The Lamborghini customer teams compete in 13 different international GT3 championships, a category introduced by the FIA in 2006 and dedicated to supercars derived from road-going models. Some of the most prestigious automotive brands participate in this category. Over 40 Huracan GT3 cars currently take part in championships including the GT World Challenge Europe, whose season highlight is the 24 Hours of Spa; the IMSA SportsCar Championship, an American series comprising the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring; International GT Open in Europe; and competitive national series such as the Italian GT Championship, the British GT, the ADAC GT Masters, and DTM in Germany.
Furthermore, in 2021, Lamborghini, on the lookout for new challenges, debuted at the GT World Challenge America. The team in the American championship, organized by SRO Motorsports, is K-Pax Racing, an established Californian racing team which took to the track for the first time with the cars from Sant’Agata Bolognese, lining up two Huracan GT3 EVO cars, entrusted to the Lamborghini Factory Drivers Andrea Caldarelli and Giovanni Venturini, partnered with Jordan Pepper and Corey Lewis, respectively. Caldarelli and Pepper dominated the season, winning 9 of the 13 races in the calendar and taking third place at the 8 Hours of Indianapolis; the Huracan crew racked up 270 points in the drivers’ standings, 36 more than their direct rivals, team-mates Venturini and Lewis, who had one win in the season. The results of the two crews enabled the K-Pax Racing team to take the teams’ title with 336 points, giving Lamborghini the constructors’ title, with an advantage of more than 100 points over the second-place team. A triple-win added to the triple crown in the GT World Challenge Europe 2019, won by Orange1 FFF Racing, again with Caldarelli in the team.
Lamborghini also came out on top in
the International GT Open Championship. The two GT3 Junior Drivers,
Michele Beretta and Frederik Schandorff, won the fourth drivers’ title
out of six consecutive editions of the continental championship,
becoming champions with the Huracan GT3 EVO no.63 of the Vincenzo
Sospiri Racing team, with 146 points won over seven rounds. Lamborghini
previously won the drivers’ title in 2016, 2017, and 2019. In 2017 and
2018, Lamborghini also won the teams’ title with Imperiale Racing and
two years ago with Emil Frey Racing, a goal achieved once again this
year by VSR, which closed the standings with 153 points and a
significant lead over their nearest rivals.
There was also a
double in the British GT for the second year running with Dennis Lind
and Leo Machitski becoming 2021 champions behind the wheel of the
Huracan GT3 EVO no.63 of the Barwell Motorsport team. The win at the
Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium and podium finishes at Brands
Hatch, Silverstone, Snetterton, and Oulton Park, allowed Lind and
Machitski to go into the last race of the championship season at
Donington Park as favorites, eventually winning the title with a
9.5-point advantage over their second-place rivals. The Dane and Russian
enter the history books as the first non-British team to win the title
since 2006, the year in which the GT3 category made its debut. Barwell
Motorsport, unmatched in the teams’ standings, ended the season on 314.5
points, a gap of 137 points over their nearest rivals.
Finally, a
special mention for the most important wins in the class, with the Emil
Frey Racing and Barwell Motorsport teams, which dominated the Silver
Cup and the Pro-Am category of the GT World Challenge Europe powered by
AWS. The Swiss team dominated the season, winning the drivers’ and
teams’ titles with Alex Fontana behind the wheel of the Huracan GT3 EVO
no.14; the British team did the same in the Pro-Am with the crew of the
no.77 car, Miguel Ramos and Henrique Chaves.
