30 Entries for Paul Ricard Season Kickoff

The 18th edition of Lamborghini’s longest-running one-make championship reserved for the Huracan Super Trofeo EVO2, Super Trofeo Europe, will kick off with 30 cars set to do battle in the opening round of the season at Circuit Paul Ricard in France this weekend.

Over the course of the year, 12 races – eight of which will take place on the support bill of GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS – across six weekends sets the scene for another thrilling multi-class title battle.

Now seen as the traditional curtain raiser, the Paul Ricard first appeared on the Super Trofeo Europe calendar in the championship’s inaugural edition back in 2009, and it’s 15-turn high-speed nature will surely provide a stern test for the field of 44 drivers, representing 20 different nationalities, and 12 teams taking to the grid.

There are several notable returnees to the championship at Paul Ricard.

The 2021 Pro class champion Kevin Gilardoni makes his comeback to full-time Super Trofeo action this year with DL Racing, while 2025 race winner Patrik Fraboni has moved to Oregon Team where he is partnered by Silas Lovén Rytter, one of five Danish drivers in the field. Marzio Moretti is another driver making his return to the championship, teaming up with long-time Am competitor Paolo Biglieri at Auto Sport Racing.

Moretti, a former race winner in Super Trofeo, has spent the last two seasons competing at GT3 level in International GT Open (2024) and GTWC Europe (2025).

Having raced as a solo driver in recent years, Benedetto Strignano will be joined at Rexal Villorba Corse by newcomer Nicholas Pujatti, while UNIQ Racing’s Jerzy Spinkiewicz returns from injury which took him out of a Pro title challenge last season. Elsewhere, Anthony Pretorius, Paul Levet and Josef Knopp (all three race winners in 2025) return with Mičánek Motorsport, VSR and Oregon Team respectively.

In total, there are 15 rookie drivers ahead of the season opener. Danish team DC Motorsport will field a fully homegrown quartet across their lineup, with Nina Østergaard pairing with Peder Møller while Niels Nyboe and Mathias Chrone team up in the sister car.

At Leipert Motorsport, former GT4 and TCR driver Axel Bengtsson partners second-year driver Månz Thalin in an all-Swedish line-up, with an equally all-Finnish crew of Henri Tuomaala and Matias Salonen in the German team’s second entry.

Brazilian driver Rogério Grotta makes his Super Trofeo debut at Oregon Team alongside fellow debutant, Italian racer Alfio Andrea Spina.

At Invictus Corse, Sergei Astafjev from Estonia will get his first taste of Super Trofeo Europe action alongside experienced campaigner Jonathan Cecotto.

Meanwhile, VSR will hand debuts to British driver Fin Green in the Pro class and Levet’s Pro-Am team-mate Miguel Cristóvão.

In addition to Pujatti, Rexal Villorba Corse will also field an all-Swiss line-up of Nathanaël Berreby (who also holds Panamanian citizenship) and Hugo Giraud.

A number of drivers arrive in France with scores to settle from the 2025 season too.

After a barren run of two years with a class title, father-and-son pairing Luciano and Donovan Privitelio will be keen to get back to winning ways for Rexal Villorba Corse but will face competition from team-mate Claude-Yves Gosselin and Oregon Team’s Adalberto Baptista.

GT3 Poland’s Holger Harmsen will also be a driver to watch out for, as will the Auto Sport Racing crew of Miloš Pavlović and Alessio Ruffini who finished runner-up in last year’s Pro-Am title race.

Keen to build on their debut season is a trio of DL Racing drivers: Francesco Turzo, Philip Tang and Christian Bortolato all showed strong progression and will be aiming high in their class this year.

Track action begins on Thursday with a paid test session, followed by a pair of Free Practice sessions on Friday, with Saturday’s activities including qualifying and Race 1 (2:40 p.m. CET/8:40 a.m. EST) and Race 2 (12:30 p.m. CET/6:30 a.m EST) on Sunday.

Both 50-minute races will be streamed live on SRO’s GT World and Lamborghini Squadra Corse’s YouTube channels.