IRON LYNX CONCLUDES SUPER TROFEO SEASON WITH STRONG WORLD FINALS SHOWING

Iron Lynx fielded six cars for the final week of Lamborghini Super Trofeo action during the World Finals at Jerez de la Fontera, with exhilarating action from start to finish. The sixth and final rounds of both the Europe and Asia championships also took place, with Iron Lynx featuring towards the front in the latter. With so many cars in action, the racing was intense throughout the week of running.

Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe
The conditions were tricky at the start of the event, with cold and wet conditions proving to make things a real challenge for all of the drivers in their Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo Evo 2 cars. The #41 of Stefan Bostandjiev and Pavel Lefterov had the strongest race one, starting from sixth and initially slipping to seventh, but working back into the top five in a race shortened by a red flag. The #42 of Jesse Salmenautio and Giorgio Amati started well from seventh but lost out after a moment midway through the race and lost out further following a poorly timed Safety Car. The #43 of Georgi Dimitrov and Edgar Maloigne put in a solid recovery drive to go from 15th to 12th. Lastly, the #4 of Claude-Yves Gosselin and Joran Leneutre had an early spin in the demanding conditions and was unable to recover ground.
 
The quartet of Iron Lynx cars were on the move immediately in the second race, with both cars #41 and #43 making up two places on the opening lap. The race had begun to settle down before #41 was involved in contact which dropped it down the order and brought out a Safety Car. #43 continued its charge in the second half of the race, finishing fifth at the flag, while #41 dropped down to 13th after a penalty having finished eighth on the road, and #42 was 14th after a challenging race. #4 was in the mix for the top places early on, but slipped back late on to round out the points in Pro-Am.

Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia
The Asia championship also finished its season at Jerez. It was a pole position for the #232 of Miki Koyama and Charles Leong for race one and second for race two, with Kumar Prabakaran in car #233 in LC Cup taking third and fourth for the races. The conditions were very tricky for the first race which featured multiple incidents. The #232 crew lost the lead at the start but regained it only to drop back again before finishing third. For #233, there was a race-long battle for the lead but ultimately Kumar settled for second.
 
Conditions were much better for the second race of the weekend, and #232 slipped back at the start once more and held position before contact with another car necessitated an unscheduled pitstop. Despite that, Charles and Miki rounded out the campaign with second. Kumar also had a good race, climbing up to second from fourth early on and also finishing the race on the podium. With those results, Charles and Miki secured the runner-up spot in the Pro championship, with Kumar rounding out the top three in LC Cup.

Lamborghini Super Trofeo World Finals
Over 70 cars were in action for the finals, with the grids split between Pro and Pro-Am, and Am and LC Cup. Iron Lynx fielded five cars for the Pro and Pro-Am races in among the huge grid of cars. The first race was heavily affected by Safety Cars, meaning that there were few opportunities to make places. Car #43 had a very strong race, moving up from sixth to third, which it held until working into second place, but a penalty for a short pitstop dropped it back to third. Car #42 was looking good for a top six finish before a moment late in the race meant it had to settle for eighth, with car #41 starting and finishing 10th. Car #4 had an eventful race, working to the podium places after being shuffled out at the start, but dropping back to 10th at the end in Pro-Am, while car #232 could only climb two places from 22nd to 20th.
 
Rain before the final race of the event made the opening stages difficult, but the sun shone as the race progressed and the track dried up quickly. #232 had a very solid showing among the best of the European and North American entrants, battling for the top eight places throughout and finishing in eighth. #43 had a difficult qualifying in 17th but methodically worked up to the top 10 to round out a good World Finals. #4 also had a good race, working from 14th all the way up to sixth, while cars #41 and #42 started and finished in 15th and 11th respectively.

We have all enjoyed a great week of racing here at Jerez, and the end of the season has shown how our young driver crews have grown together which we are very happy about. It was a positive season in Europe even if the results did not always show that. We also had a strong finish to the Asia championship with Charles and Miki, where they finished second and Miki followed that up with a superb seventh in qualifying for the second World Finals race in a field of over 40 cars. Meanwhile, Edgar, Stefan and Jesse have shown lots of progress this season and Georgi will even deservedly take part in the Lamborghini shootout next week. Overall, it is a very nice way to end the Super Trofeo season.

Andrea Piccini, Iron Lynx Team Principal & CEO