The 2020 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series is the twelfth Racecar Euro Series season, and the eighth under the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series branding. Loris Hezemans and Lasse Sørensen entered the season as the defending champion in the EuroNASCAR PRO and EuroNASCAR 2 category respectively, although Sørensen will not defend his title as he moved up to the EuroNASCAR PRO class in 2020. Hendriks Motorsport will enter the season as the defending team's champion.
Alon Day was crowned as the champion after winning 4 races and finishing all 10 races inside the Top-10. Day becomes the second three-time champion of Euro Series, tying Ander Vilariño for the most titles in history. During the course of the season, Day broke Vilariño's record for the most wins in the series when he won his 23rd career victory in the second race at Valencia. Rookie Lasse Sørensen finished second after scoring two race wins on his debut year in the EuroNASCAR PRO division, while defending champion Loris Hezemans finished third having scored two race wins. Gianmarco Ercoli and Stienes Longin were the other two race winners of 2020 after winning a single race at Vallelunga and Rijeka respectively.
In the EuroNASCAR 2 division, Hendriks Motorsport driver Vittorio Ghirelli won the title after winning 5 races and finished 9 races inside the Top-10. Series debutant and teammate Tobias Dauenhauer finished second after winning 3 races while Alessandro Brigatti finished third after scoring 4 podiums, both drivers also finished 9 races inside the Top-10. Vladimiros Tziortzis, the first Cypriot driver in NASCAR, finished fourth while Julia Landauer finished fifth. Landauer's podium finish in the third race at Valencia is the first for a female driver in Euro Series since Carole Perrin scored a third-place finish in the first Elite division race at Spa-Francorchamps in 2012. Martin Doubek was the only other race winner of the season, having swept the weekend at Zolder.
Hendriks Motorsport's No. 50 team, driven by Hezemans and Dauenhauer, successfully defended the Teams Championship title after scoring 835 points, finishing 88 points ahead of the sister No. 18 car driven Giorgio Maggi and Ghirelli. PK Carsport's No. 11 team, driven by Longin and Landauer, finished third with 713 points, 122 points behind Hendriks' No. 50 team.
Teams and drivers NASCAR Whelen Euro Series released a provisional 33-car entry list for the teams participating on 27 March 2020.
EuroNASCAR PRO Team Body Style Race Driver Rounds Alex Caffi Motorsport with Race Art Tech 1 Ford Mustang Stefano Attianese 1 Niko Pulić 3 Thomas Ferrando 4–5 FEED Vict Racing 5 EuroNASCAR FJ 2020 Jacques Villeneuve 1–2 6 Patrick Lemarié 1–2, 4–5 Simon Pilate 3 8 Chevrolet Camaro Dario Caso All Hendriks Motorsport 7 Ford Mustang Daniel Rowbottom 1 Martin Doubek 2–3 Olivier Hart 4–5 18 Giorgio Maggi All 50 Loris Hezemans All Not Only Motorsports 10 Ford Mustang Alberto Panebianco 4–5 89 Chevrolet Camaro Fabio Spatafora 1 Davide Dallara All PK Carsport 11 Chevrolet Camaro Stienes Longin All 24 Alon Day All Solaris Motorsport by CAAL Racing 12 Chevrolet Camaro Francesco Sini All Shadow Racing Cars by 42 Racing 17 Ford Mustang Bernardo Manfrè 1–2 42 Luigi Ferrara 1–2 DF1 Racing 22 Chevrolet Camaro Nicolò Rocca All 66 Lasse Sørensen All 99 Justin Kunz All CAAL Racing 31 EuroNASCAR FJ 2020 Mauro Trione All 54 Chevrolet Camaro Gianmarco Ercoli All 88 EuroNASCAR FJ 2020 Thomas Ferrando 1–2 Mark Škulj 3 98 Ford Mustang Marc Goossens All Mishumotors 33 EuroNASCAR FJ 2020 Chevrolet Camaro Lucas Lasserre All 70 Chevrolet Camaro Gianmarco Ercoli 3 Mirco Schultis 5 Marko Stipp Motorsport DF1-MSM Racing 46 Chevrolet Camaro Wilfried Boucenna 3 Evgeny Sokolovsky 4–5 48 Evgeny Sokolovsky 1–3 Ander Vilariño 4–5
