The 2025 NASCAR Euro Series was the seventeenth Racecar Euro Series season, and the first under the NASCAR Euro Series branding. It was the fourteenth season of the series under official NASCAR sanctioning. The season started on 12 April with the Valencia NASCAR Fest at Circuit Ricardo Tormo and finished on 12 October with the EuroNASCAR Finals at Circuit Zolder.
Both Vittorio Ghirelli and entered the season as defending champions in the PRO and OPEN divisions respectively. RDV Competition entered the season as the reigning Endurance Teams champion.
Vittorio Ghirelli secured his second consecutive EuroNASCAR PRO championship with a dominant performance in the season finale, as the Italian driver completed a perfect sweep in the Finals at Circuit Zolder in Belgium, finishing ahead of Gianmarco Ercoli and Paul Jouffreau to claim the title.
Thomas Krasonis became the first Greek NASCAR Euro Series Champion, securing the title in the OPEN division. A maiden OPEN division victory at Valencia, Spain was followed by five more visits to the Victory Lane, in his campaign to become the first Greek to win a European NASCAR title. With a total of 544 points, Krasonis closed his season with a 33-point lead over Martin Doubek in the standings.
Team Bleekemolen won their first Endurance Teams championship.
Teams and drivers
PRO Team Body Style Race Driver Rounds Academy Motorsport1Ford Mustang Marc Goossens 1–2 Federico Monti 3–4, 6 Dario Caso 5 5 Claudio Remigio Cappelli All RDV Competition 3 Ford Mustang Paul Jouffreau All Hendriks Motorsport 7 Ford Mustang All Team Georgia 9 Chevrolet Camaro Davit Kajaia 2–6 Alumitec Racing 11 Ford Mustang Gianmarco Ercoli All PK Carsport 13 Chevrolet Camaro Thomas Krasonis All 24 Vittorio Ghirelli All SpeedHouse Racing 14 Ford Mustang Ulysse Delsaux 1–2, 4–6 20 Igor Stefanovski 6 33 Giorgio Maggi All 64 Vladimiros Tziortzis All Lux Motorsport 21 Chevrolet Camaro Jack Davidson All Club Competition 22 Chevrolet Camaro Ulysse Delsaux 3 Giovanni Faraonio 5 Marc Goossens 6 55 Fabrizio Armetta All Rette Jones Racing 30 Ford Mustang Liam Hezemans All M Racing 34 Chevrolet Camaro Yvan Muller 1–2 Thomas Toffel 3–6 Marko Stipp Motorsport 46 Chevrolet Camaro Yevgen Sokolovsky 6 47 Max Marzorati 1 Alexander Graff 5 48 Davit Kajaia 1 Yevgen Sokolovsky 5 Ryan Vargas 6 Race Planet Team Bleekemolen 25Chevrolet Camaro Jordan Wallace 3 69 Toyota Camry Sebastiaan Bleekemolen All 72 Michael Bleekemolen 1–2 Bruno Mulders 2–6 76 Michal Makes 4–5 Chase Fernandez 6 Team Japan Needs2474Toyota Camry Kenko Miura 1, 5 Bremotion 77 Chevrolet Camaro Julien Rehberg All 99 Garrett Lowe All CAAL Racing75 Chevrolet Camaro Raphaël Lessard 5 Max Lanza 6 88 1–3 89 4 Max Marzorati 2–3
OPEN Team Body Style Race Driver Rounds Academy Motorsport1Ford Mustang Andres Beers All 5 Claudio Remigio Cappelli All RDV Competition 3 Ford Mustang Patrick Schober All Hendriks Motorsport 7 Ford Mustang All Team Georgia 9 Chevrolet Camaro Sandro Tavartkiladze 2–6 Alumitec Racing 11 Ford Mustang Valentino Gambarotto All PK Carsport 13 Chevrolet Camaro Thomas Krasonis All 24 Thomas Dombrowski All SpeedHouse Racing 14 Ford Mustang Arianna Casoli 1–2 Fabrice Pantani 4 José Antonio Peñalta 5 Ulysse Delsaux 6 33 Florian Richard All 64 Sven van Laere 2–6 Lux Motorsport 21 Chevrolet Camaro Mario Ercoli 1–2 Matthew Ellis 3 Mike Wise 4–5 Nick Strickler 6 Club Competition 22Chevrolet Camaro Giovanni Faraonio 2 Jordan O’Brien 3–5 Francesco Leogrande 6 55 Valerio Marzi 2, 4–6 Gordon Barnes 3 Rette Jones Racing 30 Ford Mustang Gil Linster 1–2, 4–6 Michael Bleekemolen 3 M Racing 34 Chevrolet Camaro Thomas Toffel All Marko Stipp Motorsport 47 Chevrolet Camaro Sven van Laere 1 Loris Cencetti 5 48 Sandro Tavartkiladze 1 Gordon Barnes 5 Reza Sardeha 6 Race Planet Team Bleekemolen 25Chevrolet Camaro Mike Wise 3 69 Toyota Camry Melvin de Groot All 72 Bruno Mulders All 76 Michael Bleekemolen 4–6 Team Japan Needs2474Toyota Camry Kenko Miura 1, 5 Bremotion 77 Chevrolet Camaro "" All 99 Dominique Schaak All CAAL Racing 75 Chevrolet Camaro Davide Frulio 6 89 3–4 88 Roberto Benedetti 1–3
Rookie Challenge Team Body Style Race Driver Rounds Academy Motorsport 1 Ford Mustang Federico Monti 1–2 RDV Competition 3 Ford Mustang Yann Cristovao 1–2 PK Carsport 13 Chevrolet Camaro Maxim van Laere 1–2 SpeedHouse Racing 14 Ford Mustang José Antonio Peñalta 1–2 33 Andreas Kuchelbacher 1–2 64 Nuño Caetano 1–2 Lux Motorsport 21 Chevrolet Camaro Nicole Davidson 1–2 Club Competition 22 Chevrolet Camaro Mike Wise 2 Marko Stipp Motorsport 46 Chevrolet Camaro Yann Schar 1 47 Mike Wise 1 48 Daniel Boys 1 Race Planet Team Bleekemolen 69 Toyota Camry Daniil Shapka 1–2 72 Bruno Mulders 1–2 Bremotion 77 Chevrolet Camaro "" 1–2 99 Garrett Lowe 1–2 CAAL Racing 89 Ford Mustang Davide Frulio 1–2
Pink background denotes drivers that will not score points in the division.
Notes
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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". 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
Teams On 16 December 2024, Yvan Muller's M Racing team announced plans to enter the NASCAR Euro Series as a two-car team. 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. 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. 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.