Bolduc: Double Win Confidence Booster for World Finals

Rocky T Bolduc described his clean sweep of Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America class victories at Misano as a confidence booster, striking an upbeat figure about the prospect of facing off against the global LB Cup field during the World Finals races on Saturday and Sunday.

Bolduc steered the No. 199 RAFA Racing Team Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo EVO2 to class victories on both Thursday and Friday.

As a result, he ends his first full season in the championship second in LB Cup, three points behind Nick Groat, who is not competing at Misano after he already clinched the title last time out at Indianapolis.

Bolduc first joined Super Trofeo North America last year, contesting three rounds with Topp Racing but notably not racing at the World Finals event in Jerez.

That means that this weekend will be the first time that he will compete in the combined field of North American, European and Asian entrants to determine the LB Cup world champion.

Bolduc spoke confidently about the prospects of competing against the European competitors in particular, who have held a monopoly on the LB Cup crown in recent years.

John Hennessy was the last North American driver to win the class title in 2021, when the World Finals were also held at Misano.

Since then, European entrants were crowned LB Cup world champions at every edition of the event, with Benoit and Francois Semoulin (2022), Shota Abkhazava (2023) and Holger Harmsen (2024) coming out on top.

“One thing I found out about this sport, it’s the rollercoaster of life in a weekend,” Bolduc told Sportscar365.

“Everything can happen and nothing is preventable.

“We have confidence in ourselves, but as much as we’re intimidated by the Europeans [and] their fast laps, and as the weekend progresses with we’re getting down to their race pace.

“So it took us a little bit more time to adapt to their home track. I’m feeling very good, there’s nothing that’s for sure yet, but we’re feeling confident.

“We have a hell of a team. We’ve got a hell of a coach, and we’ve got a strong family that’s here to support me. So that’s what it’s about.”

Bolduc said he gradually got more up to speed around the Misano circuit, praising the input from four-time Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America champion and former World Finals winner Corey Lewis, who is serving as a driver coach.

“I love this track,” Bolduc said.

“I did not like this track on the first couple days, [but] I fell in love with it on day three.

“My coach Corey Lewis and I, we were reviewing data and he just has a gift to to kind of extract the best version of ourselves and just implement it on track.

“The way he describes it to meand kind of the words he uses, just because I’m learning the race craft, and we just implement everything he tells me to do and we implement it every time and it works.”

“So I’m forever grateful for having a guy like him by my side. And I told my wife, I’m never not going to listen to him until the day doesn’t work. It’s been working ever since and we got to do our best.”

Bolduc is upbeat about heading into the pair of World Finals races on Saturday and Sunday, where he and the other North American teams face off against the LB Cup entrants from both Europe and Asia.

“You’re experiencing the the gift of life and an up-and-down rollercoaster inside this weekend,” Bolduc said.

“You might start so low and you let that beat yourself up. It’s going to work against your mindset.

“The beauty about the racing mindset is kind of forgetting about yesterday, short-term memory, focusing on what’s ahead of us.

“We are progressing. We are moving forward every single day we are getting on track.

“We are making our way towards where we need to be, and that’s all that matters.

“We’re not progressing as fast as we want sometimes, but we’re still a forward movement, and that’s all that matters.

“And here we are after the North American Championship. We’re this close to the pace from the Europeans. So I think we’re doing pretty well.”