Geraci-Knopp (Oregon Team) retain Pro points lead heading into second half of the season
Sant’Agata Bolognese/Spa-Francorchamps, 28 June 2025 – The middle round of the 2025 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe season at Spa-Francorchamps produced plenty of drama and a pair of breakthrough wins for Uniq Racing’s Jerzy Spinkiewicz and the Leipert Motorsport duo Silas Lovén Rytter and Anthony Pretorius.
The series reserved for the Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 visited the iconic Belgian circuit for the 17th time since its inception in 2009 and, amid searing summer heat, delivered two high-intensity 50-minute encounters. In the Pro standings, Oregon Team’s Enzo Geraci and Josef Knopp continue to lead heading into the second half of the year.
Georgi Dimitrov and Stéphan Guerin split the wins in Pro-Am with Miloš Pavlović and Alessio (ASR) as the Am races were won by VSR’s Stéphane Tribaudini-Piergiacomo Randazzo and ASR’s Paolo Biglieri. In Lamborghini Cup, Karim Ojjeh (Rexal Villorba Corse) and Gerhard Watzinger (Leipert Motorsport) claimed the wins.
RACE 1
PRO
The 2024 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe Pro champion Amaury Bonduel, on a one-off return to the series in the #57 BDR Competition Huracán alongside compatriot Kai Rillaerts, claimed pole position and initially led off the rolling start but was an unfortunate victim in a multi-car incident at La Source on the opening lap. Several cars were ruled out on the spot, including Shota Abkhazava (Art-Line), Dimitri Enjalbert (BDR Competition) and Calle Bergman (Leipert Motorsport). Geraci (Oregon Team) inherited the lead and staved off an attack from the Pro-Am leader Dimitrov until the pit window opened before handing over to team-mate Knopp. The latter dropped back after the stops and finished fifth as Spinkiewicz leapfrogged Dimitrov’s team-mate Guerin despite serving three seconds longer in the pit-lane. Inspired, Spinkiewicz then chased down and passed Knopp exiting turn one, with Putera – taking over from Levet in the #6 VSR machine – pulling off a near-identical overtake to grab second place with 10 minutes remaining. Spinkiewicz then extended his advantage in the closing stages to claim his maiden Super Trofeo victory by just over 12-seconds from Levet-Putera with Target Racing’s Patrik Fraboni and Giacomo Pedrini completing the podium. In doing so, Spinkiewicz became the first Polish driver to win an overall Super Trofeo race since Karol Basz at Misano in 2021.
PRO-AM
Dimitrov and Guerin came into the weekend with a 100% winning record in the class and profited from the early incident to lead the way in second overall. Unable to find a way ahead of Geraci for the lead, Dimitrov waited until the end of the window to change with Guerin, but the #13 CMR car came under immense pressure from the Boutsen VDS car of Renaud Kuppens – taking over from the impressive rookie Hugo Bac – and the charging ASR Huracán of Miloš Pavlović. The top three were tight together in the second stint with Pavlović picking off both Kuppens and Guerin to take his and team-mate Alessio Ruffini’s first win of the season. With second, Dimitrov and Guerin retained the lead of the championship heading into the second race of the weekend.
AM
An early mandatory pit-stop proved key in the Am category as VSR’s Stéphane Tribaudini and Piergiacomo Randazzo clinched their fourth victory of the year. The pair ran fourth early on as Pietro Perolini (Oregon Team) headed Paolo Biglieri (ASR) and Rodrigue Gillion (CMR). As soon as the pit window opened, Randazzo swapped with Tribaudini who began to put in a series of fast laps, eventually emerging in front of Andrzej Lewandowski (GT3 Poland) – who passed Biglieri around the outside at Les Combes – and Perolini’s team-mate Massimo Ciglia. The latter subsequently lost out to Biglieri at the end, as local driver Rodrigue Gillion (CMR) rounded out the finishers.
Lamborghini Cup
Class polesitter Karim Ojjeh (Rexal Villorba Corse) was unable to convert his favourable grid position at the start as Adalberto Baptista (Oregon Team) leapt two places to take the lead from Leipert Motorsport’s Gerhard Watzinger. Approaching the pit window, the order flipped on its head as Watzinger assumed the lead and Baptista dropped to third. Holger Harmsen (GT3 Poland) was the meat in the sandwich before being usurped by the recovering Ojjeh after the mandatory stops. Points leader Ojjeh then made his move in the second stint, getting ahead of Watzinger whose race appeared to have ended in the gravel at the Piff Paff following contact with Harmsen. However, an early chequered flag reinstated the positions and a five-second for Harmsen as a result of the collision put Watzinger back on the podium in third behind the Rexal Villorba Corse pairing of Luciano and Donovan Privitelio.