EuroNASCAR 2 Team Body Style Race Driver Rounds Alex Caffi Motorsport with Race Art Tech 1 Ford Mustang Vladimiros Tziortzis All FEED Vict Racing 6 EuroNASCAR FJ 2020 Simon Pilate All 8 Chevrolet Camaro Alessandro Brigatti All Hendriks Motorsport 7 Ford Mustang Martin Doubek 2–5 18 Vittorio Ghirelli All 50 Tobias Dauenhauer All Not Only Motorsports 10 Ford Mustang Leevi Lintukanto 4–5 89 Chevrolet Camaro Davide Dallara 1 Igor Romanov 2–3 Naveh Talor 4–5 PK Carsport 11 Chevrolet Camaro Julia Landauer All 24 Guillaume Dumarey 1–2 43 Pol van Pollaert 2 Solaris Motorsport by CAAL Racing 12 Chevrolet Camaro Nicholas Risitano All Shadow Racing Cars by 42 Racing 17 Ford Mustang Alex Ciompi 1–2 42 Francesco Garisto 1–2 DF1 Racing 22 Chevrolet Camaro Andre Castro 1–2 Zihara Esteban 4–5 66 Andreas Jochimsen 1–2 99 Marcel Lenerz 1 Frank Riedel 3 Kenko Miura 4–5 CAAL Racing 31 EuroNASCAR FJ 2020 Giovanni Trione 1, 3–5 54 Chevrolet Camaro Arianna Casoli All 88 EuroNASCAR FJ 2020 Max Lanza 1–3 Arianna Casoli 3 98 Ford Mustang Dylan Derdaele All Mishumotors 33 EuroNASCAR FJ 2020 Chevrolet Camaro Eric Quintal 1–2, 4–5 70 Chevrolet Camaro Mirco Schultis 3–5 The Club Motorsports 41 Chevrolet Camaro Roberto Benedetti 1 Marko Stipp Motorsport DF1-MSM Racing 46 Chevrolet Camaro Gašper Dernovšek 1 Francesco Garisto 3 Evgeny Sokolovsky 4–5 48 Kris Richard 1 Evgeny Sokolovsky 2–3 Francesco Garisto 4–5 Speedhouse 64 EuroNASCAR FJ 2020 Matthias Hauer 2
EuroNASCAR Club Challenge Team Body Style Race Driver Rounds Alex Caffi Motorsport with Race Art Tech 1 Ford Mustang Vladimiros Tziortzis All Hendriks Motorsport 7 Ford Mustang Olivier Hart 3 Not Only Motorsports 10 EuroNASCAR FJ 2020 Leevi Lintukanto 3 89 Chevrolet Camaro Federico Monti All PK Carsport 11 Chevrolet Camaro Julia Landauer All Shadow Racing Cars by 42 Racing 17 Ford Mustang Bernardo Manfrè 1 42 Francesco Garisto 1–2 DF1 Racing 22 Chevrolet Camaro Frank Riedel 1 Thomas Blumberger 2 Zihara Esteban 3 99 Alain Mosqueron All Marko Stipp Motorsport 46 Chevrolet Camaro Gordon Barnes 1, 3 Francesco Garisto 2 48 Gordon Barnes 2 Francesco Garisto 3 Mishumotors 70 Chevrolet Camaro Mirco Schultis 2
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Driver changes On 25 October 2019, Ander Vilariño announced that he won't be competing with Racing Engineering in 2020. It was originally announced on 16 January 2020 that Vilariño will be switching teams to DF1 Racing for the 2020 season, but he later announced his withdrawal from the season on 26 June 2020 due to family and business concerns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. He would be replaced by Nicolò Rocca for the 2020 season. Vilariño, however, does not rule out the possibility for a wildcard entry at Valencia and it was later announced on 1 December that he will be competing at Valencia as the driver of the No. 48 DF1-MSM Racing entry. On 21 November 2019, DF1 Racing announced that they will promote Justin Kunz to the EuroNASCAR PRO class in 2020. Kunz had previously competed in the then-Elite 1 class in 2018. On 21 November 2019, it was announced that Myatt Snider will leave the series to compete in the NASCAR Xfinity Series with Richard Childress Racing and RSS Racing, initially planning to compete part-time before committing to running the full schedule after the first eight races of the season. On 26 November 2019, Alessio Bacci announced on Instagram that he has signed a contract to compete with Alex Caffi Motorsport in the EuroNASCAR 2 class for 2020. On 12 December 2019, it was announced that Alain Mosqueron, the champion of the regularity-based EuroNASCAR Club Challenge, plans to run a part-time schedule in the EuroNASCAR 2 class with DF1 Racing for the 2020 season. He will also stay in Club Challenge to defend his title. On 27 December 2019, it was announced that Jacques Villeneuve, Patrick Lemarié, and Simon Pilate will be competing full-time for FEED Racing in 2020. Villeneuve will be driving the No. 5 car in the EuroNASCAR PRO class while Lemarié and Pilate will be making their Euro Series debuts in the EuroNASCAR PRO and EuroNASCAR 2 class respectively in the No. 6 team. On 6 January 2020, Julia Landauer announced that she will be making a move to the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series