Lamborghini Announces Young Driver Program Lineups

Lamborghini Squadra Corse has announced the 26 Super Trofeo Junior Drivers and 19 GT3 Juniors that have been selected for a season-long assessment program that will lead to a shootout to gain manufacturer support.

The 45 drivers, who all compete in Lamborghini machinery, will be assessed and evaluated on performance (both single lap pace and average speed), weekend consistency, experience, professionalism, technical feedback and attitude both at and away from the circuit.

Program Supervisor Raffaele Giammaria will then select the best drivers to take part in an end-of-year shootout at Vallelunga, which takes place following the conclusion of the Lamborghini Grand Finals.

Shootout winners will follow in the footsteps of Leonardo Pulcini and Danny Formal. Pulcini, GT3 Junior shootout winner, was promoted to Lamborghini Factory Driver.

Formal was selected as a Lamborghini Young Professional Driver alongside Yuki Nemoto and Maximilian Paul after winning the Junior Driver shootout.

Notable names in the GT3 Junior pool include IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship drivers Jaden Conwright and Loris Spinelli, Alessio Deledda and Mick Wishofer (DTM), and European Le Mans Series LMP2 runner-up Nico Jamin, who races in Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS Endurance Cup.

Other GTWC drivers in the pool include Brendon Leitch, Benjamin Hites, Baptiste Moulin, Marcus Paverud and Glenn van Berlo.

The roster is completed by Italian GT drivers Mateo Llarena, Jack Bartholomew, Riccardo Cazzaniga, Philippe Denes, Raul Guzman, Mattia Michelotto and Artem Petrov as well as Daan Arrow, Pierre-Louis Chovet from International GT Open.

In the Young Drivers pool, most nominees compete in Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe: Largim Ali, Filippo Berto, Douglas Bolger, Amaury Bonduel, Loris Cabirou, Hugo Conde, Ugo de Wilde, Pedro Ebrahim, Riccardo Ianniello, Alessandro Mainetti, Edgar Maloigne, Patrick Matthiesen, Marzio Moretti, Guillem Pujeu Beya, Oliver Söderström, Gilles Stadsbader, Rodrigo Testa, Lucas Valkre and Yury Wagner.

Lucas Petersson, Wesley Slimp, Jake Walker and Carter Williams represent Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America, with Asia drivers Marco Giltrap, Jackson Walls and Shenghui Xu completing the pool.