NEWS

A packed grid of 39 Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo Evo2 race cars opened the 2026 Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America season, including a North American record 13 Pro class cars. This covered 16 teams and 14 Lamborghini dealers.

Both Pro and ProAm saw the winners sweep the weekend while Am and LB Cup featured variety with a pair of different winners in both classes over both 50-minute races.

Will Bamber and Elias De La Torre opened the year strongest in Pro and overall in their TR3 Racing entry representing Lamborghini Miami, while Danny Formal and Graham Doyle’s first weekend together in ProAm also produced a pair of wins in their Wayne Taylor Racing entry representing Lamborghini Palm Beach.

Other weekend winners included Nick Groat (XONINE Racing, Lamborghini Chicago) and Dean Neuls (TR3 Racing, Lamborghini Miami) in Am and Ray Shahi (Taurino Racing, Lamborghini Newport Beach) and Rocky T. Bolduc (Topp Racing, Lamborghini Greenwich) in LB Cup.

The weekend double winners also lead their championships heading out of Sebring, with Bamber and De La Torre starting strong in Pro and Formal and Doyle doing the same in ProAm. Groat, Staab and Schwartz are tied for the points lead in Am, with Race 2 winner Neuls just behind. LB Cup is similarly close, with Shahi unofficially and marginally ahead of Touchette and Bolduc. Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America heads to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca for Rounds 3 and 4 in a little over a month, from May 1-3.

Race Recaps

Pro

Race 1: From pole, Will Bamber in his No. 29 TR3 Racing, Lamborghini Miami, Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo Evo2 built a steady lead over Danny Formal – now racing in ProAm in the team’s No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing, Lamborghini Palm Beach, Huracán – with the next Pro car, the sister No. 1 Wayne Taylor Racing Huracán entry started by Formal’s 2025 teammate Hampus Ericsson, a few seconds behind.

The mandatory pit stop window saw the lead trio remain in order, with the only subsequent change Ericsson’s new co-driver Nick Persing moving into second overall past Formal’s new co-driver Graham Doyle. Bamber’s co-driver Elias De La Torre beat Persing by 5.157 seconds. Ernie Francis Jr. finished third as a solo driver in Pro in the No. 28 Alliance Racing, Lamborghini Broward, Huracán as his co-driver, Luke Berkeley, fell ill just prior to race start. Francis soldiered on for his first Super Trofeo podium finish since the last two North American season races of 2024 at Jerez.

Race 2: It took Bamber’s bold move with 14 minutes remaining into Turn 1 in his No. 29 TR3 Huracán and a safe launch out of the corner ahead of the pit-exiting Ericsson in the No. 1 WTR Huracán to ensure Bamber and co-driver De La Torre could complete a weekend sweep in the Pro class. A pair of incidents shifted the mandatory pit window back to a later period of 20 minutes to 10 minutes left rather than the usual 30 minutes to 20-minute stint.

That also affected the strategy, where most of the field – including De La Torre from the lead – opted to pit at the first available opportunity once the revised pit window opened and the race went back to green. The combination of a swift pit stop and Bamber’s push on the out lap ensured he had just enough pace to sweep through to the lead as Ericsson’s teammate, Persing, tried an overcut strategy to keep the lead by going longer on-track. Bamber took the win by 1.877 seconds. ANSA Motorsports secured its first podium finish of the weekend with Lamborghini Young Driver Program Shootout winner Colin Queen sharing his No. 4 Huracán with Jamaican driver Tommi Gore, a series newcomer.

ProAm

Race 1: Danny Formal and Graham Doyle enjoyed a strong drive in their No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing, Lamborghini Palm Beach, Huracán. Formal has shifted to ProAm following his maximum five years raced in Pro through 2025, and the three-time Pro champion now races alongside the 2025 Am champion, Doyle, who steps up to ProAm. They controlled Race 1 over the newly paired duo of Keawn Tandon and Lindsay Brewer finished second in ProAm in the No. 77 Forty7 Motorsports, Lamborghini Philadelphia, Huracán. Kaizen Autosport got a podium with its pairing of Seth Henry and Wyatt Foster in the No. 44 Huracán representing Lamborghini Palm Beach.

