A Pit Lane Infraction Rewrites the Race
Patric Niederhauser looked untouchable. The young Raton Racing driver monopolized both qualifying sessions, posted the quickest lap of 2:00.188 at the end of Q1, and started from pole in front of a 32-car PRO and PRO-AM grid. Then everything unraveled.
Finnish driver Patrick Kujala, already the European champion running under the Bonaldi Motorsport banner, passed Niederhauser at the very first turn. The Swiss clawed the lead back after the pit stop window, only to be assessed a stop-and-go penalty for speeding in pit lane. That single infraction handed the PRO victory to Kujala and cascaded through the entire classification. Antonelli Motorsport’s Loris Spinelli and Daniel Zampieri inherited second. Zampieri spent the closing laps fending off Richard Antinucci in the Beverly Hills/O’Gara Motorsport entry he shared with Edoardo Piscopo. Alberto Di Folco crossed the line fourth, ahead of Florian Spengler. One moment of carelessness in the pit lane undid what looked like the weekend’s most dominant qualifying performance, and with it, compressed the championship fight heading into the finale.
Kujala’s Clinical Start and Lewis’s Charge Through the Field
Kujala’s move at the opening corner was the kind of clinical opportunism that separates established champions from fast qualifiers. Niederhauser had the raw pace, but Kujala read the start better and capitalized the instant his rival left a gap. Once ahead, he never relinquished the position.
The PRO-AM story belonged to Corey Lewis. Starting from mid-grid in the Carolinas/Change Racing Huracán, the American carved forward to finish sixth overall, enough to claim the class win. He beat the Italian-Chinese pairing of Edoardo Liberati and Yuan Bo, the reigning Asian series champions competing at the World Final level for the first time. Adrian Amstutz and Giovanni Venturini completed the PRO-AM podium for Konrad Motorsport. Lewis’s drive is a reminder of why the Super Trofeo format works so well for driver development: identical machinery strips away equipment advantages and forces racecraft to do the talking.
AM and Gallardo Classes: Contact, Penalties, and a Split Decision
The AM and Gallardo race produced its own controversy. Polesitter Damon Ockey and Josh Norman of Palm Beach/BAD Lambo Racing made contact early, and the stewards penalized Norman, dropping him to fourth. Canadian Ryan Ockey (Vancouver/O’Gara Motorsport) took the AM win, with Briton Steve Tandy of Imperiale Racing claiming second and Damon Ockey recovering to third.
In the Gallardo class, American Josh Hurley (Miami/Musante-Courtney Racing) finished ahead of Brandon Gdovic (Palm Beach/Mitchum Motorsport) and Jake Rattenbury (Carolinas/Change Racing). The Gallardo entries remain a fascinating footnote in the Super Trofeo paddock. The older platform still draws committed privateers, and its continued presence alongside the Huracán underscores how long Lamborghini’s customer racing ecosystem retains relevance.
What These Results Mean for the Championship
Niederhauser’s penalty did more than cost him a race win; it compressed the points battle with one round remaining. For Kujala, the victory is insurance. For Lewis, it could be the margin that separates a title from a near-miss. Lamborghini’s official account does not publish updated point totals from this round, so exact gaps remain unconfirmed. What is clear is that the title fights in PRO and PRO-AM will go down to the final race.
Race 2 will determine the final titles of the season. The AM and Gallardo race is scheduled for 15:30 CET, with the PRO and PRO-AM race following at 17:30 CET. Niederhauser again set the pace in Q2, which defined the Race 2 starting grid, so the Swiss will have another shot from pole. Whether he can convert that speed into a clean result, without the pit lane drama that cost him Race 1, is the question that frames the entire finale.
The Super Trofeo remains Lamborghini’s most accessible entry point into professional motorsport. Its international structure, with European, North American, and Asian championships feeding into a World Final, gives it a global footprint that few one-make programs match. The series also functions as a proving ground for Squadra Corse’s engineering and operational capabilities, experience that feeds directly into the development of the Temerario GT3. According to Autoblog, the Temerario GT3 is Lamborghini’s first competition car to be fully designed, developed, and built in-house, a milestone that the institutional knowledge built through years of Super Trofeo operations made possible.
How to Watch the Season Finale
Both championship-deciding races stream live on the official Squadra Corse site at squadracorse.lamborghini.com. If you care about where Lamborghini’s racing program is heading, and whether the Huracán’s final competitive chapter ends with the right names on the trophies, this is the afternoon to block out your calendar.
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