Bumper 41-Car Entry for Super Trofeo at Laguna Seca

Photo: Jamey Price/Lamborghini

Forty-one cars across four Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America classes are set to take part in the second stop of the season at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. With Pro-Am (12 cars), Am (11) and LB Cup (10) all at double-digit entries and Pro with the same eight as in Sebring, the field is set for Rounds 3 and 4 of the season.

The team that enjoyed a stellar Sebring looks to build on its strong start, while others seek to topple them. Wayne Taylor Racing opened the year with five of a possible six race wins across three Lamborghini Super Trofeo classes – Pro, Pro-Am and Am – in Sebring. The team only lost the Pro-Am class win in Round 2 in the final laps.

The Pro class pair of Danny Formal and Hampus Ericsson enjoyed a perfect weekend in their No. 1 Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo EVO2, leading both practice sessions, scoring both poles, winning both 50-minute races and achieving the maximum 32 points (16 per race, split 15 per win, 1 per pole).

The Am class pair of Graham Doyle and Glenn McGee nearly equaled them in their No. 10 Lamborghini with 31 points, two wins and one pole to speak of. Anthony McIntosh and Brendon Leitch also started strong with the Round 1 ProAm win in their No. 69 entry, before a late-race incident took them out of Round 2.

Ericsson, younger brother of 2022 Indianapolis 500 winner Marcus, was the only one of this group of six making his Super Trofeo North America debut. And he enjoyed the debut in style, embracing both the North American racing aspect, pit stops and Florida vibes as he celebrated his birthday.

“Sebring was my first pit stop ever as I was solo driving last year in Europe,” Ericsson said in Sebring victory lane. “Danny had done a great job saving the tires, so I could do whatever I wanted, basically.

“Sebring was very bumpy, obviously. It’s a challenge! It’s like nothing else compared to Europe. But I love it because it has so much character, it’s so rough, and you need a lot of confidence and think about what you’re doing out there.”

Laguna Seca used to be known for its dusty, abrasive, tire-eating surface, but a repaving prior to 2024 significantly smoothed the track out as the Super Trofeo field headed there last year. It’ll mark a significant difference for Ericsson, who may reference his brother’s IndyCar race visuals.

ANSA Motorsports, not Wayne Taylor Racing, swept Monterey last year with the “Nico and Kiko Show” of Nico Jamin and Kiko Porto. ANSA’s new pro pair of Colin Queen and Enzo Geraci will look to improve on a pair of fifths at Sebring in their No. 4 entry.

After a quietly impressive pair of runner-up finishes in Sebring, Will Bamber and Elias de la Torre IV seek their first Pro win in their No. 29 TR3 Racing Lamborghini.

World Speed Motorsports – based in nearby Sonoma, Calif. – is also keen to succeed on home soil with its No. 22 entry. WTR’s fourth car, Nick Persing (No. 8 Huracán), won here in Pro-Am last year.

Pre-Event News & Notes:

***Pro-Am championship leaders Darius Trinka and Tadas Karlinskas, a pair of Lithuanian cousins who were late entrants into Super Trofeo and delivered a third and first in Sebring, are now in the No. 11 Kaizen Autosport entry.

***Flying Lizard Motorsports is a several-time Laguna Seca winner, including in Pro-Am last year with Andy Lee and Slade Stewart.

***RAFA Racing, whose best result among four cars in four classes at Sebring came via the all-female lineup of Jem Hepworth and Lindsay Brewer, third in Am Round 2 in the No. 2 RAFA entry and additional Sebring Am podium finishers David Staab (No. 48 Precision Performance Motorsports) and Jackson Lee and series returnee AJ Muss (No. 88 Forty7 Motorsports).

***LB Cup championship leader Nick Groat swept Sebring in the No. 57 One Motorsports Lamborghini. He leads the increased ten-car entry at Laguna Seca, which shows significant growth over the six LB Cup cars that raced at Sebring.

***Teams have two 45-minute practice sessions Friday before qualifying Saturday morning. Races are at 7:45 p.m. ET (4:45 p.m. PT and local time) Saturday and 12:35 p.m. ET (9:35 a.m. PT) Sunday, streaming on Peacock, IMSA.TV, the IMSA Official YouTube channel and Lamborghini Squadra Corse YouTube channel.