Target Racing’s Slick-Tire Gamble at a Damp Nürburgring Delivered a Super Trofeo Europe Double Victory Worth Studying

Target Racing Sweeps the Nürburgring on Strategy and Raw Nerve

Target Racing walked away from the Nürburgring with both overall victories in the fourth round of the 2025 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe season, and neither win came easily. In Race 1, solo driver Guido Luchetti absorbed a five-second penalty and still crossed the line first for his maiden victory in motorsport. In Race 2, teammates Giacomo Pedrini and Patrik Fraboni rolled the dice on slick tires while the rest of the grid bolted on wets for a damp track surface, then watched the circuit dry faster than anyone expected.

What turned a routine mid-season round into something more revealing was the Nürburgring’s unpredictable weather, which compressed the gap between strategy and execution and rewarded teams willing to accept short-term pain for a long-term payoff. For Lamborghini’s customer racing program, this kind of weekend is the point: the Super Trofeo series exists to produce exactly these pressure-cooker moments, where the Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 becomes a tool whose effectiveness depends entirely on the humans behind the wheel and on the pit wall.

Slicks on a Wet Nürburgring: The Anatomy of a Winning Gamble

Sunday’s second race presented the kind of decision that separates calculated aggression from recklessness. Light rain left the Nürburgring surface damp enough that most crews defaulted to wet tires, the safe and defensible call. Target Racing’s #9 car of Fraboni and Pedrini went the other way, fitting slicks alongside Luchetti in the sister car.

The opening laps were painful. Luchetti braked too deep into Turn 1 from second on the grid and tumbled toward the back. The Fraboni/Pedrini entry slipped outside the top 20. On a circuit where the margin between a drying line and a puddle can be measured in meters, slicks on a damp surface demand extraordinary sensitivity. One overly ambitious corner entry and the weekend is over.

Fraboni, who is 16 years old, responded by picking off car after car as grip levels improved with each passing lap. He caught and passed race leader Egor Orudzhev, whose Art-Line Pro-Am Huracán was fading on increasingly inappropriate wet rubber, before the pit window closed. By the time Pedrini strapped in for the second stint, the #9 car held a 12-second cushion. Pedrini kept it clean, and the margin held.

“It was not easy with the slick tyres at the start because the track was not completely wet, and I went a bit deep under braking for turn one. I lost quite a lot of positions but thankfully not too many and we were able to recover.”
, Patrik Fraboni, Target Racing

A wrong call on tire compound in a one-make series, where the cars are mechanically identical, can lose more positions than any driving error. The Nürburgring’s microclimate compounds that uncertainty: conditions can shift between sectors on the same lap. Target Racing’s pit wall read the drying trend correctly, and Fraboni’s ability to survive the opening laps on cold slicks turned a potential disaster into a 12-second winning margin. Luchetti completed a Target Racing one-two in second, while Josef Knopp and Enzo Geraci of Oregon Team rounded out the podium in third.

Luchetti’s Breakthrough and the Messy Reality of a First Win

If Race 2 was a masterclass in strategic nerve, Race 1 was a study in composure under self-inflicted pressure. Guido Luchetti started from second overall and Pro class pole, tracked Georgi Dimitrov’s CMR Huracán through the opening stint, then passed Dimitrov’s co-driver Stéphan Guerin at Turn 1 after the mandatory pit stops. So far, so composed.

The complication arrived at Turn 8, where Luchetti made contact with Locanto while attempting to pass, forcing the DL Racing driver through the gravel. The stewards handed Luchetti a five-second penalty. In a series where margins are tight and identical machinery means nobody can simply drive away from the field, five seconds is a significant punishment. Luchetti’s pace in the second stint was strong enough to absorb it entirely.

The race ended under a red flag after a separate incident between Locanto and Silas Lovén Rytter at Turn 1 following a Full Course Yellow restart left both cars stranded. It was a scrappy, incident-filled affair that tested composure as much as outright speed. Knopp and Geraci of Oregon Team finished second to extend their championship lead, while Benedetto Strignano of Rexal Villorba Corse claimed third after a sequence of overtakes that included passing both Fraboni and Adam Putera in the space of two corners.

“I tried as hard as possible to stay out of trouble, despite that contact and the resulting penalty. I’m happy with this success, both for myself and for my team.”
, Guido Luchetti, Target Racing

First victories in motorsport rarely arrive cleanly. Luchetti’s win, penalty included, is more instructive than a dominant lights-to-flag cruise precisely because it required him to manage adversity in real time. For a series that exists partly to develop drivers who might graduate to GT3 competition, that kind of pressure is the curriculum.

