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Fledgling talent and proven champions are set to lock horns as the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia season gets underway April 24-26 at Malaysia’s 5.543km Sepang International Circuit. An intriguing field of professional and privateer drivers from 11 nations and territories will contest the opening double-header with the fleet of Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2s as the six-round, five-country 2026 season bursts into life.

A major boon to this year’s series is the return to Asia of successful Italian team Vincenzo Sospiri Racing (VSR). The reigning European Lamborghini Super Trofeo champions enter PRO line-up Liam Sceats of New Zealand and Polish driver Gustaw Wisniewski.

Both drivers are newcomers to the Asian series, but 20-year-old Auckland-born sportscar rookie Sceats already has an impressive junior single seater career under his belt, one which spans Oceania, Japan and the USA. The career of VSR team mate Wisniewski also has its foundations in karting and junior single seaters, and at 18-years-of-age he has already established himself as a front-runner during the 2025 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe season. 

VSR will run a second car in Asia for the PRO-AM entry of double Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia champion Chris van der Drift of New Zealand and Australian team mate Todd Kingsford. The pair competed together at the tail end of last season, swooping to a pair of Pro-Am wins and overall podiums in Sepang before rounding out their year with a standout 2025 Lamborghini Super Trofeo World Finals performance.

Successful Chinese squad Climax Racing returns to the series after powering Liu Kaishun and Cao Qikuan to the PRO-AM title in 2025. This season they enter a formidable line-up of Finland’s Elias Seppänen and China’s Pan Deng. 

Seppänen, 22, launched his racing career in Asia at Sepang, when he finished runner-up in the region’s Formula 4 championship. Changing lanes to GT competition, he took two GT Masters titles in Europe before returning to Asia, where he has cemented his reputation as one of the region’s most competitive GT drivers with Climax Racing. Likewise, Pan is also an accomplished GT campaigner on the race tracks of Asia, and the new pairing promises to represent formidable competition for their rivals.

Successful Korean squad Lamborghini Bundang by Racegraph makes a welcome return to the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia in 2026, with its three-car entry on the hunt for the PRO and Lamborghini Cup titles.

China’s Peter Li Zhicong, second runner-up in the PRO standings last season, teams up with exciting 21-year-old American young gun and reigning Formula Regional Americas champion Titus Sherlock. The combination of Li, one of China’s most experienced and successful international campaigners, and San Diego-born Sherlock is an enticing prospect as the pair embark upon this first season together.

Campaigning Lamborghini Bundang by Racegraph’s second Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 are Lamborghini Cup entrants Singapore’s Gerald Goh Eng Peng, third in the standings last season despite missing the opening round, and Hong Kong’s Terence Tse. The pair proved a winning combination in Fuji last season when they teamed up to take a class victory in race one.

The team completes its line-up with Steven Chian of Chinese Taipei and Korean Kim Sangho. Chian returns to the series having taken Lamborghini Cup podium finishes during a partial season in 2024, while Kim finished fifth in the standings last year having taken two class wins and three podiums across the trio of races he contested.

Leading the AM and Lamborghini Cup charge into the new season are two multiple champions, both from the Kingdom of Thailand and each long-time, enthusiastic supporters of the series. 

Two-time AM champion Suttiluck Buncharoen will defend his title with True Vision Motorsports Thailand having vanquished one of the most competitive-ever class entries last season.

Siamgas Corse’s Supachai Weeraborwornpong trounced his Lamborghini Cup rivals last year to claim his fourth-class title, a Lamborghini Cup Super Trofeo Asia record. Seven victories over six rounds on race tracks spanning six countries saw Weeraborwornpong take the title by a healthy margin. 

Weeraborwornpong’s season-long Lamborghini Cup rival and loyal Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia campaigner Kumar Prabakaran makes a welcome return. Third in the class in 2025, despite having missed the Shanghai round, the experienced Malaysian opens his 2026 campaign at this home-track Sepang.

Also returning to the fray is KAM LUNG Racing’s AM entry of solo driver Bertram Lau. The Hong Kong driver contested only a partial season in 2025, but finished fourth in the 2024 PRO-AM standings.

Opened in 1999, the Hermann Tilke-designed Sepang International Circuit is one of the busiest race tracks in Asia, and hosted the country’s round of the Formula One world championship from its opening until 2017. 

Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia 2026 calendar