This year’s Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia race marked yet another championship deciding thriller at Sepang International Circuit, with SJM Theodore Racing’s Charles Leong and Alex Denning taking the 2025 PRO honours after gaining an unassailable points advantage with one round to go, while the Macau-based squad wrapped up their Team championship title for the year. That’s not all: Siamgas Corse’s Supachai Weeraborwornpong scored two more class victories, earning him a fourth Lamborghini Cup title.

Race One saw a starting grid set by its closely fought qualifying session, with just seventh-tenths of a second over the 5.543km track separating the top eight drivers. Lamborghini Bundang by Racegraph’s Peter Li Zhicong drove solo to top the timing sheets, starting ahead of championship rival Denning. He made a strong launch as the lights went green, however Denning immediately initiated a furious counter-attack with the #32 SJM Theodore Racing Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo EVO2, firing past to take the race lead. A tense battle unfolded between the five leading cars throughout the opening lap, with Z.SPEED’s Massimiliano Wiser gaining pace rapidly in P5.

Even as Li continued to challenge Denning for the overall lead, LKM’s Ling Kang loomed large in his mirrors. Mere seconds later however, it was Climax Racing’s Bryce Fullwood of Australian Supercars Championship fame who sped past Ling, slotting into the minute space at Li’s rear to set up a tensely precarious, high speed concertina. With this granting Denning an additional degree of breathing room, the Irishman took full advantage & stretched his lead out further. Fullwood’s racing charge was far from over however, and the PRO-AM class leader was the next to overtake Li before setting the race lead in his sights.

The next half hour of hard racing saw Denning maintaining a healthy gap from Fullwood, with Li, Ling, Wiser, and DW Evans GT’s Emilien Carde trailing them. Just before the pit window opened however, Wiser passed Ling with an astonishing overtake, with Carde quickly following him through into fifth place. Track limits infringements then saw Wiser penalized five seconds however, this being served in the pits as he passed the car to Z.SPEED team mate Chen Chunhua.

By this half-way point, Siam Corse’s Thai driver had successfully defended his starting position from Singaporean Gerald Goh driving for Lamborghini Bundang by Racegraph, and Malaysian Batmobile Racing driver Kumar Prabakaran. With Denning having built up a solid advantage over his strong opening stint, team mate Charles Leong inherited the race lead into the invigorating second half. Zhou Bihuang took over P2 from Fullwood’s impressive drive to continue leading the PRO-AM class.

Our Malaysian drivers were well represented here indeed: Nazim Azman took over the DW Evans GT Huracan racer from Emilien Carde and was quick to get on Li’s tail, with both drivers fighting wheel-to-wheel down the main straight. Talented double former champion Chris van der Drift was on another of his typically fast charges too, having taken over the wheel of FEYNLAB RACING’s Lamborghini from Todd Kingsford; the Kiwi driver being more than ready to pounce into the ensuing fray.

With Azman overtaking Li, van der Drift quickly pulled an inside overtake on the Chinese driver as well which dropped him back to fifth overall. As Azman started pressuring Zhou for second however, he found his hands even fuller once van der Drift caught up to him. An intensely epic battle then ensued, with the pair of fast drivers fighting each other hard while simultaneously closing the gap to Zhou. As they both blitzed past the Climax Racing driver, the Kiwi dived past Azman’s inside to snatch second before speeding off in hot pursuit of the race leader.

Even with his blisteringly impressive race pace however, in the end van der Drift ran out of time to close in on the victorious Leong, who crossed the line first to claim a sixth SJM Theodore Racing victory & increase their PRO championship lead alongside team mate Denning. Chris van der Drift and Kingsford still came home a commendable second overall to take the PRO-AM win, while Nazim & Carde took third overall and P2 in the PRO class.

Lamborghini Bundang by Racegraph’s Li claimed the final podium place in PRO, setting up another exciting contest for championship honours into Sunday’s second Malaysian race. Meanwhile, the AM victory was clinched by another impressive local pairing in the form of HZO Fortis Racing Team by Absolute Racing’s Haziq and Hairie Oh, taking their third season class victory with a heroic final stint. Lamborghini Cup championship leader Weeraborwornpong took that class’ honours, followed by Lamborghini Bundang by Racegraph’s Goh & his team mate Kim Sangho; along with Batmobile Racing’s Prabakaran and Shinji Takei of Bingo Sports fame for third.

