ABOUT VSR

25 TITLES IN OUR FIRST DECADE WITH LAMBORGHINI

The 2024 season saw VSR return to Asia, competing with three cars in the Fanatec GT World Challenge. Bian Ye and Edoardo Liberati took outright honours at Okayama and won the Pro-Am class a further three times to finish fourth in the highly competitive Asian series. Back in Italy the team won the Italian GT Endurance Pro-Am Championship with Gilles Stadsbader, the Italian GT Cup Sprint Pro-Am Championship with Stephane Tribaudini and Ignazio Zanon and finished runners-up in the Italian GT Endurance Overall Championship with Riccardo Cazzaniga, Alberto Di Folco and Edoardo Liberati. Stephane Tribaudini and Piero Randazzo convincingly won the European Lamborghini Super Trofeo Am Championship and Mattia Michelotto starred at Le Mans, winning the iconic support race.

VSR's GT racing career started in 2015 when multiple World Champion Vincenzo Sospiri decided, after a decade of running successful single-seater teams, to turn his hand to GT cars. That year, alongside Formula 4 programmes in Italy and Japan, VSR entered two Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeos in the European Championship. Success was immediate with Kei Cozzolino and Shinya Michimi winning the first race of the season at Monza. In the same year the team also entered two rounds of the Italian GT Championship, claiming three class victories from four races.

In 2016 VSR entered the full Italian Championship and won the Super GT class with Nicolas Costa, claiming seven victories. VSR also collected three class wins and seven podiums in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Championship and finished second in class in the Mugello 12-hours. In the summer the team's first Lamborghini Huracan GT3 arrived and was shipped to China for the 2016-17 Asian Le Mans Series. VSR's GT3 debut saw them take a podium at Zhuhai and finish fourth at Fuji.

Winning proved a hard habit to break and in 2017 VSR retained the Italian Super GT title with Finnish GT debutants Tuomas Tujula and Aaro Vainio as VSR crews finished first, second and third in the Championship. There was further success for the team in Europe with Christopher Dreyspring and JiaTong Liang winning the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Pro-Am title, Andrzej Lewandowski and Teodor Myszkowski taking the Am Championship and Raphael Abbate and Yuki Nemoto finishing 2nd in the World Final. In the same year the team contested the Blancpain GT Asia and took two pole positions, one Silver Cup victory, three Silver Cup podiums, second overall at Fuji and finished runners up in the Am class with a car run under the X-One brand for Andrew Haryanto.

2018 saw the team bring its GT3 cars to Europe, fielding a double entry in the International GT Open. After claiming five class victories and a further five podiums Lewandowski and GT debutant Giulio Borlenghi were crowned Am Champions at the final round in Barcelona. There was continued success in the European Lamborghini Super Trofeo Championship with Lewandowski finishing second in Am and Takeshi Kasai third in Pro-Am. During the season the team's four Super Trofeo Evo cars racked up fourteen pole positions, eight victories, nine podiums and ten fastest laps.

VSR ran cars in Europe and Asia in 2019. In Europe Sospiri's team won the International GT Open Pro-Am Championship with Frederik Schandorff and blitzed the GT Cup Open Europe – winning the Overall, Team and Pro-Am titles with Hans-Peter Koller and finishing runners-up in Am with JP Mauro and Rodolfo Toni. In Asia the team ran a Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo in the Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia and two cars in the Asian Lamborghini Super Trofeo Championship. Schandorff and Alex Au were GT3 Pro-Am contenders for much of the season, eventually finishing third after scoring one win and eight podiums. A win in the Misano round of the Italian GT Endurance Championship as well as second place in the FIA Motorsport Games GT Cup completed another triumphant year for VSR.

Despite racing with the added challenge of the Covid pandemic, in 2020 Yuki Nemoto and Tuomas Tujula claimed the Italian GT Sprint crown for VSR after a dramatic and hard-fought season for the youngsters from the Lamborghini Young Driver Programme. VSR once more dominated the European Lamborghini Super Trofeo Championship, taking the Pro-Am title with Lewandowski and Basz at Spa with one round to go and scoring nine victories.

In 2021 VSR continued its run of success by finishing the season as International GT Open Champions (Overall and Team) with Michele Beretta and Frederik Schandorff. Baptiste Moulin and Yuki Nemoto finished 4th in the Championship, contributing to the team's victorious season which included three 1-2 finishes. VSR also retained the European Lamborghini Super Trofeo Pro-Am title, once again with Lewandowski and won the prestigious World Final with Basz and Michelotto.

The 2022 season saw VSR return to the Italian GT Endurance Championship, picking up three titles – the Overall Championship for Nemoto and Liberati, the Pro-Am Championship for Cola and Moulin and the Team Trophy. VSR also completed the full GT World Challenge Endurance Championship, getting both cars to the chequered flag in the gruelling TotalEnergies 24 Hours of Spa, as well as running three new Super Trofeo Evo 2 cars in the European Championship. Lewandowski added to his tally of success with VSR by claiming the European Am Championship and winning the Am Grand Final.

The 2023 season was another successful year for VSR who clinched multiple titles in both GT3 and Super Trofeo. The Forlì based team won the Team Championships in the Italian GT Sprint and European Lamborghini Super Trofeo as well as the European Lamborghini Super Trofeo Pro-Am Championship with Lewandowski and the Italian GT Sprint Cup Pro-Am Championship with Stadsbader. VSR drivers finished close runners up in the Italian GT Sprint Overall Championship, the European Lamborghini Super Trofeo Pro Championship and the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Am World Final. The team also took part in the GT World Challenge Sprint series, taking pole at Hockenheim and Silver Cup victory at Brands Hatch.

WORKSHOP & SERVICE

The team's modern workshop in Forlì, Italy (40km from Imola) boasts a simulator and gives drivers access to Fabrizio Borra's Fisiology Centre (www.fisiology.it). The team's Pro drivers, many of whom are part of Lamborghini Squadra Corse driver programmes, are always on hand to provide coaching and tuition when required.