Victories Shared During Dramatic Spa Weekend

The wins were shared in the two Lamborghini Super Trofeo races that supported last weekend’s CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa, with Pro-Am Micanek Motorsport pairing Anthony Pretorius and Bronislav Formanek taking outright victory in the opener before Leipert Motorsport’s Axel Bengtsson and Manz Thalin scored their maiden triumph in race two.

Bengtsson had led the first few laps of the opening race as well before coming under attack from teammate Brendon Leitch, who was making his first Super Trofeo outing since last year’s World Finals.

Leitch’s pressure paid off with a move at Pouhon, but it was the Oregon Team Huracan of Patrik Fraboni that emerged from the pit stops with the lead, aided by a car glitch for Leitch and Thalin banging wheels while battling with the DL Racing machine of points leader Simone Iaquinta.

But Fraboni’s lead proved brief as he soon dropped behind Formanek before the race came to a bizarre conclusion following a late safety car.

Formanek had mistakenly followed the safety car into the pits on the final lap and, with Fraboni almost doing likewise, it was Iaquinta who crossed the line first.

But officials later amended the result to reflect the true order with Iaquinta and Kevin Gilardoni having to settle for third behind Fraboni and Silas Loven Rytter.

Leitch and team-mate Don Yount took second in the Pro-Am division from the recovering VSR entry of Paul Levet and Miguel Cristovao that had started on the front row before dropping to the back with a fuel sensor issue.

Todd Kingsford (Leipert) won the Am class on his European debut, while Francesco Turzo (DL Racing) took Lamborghini Cup gold.

Race two featured a collision that had significant ramifications in the outright Pro championship battle.

Polesitter Jerzy Spinkiewicz (UNIQ Racing) tangled with Gilardoni at Les Combes after the mandatory stops, which put the latter out of the race and cost him and Iaquinta the points lead.

Spinkiewicz was handed a drive-through penalty that was converted into a 75-second sanction for causing the clash and it enabled Bengtsson/Thalin to triumph.

Benedetto Strignano and Nicholas Pujatti (Rexal Villorba Corse) were second while the overall podium was completed by Pro-Am winner Egor Orudzhev and Shota Abkhazava the former having stormed up the order from 14th to mark a successful one-off return to the championship.

Am honors again went to Kingsford while Umar Basamalah (ASR) took his first victory in the Lamborghini Cup.

Rytter and Fraboni now lead the overall table by seven points as the championship heads into its summer break.

The next rounds are due to take place at the Nürburgring on Aug. 28-30.