INDIANAPOLIS — Friday’s Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway featured a healthy mix of new winners and repeat victors. In a rare result, all four class pole winners went on to win.
Loris Cabirou and Bryson Morris capitalized on starting from the overall and Pro class pole to drive to the overall and Pro win in the No. 30 Ansa Motorsports, Lamborghini Broward Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO2. It was the first North American win for both drivers, though Cabirou is also driving in the European Super Trofeo series.
The ProAm class win went to Keawn Tandon and Hannah Grisham in the No. 55 Forty7 Motorsports, Lamborghini Greenwich Huracán. While it was the sixth Super Trofeo triumph for Tandon, the 2023 ProAm champion, it was the first for Grisham in her maiden series race.
The Am and LB Cup classes saw familiar names atop the leaderboard at the finish, as Anthony McIntosh and Glenn McGee (No. 69 Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti, Lamborghini Palm Beach Huracán) extended their Am points lead and Nick Groat (No. 57 One Motorsports, Lamborghini Newport Beach Huracán) did the same in LB Cup.
Cabirou’s only flaw in his opening stint was earning a warning from IMSA officials for jumping the race start. He pulled away to a 3.8-second before turning the No. 30 Huracán over to Morris during the mandatory pit stop. From there, Morris held No. 4 Ansa teammate Kiko Porto at bay to win by 0.928 seconds.
“Super great start from Loris with the pole and then pulling away by three seconds, making my life a little bit easier,” Morris said. “I was just kind of able to manage the pace … I had the easy job to do; he did the hard part. Being our first time here, both of us, it’s a really awesome place to have our first win.”
“I am really happy,” added Cabirou. “We did a good run with the team yesterday, good quali – my first pole in Lamborghini. Our focus is tomorrow but I am really happy.”
Likewise in ProAm, Tandon took off from the class pole and wasn’t headed, giving the car to Grisham in the class lead. Though she hadn’t raced a Huracán before, Grisham avoided several incidents involving ProAm cars behind her and pulled away to win by 6.329 seconds over Luke Berkeley and Garrett Adams in the No. 64 MLT Motorsports, Lamborghini Naples Huracán.
“That was awesome!” said Grisham, a Heart of Racing Team development driver. “Keawn did an amazing job and handed me the car in an amazing position. I couldn’t ask for much more. … It’s something I’ll remember forever.”
By finishing fifth and earning a point for the Race 2 pole, AJ Muss and Joel Miller (No. 66 Forty7 Motorsports, Lamborghini Philadelphia Huracán) crept back into the ProAm class lead, unofficially two points ahead of Nate Stacy and Nick Persing, who finished eighth in the No. 8 Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti, Lamborghini Palm Beach Huracán after being assessed a drive-through penalty for incident responsibility.
After taking over for McIntosh in the No. 69 WTRAndretti Huracán, McGee quickly recovered from second place in the Am class. He passed Cole Kleck (No. 17 Topp Racing, Lamborghini Austin Huracán) for the lead with 16 minutes remaining in the 50-minute race and won by 11.357 seconds. McIntosh and McGee take an unofficial 12-point lead in the Am standings into Saturday’s Indy finale.
“The strategy was give up that first stint to take care of the car,” McIntosh explained, “let people pass us and save the tires for the second stint and go to work.”
And that’s what McGee did.
“We knew we had good long-run pace,” McGee said. “Tony just took care of the car and ran down the leader, which helped because when we came out of the pits, we were right on him. I kept poking at the guy in front, let him drive his tires off and then we were able to get him.”
Groat lost the LB Cup lead early in his first stint but recovered it by the time the pit window opened 20 minutes into the race that ran without a full-course caution. Once the pit cycle was completed, he was still out front and won by 10.760 seconds over Rocky Bolduc (No. 99 Topp Racing, Lamborghini Boston Huracán). Groat unofficially has a 15-point lead in the LB Cup standings.
“This was one of the more tough races because it wasn’t battling people the whole time,” Groat said. “It was really a mental game with myself, just staying focused and doing everything right lap after lap after lap. You have no words for being up on the podium at somewhere as amazing as Indy. It’s such a historic place, it’s incredible.”
Saturday’s race streams live on Peacock (in the U.S.) and IMSA.tv (outside the U.S.) starting at 5:05 p.m. ET.