Late-Race Drama Delivers a Team Lazarus Podium
Sergio Campana and Fabrizio Crestani, racing under the Team Lazarus banner, climbed to third place in a recent Lamborghini Super Trofeo round after mounting a closing-laps charge on German driver Florian Spengler. Spengler, piloting a Bonaldi Motorsport-prepared Lamborghini Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo, held on for fourth, while Silverstone newcomer Isaac Tutumlu and co-driver Gerhard Tweraser rounded out the top five.
The race produced the kind of messy, wheel-banging action that separates one-make racing from sanitized parade laps. Tweraser collected a penalty for contact on lap four, an incident that cost Giacomo Barri multiple positions while he was fighting inside the top five with his Imperiale Racing entry. Barri and teammate Alberto Cerqui clawed back to eighth, a result that looked unlikely mid-race.
Class battles added further layers. Loris Spinelli and Marco Moscato delivered sixth overall and the PRO-AM class win for Antonelli Motorsport, followed by Imperiale Racing’s Simone Pellegrinelli and the Artline Team Georgia pairing of Mikhail Stepanov and Harald Schlegelmilch, who finished third in class and ninth overall. The AM category went to Swiss duo Cedric Leimer and Laurent Jenny of X Bionic Racing Team. X Bionic also topped the Gallardo LP 570-4 Super Trofeo contingent, with Cyril Leimer leading the older-generation cars. That Gallardo-spec machines still share the grid with Huracán entries speaks to the series’ accessibility and its deep roster of committed privateers.
Lamborghini’s Racing Crucible: More Than Weekend Trophies
Inaugurated in 2009 around the Gallardo, the Lamborghini Super Trofeo now operates across Europe, North America, and Asia as one of the more quietly significant customer racing championships in the sport. European rounds run alongside the GT World Challenge Europe calendar, giving Super Trofeo drivers exposure to the same paddocks, the same circuits, and crucially, the same team engineers who work at the GT3 level. That proximity is not incidental. It is the mechanism through which a weekend trophy hunter becomes a factory prospect.
Lamborghini Squadra Corse runs a multi-tiered Young Driver Program that scouts talent directly from Super Trofeo grids. According to one report, the selection process now ranks drivers using a coefficient system across continental championships rather than relying on age-based criteria, with assessments overseen by instructors from the Scuola Federale ACI Sport and input from Lamborghini factory drivers like Andrea Caldarelli. Colin Queen was recently named the Lamborghini Young Driver Program Shootout winner, a designation that carries real weight: shootout winners receive direct support from Squadra Corse for the following season.
The program separates candidates into Super Trofeo Junior Drivers and GT3 Junior Drivers. The pipeline runs from one-make grids to GT3 endurance seats, with the best performers attending training camps at Sant’Agata Bolognese before a year-end shootout at Misano. Ferrari Challenge and Porsche Carrera Cup offer their own client-racing ecosystems, but Lamborghini’s version is notable for how explicitly it connects weekend racers to factory-level opportunities.
The Huracán LP 620-2: Built for the Grid, Not the Garage
The Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo designation tells you exactly what you need to know: 620 horsepower from the naturally aspirated 5.2-liter V10, rear-wheel drive only. Revealed in 2014, this car strips the road-going Huracán down to its competitive essentials. No all-wheel-drive system, no infotainment compromises, no sound-deadening material softening the V10’s scream at 8,000 rpm.
The engineering philosophy is subtraction. Carbon fiber bodywork replaces painted aluminum panels. A full roll cage and racing harness replace leather seats. Competition-spec dampers and braking systems replace the road car’s comfort-biased hardware. The result is a machine significantly lighter than its showroom sibling, tuned for the specific demands of sprint racing on circuits like Silverstone, Monza, and Misano.
Lamborghini says the Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 will compete for one more season in 2026, making every remaining grid appearance a farewell lap for the naturally aspirated V10 in Lamborghini’s one-make racing. For teams that built their programs around the Huracán’s linear power delivery and rear-drive balance, the transition to whatever comes next will mean adapting to an entirely different set of characteristics.
From Super Trofeo to Temerario GT3: The Bigger Picture
The reason to pay attention to Super Trofeo results goes beyond weekend podiums. Lamborghini’s Temerario GT3, which Lamborghini describes as the brand’s first competition car fully designed, developed, and built in-house, represents the next chapter of Squadra Corse’s racing ambitions. The championship-winning Wayne Taylor Racing team confirmed a four-car Super Trofeo North America effort for 2026, a sign that serious outfits see value in the series even as the platform approaches its generational handover.
The open question is what a Temerario-based Super Trofeo car will look like. Lamborghini confirmed the GT3 machine, but details on a dedicated one-make replacement remain unannounced. A shift from a naturally aspirated V10 to the Temerario’s twin-turbo V8 hybrid architecture would fundamentally change the character of the series. Drivers accustomed to the Huracán’s predictable, linear throttle response would face a different powerband, different weight distribution, and the added complexity of turbo lag management in close-quarters racing.
For Lamborghini owners watching from the paddock, the Super Trofeo grid offers something no press event or track day can replicate: proof that the engineering in their road cars survives genuine competition. When a Huracán Super Trofeo absorbs contact on lap four, recovers from a penalty, and still finishes inside the top ten, that durability argument carries more weight than any brochure specification. The second race of this weekend was scheduled for 12:35 CET, streamed live on the Lamborghini Squadra Corse website, continuing a broadcast accessibility that keeps the series visible to enthusiasts who cannot attend in person.
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