For the second successive round of the 2025 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe season, the Pro-Am class pairing of Georgi Dimitrov and Stéphan Guerin (CMR) claimed overall victory, while Paul Levet and Adam Putera (VSR) claimed a breakthrough maiden triumph in race two at Monza.
The single-make championship reserved for the Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 also reached a milestone figure of 700 drivers since the inaugural season in 2009 and hit a season record of 40 entries for the first of two trips to Italy this year.
Dimitrov and Guerin came out on top in a red-flagged opener on Saturday and maintained their 100% winning record in the Pro-Am class with another success in race two. Meanwhile, in the Pro category, Enzo Geraci and Josef Knopp extended their lead at the top of the standings with victory in race one (second overall) and third in Sunday’s encounter. VSR’s Stéphane Tribaudini and Piergiacomo Randazzo swept the Am class races, with Holger Harmsen (GT3 Poland) and Karim Ojjeh (Rexal Villorba Corse) splitting the Lamborghini Cup spoils.
Geraci and Knopp increase points lead as Levet and Putera bag maiden win
Due to fuel consumption concerns, the distance of both races was reduced to 47 minutes – with an additional formation lap – to ensure all cars reached the finish. After a crash in free practice, the #57 BDR Competition car of Kai Rillaerts and Kikko Galbiati was withdrawn due to excessive damage.
The #6 VSR Huracán EVO2 of Levet and Putera claimed pole position for the first race and initially led the way into turn one but dropped to fourth behind Silas Lovén Rytter on exit. Both Rytter and Levet remained close throughout the opening stint but the former slipped way down the order with a high-speed spin exiting the Ascari chicane. Levet assumed the lead again but was jumped by Enzo Geraci – who took over from Josef Knopp in the #36 Oregon Team Huracán – after the pit window closed. Now lapping a second per lap quicker, Geraci chased down the overall race win, but a full course yellow period was followed by a red flag stoppage following a crash for the Lamborghini Cup entry of Gerhard Watzinger on the exit of the second Lesmo. With limited time to clear the incident, the race did not restart, handing Geraci and Knopp a second successive Pro win, from SF Squadra Corse by SC Motorsport’s Matteo Desideri and Andrea Fontana, while Uniq Racing’s Jerzy Spinkiewicz completed the podium in third.
Sunday’s second race was chaotic even before the lights went out, as contact at the front of the field between Pro-Am polesitter Miloš Pavlović (ASR) and Stéphane Lemeret bunched the pack up and caused significant disruption behind. The melee allowed Putera to leap all the way up to third as Leipert Motorsport’s Calle Bergman led the way from pole. A lengthy safety car intervention for further contact followed, with Putera dropping back to fourth behind Benedetto Strignano after failing to get past Luchetti at turn one. The big casualty in the opening lap incident was Spinkiewicz who was forced out with damage after contact with Cedric Leimer. After the mandatory driver-change pit-stops, Månz Thalin maintained the lead that Bergman had built but came under pressure from Levet at the final safety car restart – after Francesco Turzo spun at Lesmo – losing the lead and then falling into the clutches of Strignano for third. Contact between the pair at the Roggia chicane dropped both out of the running for victory, and elevated Geraci and Knopp to the final step on the podium.
Dimitrov and Guerin at the double in Pro-Am
From the outside of the front row, Dimitrov made a strong start and braked later than polesitter Levet to drive around the outside at turn one to seize the overall lead of the race. He was quickly followed by the #68 DL Racing machine of Luca Segù who took up the chase of the #13 CMR Huracán until the pit window opened. Series returnee Frederik Schandorff was also in hot pursuit, running fifth overall early on before moving ahead of Levet approaching the end of his stint. Dimitrov’s pace remained competitive, and he handed over to Guerin with a lead of over a second from Segù’s team-mate Diego Locanto. Guerin then pulled away from Locanto and was even a match for some of the Pro class cars before the red flags came out. Dimitrov and Guerin duly secured their second overall victory of the season – after triumphing in race one at Paul Ricard – beating Locanto and Segù. Schandorff and team-mate Andrzej Lewandowski – also making his Super Trofeo comeback this weekend – were third in the #3 ASR Huracán.
With Pavlović out of contention, Guerin held the initiative during the early phases of the race, with the #3 ASR machine of Lewandowski keeping chase behind ahead of Anthony Nahra (BDR Competition). Nahra then improved to second around the outside of Lewandowski at the safety car restart before handing over to Dimitri Enjalbert at the stops. The #74 car held onto second place after the pit window closed but fell behind a resurgent Schandorff, who narrowly missed out on class victory at the end following a post-race penalty for Dimitrov for a short pit-stop. In taking another win, Dimitrov and Guerin maintained their perfect start to the 2025 season, with Nahra and Enjalbert completing the podium to boost their own championship hopes.