RACE 2
PRO
Orudzhev was the fastest in qualifying for the second race of the weekend but the #12 was handed a six-place grid drop penalty following the previous day’s incident. Equally, Pavlovic dropped four places after a penalty post-Monza while top Pro qualifier Benedetto Strignano was a non-starter after a crash in qualifying. That elevated Pretorius to the front of the grid and the South African held onto his advantage at the start, staving off Giacomo Pedrini’s Target Racing entry at Eau Rouge. Pro-Am leader Orudzhev leapt to second place and then took the lead from Pretorius at Bruxelles on the second lap. Following a brief safety car intervention, Pretorius maintained his lead in Pro until the mandatory pit-stop, where he swapped with Silas Lovén Rytter for the second stint. Another safety car period bunched the pack up again and forced Rytter to pass Abkhazava at the restart with eight minutes left, under braking for Les Combes. Rytter then maintained a slender gap over Dimitrov to claim a first Super Trofeo victory for himself and Pretorius, having previously taken an on-the-road win at Paul Ricard. Fraboni took over from Pedrini but was penalised 10-seconds for tapping Abkhazava into a spin on the exit of the chicane, giving Putera and Levet second which they kept until the end. Behind Luchetti and just off the podium was race one winner Spinkiewicz who charged through from near the back of the grid to finish fourth.
PRO-AM
At the start, Orudzhev passed Kuppens’ #2 Boutsen VDS machine on the opening lap despite dipping a wheel into the gravel trap on the exit of La Source, while Pavlović climbed to second in class ahead of the Belgian as the pair navigated Les Combes a lap later. Both Orudzhev and Pavlović elected to stay out as long as possible during the pit window, but Pavlović copped a 10-second penalty after tipping the LB Cup entry of Claude-Yves Gosselin into a spin at Bruxelles. The #33 subsequently dropped down the order with Ruffini at the wheel following the safety car restart, giving Dimitrov – who took over from Guerin – a place on the virtual podium. Having swapped with Kuppens, Bac then lost control of his car at the exit of Blanchimont, joining the Pro car of Pablo Schumm (Leipert Motorsport) in the wall, forcing the second safety car intervention. Dimitrov assumed the class lead after Abkhazava was collected, but the Art-Line car recovered to finish second ahead of BDR Competititon’s Anthony Nahra and Dimitri Enjalbert.
AM
From pole, Tribaudini comfortably led the class early on and ran as high as seventh overall before handing over to Randazzo at the mandatory pit-stops. Lewandowski, who had run third behind ASR’s Biglieri in the opening laps either side of the safety car, then moved into the class lead after the stops, making the most of his prior knowledge of track conditions to leapfrog Randazzo. The order swapped ahead of the final safety car and full course yellow period but bounced back in favour of Lewandowski at the finish as Randazzo encounter an ultimately race-ending issue in the #66. Lewandowski was later disqualified, which gave Biglieri, who finished second on the road, the victory, capping off a strong weekend while Perolini and Ciglia rounded out the top three finishers.
LAMBORGHINI CUP
Race one winner Ojjeh’s hopes of a double were dashed early on when he was forced out, while Harmsen was also delayed after being collected at La Source by Am driver Massimo Ciglia. The #38 DL Racing entry of Philip Tang was then involved in a high-speed incident on the approach to Blanchimont, contact with the #17 Icepole Racing Team car of Serge Doms pitching the Hong Kong driver into the gravel with broken suspension. That brought out the first safety car while a collision between Gosselin and Francesco Turzo at the final corner instigated the late FCY. Amid all of this drama, Luciano Privitelio led the race until a late spin exiting the Bus Stop handed victory to Watzinger. Baptista finished second with GT3 Poland’s Harmsen third.
Quotes
Jerzy Spinkiewicz, race one winner (#25 Uniq Racing): “It was a difficult race, with the early safety car and I was a little bit scared about the pit-stop because I knew I had to spend three more seconds than the others, but in the end, it worked out fine. I was also a bit lucky at the start to avoid the big crash, but in the second stint, I saw that I had a big lead, and I just had to drive consistently and not make any mistakes, so it feels great to get my first win.”
Anthony Pretorius, race two winner (#99 Leipert Motorsport): “We knew that we had the pace to win today, and I had complete faith in Silas that he could do it. I am just glad we could put it all together and get the victory that we have deserved all season. I tried the same move on Pedrini in race one and he cut the corner, so I didn’t want to the same mistake again, I just kept my foot down and made it stick.”
Silas Lovén Rytter (#99 Leipert Motorsport): “At the full course yellow restart, there was a lot of pressure from the guys behind, but my engineer told me that it was the Pro-Am car but I wasn’t sure if it was the Pro or the Am in the car, so when I heard it was Georgi [Dimitrov] for sure I felt the pressure. It’s amazing to get the win, we should have won in Paul Ricard before we got the penalty, so it’s a big relief to get the overall victory, the team did a mega job all weekend.”
2025 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe calendar
Round 1 – Paul Ricard (April 11-13)
Round 2 – Monza (May 30 – June 1)
Round 3 – Spa-Francorchamps (June 25-28)
Round 4 – Nürburgring (August 29-31)
Round 5 – Barcelona (October 10-12)
Round 6 – Misano (November 6-7)
Lamborghini World Finals – Misano (November 8-9)
