An even better end to an already great 2025 season for Pro Dutch Racing
Michel Tooren and his team, Pro Dutch Racing, concluded their already great 2025 season with several great performances. With advancing to the semifinals of the European Finals at Santa Pod Raceway, Tooren secured the fourth position in the final standings of the FIA European Pro Modified Championship. Two weeks later, during the National Finals at the same English track, Tooren reset his personal best for the third time this season, now to 5.8089 seconds. In the eliminations, Tooren in the Pro Dutch Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 finished in the runner-up spot and secured the second position in the Motorsport UK Pro Modified Championship. There’s hardly any better motivation to work towards an even more successful 2026.
Continue readingSusanne Callin strikes back with 2025 FIA European Top Fuel title
What a difference a year makes. At the 2024 European Finals Susanne Callin lost the decisive semi-final run from Jndia Erbacher and saw her dream of winning the FIA European Top Fuel Championship fall apart. This season Callin had to face Erbacher again, now in the final, and once again is was the decisive run who would clinch the title. Callin threw off all her title nightmares by winning that crucial ‘winner takes it all’ run to claim her first FIA European Top Fuel crown. Time to look back with the champion on a season with highs and lows.
Continue readingSandro Bellio on repeat and claims FIA Top Methanol title number three
Sandro Bellio claimed his third FIA European Top Methanol Championship in style with a victory in a ‘winner takes it all’ final of the European Finals. It must have been a déjà vu feeling for the Belgian drivers as he clinched his 2022 title in exactly the same way by defeating Jonny Lagg in the last run of the season. At the halfway point of the season, the title seemed to be out of reach for the family run Danny’s Racing Team, but after a great comeback, the title race went down to the wire with still five drivers in contention for the 2025 crown. Time to look back with the champion on another difficult but in the end successful season.
Continue readingRobin Norén, a hard fought first FIA European Pro Stock title
To claim a title in the FIA European Drag Racing Championship is tough, but to do it in the Pro Stock class where you have to beat a 13-time European champion, is even tougher. But Robin Norén did it this season with the right combination of great ETs and even better reaction times. In a ‘winner takes it all’ final Norén claimed his first FIA European Pro Stock title by defeating Jimmy Ålund with 0.0086 seconds! Norén looks back on his so successful 2025 championship winning campaign.
Continue readingFIM-E Champions Review – Marcus Christiansen – FIM-E Super Twin Bike
Marcus Christiansen and father Claus ‘Speedy’ continued to rip up the record books in FIM-E Super Twin in 2025. The Great Danes continued to stamp out performance levels hitherto unseen with a naturally aspirated twin, with a 6.0779s at a non-championship event in Sweden in June getting below Bob Malloy’s long standing 6.09 that had been a target for the team for a while now. Not content with the ET mark, they also bagged a record class championship title at the end of a ferociously contested series.
Continue readingFIM-E Champions Review – Rikard Gustafsson – FIM-E Top Fuel Bike
It was quite a year for Rikard Gustafsson and the RG Engineering Puma team, starting with the pre-season unveiling of a new look for the Falkenberg-based flying machine thanks to Indian Motorcycles coming on board as a major backer. On track, the FIM-E championship chase was more of a challenge as Gustafsson would miss the round in Germany as a result of an unfortunate calendar clash with the popular Mosten Raceday in Denmark. However, the Swede delivered a weekend spectacular performance at the Euro Finals in September to pick up the 2025 title with a bit to spare.
Continue readingBengtsson and The Beast reflect on 2025 and ponder on 2026
By any measure it would has been a standout year for Per Bengtsson and The Beast team on their return to a full season in FIM-E Super Twin competition, but the Swedish veteran wanted more and has a few things to think about over the winter.
Continue readingMarck Harteveld winner at NitrOlympX and runner-up in the FIA European Championship
Marck Harteveld claimed the win at the renowned NitrOlympX at the Rico Anthes Quartermile of the HockenheimRing. With his victory in the third round of the FIA European Drag Racing Championship, the Voodoo Hemi Racing driver took over the number one spot in the Pro Modified championship standings from reigning champion Jere Rantaniemi. One week later, the Finn claimed his second consecutive title at the European Finals at Santa Pod Raceway, but with a quarterfinal finish, Harteveld secured the second position in the final FIA European Pro Modified Championship standings, his best finish so far. “Of course, you’re a bit disappointed when you’re so close to the title, but we at Voodoo Hemi Racing can look back on a great season,” said Harteveld.
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