Championship heads into the second half of the season at the Nürburgring

The second half of the 2025 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe season gets underway at the classic Nürburgring circuit in the Eifel Mountains this weekend. The championship reserved for the Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2 will make its 13th visit to the German track and is set to produce action aplenty across a pair of 50-minute races, with all four class title fights still very much alive.

Having first made an appearance on the Super Trofeo Europe calendar back in 2012, the 5.148km, 15-turn venue has provided many dramatic moments over the past years, while the capricious climate of the region is always sure to keep teams and drivers on their toes.

Geraci-Knopp aim to extend Pro lead in Germany

Despite not standing on the podium at Spa-Francorchamps last time out, the Oregon Team duo of Enzo Geraci and Josef Knopp continue to hold a healthy lead in the Pro standings, thanks to a pair of top finishes in Belgium. The Franco-Czech partnership sit 12 points clear of Adam Putera, who will pick up the mantle for VSR as regular team-mate Paul Levet is expected to miss this weekend’s races.

Malaysian rookie Putera will be joined by Riccardo Ianniello, who previously raced in Super Trofeo for DL Racing. A point behind Putera in the standings is solo driver Jerzy Spinkiewicz (Uniq Racing). The Pole, like Geraci, is a Super Trofeo Young Driver member, and took a breakthrough maiden victory at Spa-Francorchamps to move firmly into the championship fight. Close behind and tied for fourth in the points, the Target Racing duo of Patrik Fraboni-Giacomo Pedrini and Leipert Motorsport’s Anthony Pretorius-Silas Lovén Rytter are also hungry for more success. Fraboni and Pedrini have not won in the Pro class since the opening round at Paul Ricard but took a second podium of the season in Belgium, while Pretorius and Rytter finally delivered on their early season promise with victory in race two at Spa.

The second Target Racing entry of Guido Luchetti lies sixth in the standings, four points further back, while Rexal Villorba Corse’s Benedetto Strignano will be aiming for better luck in Germany after being ruled out of both races at Spa following a heavy qualifying crash. Equally, young Belgian racer Kai Rillaerts is back in action after having been forced to miss the last two rounds due to accident damage (a qualifying crash at Monza for Kikko Galbiati and an opening-lap incident for Amaury Bonduel at Spa).

CMR’s Dimitrov-Guerin still the crew to beat in Pro-Am

Having claimed five Pro-Am victories out of six races so far this season, Georgi Dimitrov and Stéphan Guerin enter the second half of the year with a comfortable 38-point lead in the standings, from BDR Competition’s Anthony Nahra and Dimitri Enjalbert. Dimitrov and Guerin are also in the unique position of having taken two overall wins this season too, at Paul Ricard and Monza.

Behind the runaway points leaders, the battle for second intensified following the Spa round, with Nahra and Enjalbert just point clear of ASR’s Miloš Pavlović and Alessio Ruffini. A little further adrift is the Boutsen VDS crew of Hugo Bac and Renaud Kuppens, while the Art-Line pairing of Shota Abkhazava and Egor Orudzhev can hope to challenge for victory after taking a podium in Belgium. The Nürburgring weekend welcomes back last year’s Pro-Am champions Bronislav Formánek and Štefan Rosina (Micánek Motorsport). The Czech duo have been racing predominantly in the GT2 European Series, which they currently lead.

Ciglia-Perolini looking for their first Am victory to take fight to Tribaudini-Randazzo

VSR’s Piergiacomo Randazzo and Stéphane Tribaudini continue to hold a solid lead in the Am standings, but the Oregon Team duo of Massimo Ciglia and Pietro Perolini are only 13 points behind heading into the Nürburgring weekend. Consistency has been the key for Ciglia and Perolini this season, with three podiums from six race, but they are yet to take their first win. With Adrian Lewandowski again expected to be absent, ASR’s Paolo Biglieri has an opportunity to move into third place in the standings, particularly after taking his first win of the season at Spa in June.

Rodrigue Gillion – who will be joined again by the returning Stéphane Lemeret at CMR – is just five points behind Biglieri, and in turn five points further ahead of Alfredo Hernandez-Ortega (BDR Grupo Prom Racing), both of whom are still looking for their first victory of the year. Making their debut in Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe will be the all-Japanse pairing of Hiroshi Hamaguchi and Mineki Okura for Rexal Villorba Corse. Hamaguchi arrives with a substantial experience in GT3 racing, notably winning the Road to Le Mans race in 2020 and the European Le Mans Series last year, both at the wheel of a Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2. Okura comes from a background in touring car racing in Japan but has made sporadic appearances in GT World Challenge Asia in a Lamborghini.

Ojjeh eager to return to winning ways in LB Cup

The Lamborghini Cup remains the most tightly fought class heading into the second half of the season, with just eight points splitting the top six crews. At the top, Rexal Villorba Corse’s Karim Ojjeh leads the way with 52 points, having recorded three wins from six races, but GT3 Poland’s Holger Harmsen is just one point back. Fresh off the back of his first success of the season, Leipert Motorsport’s Gerhard Watzinger is poised to take advantage from any hiccup in front of him.

The American racer is two points adrift of Harmsen and one point clear of the father-and-son combination Luciano and Donovan Privitelio (Rexal Villorba Corse). The 2023 LB Cup champions have taken three podiums and feel that a first win of the year is only a matter of time. Completing the sextet are Rexal Villorba Corse’s Claude-Yves Gosselin and Oregon Team’s Adalberto Baptista, split by a solitary point.