Pro Class Driver Changes Highlight 36-Car Laguna Entry
Photo: Jamey Price/Lamborghini
Year-to-year continuity won out over slightly revised lineups when it came to the overall and Pro class wins to start the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America season at Sebring International Raceway in March. But two key changes have emerged in the Pro lineups since Sebring ahead of the cross-country trip West to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca for the third and fourth rounds of the season.
A total of 36 cars are on the pre-event entry list for this weekend’s action.
TR3 Racing started with a perfect Sebring weekend, as Will Bamber and Elias De La Torre IV in their No. 29 Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo EVO2 secured two poles and two race wins for a maximum 32 points.
In the interim, Bamber has shifted to XONINE Racing’s No. 33 entry alongside Darius Trinka while TR3 welcomes back Dennis Lind to share the No. 29 Lamborghini from Monterey onwards. The No. 33 XONINE entry finished fifth both races at Sebring.
That leaves the points leaders set to diverge on two different paths in Monterey and creates an opportunity for Wayne Taylor Racing’s entries – and the rest of the field – to close the gap or overtake.
Hampus Ericsson and Nick Persing in the No. 1 Wayne Taylor Racing entry banked a pair of runner-up finishes at Sebring and enter eight points back.
Persing has been the driver to beat at WeatherTech Raceway the last two years at his closest venue to home. The Morgan Hill, Calif. resident and Boise State University student swept both Pro races in 2025, including in a photo finish over Ericsson and Danny Formal’s entry in Race 2. He also won in Pro-Am in 2024.
ANSA Motorsports may be poised to reach the top step this weekend for the first time in Pro since 2024, too. They’ll enter with a new lineup.
In 2025, two Lamborghini Young Driver Program Shootout winners Enzo Geraci and Colin Queen shared a podium. Nico Jamin will fill in for Queen this weekend at Monterey alongside Tommi Gore, into his second weekend, aboard the No. 4 Lamborghini.
Precision Performance Motorsports’ Brandon Gdovic, running a striking orange livery highlighting the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, had a quietly strong start in Sebring with fourth both races.
Danny Formal shifted into Pro-Am to start the season alongside Graham Doyle, but the change of class didn’t produce a change in result for the three-time Pro champion.
Formal and Doyle swept the weekend at Sebring in their No. 10 WTR entry. It’s rare to find a track on the schedule where Formal hasn’t won recently, and it’s been a “relative” dry spell going back to 2023 to find the last time Formal won in Monterey – he swept Pro that weekend with Kyle Marcelli.
Behind them, both Kaizen Autosport and Forty7 Motorsports started strong in Sebring. Both Seth Henry and Wyatt Foster (Kaizen) and Lindsay Brewer and Keawn Tandon (Forty7) got a second and third place apiece.
TR3’s Mateo Siderman and Martin Fuentes rebounded from last-place grid spots to fourth in both Sebring races, while TB Autosports’ Marcelli and Mathieu Boucher and Alliance’s Jack William Miller and Angelo Dinkov also scored top-fives in Sebring.
The Am battle at Sebring was eventful throughout the weekend with Nick Groat (XONINE) and Dean Neuls (TR3) splitting the wins and David Staab (PPM) and Johan Schwartz (89x Motorsports) scoring two podiums apiece.
Groat, Staab and Schwartz are in a three-way tie for the lead with Neuls only two points behind. Both Staab and Groat won Monterey Race 1 last year, Staab in Am and Groat in LB Cup.
Just as Am was exciting to watch at Sebring, so too was LB Cup. Ray Shahi (Taurino Racing) and Rocky T. Bolduc (Topp Racing) split the wins with Philippe Touchette (TB) and Clay Wilson (TR3) also scoring podiums.
Super Trofeo North America practices on Friday with qualifying Saturday morning and the two 50-minute races Saturday at 7:30 p.m. ET (4:30 p.m. PT) and Sunday at 1:35 p.m. ET (10:35 a.m. ET). Races stream on Peacock as well as IMSA Lamborghini’s YouTube channels.
Source: Sports Car 365