A Tight Championship Arrives at the Nürburgring for Round Four
Only 1.5 points separate the top two Pro contenders as the 2024 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe season crosses into its second half this weekend (July 26 to 28) at the Nürburgring. Round four of six marks a genuine inflection point: with three rounds completed and three remaining, the results in Germany will either consolidate a championship lead or blow the title race wide open. And the Pro class is hardly the only one balanced on a knife edge. Across Pro-Am, Am, and Lamborghini Cup, the margins are similarly slim, which says something about the health of a one-make series now in its 12th visit to this circuit.
The Nürburgring’s 15-turn, 5.148 km layout is familiar ground for the series, one of the most established stops on the rotation. After three consecutive rounds supporting the FIA World Endurance Championship at Imola, Spa-Francorchamps, and Le Mans, the series shifts paddock company, running alongside the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS. That change in supporting-event context brings a different audience and different energy, even if the on-track formula stays the same: a one-make grid of Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 race cars fighting across four distinct classes.
Pro Class: Ali and Söderström Hold the Lead, Bonduel Brings Three Wins
Target Racing’s Largim Ali and Oliver Söderström arrive in Germany atop the Pro standings with 50 points, a position they secured by finishing second in what turned out to be the only race at Le Mans. Tyre issues forced the cancellation of race two at the Circuit de la Sarthe, compressing the points-scoring opportunities and leaving every team recalculating its championship arithmetic.
BDR Competition by Grupo Prom’s Amaury Bonduel carries the most momentum, though. Three wins from five races is the best conversion rate in the class, and he sits just 1.5 points behind the leaders. That kind of margin means a single qualifying session or a first-lap incident at the Nürburgring could flip the standings entirely. Below them, Leonardo Caglioni and Enzo Geraci of Oregon Team sit third, 22 points further back and searching for a podium that has eluded them since the opening round at Imola. Last year’s runner-up Mattia Michelotto occupies fourth after picking up his first 2024 win at Le Mans and will partner debutant Micah Stanley this weekend. Leipert Motorsport, meanwhile, fields an all-German pairing of Sebastian Balthasar and Jacob Riegel on home soil.
The midfield is compressed too. Just nine points separate the next five positions, covering crews from Rexal Villorba Corse, three Iron Lynx entries, Schumacher CLRT, and Target Racing. DTM regular Maximilian Paul is expected to make his Super Trofeo Europe debut alongside Giuseppe Gurrieri at GG Motorsport, adding another variable to an already dense Pro grid. In a championship this tight, fresh arrivals are not neutral; they can steal points from established contenders and reshape the standings without ever threatening the title themselves.
Pro-Am, Am, and Lamborghini Cup: Every Class Title Is Contested
The competitive intensity extends well beyond the Pro category, and that breadth of close racing is arguably the strongest evidence that the Super Trofeo format is working as intended.
In Pro-Am, Mičánek Motorsport’s Štefan Rosina and Bronislav Formánek continue to lead but face increasing pressure from Boutsen VDS pairing Roee Meyuhas and Renaud Kuppens, who closed to within 2.5 points after a third-place finish at Le Mans. Iron Lynx’s Claude-Yves Gosselin and Joran Leneutre sit just four points further back. When three different teams occupy the top three positions within a handful of points at the season’s midpoint, the class is producing exactly the kind of racing that keeps customer teams coming back year after year. A notable addition to the Pro-Am field this weekend: 2021 Pro champion Kevin Gillardoni returns to the championship, standing in at Oregon Team for Davide Roda, who was injured during practice at Le Mans. Gillardoni will partner Pietro Perolini in the #14 Huracán.
The Am class underwent a leadership change at Le Mans. VS Racing’s Piergiacomo Randazzo and Stéphane Tribaudini moved to the front of the standings with 46 points, 8.5 clear of Art-Line’s Nigel Bailly, after a comeback drive in France that netted them second in race one. They also took victory in the second race at Spa, giving them consistent results across different circuits. Target Racing’s Huilin Han is 1.5 points behind Bailly, keeping three drivers within realistic striking distance.
The Lamborghini Cup class, reserved for gentleman drivers, delivered yet another twist at Le Mans. ASR’s Paolo Biglieri and Petar Matić capitalized on a late-race spin from GT3 Poland’s Holger Harmsen to take their second consecutive victory and assume the class lead by 4.5 points. Charlie Martin, who switched from Brutal Fish Racing to Iron Lynx for this weekend, sits four points further back. Behind them, Art-Line’s Shota Abkhazava holds fourth, and a cluster of teams separated by fractions of a point fills the lower half of the top eight.
The Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2: Why the One-Make Format Produces These Margins
The reason four classes can arrive at the season’s midpoint with such compressed standings is, in large part, the car itself. Every entry on the Nürburgring grid is a Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2, the dedicated, track-only race car that forms the backbone of Lamborghini’s one-make customer racing program. It is not a road car with a roll cage bolted in but a purpose-built machine, not street-legal, derived from the road-going Huracán platform yet engineered exclusively for competition.
The Super Trofeo series dates back to 2009 and has evolved through successive generations of Gallardo and then Huracán-based machinery. For prospective participants, the one-make format is the point: identical cars on Hankook tyres strip away the engineering arms race and put the emphasis squarely on driver skill, team preparation, and race-weekend execution. That formula makes it one of the more accessible entry points into serious GT-level competition for both aspiring professionals and experienced amateurs.
The four-class structure reinforces this accessibility. Pro drivers sharpen their racecraft in identical machinery. Am and Lamborghini Cup participants get genuine wheel-to-wheel racing in a professionally organized series that visits circuits like Spa, Le Mans, and the Nürburgring. A gentleman driver in the Lamborghini Cup and a young professional in Pro share the same paddock and the same race weekends, which is part of the commercial appeal for both groups. Drivers who perform well gain visibility within Lamborghini Squadra Corse, the company’s motorsport division, and that pathway to higher categories is part of the pitch to teams evaluating where to spend their racing budgets.
Nürburgring Weekend Schedule and Remaining 2024 Calendar
The Nürburgring weekend opens with two free practice sessions on Friday, July 26, at 10:10 and 14:50 CET. Saturday brings qualifying at 12:15 followed by Race 1 at 16:05. Race 2 closes the weekend on Sunday at 11:35. All sessions run on Central European Time.
After Germany, the 2024 Super Trofeo Europe calendar moves to Barcelona in October before the traditional season finale and World Finals at Jerez de la Frontera in mid-November. That leaves three rounds, including the Nürburgring, for the championship leaders in every class to either build a cushion or watch it evaporate. Given the margins outlined above, the safer bet is volatility.
| Round | Circuit | Date | Support Series |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Imola | April 19-21 | FIA WEC |
| 2 | Spa-Francorchamps | May 9-11 | FIA WEC |
| 3 | Le Mans | June 11-15 | FIA WEC |
| 4 | Nürburgring | July 26-28 | GT World Challenge Europe |
| 5 | Barcelona | October 11-13 | GT World Challenge Europe |
| 6 | Jerez de la Frontera | November 14-15 | Lamborghini World Finals |
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