GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup: Monza

Lamborghini Factory Driver, Scot Sandy Mitchell, Targets double double Italian Euro GT3 Pro success at Monza with top Italian team VSR.

Sandy heads to Monza this weekend (June 1) targeting a double Italian success in the latest round of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup. Not only is the 25-year-old determined to deliver a win for Lamborghini on home soil, but it would also be victory for his top Italian team Vincenzo Sospiri Racing. “Winning in Italy driving a Lamborghini and with an Italian team, at Monza, would be a dream,” former British GT champ Sandy said. “We all know the Pro class is ultra-competitive, but winning has to be our target.”

Sandy will partner Frenchman Franck Perera and Italian Mattia Michelotto in the No163 Lamborghini Huracan EVO2 GT3, prepared by VSR, in the three-hour race at the iconic, ultra-fast 3.6-mile, 11-turn Monza circuit, which hosts the F1 Italian Grand Prix. And Sandy heads to the ‘Temple of Speed’ knowing the combination of the three drivers, the team and Lamborghini has the pace to again mix it at the front of what this weekend is a 59-car grid.

“Monza is such a stunning circuit,” Sandy, who posted the fourth-fastest time in free practice in the corresponding race 12 months ago,” continued, “and we’re all looking to build on the pace we showed last time out at Paul Ricard. “We know the Lamborghini perfectly suits the fast, sweeping nature of Monza and with the depth of knowledge in the team and drivers we’re confident we can deliver. Again, qualifying will be crucial. With such a large, super-competitive field of quick Pro drivers, starting the race at the front-end will be massively important and that has to be our first objective. After that it’ll be a case of staying out of trouble at the first chicane at the end of the start-finish straight, settling into a good race rhythm, then delivering the pace and strategy required to deliver the result we’re targeting.”

The action gets underway on Saturday (May 31) with a two-hour Free Practice session starting at 10.10am local time followed by a 60-minute Pre-qualifying at 3pm. Sunday sees qualifying run from 9.50am-10.50am ahead of the three-hour race which starts at 3pm (all local times are one hour ahead of UK).