| All-Female Lineup of Brewer, Hepworth Win Am; TR3 Captures ProAm; ONE Wins LB Cup August 3, 2025By Tony DiZinnoIMSA Wire Service |
| Race Results ELKHART LAKE, Wis. – Danny Formal’s speed in a Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo has never been in question. But it’s rarely been as needed as it was in the second of two races at Road America in Round 8 of the 2025 Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America season. Co-driver Hampus Ericsson led the field to green after an extended caution period for multiple incidents to start the 50-minute race but was assessed a 10-second time penalty to be applied post-race for a jumped start. Once Ericsson pitted and handed the reins of the No. 1 Wayne Taylor Racing, Lamborghini Palm Beach, Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo Evo2 over to Formal, the Costa Rican set sail with a series of flyers around the 4.048-mile Road America track. Formal set three consecutive fastest laps of the race on Laps 8, 9 and 10 with an ultimate best time of 2 minutes, 5.270 seconds, and pushed the gap north of the needed 10 seconds in the subsequent laps. Even with the penalty applied, the No. 1 car still won ahead of championship rivals Will Bamber and Elias De La Torre in the No. 29 TR3 Racing Huracán and Jaden Conwright and Scott Huffaker in third in the No. 22 World Speed Motorsports Huracán to complete an identical podium to Saturday’s Race 1. “Wow! This is my 25th win in the Pro category of Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America and that was by far my favorite race,” Formal exclaimed. “Hampus got the penalty unfortunately so I had to get the 10-second lead. I haven’t driven that hard every lap, pushing as hard as I could, in a long time. I think we’re a lot closer now heading to Indy. WTR and Lamborghini gave us a rocketship.” Ericsson added of Formal’s drive, “It was probably the best drive I’ve seen anyone do. He’s a different breed.” The ProAm class saw the championship battle also rage between the contending TR3 Racing and MLT Motorsports entries. After three earlier podium finishes this season and after surviving a spin on Saturday, the pair of Conrad Geis and Jason Hart broke through for their first win of the year in the No. 67 TR3 Racing, Lamborghini Miami, Huracán. “The Lamborghini was operating at its best for us this weekend, and so we hope this’ll be a continuation the rest of the way,” Hart said. They won by 11.836 seconds over Darius Trinka and Tadas Karlinskas in the No. 11 MLT Huracán with ANSA Motorsports’ Nicky Hays and Antoine Comeau in the No. 30 Huracán third. |
| Am also saw a breakthrough winner, in the form of the all-female lineup of Lindsay Brewer and Jem Hepworth in the No. 2 RAFA Racing, Lamborghini Austin, Huracán. After three straight runner-up finishes, the No. 2 car went one spot better courtesy of a move from Hepworth on Graham Doyle’s No. 10 WTR Huracán on the run to Turn 5, with Doyle running slightly wide on corner exit. Hepworth extended the gap to 14.789 seconds by the end of the race ahead of championship leaders Doyle and Glenn McGee, with Saturday’s winner David Staab (No. 48 PPM Huracán) third. “That stint was the best stint of my life,” Hepworth said. “I was chasing down P1, I knew I had time and had about 12 minutes on the clock. I thought, ‘Let’s not do anything outrageous and wait for him to make a bit of a mistake.’ Last night we were distraught with second; at the beginning of the season, we’d have been thrilled for it! We wanted the win, and we got it.” Brewer added, “Jem did an incredible job at the end. We gained a lot of positions at the start to bring it to P3 and Jem took it home. This is my favorite track, and it’s such an incredible place to have my first win here.” |
| The only class with a flag-to-flag winner was LB Cup, where Nick Groat completed a perfect weekend aboard the No. 57 ONE Motorsports, Lamborghini Newport Beach, Huracán. Groat led flag-to-flag and won by 13.220 seconds en route to his fifth win of the season. Christopher Tasca (No. 66 Forty7 Motorsports Huracán) and Ray Shahi (No. 65 Forte Racing Huracán) completed the class podium. “This was a big swing in the championship for us this weekend; I’d love to battle others, but we’ll take being ahead and a huge double win,” Groat said. Unofficially, the No. 29 TR3 Huracán (Pro), No. 11 MLT Huracán (ProAm), No. 10 WTR Huracán (Am) and No. 57 ONE Huracán (LB Cup) entries lead the respective class championships with two race weekends and four races to go. But the margins in both Pro and ProAm appear to be razor thin. The series resumes with Rounds 9 and 10 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with track activity Sept. 18-20. |
