Mixed luck for our French at Imola in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe

For this 16th season of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe, the Sant’Agata Bolognese brand played at home in support of the WEC where the SC63 and two Huracan GT3s were on the line.

▶️ Ali/Söderström, Bonduel come out on top in the Imola opener

No less than 52 Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo EVO2s were on the race for two rounds of 50 minutes. If race 1 had a lot of weather surprises and the release of red flags, the second one was calm.

Course 1

Target Racing can thank the tire strategy of leaving Oliver Söderström and Largim Ali in the pits. At the end of 12 racing laps, the #9 tandem won with a lead of 0.487s over the pair of Balthasar/Riegel (Leipert Motorsport), with the final step of the podium going to Caglioni/Geraci (Team Oregon).

The other classes performed well at the start of the 2024 season, as shown by a fourth place in the Pro-Am as well as a win in the Pro-Am of Roee Meyuhas and Renaud Kuppens for Boutsen VDS. As for the Lamborghini Cup, Martin/Keats did well to finish in 8th place. Nigel Bailly, who is playing this season in the ART-Line camp, won the Am class by finishing in the top 10 overall.

On the French side, Paul Levet (Oregon Team) took 12th place with the Hungarian László Tóth. For the CMR team from the Bourachot family, Loris Cabirou and Quentin Antonel finished race 1 in 15th place, two places ahead of Edgar Maloigne for Iron Lynx. In VSR, Stéphane Tribaudini is just short of a loudspeaker in the Am class (24th overall). For his debut with Schumacher CLRT, Stephan Guérin finished in the top 5 of the Am class, 27th overall. You have to drop to 32nd to find Simon Tirman and Simon Gachet, the leading tandem in the Schumacher CLRT. Autovitesse is back with Cédric Leimer and Julien Piguet this season in the Am class (last 8th place).

Pegasus Racing, Julien Schell’s team, is one of the contenders with Anthony Nahra and Dimitri Enjalbert in the Pro class, 38th overall. Karim Ojjeh moves to Team Aggressive Italia in Am with 40th place. Lola Lovinfosse associated with Jean-Baptiste Mela in Schumacher CLRT has to settle for 43rd place, two places ahead of the pair of Lémeret/Gillion (CMR). Claude-Yves Gosselin, a loyal member of the Lamborghini line-up, gave common reasons with promising youngster Joran Leneutre in Iron Lynx in Pro-Am, but the #4 crew was not rewarded (49th). The same observation with Cyril Saleilles (Rexal Villorba Corse) who climbed alone in this 50-minute circuit, 50th down the scoreboard.

Course 2

Sixth in race 1, Amaury Bonduel qualified for Sunday’s race. At the end of the race’s 24 laps, the BDR Racing and Grupo Prom driver had everyone in agreement by leading the winners from the previous day by 1.524 seconds. The pair Rosina/Formanek (Micanek Motorsport Powered by Buggyra) wins the Pro-Am class. The Am class goes to Perolini/Roda (Team Oregon) and the Lamborghini Cup to Abkhazava for ART-Line.

Paul Levet (Team Oregon) did one better than Saturday to take 10th, two places ahead of Gachet/Tirman (Schumacher CLRT). In Iron Lynx, Gosselin/Leneutre took an impressive 2nd in the Pro-Am (19th overall). Twenty-sixth place for Lovinfosse/Mela (Schumacher CLRT) and 29th place for Cabirou/Antonel (CMR). The second CMR Lamborghini, shared by Lémeret/Gillion, finished 32nd, ahead of Leimer/Piguet (Autovitesse) and Nahra/Enjalbert (Pegasus Competition). Cyril Saleilles (Rexal Villorba Corse) is in the top 10 of the Am class Stéphan Guérin (Schumacher CLRT) brings up the rear of the title.

▶️ All results are HERE