Lamborghini World Finals 2026: Brendon Leitch and Nicolas Stati crowned World Finals Pro winners at Monza

Auto Sport Racing’s Andrzej Lewandowski secured his third World Finals title by winning both of the combined Am-Lamborghini Cup races. The Pole previous won the Am crown in 2022, while he also prevailed in the Pro-Am class in 2019. After missing out on the North American title on Friday, Rocky T Bolduc (Topp Racing) picked up the Lamborghini Cup crown.

The 2026 Lamborghini World Finals also marked a full circle moment for the outgoing Huracán Super Trofeo, which completed its final weekend as the flagship model for the Sant’Agata Bolognese brand. Having made its debut in 2015, fittingly at Monza, it will be replaced next year by the Temerario Super Trofeo model.
 

PRO | PRO-AM
Race 1
Dennis Lind (TR3 Racing) struck the first blow in qualifying by grabbing the point for pole position, and the 2016 World Finals winner maintained his advantage at the start of the opening race on Saturday. Giving chase was Leitch who fended off fellow Kiwi Will Bamber (X09 Racing). Behind them, Wayne Taylor Racing’s Danny Formal made good progress from seventh on the grid, leaping three places to run behind Pro-Am leader Kyle Marcelli (TB Autosports). Giano Taurino (Taurino Racing) and Simone Iaquinta (DL Racing) then came to blows on the second lap, with contact sending Taurino spinning at turn one and dropping to 24th. Paolo Biglieri’s race came to a premature end as the Auto Sport Racing car ended up in the gravel at the final corner, bringing out the safety car briefly. After the restart and during a frenetic opening stint, Lind kept the #129 Huracán in front but the gap to Leitch was never more than three seconds as the pit window approached. Lind swapped with Elias de la Torre while Leitch handed over to Stati, with the margin between the pair extended to over five seconds after the window closed. Stati began to close the gap during his stint and got to within 2.5s of the American leader entering the final laps. However, that was all the Australian could manage as De la Torre and Lind took the win. Bamber followed the leaders in the opening stint but could not quite match the pace in the second half, coming under pressure from the #206 VSR Huracán of Liam Sceats – who had taken over from Gustaw Wisniewski. A solid stint from Wisniewski left Sceats fourth after the stops and the latter cut Bamber’s lead to under half a second. The two cars nearly went side by side over the line, with Bamber just edging out Sceats to the final step on the podium by just 0.2s, with WTR’s Nick Persing and Hampus Ericsson completing a strong drive to round out the top five.

The Pro-Am battle was a close-knit affair throughout as Marcelli, Pretorius and Jonathan Cecotto (Invictus Corse) ran together inside the top 10 early on. Mathieu Boucher, having taken over from Marcelli aboard the #119, emerged behind Pretorius’ co-driver Bronislav Formánek once the window closed and that’s the way they looked to finish before Boucher retired with two laps to go. That elevated Wyatt Foster and Seth Henry (Kaizen Autosport) to second, with Oregon Team’s Josef Knopp and Pietro Perolini taking third, despite a five-second penalty for cutting the first corner, ahead of Forty7 Motorsports’ Keawn Tandon and Lindsay Brewer.

Race 2
VSR’s Chris van der Drift was on pole for race two, with the best-placed Pro car of Bamber alongside on the front row of the grid. The pair negotiated the first corner safely, as Marc Miller’s Wayne Taylor Racing Pro-Am was collected, causing race-ending damage. Further around the opening lap, Al Morey IV (WTR) spun at turn three before being hit by the Atlantic Racing Huracán of James Lawley. The Forty7 Motorsports car of Brewer was also caught up in the incident and spun. That brought out the safety car for three laps, but the drama continued after the restart as race one winner De la Torre was left facing the wrong way after contact from Jaden Conwright, while Persing was also tapped into a spin by Henry. In Pro, Bamber continued to lead in second overall, while Stati dropped two positions to 11th off the line before becoming the first driver to make his pit-stop as the window opened. Leitch took over and started to make progress through the field, eventually doing enough to leapfrog Bamber – who served three seconds longer at his stop – by the time the window closed. This therefore gave the #70 the advantage in the second half of the race, with Leitch taking the overall race win and Pro title. Bamber also dropped behind the Pro VSR car of Wisniewski who took over from Sceats. The #206 showed strong pace in the final stages to finish second ahead of Bamber who completed the podium. Having dropped to 25th, the #129 made significant progress in the second stint after De la Torre handed over to Lind; the North American Pro champions showcased their raw speed as Lind finished fifth.

The Pro-Am win went the way of Kingsford and Van der Drift, capping off a superb season in which the Trans-Tasman pairing won every Super Trofeo Asia race in their class. The title-winning duo of Formánek and Pretorius protected their overnight points lead with ease; Pretorius took over at the stops and maintained third place before gaining one final position to secure the title in style. Auto Sport Racing’s Marzio Moretti and Biglieri enjoyed better fortunes than they did in the first race by taking a fine third place.

Brendon Leitch (#70 Leipert Motorsport), Pro World Finals winner: “It’s quite a big relief actually, I wasn’t quite sure how much it was going to mean for me, but it is pretty awesome. I won the Pro-Am World Finals in 2024 and to come back and win the Pro title with Nicolas, who has still not done a full season of GT racing, I could not have for much more. It’s a really good preparation for us both ahead of the start of our Asian Le Mans Series campaign with the Lamborghini Temerario GT3 in a couple of weeks’ time.”

Nicolas Stati (#70 Leipert Motorsport), Pro World Finals winner: “This has been a goal of mine to win the World Finals and I want to give a big thanks to Brendon, if it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t be here racing this weekend, and to Leipert Motorsport who have done a fantastic job. The second race was all about keeping out of trouble because there were a few people trying to win the race on the first lap which never really goes well. We got out of the dirty air for a couple of laps and that got us closer to the front when Brendon got in the car.”

