| Siderman, TR3 Break Through in Am While Groat Gathers Another LB Cup Win September 19, 2025By Tony DiZinnoIMSA Wire Service |
| Race Results INDIANAPOLIS – Wayne Taylor Racing led the way in a pair of classes in an eventful opening race of the doubleheader weekend for Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America competitors at the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway. While the winners up front waltzed away without much drama, the championship battles intensified in the first 50-minute race encircling IMS’s 2.439-mile, 14-turn road course. The duo of Danny Formal and Hampus Ericsson aboard the No. 1 Wayne Taylor Racing, Lamborghini Palm Beach, Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo Evo2, led the way in Pro and overall for their fifth win of the season and third in a row after a weekend sweep at Road America. Similarly, Trent Hindman and Jackson Lee followed up their ProAm Race 1 win at Road America with a second ProAm win in Indianapolis aboard the No. 69 Wayne Taylor Racing, Lamborghini Palm Beach, Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo Evo2, to complete the 1-2 result. Mateo Siderman scored his first Am win aboard his No. 63 TR3 Racing, Lamborghini Westlake, Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo Evo2 entry while Nick Groat inched closer to repeating his LB Cup title in the No. 57 ONE Motorsports, Lamborghini Newport Beach, Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo Evo2 with his sixth win of the campaign. Pro The Pro race was largely an uneventful affair up front with Formal and Ericsson leading 30 of the 32 laps from pole, only losing the lead during the mandatory pit stop sequence. However, for championship rivals Will Bamber and Elias De La Torre in the No. 29 TR3 Racing Huracán, the race complexion changed just after the start. Bamber had a slow getaway and both he and De La Torre spent the remainder of the race recovering. They eventually made it back to fourth in class, but the result drops them unofficially four points behind Formal and Ericsson for the Pro class lead. “It just felt dominant out there if I’m being completely honest,” said Ericsson, who again had older brother Marcus present in victory lane to support him – at the track where Marcus won the 2022 Indianapolis 500. “Huge shout out to my team with Danny as well. It feels like we’re unstoppable at the moment, but it’s racing, and anything that happen. So, we just have to keep our head cool and focus.” Formal added, “I could just see Hampus was not driving ten-tenths, but he was keeping the car in the track. We got a nice love tap on the start, so we had a broken rear diffuser. So, the car was a little loose. But it’s all good. The car was a rocket ship. I’m so grateful for everyone.” Jaden Conwright and Scott Huffaker finished a season-best second in their No. 22 World Speed Motorsports Huracán with Nick Persing and the returning Giano Taurino third in the second WTR Pro entry, the team’s No. 8 Huracán. ProAm |
| The ProAm race was nothing short of wild from the start, with a one-point gap between the two championship rivals entering the race and an unofficial five-point gap leaving it. Getting the win out of the way first, Hindman enjoyed a clean start in his No. 69 WTR Huracán and handed over to Lee, who brought the car home to the finish in his home race in front of a host of longtime friends and family. It’s the first time Lee has had the same co-driver in successive Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America races this season, with Hindman his fourth different co-driver. “I grew up 15 minutes from here. I’ve been to every Indianapolis 500 since 2010. It’s been my dream to win here forever,” Lee said. “So, this means so much to me, and you know, it’s a testament to the work the team has put in. Just looking at my progression, I feel personally from Road America to now, all thanks to all the hard work that Trent and the rest of the boys have been putting in to help me learn this car as much as I can.” Hindman added, “Danny and I had talked about the start quite a bit. You know, we knew we were going to be somewhat close in speed, but obviously he’s the man in one of these cars, and it was just a matter of hey, we’re in our own category fights here. We’re gonna manage our own races. And we did.”But the action behind them involved the varying fortunes of the championship-leading No. 11 MLT Motorsports Huracán of Darius Trinka and Tadas Karlinskas and the No. 67 TR3 Racing Huracán of Conrad Geis and Jason Hart. Neither finished on the podium with the No. 11 car ending fourth and the No. 67 car ending seventh. The No. 11 car ran in podium contention for most of the race but one bad lap after Trinka had handed off to Karlinskas dropped them down to sixth. It appeared the pendulum would swing the way of the No. 67 car, but they couldn’t maximize a result despite persevering through a race of several incidents. Initially, another car struck the No. 67 on the start, which created right-front quarter panel damage the car had the rest of the race. Hart persisted, staying out as long as possible within the pit stop window, before handing off to Geis. It appeared as though Geis would be in position to capitalize on Karlinskas’ issues, but it came unglued as Geis veered left on the front straight to avoid hitting Andy Lee’s No. 14 Flying Lizard Motorsports Huracán into Turn 1. That wall contact eventually led to a left front puncture and a retirement. In the midst of the championship leaders’ woes, both Flying Lizard cars made the podium with Paul Nemschoff and Marc Miller second in the No. 41 Huracán and Andy Lee and Slade Stewart third in the No. 14 Huracán. Am |
| The Am class had a similar battle of woes for its own championship contenders, with each of the top three entries in the standings off the podium. It opened the door for some newer podium finishers, with Siderman leading a TR3 1-2 ahead of Dean Neuls (No. 70 Huracán) and Garrett Adams and Andre Lagartixa (No. 25 Alliance Racing Huracán). It was each driver’s best finish of the season. “We’ve been trying all year,” Siderman said. “We’ve had good speed all year, but we just haven’t done the right things on track after the qualifying has begun. We really got into our stride at Watkins Glen and we really put it all together here. We got a good qualifying position and we just executed.” Polesitter Graham Doyle had a challenging opening start and will have to work forward on Saturday from a 10-spot grid penalty assessed for incident responsibility. Alas, he and Glenn McGee still hold the Am points lead as David Staab (finished fourth in No. 48 Precision Performance Motorsports Huracán) and Lindsay Brewer and Jem Hepworth (finished sixth in No. 2 RAFA Racing Huracán) had tough afternoons. LB Cup LB Cup saw Groat get even closer to a repeat title, with Rocky T. Bolduc (No. 99 RAFA Racing Huracán) and Christopher Tasca (No. 66 Forty7 Motorsports Huracán) completing the podium. “It absolutely is special to win here. And today’s race was fantastic with the rough qualifying,” Groat explained. “We were starting toward the back, and I was a little worried, but right at the start, we made up all the positions, so I’m super happy about that.”The second Lamborghini Super Trofeo race of the weekend is Saturday at 5:10 p.m. ET, streaming on Peacock and YouTube. |
