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Locations of the circuits scheduled to host a NASCAR Euro Series race in 2025
The 2025 NASCAR Euro Series is the seventeenth Racecar Euro Series season, and the first under the NASCAR Euro Series branding. It is set to be fourteenth season of the series under official NASCAR sanctioning. The season is scheduled to start on 12 April with the Valencia NASCAR Fest at Circuit Ricardo Tormo and will end on 12 October with the EuroNASCAR Finals at Circuit Zolder.
Both Vittorio Ghirelli and Martin Doubek [cs] are set to enter the season as defending champions in the PRO and OPEN divisions respectively. RDV Competition will enter the season as the reigning Endurance Teams champion.
Pink background denotes drivers that will not score points in the division.
Confirmed changes
Drivers
On 19 December 2024, SpeedHouse announced that Matthias Hauer will make his return to the series after a year of sabbatical. Hauer will be competing part-time in the OPEN division with the #64 Ford Mustang.[26][11]
On 22 December 2024, it was announced that Spanish driver José Antonio Peñalta will be stepping up from karting to compete with SpeedHouse in the Rookie Challenge division. Peñalta will replace Dani Briz, whose status for 2025 is currently unknown.[30]
On 17 January 2025, it was announced that Thomas Krasonis will be switching teams from Marko Stipp Motorsport to PK Carsport for the 2025 season. Krasonis will be driving the #13 Chevrolet Camaro in both the PRO and OPEN divisions.[7]
On 20 January 2025, it was announced that Jack Davidson will step up to the PRO division for the full 2025 season. Davidson had previously competed part-time in PRO during the 2023 and 2024 seasons.[12]
On 25 January 2025, Academy Motorsport announced that Claudio Remigio Cappelli will be racing in both the PRO and OPEN divisions for the 2025 season. Cappelli had previously competed in PRO during his first full-season campaign in 2022.[2]
On 6 March 2025, PK Carsport team manager Anthony Kumpen revealed the signing of Thomas Dombrowski and Maxim van Laere to his team in the 2025 season. Dombrowski will join reigning series champion Vittorio Ghirelli in the #24 team, while Maxim will make his car racing debut in Rookie Challenge with the #13 team.[6]
On 9 March 2025, Team Bleekemolen announced that Michael Bleekemolen is set to make his debut in EuroNASCAR's top division at the age of 75 years old. Michael will replace Marc Goossens, whose status for 2025 is currently unknown. Michael's seat in OPEN will be filled by Bruno Mulders, who will be making his series debut with the Dutch team.[18]
On 18 March 2025, it was announced that Portuguese driver Nuño Caetano will join SpeedHouse as their third and final driver in the Rookie Challenge division. Caetano, who had previously competed in the Isle of Man TT and Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, had previously tested the EuroNASCAR cars in a Recruitment Test session at Cremona Circuit in Italy.[33]
On 20 March 2025, Bremotion announced the signing of eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series race winner Garrett Lowe as part of their PRO division team in 2025. Lowe is set to compete with the #99 Chevrolet Camaro, replacing Tobias Dauenhauer whose will leave the series due to financial issues.[34] Lowe will be joined by Julien Rehberg, who makes the full-time move to PRO after he competed part-time in the division in 2024. Rehberg's former seat in the OPEN division will be filled by German social media influencer Vanessa Neumann, who will compete under her internet alias "Happinessa" for the 2025 season. Neumann will also bring sponsorship from OnlyFans to the #77 team.[19]
On 25 March 2025, Ryan Vargas announced that he will be leaving the NASCAR Euro Series and make the switch to the NASCAR Canada Series, where he is set to be racing for DJK Racing for the "majority of the NASCAR Canada Series schedule".[35]
On 1 April 2025, M Racing announced that team owner Yvan Muller and Thomas Toffel is set to race for the team in the season opener at Valencia. Muller's cousin and the 2020 and 2021 World Touring Car Cup champion Yann Ehrlacher will also race for M Racing later in the season, as Ehrlacher is not allowed to compete in Valencia due to TCR World Tour's regulations banning drivers from participating in any other racing event held at tracks that will host a TCR World Tour event in 2025.[15][36]
