Lamborghini Trofeo North America set for Sebring season opener

Lamborghini Trofeo North America set for Sebring season opener

Anticipated Field Of 39 Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo Evo2 Cars Expected


The 14th season of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America (LSTNA) championship starting this weekend at Sebring International Raceway will mark an end of an era but still is set to feature fantastic racing from deep fields covering the best Super Trofeo teams and Lamborghini Dealers throughout North America.

 

The Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo Evo2 race car is set for its fifth season of competition since its 2022 debut in North America, building off the success of the first iteration Huracán that ran before. In 2027, the all-new Temerario Super Trofeo built by Lamborghini will take to tracks worldwide.

 

Teams have built a strong database with the Huracán over the years and now have more data on Hankook’s new L63H tire, which premiered midseason in 2025 and provided additional grip and durability to competitors as they tame the 600-plus horsepower on offer.

 

The 2026 calendar will mirror the 2025 one in North America, with two 50-minute races apiece at Sebring, WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Watkins Glen International, Road America and Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

 

The Lamborghini World Finals this year stay in Italy but shift from Misano to the iconic Monza Circuit – officially called Autodromo Nazionale Monza. The World Finals include the last two North American rounds before all three Lamborghini Super Trofeo regions, North America, Europe and Asia, converge for a full weekend covering all four classes.

 

The entry list features 39 cars, one shy of 40 after a late withdrawal. A total of 16 teams representing 14 Lamborghini dealerships (Palm Beach, Austin, Broward, Miami, Chicago, Philadelphia, Newport Beach, Greenwich, Montreal, San Francisco, Sarasota, Orlando, Washington and Downers Grove) will race at Sebring. The dealerships provide support to the team programs.

 

Teams run in four classes – Pro, ProAm, Am and LB Cup – with drivers ranging from Gold to Bronze ratings to fit the class parameters. The 50-minute races feature a mandatory 10-minute pit stop window once opened midway through the race. The minimum pit stop time (clocked from a car entering pit lane to when it exits) covers off both single and two-driver requirements, with a slightly longer minimum stop for single-driver entries (63 seconds for single driver versus 60 for two drivers).

 

All four classes enjoyed healthy championship battles in 2025 and are set to be similarly engaging in 2026. There are at least 10 past Super Trofeo North America champions in the field, including the champions from each of the past four years in Pro.

 

Hampus Ericsson (2025), Giano Taurino (2024) and Ernie Francis Jr. (2024) all have a chance to add additional Pro titles in three different cars. Ericsson is part of Wayne Taylor Racing’s No. 1 Wayne Taylor Racing, Lamborghini Palm Beach, Pro car alongside co-driver Nick Persing, who shifts over from running solo in 2025. Taurino enters his own No. 88 Taurino Racing, Lamborghini Newport Beach, car while Francis Jr. is part of the No. 28 Alliance Racing, Lamborghini Broward, car with 2021 Am champion Luke Berkeley.

 

Plenty of other contenders exist in a 12-car Pro class, including 2025 runners-up Elias De La Torre and Will Bamber back in the No. 29 TR3 Racing, Lamborghini Miami, Huracán, ANSA Motorsports’ pair of Lamborghini Young Driver Program Shootout winner Colin Queen and newcomer Tommi Gore in their No. 4 Lamborghini Broward Huracán, the No. 7 WTR, Lamborghini Palm Beach, pro car of James Wallis and Al Morey, XONINE Racing’s Darius Trinka and Dominic Starkweather in their No. 33 Lamborghini Chicago Huracán, an all-female lineup of Jem Hepworth now joined by sports car and open-wheel veteran Tati Calderon in the No. 2 RAFA Racing Lamborghini Austin entry and remaining entries from Atlantic Racing Team, Precision Performance Motorsports, Topp Racing and Forty7 Motorsports. The latter entry from Forty7 features past class champion Keawn Tandon and Lindsey Brewer sharing the No. 77 Lamborghini Philadelphia Huracán.

 

Danny Formal and Kyle Marcelli, two other past Pro champions, will headline what should be an intense ProAm battle. The two won Pro titles together in 2022 and 2023, while Formal won Pro and the Lamborghini World Final Pro title with Ericsson in 2025. Formal and Marcelli will race against each other in 2026. Formal’s spent his maximum five years in Pro, so shifts to a ProAm No. 10 WTR, Lamborghini Palm Beach, car with 2025 Am champion Graham Doyle. Marcelli will share the No. 19 TB Autosports, Lamborghini Montreal, car with Mathieu Boucher.

 

Keep an eye out for veterans Paul Nemschoff and Marc Miller in ProAm, who switch to WTR with their No. 41 Lamborghini Palm Beach entry, and Mateo Siderman, who won three late-season Am races in 2025 and moves up to ProAm in 2026 with his No. 63 TR3 Racing, Lamborghini Miami, entry. SP Motorsports with emerging IMSA talent Jaden Conwright and Kaizen Autosport with 2024 ProAm champion Joel Miller also may shine in this class. RAFA Racing newcomers Chloe Chambers and Ian Porter also may figure in the No. 81 RAFA Racing Team, Lamborghini Austin, Huracán, as might Jackson Lee and Matt Jaskol in the No. 3 Forty7 Motorsports, Lamborghini Greenwich, Huracán,

 

The Am class includes some notable names including 2025 Am runner-up David Staab in PPM’s No. 48 Lamborghini Palm Beach entry, two-time LB Cup champion Nick Groat moving up to Am in the No. 57 XONINE Racing, Lamborghini Chicago, entry and Dean Neuls, a podium finisher from 2025 in the No. 70 TR3 Racing, Lamborghini Miami, entry.

 

In LB Cup, last year’s runner-up Rocky T. Bolduc will look to go one spot better as he switches to Topp Racing’s No. 99 Lamborghini Greenwich entry. Several other returnees and interesting newcomers will bolster what is another deep class.

 

Lamborghini Super Trofeo practices on Wednesday with qualifying Thursday morning and the two 50-minute races Thursday at 6:05 p.m. ET and Friday at 4:35 p.m. ET. Races stream via Peacock, IMSA’s YouTube channel and Lamborghini’s YouTube channel.

2025 Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America Sebring Race 1 Winners:

Pro: Danny Formal/Hampus Ericsson, No. 1 Wayne Taylor Racing
ProAm: Anthony McIntosh/Brendon Leitch, No. 69 Wayne Taylor Racing
Am: Graham Doyle/Glenn McGee, No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing
LB Cup: Nick Groat, No. 57 ONE Motorsports


2025 Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America Sebring Race 2 Winners:

Pro: Danny Formal/Hampus Ericsson, No. 1 Wayne Taylor Racing
ProAm: Darius Trinka/Tadas Karlinskas, No. 33 Rearden Racing
Am: Graham Doyle/Glenn McGee, No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing
LB Cup: Nick Groat, No. 57 ONE Motorsports


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