An 18-Year-Old Finn Owns the Early Championship Lead
Patrick Kujala, an 18-year-old driving for Bonaldi Motorsport, walked away from the Monza opening round with a double victory and the outright championship lead in the 2015 Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Europe. For a series that Lamborghini positions as the world’s fastest single-make championship, the opening salvo could hardly have been more decisive. Yet the real headline from Monza is not Kujala’s speed alone but the extraordinary density of the points table behind him, a compression that promises a season-long fight and a genuine test of whether the new Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo rewards driver talent over team resources.
2015 marks the first full season with the Huracán replacing the outgoing Gallardo-based car, and Kujala’s immediate dominance in the new rear-wheel-drive machinery suggests the transition, combined with 620 horsepower from the naturally aspirated V10, rewards drivers willing to commit on corner entry. Monza’s long straights and heavy braking zones put the Huracán’s new balance under competitive pressure from the first lap, and the Bonaldi car looked comfortable throughout.
The series originated in Europe in 2009 and expanded to include Asia and North America in subsequent years. By 2015, the championship format remained consistent: six double-race weekends of 50 minutes each, culminating in a World Final where continental champions converge. Silverstone, the next stop, will test whether Kujala’s pace translates to a circuit that demands an entirely different skill set.
The Chasers: Campana, Zampieri, and a Crowded Points Table
Ten points behind Kujala, the Sergio Campana and Fabrizio Crestani pairing represents the most intriguing storyline heading into Silverstone. The duo scored second and fourth place at Monza while debuting with Team Lazarus, a squad new to the Super Trofeo grid. Extracting that level of consistency from an unfamiliar team on a debut weekend signals genuine pace, not just a good qualifying lap.
Antonelli Motorsport’s Daniel Zampieri and Roman Mavlanov mirrored those results almost exactly, taking fourth and second. The symmetry between these two crews is striking: identical points hauls, similar race-to-race patterns, and both running with established Italian operations that know how to develop a car across a season. Florian Spengler, Kujala’s Bonaldi Motorsport teammate, sits just three points further back after a third-place finish in Race One. Having a teammate leading the championship offers obvious data-sharing advantages, but it also means Spengler knows precisely how fast the car can go.
Raton Racing’s Edoardo Liberati and Patric Niederhauser round out the top contenders with sixth and fifth-place finishes, while their teammate Alberto Di Folco, the 2014 PRO-AM champion, grabbed a fourth. Imperiale Racing’s Giacomo Barri and Alberto Cerqui managed fifth and seventh, and both are determined to improve at Silverstone. Six crews sit within realistic striking distance of the lead after just one weekend, and Silverstone’s technical demands could easily reshuffle the order. That compressed field is the strongest early evidence that the Huracán platform is doing what Lamborghini intended: keeping the racing close.
PRO-AM and AM Classes: Bobbi’s Return and a Georgian Surprise
The PRO-AM class produced its own compelling narrative at Monza. Matteo Bobbi, the 2003 FIA GT Champion, partnered with British driver Jay Palmer at Bonaldi Motorsport, and the pair seized the class lead in their first Super Trofeo outing. Bobbi’s pedigree is well documented, but his willingness to return to a one-make series at this stage of his career speaks to the quality of competition the Super Trofeo attracts. These grids pull in a mix of young professionals building their résumés and experienced racers who simply enjoy close, well-organized competition.
Eight points behind Bobbi and Palmer, Vincenzo Sospiri Racing’s Kei Cozzolino and Shinya Michimi also debuted this season and scored a third place in Race Two. The AM class, meanwhile, delivered the weekend’s most unexpected result: Swiss driver Mark Ineichen of Konrad Motorsport and Georgian driver Shota Abkhazava of Artline Team Georgia shared the top podium spots. Seeing an entry from Georgia on a Lamborghini one-make grid illustrates how far the series’ reach extends beyond its Italian and Western European core, and reinforces the idea that the Huracán Super Trofeo is accessible enough to attract a genuinely international field.
Multiple sources indicate that graduates of the series frequently move into GT3 competition and endurance racing, making early-season results more than just trophy hunting. For aspiring professionals, every point scored here carries weight on a racing CV.
The Huracán GT3 Connection at Silverstone
Lamborghini confirmed that two Huracán GT3 cars fielded by Grasser Racing Team will compete in the Blancpain Endurance Series event running alongside the Super Trofeo weekend at Silverstone. The co-location is deliberate. Running the one-make series within the same paddock as a major endurance championship gives Super Trofeo drivers a front-row view of the next competitive tier, and it gives Lamborghini Squadra Corse a consolidated operational weekend. That proximity underlines the racing ladder concept at the heart of the entire program: the Super Trofeo is not a dead end but a stepping stone.
The Silverstone schedule follows the established pattern: two one-hour free practice sessions on Friday, qualifying on Saturday morning with two 15-minute sessions separated by a five-minute break, Race One at 16:30 CET on Saturday afternoon, and Race Two at 12:35 CET on Sunday. Both races will be live-streamed through Squadra Corse’s website and broadcast on Nuvolari in Italy and Motors TV across Europe.
Silverstone’s high-speed corners, particularly the Maggotts-Becketts-Chapel complex, will test the Huracán Super Trofeo’s rear-drive setup in a way Monza’s layout simply could not. Drivers who built their Monza speed on braking performance and straight-line grunt may find the balance shifts toward those with better mid-corner confidence. The championship picture could look very different by Sunday afternoon.
What This Season Means for Lamborghini’s Racing Ladder
The 2015 season represents a pivot point for Lamborghini’s customer racing program. Switching the entire Super Trofeo grid from the Gallardo to the Huracán was not a cosmetic refresh. The move to rear-wheel drive, a new chassis architecture, and the direct-injection V10 producing 620 horsepower changed the fundamental character of the racing. Teams that had spent years optimizing Gallardo setups started from scratch, and the early results from Monza suggest the new platform rewards driver skill over setup dependency. The tight points spread across the top six crews, despite wildly different team resources, points to a car that gives its driver meaningful input rather than flattening talent differences through electronics.
Lamborghini’s motorsport department, Squadra Corse, formed in 2013, now manages three continental championships and a World Final. The organizational ambition is clear: build a self-contained racing ecosystem where a gentleman driver can enter at the AM level and a young professional like Kujala can use the series as a springboard toward GT3 and beyond. Monza proved the compressed field that such an ecosystem requires. Whether Kujala can maintain his form through the remaining five rounds will be one of the more interesting subplots of the European racing season, but the deeper question is whether the Huracán Super Trofeo can sustain this level of competitive parity all the way to the World Final. Silverstone will be the first real test.
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