Lewandowski Wins Third Lamborghini World Finals Crown at Monza

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Andrzej Lewandowski’s third Lamborghini World Finals crown came after a race that turned on the pit stops, a late safety car and post-race penalties. The Auto Sport Racing Services driver won the second Am/LB Cup contest at Monza, adding this year’s Am title to the Pro-Am crown he earned in 2019 and the Am crown from 2022. Rocky T Bolduc also left the event with a championship, taking the LB Cup title after finishing second in his class.

Lewandowski holds on through a late reset

Lewandowski had put himself in position to complete the job before Sunday’s deciding race: he won the opening contest on Saturday and started the finale from pole. Stephane Lemeret, driving the No. 27 CMR Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo EVO2, made the stronger launch, diving inside at the first corner to take the lead. He cut the second part of the chicane, though, and returned the position to Lewandowski at Parabolica on the next lap.

Giving the place back did not end the matter. Lemeret received a five-second penalty for cutting the corner, a sanction that would later shape the classification. On track, he stayed close behind Lewandowski throughout the opening stint, keeping pressure on the leader while the pair waited for the mandatory stops to determine how the race would unfold.

During those stops, Rodrigue Gillion took over the CMR car and emerged in front. Lewandowski regained the lead at the Roggia chicane on the following lap and appeared to have control of the closing stages. A late safety car, triggered after Raffaele Giannoni collided with Francesco Galli at Ascari, erased that margin and set up a one-lap run to the finish.

Lewandowski kept Gillion behind when the race resumed and crossed the line provisionally in first. There was a further review after the finish: officials investigated whether Lewandowski had driven too slowly in the pit lane to avoid breaching the minimum stop time. He received a reprimand, leaving his result intact.

Penalties reshape the podium

The sanctions against Lemeret and Gillion had a larger effect on the final order, dropping them to seventh. Two other entries were also penalized: the No. 174 SP Motorsports car of Paul Whiting and Daniel Morillo for cutting the chicane at the start, and the No. 189 89x Motorsports entry of Johan Schwartz and Michael Fitzpatrick for a short pit stop.

Those decisions promoted David Staab, the North America Am champion, to second after he had finished fifth on the road. Schwartz and Fitzpatrick took the final podium position. The result underlines how the final classification depended on more than the order at the finish: a strong run through the pit sequence and staying clear of penalties mattered as much as the late restart.

For Lewandowski, the reprimand and the safety car made the finish less straightforward than his Saturday victory, but neither changed the outcome. He converted pole into the race win and secured another Am title, marking his third World Finals crown across the Pro-Am and Am categories.

Bolduc clinches the LB Cup title

The LB Cup standings remained finely balanced through much of the race. Polesitter Bolduc dropped to fourth, while his closest title rival, Claude-Yves Gosselin, ran second. At that stage, the pair were on course to finish level on points, leaving the class outcome dependent on the closing laps.

Gosselin’s Scuderia Villorba Corse Lamborghini was spun by Philippe Touchette late in the race and fell to sixth in the division. In another incident affecting the class order, Philip Tang, who was leading, cut the chicane at the safety car restart while battling Petar Matic. The resulting changes left Bolduc’s Topp Racing car second at the flag, behind Christopher Koebbe of Forty7 Motorsports.

Second place was enough for Bolduc to seal the LB Cup crown. It also provided a turnaround after he missed out on the North American title earlier in the Monza event. For both champions, the finale rewarded consistency under changing conditions: Lewandowski survived a late restart and review, while Bolduc benefited from a class fight in which incidents and penalties shifted the points picture.

RESULTS: Race 2