Class Battles: Oregon Team and Ojjeh Assert Dominance

Target Racing’s double triumph dominated the headlines, but the class battles told their own stories of conviction and recovery.

Pietro Perolini and Massimo Ciglia of Oregon Team swept both Am class victories. In Race 2, Perolini launched from his grid slot to gain 11 positions on the opening lap, running as high as third overall before settling into the class lead. That kind of aggressive start in a field of identical Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 cars, where aerodynamic tows and braking points are shared knowledge, requires genuine confidence in the machinery and in one’s own judgment. A late-race incident between Am rival Randazzo and Lamborghini Cup leader Karim Ojjeh reshuffled the order behind them, but Oregon Team’s margin was never seriously threatened.

Ojjeh, driving for Rexal Villorba Corse, matched that dominance in the Lamborghini Cup category with victories in both races. His Race 2 win came with a dramatic footnote: a late spin that appeared to hand the lead away, only for Ojjeh to recover and repass Philip Tang to secure back-to-back wins. With just eight points separating the top six crews entering the weekend, Ojjeh’s double result opens meaningful daylight in the standings.

In Pro-Am, the returning Micánek Motorsport squad of Štefan Rosina and Bronislav Formánek took the Race 1 win after the CMR car of Dimitrov and Guerin retired following gravel-trap contact. Boutsen VDS drivers Renaud Kuppens and Hugo Bac claimed Race 2 in the class, with Kuppens making decisive progress on slick tires during the first stint before Bac brought the car home in a strong fourth place overall.

The Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 at the Nürburgring: What the Circuit Reveals

One-make series live or die on the quality of the spec car, and the Nürburgring is a particularly unforgiving auditor. The GP circuit’s combination of elevation changes, blind crests, and technical braking zones strips away any advantage a car might offer on a simpler layout. When every car on the grid shares the same Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 platform, the circuit becomes a pure amplifier of driver skill and team preparation.

The weekend demonstrated that the EVO2 gives customer teams a broad enough operating window to execute wildly different strategies. The same car that Fraboni nursed through damp opening laps on slicks also allowed Perolini to gain 11 places on a standing-start lap. The platform accommodates aggression and patience equally, which is exactly what a customer racing car needs to do. Lamborghini Squadra Corse designed the EVO2 to be robust enough for gentleman drivers in the Am and Lamborghini Cup classes while remaining sharp enough for aspiring professionals in Pro. The Nürburgring results suggest that balance is working.

For anyone tracking the broader Lamborghini motorsport picture, the Super Trofeo series occupies a specific rung on the ladder. It sits below the GT3 category, where the newly revealed Temerario GT3 will eventually compete. According to Autoblog, the Temerario GT3 debuted at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed as Lamborghini’s first competition car fully designed, developed, and built in-house. The Super Trofeo series feeds talent and operational experience directly into that GT3 ecosystem. Drivers like Fraboni, 16 years old and already winning overall races against more experienced competitors, represent precisely the kind of development pathway that justifies the series’ existence.

Looking Ahead: Barcelona, Misano, and a Championship Still Wide Open

The Huracán platform underpinning the current Super Trofeo EVO2 is now in its final competitive years. The road-going Huracán gave way to the Temerario last year, and the racing ecosystem will eventually follow. When that transition arrives, the operational knowledge accumulated by customer teams through seasons like this one, learning tire strategy at circuits like the Nürburgring, managing driver pairings across Pro-Am formats, extracting performance from identical machinery, transfers directly to whatever platform replaces the EVO2.

Knopp and Geraci’s second-place finish in Race 1 extended their Pro class championship lead, but with Barcelona and Misano still to come, the margins remain tight enough across every class to guarantee that the strategic gambles and breakthrough moments the Nürburgring produced will not be the last of 2025. The series calendar continues with Round 5 at Barcelona in October before the season concludes at Misano in November, where the Lamborghini World Finals will bring together regional champions from Europe, North America, and Asia.

A 16-year-old can beat seasoned amateurs on strategy. A first-time winner can absorb a penalty and still prevail. That is the competitive depth the Super Trofeo grid continues to produce, and it is the reason the Nürburgring weekend deserves more than a glance at the final classification.

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