Super Trofeo Stories: Chloe Chambers and Ian Porter

Standing on the top step of the Pro-Am podium at Road America, Chloe Chambers and Ian Porter knew they had achieved something special. Until the second race of the weekend in Wisconsin, there had been seven races and one crew doing the winning.
Going up against the might of Wayne Taylor Racing’s Danny Formal (IMSA GTD race winner and triple Super Trofeo Pro champion) and Graham Doyle (2025 Am class champion), in your rookie season, was never going to be an easy task.
But such has been their progression throughout their maiden campaign, that the RAFA Racing Team partnership head into the final stages of the 2026 season with podiums to their name and one eye on second place in the Pro-Am standings.
 

It’s been some journey so far.
“It’s been really tough,” admits Chambers. “I’d driven a couple of other GT cars here and there but coming from open wheel racing, it is kind of the most different world you could imagine, so it’s been an adjustment.
“My first impression of the Super Trofeo car was honestly that I felt really lost! The car has a lot more power than anything else I had driven previously and more aerodynamics, but the main difference was just the feeling and getting my body used to how the car moves underneath you.
“[Throughout the season] I have been getting more comfortable in the car and literally, every lap I do, I am improving so that is a positive step and something that I am looking to be doing every time I get in the car.”
Chambers spent her youth racing karts in the United States before heading across the Pond to Europe when she transitioned to cars. It was there that Chambers came into her own, winning three races in F1 Academy and finishing third in the all-female single seater championship in 2025.
And while a novice to the 620 hp Super Trofeo Huracán beast, Chambers is the ‘experienced hand’ in the Pro-Am entry, alongside team-mate Porter, a Pro gamer and former Call of Duty world champion also in his first season of Lamborghini racing.
Porter, better known in the gaming world as Crimsix, is the most decorated Call of Duty player with 38 major wins and three world titles. In 2023, he made the switch to sim racing before progressing to real-world motorsport the following year.
“I’m competitive by nature, so that aspect of the gaming world I’ve been able to transfer to racing, but almost everything else is completely different to my previous career,” Porter says.
 

“I had to get myself into shape as well, because my job for so many years was literally just sitting down gaming, all the time, for hours at a time. So, to actually get in the right shape to drive these cars was a big challenge for me.
“The first year I raced, I was quite surprised at how fast I was; I was faster than some of the Pro driver coaches so to actually come in and realise that I was pretty good, gave me a lot of belief.
“Coming into Super Trofeo was an eye-opening experience though, because it is easily the most powerful car I have ever driven. The team were trying to explain to me that it drives like a shifter kart, but I did no karting or anything before so that analogy just meant nothing to me at all!
“The biggest thing for me to get my head around was just how much steering lock you need to rotate the car; it has the power and handling of a race car but with a road car steering lock. So that took time.”
Before long, however, both Chambers and Porter were dicing it at the sharp end of the ultra-competitive Pro-Am class. After a difficult opening round at Sebring, the first podium arrived in race two at Watkins Glen, before a watershed moment at Road America.
“Getting that first win was special,” says Porter. “I want to say that I messed up; I made a good start and gained around three or four spots, but I had an incident on lap one when fighting someone else, spun and fell to last place in class.
“I was in a mix of anger and determination after that, I knew that it was going to be hard to recover the lost time, but I felt good and gave it everything during my stint. I knew that when I caught slower cars, I couldn’t waste too much time behind them, I had to pass them quickly to give Chloe a chance.
“And it was divebomb after divebomb until we were back in the mix. But the thing that really saved us and helped Chloe was the yellow flag [before the pit window], because when we pitted, we were right with the other Pro-Am cars.”
With Chambers back out in fourth place, the game was firmly on and the #81’s speed remained strong. During her stint, and with the #10 of Formal at the rear due to a drivethrough penalty, Chambers caught and passed Angelo Dinkov, Paul Nemschoff and finally Seth Henry to take the lead with around six minutes remaining.
“I was simply driving as hard as I could,” Chambers said. “After everything that had happened, I had no idea what position we were fighting for. 
“[When I was told I was in the lead], my response was, ‘what?’. I genuinely could not believe it. But I could see I was much faster than the car ahead. Each lap, the gap was coming down.
“It was an incredible way to win, especially considering how far down the order we had been after the opening lap.”
The victory was particularly impressive given that no other Pro-Am crew had defeated Formal and Doyle all season. It also moved Porter and Chambers up to fourth in the class standings, giving them a real shot of finishing second come the end of the season.
And the duo has their sights set on unlocking yet more success before the year comes to an end at the Lamborghini World Finals at Monza in October.
“When Chloe came across the line, it was a bit of mixed emotions actually,” said Porter. “On the one hand, we were happy to take the win but equally, I was still disappointed in myself for making the mistake earlier in the race.
“And there’s also the fact that Danny and Graham had the penalty which, if they didn’t, they probably would have won. So, our aim is to try and get a second win, but this time by beating them in a fair fight!”
For Chambers, Monza not only offers the chance to race at one of the world’s most recognisable tracks, but the also the opportunity to showcase what female drivers can do up against the very best in the one-make championship.
“I'm definitely looking forward to Monza. It's actually going to be my first time there, first time in Italy full-stop as well. When I was in F1 Academy, they didn’t go to Monza so it will be a challenge, and I am really excited about it.
“Hopefully my experience in the last couple of years, primarily racing on F1 style circuits will help the team get up to speed quickly there, especially with Ian being new to it also.”
Female representation has been commonplace within the RAFA Racing Team stable, with Jem Hepworth a race winner in the Am class alongside Lindsay Brewer in 2025 and teaming up for the 2026 opener with Tatiana Calderón – before injury forced her to miss three rounds.
Chambers believes her experience with F1 Academy and association with RAFA Racing Team can help put more focus on the alternative career path for female drivers beyond the F1 ladder.
“Especially with F1 Academy, a lot of girls are starting to get that publicity to be able to move out into other types of racing,” Chambers adds. “And that's part of the reason why I came back to the US to race in Super Trofeo. 
“RAFA Racing has done a good job at really promoting not just female drivers, but drivers in general that they see promise in. So, I used F1 Academy as kind of a springboard to raise my profile a bit and get a bit more well known in order to be here in Super Tofeo this year.”