Regional stars gather for 2025 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia season-opener

Series makes Sydney Motorsport Park debut with glittering line-up

Sydney, 1 April 2025 – An impressive bevy of the region’s most accomplished professionals and passionate privateers join the 2025 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia (LSTA) starting grid as the new season gets underway with its debut at Australia’s Sydney Motorsport Park from April 4-6.  Among the newcomers in the bumper 23-car entry are Le Mans 24 Hour podium finisher and FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) star Hopin Tung, fellow WEC LMP2 campaigner Weiron Tan, 2023 GT World Challenge Asia GT3 Silver champion and former Lamborghini junior driver Ling Kang of China, and compatriot and 2025 Sepang 12 Hours victor Chen Weian.

Joining them is an impressive line-up of other formidable professionals alongside talented privateers from right across Asia Pacific and beyond as they embark upon the six-round, six-nation calendar in the eye-catching fleet of Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2s.

Returning to a championship which has gained enormous popularity as much for its professional organization and equitable regulations as for its commitment to traditional sportsmanship and atmosphere genuine camaraderie are both defending champions and front-runners from the 2024 season.

Campaigning for the PRO title for a second time is 2024 championship runner-up Charles Leong Hon Chio, who returns with his SJM Theodore Racing team. This time the Macau, China driver is joined by 25-year-old series newcomer and 2022 Motorsport Ireland Young Driver of the Year, Alex Denning.

Also returning to the PRO ranks is the BC Racing duo of Gavin Huang and Jonathan Cecotto, third in the final standings in 2024. Twenty-five-year-old Frenchman Emilien Carde, fourth in class by a single point last year, teams up at reigning LSTA Team champions DW Evans GT with series newcomer, 23-year-old Nazim Azman of Malaysia. Azman’s motorsport career is built on strong foundations after a successful progression through the junior single-seater ranks up to the FIA Formula 3 Championship. More recently he has turned his attentions to one-make and GT competition, and he and the 2024 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Junior Driver will make a potent combination of young talent.

Peter Li Zhicong, another driver to build a successful career on strong seasons in junior single seaters, is on a two-car entry from Lamborghini Bundang by Racegraph. Li contested two rounds in 2024, taking a PRO podium finish in Shanghai, and will this year campaign the full season.

The PRO-AM entry is full of new faces but Kenneth and Bertram Lau, fourth in class last season, return with Kam Lung Racing.

Korean AM sensational Brian Lee Changwon is back to defend his title after a standout season which saw him win the championship after nine class victories in 12 races, all of which he took solo. The SQDA-GRIT Motorsport ace is once again taking on the season alone, and again at the wheel of the Lamborghini Seoul Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2s.

Also back on the hunt for another LSTA crown are Lamborghini Cup champions of 2024, Malaysian brothers Haziq and Hairie Oh. However, the dominant HZO Fortis Racing Team by Absolute Racing pair are elevated to the AM ranks this season, so will be going head-to-head with Lee, plus a host of strong title contenders. Song Jiajun of China, fourth in class last year, returns, this time on a two-car entry by series returnee, German squad Leipert Motorsport. Loyal and hugely-popular LSTA campaigner Suttiluck Buncharoen is back with his True Visions Motorsports Thailand team

Long-time, loyal LSTA supporter and Lamborghini Cup runner-up last season, Thailand’s Supachai Weeraborwornpong, is back with Siamgas Corse. He will do battle for the title with another series regular, Malaysia’s Kumar Prabakaran who is likely to be much-photographed in his striking Batmobile Racing entry.

Dr. Ma Chi Min, fourth in the Lamborghini Cup standings in 2024 having contested a partial season, enters 2025 in the PRO-AM ranks with FIA WEC and LMP2 star Weiron Tan of Malaysia. Tan, 30, made his LSTA debut at the season finale in Jerez last year. Likewise, BC Racing’s Johnson Huang this year teams up with his 16-year-old son Brian in the PRO-AM category.

Successful Chinese squad Climax Racing enters a four-car line-up for its multi-pronged assault on the 2024 LSTA PRO and PRO-AM titles, with some of the country’s most successful campaigners.

Leading the charge in the PRO class are China Endurance Championship star Lu Zhiwei and 2023 GT World Challenge Asia GT3 Silver Cup champion Ling Kang, who returns to LSTA for the first time since contesting two races in 2018. Joining them on the team are Huang Kuisheng and Goa Yujia, the latter most recently in action in the Formula Regional Middle East and European single seater championships.

Climax Racing’s Liu Kaishun, 2024 FIA F4 Chinese Championship runner-up, and China Endurance Championship PRO-AM star and 2023 GT World Challenge Asia GT3 Silver Cup champion alongside Ling Kang, Cao Qikuan, represent another strong challenge.

Climax Racing also enters Chinese duo Li Dongsheng and Li Donghui, both relative newcomers to GT competition but already impressive, most recently just missing out on an AM podium in the 2025 edition of the 12 Hours of Sepang, and taking a class podium together in last year’s Shanghai 8 Hours.

Yet more exciting newcomers are set for their LSTA debuts this season.

Z Speed enters Le Mans 24 Hours overall podium finisher and former Formula 1 test and reserve driver Hopin Tung, who teams up with Chen Chunhua of Chinese Taipei for their PRO-AM campaign. The second Leipert Motorsport car, meanwhile, is entered for the PRO line-up with Singapore driver Ethan Brown, fifth in the 2022 Australian Formula 3 Championship, and 21-year-old Hampus Ericsson. Both Brown and the Swede are making their LSTA debuts this season, but Ericsson is no stranger to Lamborghini Super Trofeo having competed in the Europe and North America editions.

Macau GT Cup podium finisher and recent winner of the Sepang 12 Hours, Chen Weian, teams up at 33R HAR Racing with Bao Junbin, runner up in last year’s GT Sprint Challenge GT4 Am class, for their PRO-AM title tilt.

Joining Li Zhicong on the Lamborghini Bundang by Racegraph line-up are AM entries Lee Jungwoo of Korea and Singapore’s Gerald Goh. Also newcomers are the Delta Garage Racing Team by Absolute Racing Indonesian pair of Umar Abdullah and Dypo Fitramadhan. Zagame Autosport completes the line-up with Ryan Sorensen, who will fly the flag for his native Australia as LSTA makes its Sydney Motorsport Park debut.

Round 1 of the new season gets underway Friday 4 April, with two, one-hour free practice sessions. The two, 15-minute qualifying sessions on Saturday will set the grids for each of the two, 50-minute races, with Race 1 getting underway at 13:45 local time (GMT+11). Race 2 starts at 13:30, and both races will be live streamed on the Lamborghini Squadra Corse YouTube channel.

Following its debut on the 3.93km, anti-clockwise Gardner Circuit (GP) configuration of the Sydney Motorsport Park track, LSTA then travels to the Chinese Formula 1 Grand Prix venue in Shanghai for round two from May 16-18. Next, the series heads to Japan and the Fuji International Speedway for Round 3 from June 27-29, while Round 4 sees a return to South Korea’s Inje Speedium from July 18-20. The final round on Asian soil will be from September 5-7, at Malaysia’s Sepang International Circuit, before the series heads to Europe for the season finale and 2025 World Finals at Italy’s Misano World Circuit from November 6-9.

Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia 2025 calendar