Super Trofeo Stories: Rocky T Bolduc

Sitting in his front room, the smile on Tommy “Rocky” Bolduc’s face speaks volumes. This is a driver who has spent his entire life in awe of Lamborghini. And now he gets to race one in the Lamborghini Cup class of Super Trofeo North America.

It’s the childhood dream fulfilled.

“As a kid, you’re either a Lamborghini, Porsche or Ferrari fan, and for me it was always Lamborghini. I had a picture of a white Countach on my wall and growing up, that car always excited.

“It was ‘unachievable’ but as you grow up and start working and building a family, if you’re fortunate these things become realistic.

“Thankfully my business became successful and that allowed me to reward myself with a Lamborghini, and everything else has led on from that moment I first got in touch with the sales manager.

“We talked about the Huracán Performante which was the pinnacle of the Nürburgring at the time and after being introduced to the brand and the aftersales, I fell in love with Lamborghini even more.”

As a customer, Bolduc was invited to several Lamborghini events such as the Accademia Neve in his native Canada, but racing was still far from his mind.

That changed in time though, and the graduation to competition was almost an inevitability thereafter, albeit not without its own challenges.

“Things just snowballed one after the other,” Bolduc continues. “You get into the brand, buy the car, get invited to all of these events and we got invited to this charity event and met like-minded people who also love Lamborghini.

“I bought my car in June and went to this event in November, and I had heard of Corso Pilota before and there was an opening in the programme at that time. And I went with a buddy of mine to Vegas in 2018 which was a quick crash-course experience of what it could be like as a racing driver.

“After that, I came back home and realised I had to go back to work, but I said to myself that I wanted to relive these experiences again because, at that time, I wasn’t in a financial position to start racing or even think about racing, I had rewarded myself with a car.”

Fast forward a couple of years and Bolduc now found himself in a position to be able to afford to go racing properly, and the competitive itch he’d resisted since that first outing in Corso Pilota led him straight to former Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America champion and current driver coach, Corey Lewis.

“That’s when I met Corey, who is now my mentor, and we immediately hit it off in 2021,” Bolduc explains.

“I went back in 2022 and 2023 and invited my wife along, and she fell in love with Lamborghini too. I asked Corey how I could get into racing, and he said that he would help me, and we talked more with Lamborghini and decided to do it.

“When I was ready, it was around December 2023 and I wanted to do the full season in 2024, but I am so new to racing I didn’t realise that was really late in the year to decide to go racing!”

Having attended the opening round of the 2024 season at Sebring, Bolduc got his first taste of Lamborghini Super Trofeo as a spectator, soaking up the experience which he describes as an ‘incredible feeling’.

By then, the bug was really setting in and Bolduc was desperate to finally make his debut, which he eventually did at Watkins Glen, his effective home track.

“Leaving Sebring I was like ‘yep, this is what I want to do’ but at this time, I didn’t have a race licence, I thought you could just turn up with your driver’s licence!

“And in order to get the licence, I had to do a certification; we found a car in Texas, a brand-new 2022 Super Trofeo, and the same week I flew out to Vegas with Dream Racing and got my licence.

“But to get my IMSA licence, I had to do four SCCA races – which meant I needed to get my SCCA licence! Thankfully my Dream Racing certificate was enough to do that and after the SCCA races, I finally got my IMSA licence for Watkins Glen.”

Having jumped through all the necessary hoops, Bolduc took to the grid at the iconic track in Upstate New York.

After a steady start in which Bolduc admits to having a bag of nerves, the Canadian American quickly made progress and would have had a maiden podium finish in the LB Cup class had it not been for a post-race penalty for a pit-stop infringement.

Nevertheless, he made it through the weekend unscathed and with the car in one piece, leaving Bolduc eager for more. A further appearance at Indianapolis sowed the seeds for a full-season campaign in 2025, which began in promising fashion with a podium finish in race two at Sebring.

“There is no doubt that I would not be where I am today were it not for Corey Lewis,” Bolduc says. “He doesn’t get half the recognition he deserves, but he saw something in me that made him believe in me and I want to thank him for that trust.

“He saw that I was very hungry for it, to improve and get better and he has to be the most influential person in my racing career, for sure.

“All of the tracks apart from Watkins Glen are new to me so I am learning all the time, but it will be special to go back to Watkins Glen because it’s kind of like a full circle from where I began my motorsport journey.”

As part of the RAFA Racing Team, Bolduc has been on an upward trajectory over the past 12 months, and he will no doubt be looking to take further steps at his “home” track on June 19-22.