If that sounded thrilling, then Race Two was even more intensely nail-biting just the day after. SJM Theodore Racing’s Charles Leong started on pole while competing for the PRO championship title. Behind him however, followed a mightily quick field of adversaries including Leipert Motorsport’s PRO-AM driver Brendon Leitch, the unashamedly fast former champion Chris van der Drift with FEYNLAB RACING, Lamborghini Bundang by Racegraph’s newcomer Nicolas Stati, title competitor Peter Li Zhicong, and of course DW Evans GT’s Nazim Azman.

Leong put in a good launch to start things off, however he ran dramatically wide at turn one under pressure from the hard chasing field. This enabled Leipert’s driver Leitch to snatch the race lead from him after escaping a close-fought duel with van der Drift, with the Kiwi quickly following him through and up into second. Drama first ensued in this second round of the weekend when Batmobile Racing’s Lamborghini Cup driver Shinji Takei clipped True Vision Motorsports Thailand’s Suttiluck Buncharoen into a spin. The Thai driver demonstrated quick-thinking calmness even in the heat of things however, quickly recovering to fire up his Huracan Super Trofeo EVO2 & rejoin the fray.

Leitch was pulling away from van der Drift and Leipert’s Super Trofeo Junior driver Ethan Brown at the front of the field, while Leong was doing his part in keeping a line of Raging Bulls led by Azman firmly at bay. Having started on the AM class pole, Aaron Lim was leading the class’ lead field strongly with HZO Fortis Racing Team by Absolute Racing’s #4 car when a sudden technical issue caused it to slow down.

This dropped him right down the order, however things somehow righted themselves and Lim rejoined the fight afresh, team mate Haziq Oh having taken over the AM lead with the team’s #5 Huracan. By the time that the window for pit stops opened, van der Drift had significantly closed the gap to Leitch before passing the car over to team mate Todd Kingsford. At this point the Lamborghini Cup charge was being led by Lamborghini Bundang by Racegraph’s Kim Sanho, however a turn two incident with Weeraborwornpong gave him a 10-second penalty.

Song Jiajun held on to the lead earned by team mate Leitch into the race’s closing half, with Kingsford in second & the PRO class being led by Brown in third place overall even with SJM Theodore Racing’s Alex Denning starting to put the pressure on him. Another technical issue struck Lamborghini Bundang by Racegraph’s contender, leading to disappointment for Gerald Goh who had taken over driving duties from team mate Kim Sangho. With their car having to stop, this brought out the Safety Car and tightened up the field for what turned out to be a truly epic seven-minute final sprint to the chequered flag. Anyone who thinks that motorsports is boring would have that line of thought quickly corrected, had they personally witnessed what happened next.

Once the safety car released the field to race once more, Song stormed away into the lead, while just behind him Todd immediately came under fire from a fast-charging Brown who then decisively overtook the FEYNLAB RACING Huracan and rocketed off in a bid to take the lead. He rapidly stole it from Song, with the Chinese Leipert Motorsport driver falling down the order as Todd also dove past him to take the lead for PRO-AM. As if that wasn’t thrilling enough, Denning next made a bold move on Todd to take second place, with both drivers making contact in a white-knuckle moment which nearly saw the Irishman lose PRO title honours; he would triumph this time around however.

HZO Fortis Racing Team by Absolute Racing’s AM leader Hairie Oh also had to deal with disappointment when Climax Racing’s Li Donghui clipped him into a dramatic spin out of turn two, dropping him out of contention for the class podium after a solidly impressive run. As a result of this, Li was later sanctioned with a three-place grid penalty for the next race.

The race’s heart pumping action carried on all the way to the finish line, with a victorious Brown taking the win from Denning who nevertheless secured the PRO title for himself along with team mate Leong. Todd came home third overall to take the PRO-AM class win for himself & van der Drift, while Azman and Carde rounded out the PRO podium. Meanwhile, in the Lamborghini Cup, Supachai Weeraborwornpong triumphantly took both the class win and overall championship title.

Now departing Asia & heading home to Europe, the championship’s sixth and final round of 2025 will take place at Italy’s Misano World Circuit on the 6th to 7th of November, whereupon both PRO-AM and AM titles will be decided. Climax Racing’s Liu Kaishun & Cao Qikuan currently top the PRO-AM leaderboard, while Buncharoen leads Haziq and Hairie Oh with a 15-point advantage in the AM standings.

Next, the Lamborghini Super Trofeo World Final will follow on November 8th to 9th, with these Asian teams & drivers set to go head-to-head with their fellow racers from the North American and European championships, in what is sure to be another thrilling season ender for Sant’Agata Bolognese’s acclaimed one-make race series.