Anthony Pretorius (#11 Mičánek Motorsport), Pro-Am World Finals winner: “It’s been a perfect season for us as a team, this is the first World Finals victory for Mičánek so this one means a lot. It’s also a big weight off our shoulders too, so it was definitely good to seal and round off the season in a mega way. In the second race, the team told me that I had a good lead, even though I was taking a few risks early on. But we calmed it down and had no problems, so we got the win.”

Bronislav Formánek (#11 Mičánek Motorsport), Pro-Am World Finals winner: “I am very happy to finally win the World Finals, it has been a big dream for us so to have this result is a big satisfaction. Anthony did a great job all season and especially this weekend and the team worked well together to deliver this success.”

AM | Lamborghini cup
Race 1
After storming to pole position by the best part of one second in the morning, Lewandowski led away off the rolling start, with Renaud Kuppens (Mičánek Motorsport powered by Buggyra) second. David Staab (Precision Performance Motorsports) ran third despite having to cut across the escape road at the second part of the chicane, much like the leading pair in Lamborghini Cup, Donovan Privitelio (Rexal Villorba Corse) and Bolduc. Lewandowski, Kuppens and Staab made an early break at the front, gapping the second PPM Huracán of Gabriel Holguin, who had Raffaele Giannoni (Automobile Tricolore) for company, in fourth. Lewandowski’s pace was no match for those behind and the Polish driver established a commanding lead of nearly seven seconds before the pit window opened after 18 minutes. Kuppens elected to stay out before swapping with team-mate Jakub Knoll, the latter coming back out just behind Lewandowski despite the ASR Huracán having to serve an additional three seconds at its stop. Lewandowski’s dominance continued in the second half of the race and, despite having to defend a one-second penalty for a short pit-stop at the safety car restart with two minutes remaining – following an off for DL Racing’s Francesco Galli at the first Lesmo – he came home to victory by 2.142s. Knoll finished third on the road, but was elevated to second, after a frantic battle with Staab and Holguin after the stops. Staab had taken second place after a well-judged dive to the inside of the final corner but was made to pay for his lap one chicane cut as he was penalised five seconds, dropping to fifth. That initially promoted Holguin to the final step on the podium before he was excluded for a technical infringement. Raffaele Giannoni (Automobile Tricolore) therefore finished third. Donovan Privitelio was the early LB Cup leader after a strong qualifying performance left him sixth on the grid. Bolduc held onto second in class, despite the best efforts of Leipert Motorsport’s Fred Roberts behind, with the order remaining unchanged until after the pit window closed. Bolduc closed to within a second of Luciano Privitelio prior to the safety car intervention and made his move to seize the lead on the final lap approaching the second chicane. Claude-Yves Gosselin also made it past his Villorba Corse team-mate before the flag, cementing second place with the Privitelios third.

Race 2
Lewandowski was also on pole for the second race of the weekend on Sunday but temporarily lost the lead to Stéphane Lémeret (CMR) at the first corner. Lémeret missed his braking zone and cut the chicane but, despite ceding the place back to Lewandowski at the Parabolica, the Belgian driver nevertheless was penalised five-seconds. In Lamborghini Cup, DL Racing’s Philip Tang had a superb getaway, leaping six places from seventh on the grid to lead the class from Bolduc and Gosselin. The virtual standings were rarely stable throughout the opening stint, as Bolduc dropped to fourth while Gosselin moved into second place, leaving the pair equal on points. At the front, Lewandowski and Lémeret continued to lead the way, with the former pitting with four minutes left in the window. Lémeret stayed out one lap longer and, with Lewandowski waiting three seconds longer, the #27 – now with Gillion at the wheel – moved into the lead. That didn’t last long, however, as Lewandowski made good use of his superior pace to move back ahead. There were significant changes in the LB Cup order after the pit window closed, as Gosselin dropped behind Bolduc after a slow stop before his race unravelled following contact with Philippe Touchette (TB Autosports). The safety car was deployed with just over six minutes remaining following an incident between Giannoni and Galli at Ascari. That left a final-lap shootout, which Lewandowski managed with ease, taking the race win and his second Am World Finals title – and third in total after winning the Pro-Am crown in 2019. Bolduc ran third after Gosselin’s woes and gained another place at the expense of Tang on the final lap to cement his LB Cup title. Christopher Koebbe took the race in LB Cup by five seconds with Adalberto Baptista (Oregon Team) completing the podium in third.

Andrzej Lewandowski (#16 Auto Sport Racing), World Finals Am winner: “I’m extremely happy. After four years, I’ve won the World Finals again in the Am class. This is my third world title: one in Pro-Am and two in Am. I’m really delighted because I’ve been waiting for this moment for a long time. Last year I came very close to winning, but I received some penalties. We won four races, but that’s part of racing. This year I’ve improved a lot. I’m particularly happy with the two victories because I dominated both races. Usually, I don’t take pole position in qualifying, as I tend to be much faster in the race. But this time I secured pole position and was able to control the race from the front. It’s a fantastic feeling.”

Rocky T Bolduc (#199 Topp Racing), World Finals Lamborghini Cup winner: “What an amazing end to the season! It would have been nice to take the race win in the second race but with a victory and second in the two races, that makes us the winners. I started on pole and all I had to do was keep the position, but I fell to second, then third and then fourth after the pit-stops and all of a sudden, we had a battle on our hands. But I gave it hell throughout and got back up to second and win the title. I have so many people to thank, most of all my most expensive friend, Corey Lewis, the whole Topp Racing team and of course my wife and three kids back home for their support.”