in 2020. She will be competing full-time with PK Carsport in the EuroNASCAR 2 class. On 20 January 2020, Igor Romanov announced that he would make his Euro Series debut in the regularity-based EuroNASCAR Club Challenge class. On 22 January 2020, Alon Day announced on social media that he will be leaving CAAL Racing after five years with the team. Five days later on 27 January, it was announced that Day will be switching teams to PK Carsport as the new driver for the No. 24 team, replacing Nicolò Rocca who went to DF1 to replace the withdrawing Ander Vilariño. Monster Energy will be sponsoring Day and the No. 24 team for the full season. On 25 January 2020, it was announced that Gianmarco Ercoli will be switching teams to CAAL Racing after five years with Racers Motorsport. Ercoli had previously competed for CAAL Racing on his debut season in 2014. On 30 January 2020, it was announced that Guillaume Dumarey will be returning to the series with PK Carsport after a one-year absence to compete in the GT4 European Series in 2019. On 30 January 2020, it was reported that Giovanni Trione will move up to the EuroNASCAR 2 class after several years of competing in Elite Club. He is scheduled to be the teammate of his father Mauro in CAAL Racing's No. 31 team. As a result of the merger between FEED Racing and Racers Motorsport that was announced on 30 January 2020, Dario Caso and Alessandro Brigatti will be switching teams to FEED Vict Racing for the 2020 season. On 3 February 2020, it was announced that Scott Jeffs was planned to move up to the EuroNASCAR PRO class full-time for the 2020 season. However, Jeffs would not race in Euro Series this year following Braxx Racing's withdrawal from the 2020 season due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. On 4 February 2020, it was announced that Andreas Jochimsen will be making his series debut with DF1 Racing in the EuroNASCAR 2 class for 2020. On 8 February 2020, it was announced that Max Lanza will be switching teams to CAAL Racing, with Lanza scheduled to drive the No. 88 Chevrolet SS full-time in the EuroNASCAR 2 class. On 27 February 2020, it was announced that Ulysse Delsaux plans to compete in both classes with the renumbered No. 10 Chevrolet Camaro for 2020. However, on 4 September 2020, Delsaux announced his withdrawal from the 2020 season due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. On 3 March 2020, it was announced that Marcel Lenerz, who competed in VLN in 2019, will be making his series debut as the driver of DF1 Racing's No. 99 Chevrolet Camaro in the EuroNASCAR 2 class. On 3 March 2020, it was announced that Tobias Dauenhauer will be making a switch from ADAC GT4 Germany to the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series in 2020. Dauenhauer is set to make his series debut as the driver of Hendriks Motorsport's No. 50 Ford Mustang in the EuroNASCAR 2 class. On 4 March 2020, it was announced that Sven van Laere will be competing full-time in the EuroNASCAR 2 class as the driver of Braxx Racing's No. 91 team as Marc Goossens' teammate. However, it was later announced on 21 August 2020 that such plans were cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. On 5 March 2020, it was reported that former Formula One driver and four-time Superstars Series champion Gianni Morbidelli plans to make his debut in the series as the EuroNASCAR PRO class driver of CAAL Racing's No. 88 team. However, Morbidelli would later withdrawn his entry from the season due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This would have marked Morbidelli's return to stock car racing since the 2008–09 Speedcar Series season. Thomas Ferrando will be replacing Morbidelli as the No. 88 team's PRO class driver. On 6 March 2020, Hendriks Motorsport announced that Giorgio Maggi and Vittorio Ghirelli will be driving the team's newly expanded third car in 2020. Maggi will be promoted to the EuroNASCAR PRO class while Ghirelli will be staying in the EuroNASCAR 2 class to compete for the championship title.