Race 2: ProAm followed in similar fashion to Race 1 on Thursday, with the same winners prevailing once more. Formal and Doyle doubled up in their No. 10 WTR Huracán. Kaizen Henry and Foster in their No. 44 Huracán improved from third to second, while Forty7 Motorsports’ Brewer and Tandon were third in their No. 77 Huracán after finishing second on Thursday.

Am

Race 1: Perhaps the best battle of the race came in Am, with the top three covered by the proverbial blanket of just 2.206 seconds after 50 minutes of caution-free racing. The 2024 and 2025 LB Cup champion and double 2025 Sebring winner, Nick Groat, grabbed the win in his new class debut in his No. 57 XONINE Racing, Lamborghini Chicago, Huracán by 0.911 seconds over David Staab in the No. 48 Precision Performance Motorsports, Lamborghini Palm Beach, Huracán and Johan Schwartz in his No. 89 89x Motorsports, Lamborghini Sarasota, Huracán. Groat, who hadn’t raced since September at Indianapolis, held off Staab’s furious charge back through the field. Staab’s fluorescent yellow highlighter No. 48 car lost its right-side mirror and recovered from a pair of contacts. Schwartz led early and also mounted a comeback from a drive-through for a pit speed violation.

Race 2: Dean Neuls banked five podium finishes in 2025, but the driver of the No. 70 TR3, Lamborghini Miami, Huracán had not yet finished on the top step. He finished up top today ahead of Schwartz in his No. 89 89x Huracán and Staab in his No. 48 PPM Huracán. Both Schwartz and Staab finished on the podium both days.

LB Cup

Race 1: LB Cup was relatively uneventful, with Ray Shahi scoring the class win in his No. 65 Taurino Racing, Lamborghini Newport Beach, Huracán over Philippe Touchette in his No. 11 TB Autosports, Lamborghini Montreal, Huracán and Clay Wilson in his No. 37 TR3 Racing, Lamborghini Orlando, Huracán. Early race leader Rocky T. Bolduc, returning to Topp Racing in his No. 99, Lamborghini Greenwich, Huracán fell back after a short pit stop that necessitated a drive-through.

Race 2: There was late-race drama in LB Cup, as Bolduc got on the board for the first time in 2026 in his No. 99 Topp Huracán. Courtesy of a late-race pass on Race 1 winner Shahi in the No. 65 Taurino Huracán, Bolduc moved to the lead in the waning minutes, and Touchette in his No. 11 TB Huracán got past Shahi as well. Shahi held on for third.

Driver Quotes

Pro

Will Bamber (No. 29 TR3 Racing): “That (pass) was the dramatic part, but it really came down to everything before it. One small mistake and we would have been behind. His in lap had to be so good, the pit stop had to be good, and the out lap had to be good to. I had to go for it; hopefully it looked good on TV!”

Elias De La Torre (No. 29 TR3 Racing): “You always hope to be in front the whole season, but you have to see what happens! I think we have a great team getting the car ready. If we can continue working together like we do, we have a great shot from here.”

Nick Persing (No. 1 Wayne Taylor Racing): "It was a great weekend here in Sebring coming away second in the championship, you can't complain. I do think we had the pace for some wins, but the WTR gave us an amazing car, and we did what we could. The No. 29 car was a fast car; I think it's going to be a slug fest between us and them all season. I'm looking forward to Laguna Seca, my home race. I'll have a lot of people there, and I know that track pretty well. Hopefully we can get two wins there."

Hampus Ericsson (No. 1 Wayne Taylor Racing): “We just wrapped up the first LST weekend of the year finishing P2 in the PRO class in both races for me and Nick. We had a mega car all weekend, just a few small little things we were lacking to get the W, but great momentum and the WTR team gave us a mega car all weekend. Looking forward to Laguna Seca where we will have some redemption."

Ernie Francis Jr. (No. 28 Alliance Racing): “We’ve worked very hard for the last month to dial it in for Luke and I. He didn’t feel too great in his qualifying session so we played it safe. I prepped for it, and we knew we’d have to do a longer pit stop and I tried to run qualifying laps to make up for it. Super happy to be back on a podium!”