On 2 April 2025, Rette Jones Racing announced the signing of both Liam Hezemans and Gil Linster from Hendriks Motorsport as the drivers for their first NASCAR Euro Series campaign in 2025.[13]
On 3 April 2025, Marko Stipp Motorsport announced the signing of Georgian drivers Davit Kajaia and Sandro Tavartkiladze to the #48 team for the 2025 season. Both Kajaia and Tavartkiladze are set to become EuroNASCAR's first Georgian drivers. Kajaia will race in PRO while Tavartkiladze will compete in the OPEN division, completely replacing Nick Strickler whose status for 2025 is currently unknown.[17]
On 4 April 2025, SpeedHouse Racing announced their signing of Giorgio Maggi for the 2025 season. Maggi will therefore make his return to the series after a year of absence, having raced in both the Italian GT Championship and Porsche Supercup throughout 2024.[10]
On 5 April 2025, it was announced that 2023 series champion Gianmarco Ercoli will be moving over to CAAL Racing's affiliate team Alumitec Racing for the 2025 season. He will be joined by Valentino Gambarotto, who will make his series debut in the OPEN division.[5]
On 6 April 2025, Lux Motorsport announced that they have signed Mario Ercoli, the younger brother of 2023 champion Gianmarco, to their OPEN team for 2025. Lux also announced that Nicole Davidson, the sister of Jack Davidson, will make her car racing debut in the Rookie Challenge division.[28]
On 6 April 2025, Marko Stipp Motorsport announced that Max Marzorati and Sven van Laere will be racing for the team's #47 Chevrolet Camaro in 2025. Marzorati and van Laere will both replace Victor Neumann, whose status for 2025 is currently unknown. Marzorati previously raced for Double V Racing on a part-time basis in 2024, while van Laere initially planned to race full-time with CAAL Racing in 2024 before he had to announce his retirement due to medical issues midway through the season. Despite this retirement announcement, van Laere received a medical clearance for 2025, allowing him to rejoin the series with Marko Stipp Motorsport.[17]
Teams
On 16 December 2024, Yvan Muller's M Racing team announced plans to enter the NASCAR Euro Series as a two-car team.[14]
PK Carsport will be expanding into a two full-time entry team for the first time since 2020 with the addition of the #13 team. Anthony Kumpen subsequently revealed in an interview with Autosportwereld on 6 March 2025 that PK Carsport's expansion was driven by calendar clashes between NASCAR Euro Series and Belcar, which necessitated the team's expansion to EuroNASCAR at the expense of their Belcar program.[6]
On 9 March 2025, Team Bleekemolen announced that they will be entering just two cars for the 2025 season, retaining only the #69 and #72 teams. The #66 team have been dissolved after it was effectively absorbed by PK Carsport during the 2024 EuroNASCAR Finals. The #11 team was dissolved due to Reza Sardeha not being able to compete in the 2025 season for business reasons.[18]
SpeedHouse will be expanding back into a three-car team after the team downscaled into a two-car team in 2024.
On 2 April 2025, Rette Jones Racing announced their plans to expand to the NASCAR Euro Series in 2025. The team will field the #30 Ford Mustang with support from Hendriks Motorsport. It is later revealed during the Entry List reveal for the season opening 2025 NASCAR GP Spain that Rette Jones will take over the owner rights for Hendriks Motorsport's #50 team.[13][1]
On 5 April 2025, it was announced that Canadian outfit Alumitec Racing will be joining the series in 2025. Alumitec is founded by Alain Lord Mounir, who previously owned Go Fas Racing's EuroNASCAR and NASCAR Canada teams. Alumitec will enter a technical agreement with CAAL Racing to help them field their #11 Ford Mustang. It is later revealed during the Entry List reveal for the 2025 NASCAR GP Spain that Alumitec will be using the owner points from CAAL Racing's #54 team.[5][1]
The Entry List for the 2025 NASCAR GP Spain revealed the following changes.[1]
Double V Racing, Granducato Speed, Race Art Technology, Vict Motorsport and 3F Racing will not continue their participation in the series.
