethrough, Boccolacci inherited a lead he would not relinquish. The Frenchman’s own account of the closing stint is telling: he caught Kujala quickly after leaving the pits and felt confident he could have recovered any gap, even without the penalty handing him clean air.
Sebastian Fernandez, driving the #6 VS Racing entry, finished second overall and claimed a podium on his debut Super Trofeo weekend. Jonathan Cecotto and Patrick completed the overall podium for GSM Racing. For Fernandez in particular, the result underlines how the Super Trofeo’s class structure can catapult a quick newcomer into visibility almost immediately.
The pattern across this Barcelona weekend, where penalties and mechanical gremlins reshaped results more dramatically than on-track overtakes, illustrates something important about the series’ regulatory philosophy: the rules exist to maintain fairness in a championship where every point matters, and Squadra Corse enforces them without sentiment. That strictness is what keeps the competition credible, and what makes the one-point gap at the top of the standings feel genuinely earned.
The Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2, number 11, speeds around the track during a race event.
Pro-Am, Am, and LB Cup: Where Discipline Matters Even More
The Super Trofeo’s four-class structure (Pro, Pro-Am, Am, and LB Cup) keeps the racing relevant for drivers at very different stages of their careers. If the Pro class demonstrated how penalties can reshape a championship, the supporting classes showed that the same unforgiving margins apply at every level.
Karol Basz and Andrzej Lewandowski bounced back from a difficult Race 1 to win the Pro-Am class in their #16 VS Racing Huracán, finishing sixth overall. Lewandowski held off Max Weering’s charging #61 Johan Kraan Motorsports car to the flag. Oregon Team’s Victor Franzoni da Silva and Lorenzo Bontempelli took second in class, with Leipert Motorsport’s Mikko Eskelinen and Elias Niskanen third.
The Am class produced a race-long battle between Fidel Leib and Yury Wagner (#21 Leipert Motorsport) and the Target Racing pairing of Massimo Mantovani and Dilantha Malagamuwa. Wagner led early, and Mantovani mounted a second-stint charge that fell just five seconds short of the class win. That kind of gap, in a 50-minute race between identically prepared cars, captures why the Am class often delivers the most absorbing wheel-to-wheel action of the weekend.
Hans Fabri won the LB Cup class, beating Micanek Motorsports ACCR’s Kurt Wagner and Libor Dvoracek. Fabri’s consistency across the season was already establishing a meaningful points cushion in the LB Cup standings.
Super Trofeo as the First Rung on Lamborghini’s Racing Ladder
What rarely gets discussed in race reports is the structural role the Super Trofeo plays within Lamborghini’s broader motorsport strategy. The series functions as a talent pipeline: drivers who prove themselves in Pro competition become candidates for factory-supported GT3 programs, endurance racing entries, and roles connected to Lamborghini’s expanding Squadra Corse operation. Barcelona’s drama, where composure under regulatory pressure mattered as much as outright speed, is exactly the kind of crucible that identifies drivers ready for the next step.
Gilardoni’s trajectory illustrates the point. He went on to win the 2021 Pro title with Oregon Team, and the team itself secured Pro and Team titles in the 2021-2022 cycle. For a driver like Fernandez, claiming a podium on his debut weekend, the series offers a high-profile environment where emerging talent can demonstrate racecraft without needing a seven-figure personal budget for a full GT3 season.
The pipeline concept matters more now than at any point in the series’ history because of what sits at the end of it. The Temerario GT3, Lamborghini’s first competition car fully designed, developed, and built in-house, represents a fundamental shift in how Squadra Corse approaches customer racing. Previous GT3 efforts relied on external partners for development and construction. It brings everything under one roof, which means drivers who graduate from Super Trofeo into GT3 competition will be racing a car that reflects Lamborghini’s own engineering priorities. For the brand, this vertical integration from one-make series through GT3 to potential factory endurance programs creates a coherent motorsport identity that the Super Trofeo’s driver development pipeline feeds directly.
The Commercial Engine Behind the Racing
Customer racing is a crowded space. What distinguishes these programs from each other is not the racing itself but how effectively each manufacturer connects the customer racing experience to its broader identity.
Lamborghini’s advantage is specificity. The Super Trofeo exists solely for Huracán-based race cars, creating a community of teams and drivers who develop deep familiarity with a single platform over multiple seasons. That institutional knowledge becomes a competitive asset that transfers when those same teams and drivers step up to GT3 or endurance racing with Lamborghini machinery.
The series also functions as a commercial engine. Teams purchase cars, spares, and arrive-and-drive packages from Squadra Corse, generating revenue that supports the broader motorsport operation. Autoblog recently highlighted a 2020 Huracán Super Trofeo EVO with just 84 miles on the odometer appearing on the collector market, a reminder that some of these cars lead double lives as both competition tools and investment-grade collectibles. The naturally aspirated V10 race car carries a cachet that turbocharged successors will need to earn on their own terms.
For prospective buyers considering a Super Trofeo entry, season budgets encompass tires, transport, engineering support, entry fees, and the inevitable repair costs that come with wheel-to-wheel racing. What the Barcelona weekend makes clear is that the competitive standard is high enough to justify the investment: this is serious racing, not a parade.
Spa-Francorchamps and the Fight Ahead
The championship moves to Spa-Francorchamps for round four, scheduled for the weekend of October 20-24, 2020, running on the support bill of the Total 24 Hours of Spa. The Belgian circuit’s combination of high-speed corners, elevation changes, and unpredictable weather represents a fundamentally different challenge from Barcelona’s medium-speed layout.
Stoneman carries a one-point Pro championship lead over Boccolacci and Gilardoni, with Pavlović and Guzman needing a strong result to recover from their Barcelona non-start. The compressed standings mean that a single race incident, penalty, or mechanical failure at Spa could swing the title fight dramatically. Oregon Team arrives with momentum from consecutive victories, but momentum counts for nothing if the car develops a technical problem on the grid.
Two rounds remain after Spa: Paul Ricard closes the season in November. Consistency will decide this championship, and Barcelona proved that consistency in the Super Trofeo means more than raw pace. It means clean pit stops, disciplined pitlane speed, and the composure to capitalize when rivals stumble. Boccolacci and Gilardoni did exactly that twice in one weekend. Whether they can sustain it through Eau Rouge and beyond will determine whether Barcelona was a turning point or a footnote.