Colin Queen (No. 4 ANSA Motorsports): “We had some gremlins with the car but we rallied. Tommi got an amazing start. getting us to P3 in class and holding that down. Obviously, I think we have the pace to be competing, you know, at the at the very top. But, you know, I think today we can come away with a positive start for us in this ANSA Lamborghini.”

Tommi Gore (No. 4 ANSA Motorsports): “It’s surreal; I’m coming into my first weekend ever racing in North America. I did one single kart race when I was like 8 at Homestead. And from then I've been racing, whether it's in Jamaica or regionally in the Caribbean, the last two years, I did have the fortunate opportunity to go race in GT4 in Germany before making a transition over here. I got in contact with ANSA Motorsports and they said, hey, Super Trofeo is an amazing place to be. Young drivers should come try it out and we know you can be fast. We have Colin Queen on-board. Race 1 obviously, it was not optimal with an issue, which left us out of the race at the end of it. But today I knew I started P6, that there was a lot of opportunity to be had. So handing over the car to Colin in P3 was really good, and then he obviously took it home from there. So happy to be here!”

ProAm

Graham Doyle (No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing): "A great weekend overall and so happy to finally be working with Danny in Super Trofeo, it's like a dream come true. This is my fourth year in Super Trofeo, and I've worked alongside Danny all those years, but working with him in the car I just feel like I'm learning so much. The influx of information, working in the exact same car, is unbelievable and unparalleled." 

Danny Formal (No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing): "Overall a great weekend with two overall top fives with third yesterday and a fourth today and two ProAm wins. A phenomenal job by Graham and by the WTR team. Fast lap of the race in Race 1 and in Race 2 just shows how good our car is and how good the WTR group is. WTR, DEX, Lamborghini Palm Beach - everybody is working extremely hard and they gave us a rocket ship. I'm super happy and couldn’t have asked for a better weekend. We will keep working and try to make the car even faster for Laguna Seca."

Lindsay Brewer (No. 77 Forty7 Motorsports): “Great weekend to start. It was my first time back in the car since November, at the Lamborghini World Finals. So new team, new teammate, didn't know what to expect, but I couldn't be happier. Keawn is the best teammate I could ask for. He was flying out there yesterday and today, and he made up a lot of positions, and we were able to take home another podium. So, an incredible weekend, and I can't think Forty7 motorsports enough.”

Keawn Tandon (No. 77 Forty7 Motorsports): “I mean, this was a fairly last-minute deal and I think, you know, Lindsay's done an amazing job just coming in last minute. She hasn't driven since November and she's on the rails off the bat. So that made it easier for me to go finish the job.”

Am

Nick Groat (No. 57 XONINE Racing): “It’s beyond a dream debut; really unexpected. We did a test and the car felt amazing. But we really struggled in the race. For the crew to fix it – I’m absolutely speechless!”

Dean Neuls (No. 70 TR3 Racing): “It’s been a lot of work, but it feels so amazing. I had a ProAm car in front of me the last few laps of the race and P2 and P3 behind me breathing down my neck! I did everything I could to get by the guy in front but couldn’t. They’re quick drivers though. I’ve not been so happy to see a checkered flag!”

David Staab (No. 48 Precision Performance Motorsports): “It was one of the most action-packed races we’ve ever had. Having the contact, losing the mirror is really tough at a track like Sebring where there’s so many right-handers and big brake zones. It was a close battle the whole way through; PPM gave us a great car and Nick Groat drove a good race up front. He didn’t make any mistakes. It’s stiff competition in Am this year; lots of fast guys.”

LB Cup

Ray Shahi (No. 65 Taurino Racing): “It was a great weekend at least as I was leading today with three minutes left; there was another car parked under the bridge. I took evasive action to avoid it, and I went wide on the marbles and brushed the wall. My competition passed there. But it’s been a good week. This new team is amazing.”

Rocky T. Bolduc (No. 99 Topp Racing): “Let me tell you, as my wife says, every setback has got a comeback! We did exactly that with this move forward. It was amazing racing against these guys. Ray gave me a run for my money and Philippe is a fast driver.”