Club Motorsport downscaled into a single-car team, retaining just the #55 Chevrolet Camaro for 2025.
Hendriks Motorsport downscaled into a single-car team after the owner rights for their #50 team is transferred to Rette Jones Racing.
Schedule
The provisional calendar for the 2025 season was announced on 3 October 2024.[37] All rounds from the 2024 season are retained with the same timeframe as the previous year, making it the first season where the series calendar is unchanged from one season to the next.
As part of NASCAR Whelen Euro Series' rebranding into NASCAR Euro Series for 2025, the series announced on 6 November 2024 that all three divisions will be rebranded starting from the 2025 season. EuroNASCAR PRO, EuroNASCAR 2, and EuroNASCAR Club Challenge will now be referred to as PRO, OPEN, and Rookie Challenge divisions respectively.[39]
Sequential gearboxes will now be made mandatory, having been first introduced in 2021 as an optional choice. Lithuanian transmission manufacturer Samsonas Motorsport will provide the series with 5-speed Samsonas RS90 sequential gearboxes for every competitor. The change is introduced to give drivers more options on cornering, as well as to make it in line with the sequential gearbox units that are currently in use in the NASCAR Cup Series.[40][41]
On 11 December 2024, NASCAR Euro Series announced that PRO Qualifying sessions will now be held in a single-car format. The order of drivers will be determined by the reverse order of combined practice times. OPEN's qualifying session has also been shortened from 20 minutes to 15 minutes.[42]
On 18 December 2024, NASCAR Euro Series announced the following changes to OPEN's trophies system, which are additional classifications that are contested within a division between drivers that are eligible for each Trophy's requirements.[43]
Rookie Trophy, eligible for all debutants in the OPEN division, has been abolished. Master Trophy is introduced in its place, open to all OPEN division drivers rated as Grade C by the series.
The minimum age for OPEN division's Legend Trophy has been raised from 40 years old to 45 years old.
If a driver is eligible for multiple Trophies in a division, then they are only allowed to compete for one Trophy in addition to the overall championship standings.
On 20 January 2025, NASCAR Euro Series announced the following changes for the Rookie Challenge division.[44]
The practice for drivers from PRO and OPEN championships to enter the division in order to gain extra practice time has now been banned. Exemptions are now only made for drivers in their first full season or drivers who have not competed in more than three rounds in any previous season.
The minimum age has been reduced to 15 years old. PRO and OPEN maintains the minimum age limit of 16.
A passenger can participate in Rookie Challenge sessions as long as the team have requested prior permission to the organizers.
Points are awarded to drivers and team using the current point system used in NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series, and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. The driver that gained the most positions in a race will receive 4 bonus championship points. In addition, double points are awarded for the Playoff races.
For the EuroNASCAR PRO and EuroNASCAR 2 driver's championship, only the best 8 results from the first 9 races and the results from the Playoffs at Oschersleben and Zolder will count towards the final standings. For the Club Challenge championships, points are awarded per session and the results listed from each round in the standings are the combined results. For the Teams Championship, all points will be counted with no dropped scores.
EuroNASCAR PRO
(key) Bold - Pole position awarded by fastest qualifying time (in Race 1) or by previous race's fastest lap (in Race 2). Italics - Fastest lap. * – Most laps led. ^ – Most positions gained.
(key) Bold - Pole position awarded by fastest qualifying time (in Race 1) or by previous race's fastest lap (in Race 2). Italics - Fastest lap. * – Most laps led. ^ – Most positions gained.
^ abOnly the best 8 results from the first 9 races and the results from Playoffs were counted towards the Championship. Numbers without parentheses are championship points; numbers in parentheses are total points scored.