VSR stays out of trouble to claim Am sweep
Adrian Lewandowski (#5 GT3 Poland) put an FP2 crash at the Parabolica behind him to lead the early stages of the race in the Am category, with competition hot from Piergiacomo Randazzo (#66 VSR) who maintained his grid position in second. Behind, Paolo Biglieri (#32 ASR) held onto third, while Massimo Ciglia (#34 Oregon Team) managed to withstand the pressure from Alfredo Hernandez-Ortega (#77 BDR Grupo Prom Racing). The order stayed the same until the pit-stops, after which Randazzo’s team-mate Stéphane Tribaudini moved into the lead ahead of Lewandowski, while Ciglia’s team-mate Pietro Perolini jumped to third as Biglieri slipped to fifth. In the closing stages, Lewandowski and Giannoni came to blows at the first corner, the pair making contact and retiring from the race with the subsequent FCY neutralizing the field. That elevated Perolini to second at the finish, with Biglieri rewarded with a podium.
Amid the confusion at the start, Tribaudini lost his lead to Oregon Team’s Perolini and remained behind his class rival until the pit window opened. Behind, Adrian Lewandowski (GT3 Poland) was third ahead of Raffaele Giannoni who found himself embroiled in a lively scrap with the ASR Huracán of Biglieri. That battle came to a head when the pair collided, spinning Biglieri around at turn one. Having changed with Tribaudini, Randazzo was comfortable in the lead and won again with Ciglia and Perolini second. Giannoni finished third on the road prior to a post-race penalty, with Lewandowski fourth.
Harmsen and Ojjeh split the wins in LB Cup title struggle
Off the start, Donovan Privitelio got ahead of polesitter and Rexal Villorba Corse team-mate Karim Ojjeh and retainend his advantage until handing over to his father, Luciano, at the mandatory pit-stop. Ojjeh’s race went from bad to worse after contact with the #14 Oregon Team car of Adalberto Baptista at turn one, forcing both to retire. Baptista was handed a 10-second post-race penalty for his part in the incident. That promoted Gerhard Watzinger to second and Holger Harmsen to third before the pit window opened. Behind, there was drama for the #18 Champion Motor Sport by DL Racing entry of Chi Chung Chan, who spun on the exit of Ascari, briefly hitting the barrier. The Hong Kong driver found reverse and continued without causing a full course yellow. Watzinger then moved ahead of Luciano Privitelio after the stops and looked set to take victory in the #70 Leipert Motorsport entry, before crashing at the exit of Lesmo 2, hitting the barriers. Watzinger emerged unscathed but victory went to Harmsen (GT3 Poland) from the Privitelios and Claude-Yves Gosselin (Rexal Villorba Corse).
Much like the opening encounter, race two provided drama right until the end, as Saturday winner Harmsen lost a near-certain third place in the closing stages. That enabled Gosselin to claim a second consecutive podium finish for Villorba Corse as team-mate Ojjeh beat Baptista to victory.
Quotes
Georgi Dimitrov, overall and Pro-Am race one winner (#13 CMR): “It was a super race from us, I managed to get a really good start and then from then, I just had to control the pace and the rear tyres for when my team-mate got in the car. It was a perfectly executed race, and I am not sure there was anything else we could have done, so really happy with the victory.”
Stéphan Guerin (#13 CMR): “A lot of satisfaction after this victory; Georgi had a magnificent start and gave me the car with around one second in the lead. I needed to keep the same rhythm in the second stint and the team managed the race really well, everything went well and without problem so pretty happy with my times which give me confidence for the next one.”
Adam Putera, overall race two winner (#6 VSR): “It was a really good stint for me; I saw that the red lights were still flashing so I was patient and waited to go full gas and I went from P8 to P3. Then I got past the polesitter and handed over to Paul for the second stint. It feels really good to get the first victory, especially after the weekend we had.”
Paul Levet (#6 VSR): “This is my first victory, but also my first podium, full of emotion because it was such a tough season for me last year. It has been impossible to show what I am capable of until now, and this season also started quite difficult. This is kind of a redemption for us, and our engineer made a great call with the timing of the pit-stop, so this is the best way to get our first win: home race for the team and perfect execution from everyone.”
2025 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe calendar
Round 1 – Paul Ricard (April 11-13)
Round 2 – Monza (May 30 – June 1)
Round 3 – Spa-Francorchamps (June 25-28)
Round 4 – Nürburgring (August 29-31)
Round 5 – Barcelona (October 10-12)
Round 6 – Misano (November 6-7)
Lamborghini World Finals – Misano (November 8-9)
