By After the rain comes the sunshine, it looked like wet tricky conditions were pending for racing at Luckendorfer Bergrennen in Germany, given this morning’s weather but it improved to almost perfect conditions ahead of final European Hill Climb Road Race Championship, race bursts of 2025.
The pace on track was red-hot, steaming, ferocious today with the overall lap-record, multiple categories record times bettered.
Maurizio Bottalico who travels this month back to IOM shores, for the Classic TT, took a race wins quadruple (Superbike x2, Supersport x2), set a new outright Luckendorf Hill Climb track-record (1.18.947).
He was, crowned-today as this year’s European Hill Climb Superbike Road Race Champion, successfully regained the Supersport title.
Bottalico’s glorious latest time trial racing project also saw him best the existing, Supersport record-time he already held, lapping at 1 minute 22.682 seconds.
New Supermoto track record-holder and two times winner today at Luckendorf is Phillip Neumuller (1.30.156) while new GP 250 track record-holder, double class winner is Thomas ‘Uccio’ Altendorfer (1.33.324), a wildcard entrant for next weekend’s IRRC Superbike races at the Czech TT in Horice.
2025 Manx Grand Prix entrant Salvatore ‘Salvo’ Sallustro showed accomplished pace, swooped four second place finishes from SBK, Supermoto races. Sallustro’s top lap-time in the saddle of 1000cc machinery (R1 Yamaha) was 1 minute 21.412 seconds.
We will bring you later, complete final 2025 European Hill Climb Road Race Championship standings per class, when they are-made available.
Huge thanks to the organisers, riders, spectators, sponsors, emergency services and everyone around the unique Luckendorfer Bergrennen races. We will see you in August next year for the 103rd Anniversary edition!
Luckendorf Day 2 – European Hill Climb Road Race Championships race results, are projected below:
(Best race track time located near racer’s name)
Superbike (including Superstock 1000) Race 1:
1st – Maurizio Bottalico (Italy) – 1.20.255
2nd – Salvatore Sallustro (Italy) – 1.23.327
3rd – Thomas Mitgutsch (Austria) – 1.30.716
4th – Giacomo Failla (Italy) – 1.33.716
5th – Karl Stiefsohn (Austria) – 1.38.499
Superbike (including Superstock 1000) Race 2:
1st – Maurizio Bottalico (Italy) – 1.18.947 (new outright, Superbike track record)
2nd – Salvatore Sallustro (Italy) – 1.21.412
3rd – Thomas Mitgutsch (Austria) – 1.32.267
4th – Karl Stiefsohn (Austria) – 1.36.216
5th – Giacomo Failla (Italy) – 1.37.204
Supersport (including Superstock 600) Race 1:
1st – Maurizio Bottalico (Italy) – 1.23.229
2nd – Thomas Altendorfer (Austria) – 1.26.685
3rd – Thomas Mitgutsch (Austria) – 1.36.061
4th – Giacomo Failla (Italy) – 1.38.650
Supersport (including Superstock 600) Race 2:
1st – Maurizio Bottalico (Italy) – 1.22.682 (new Supersport track record)
2nd – Thomas Altendorfer (Austria) – 1.26.289
3rd – Thomas Mitgutsch (Austria) – 1.34.079
4th – Giacomo Failla (Italy) – 1.37.015
Supersport 300 Race 1:
1st – Marco Vigilucci (Italy) – 1.53.067
2nd – Cosimo Sozzo (Italy) – 1.54.227
3rd – Stefano Leone (Italy) – 2.01.003
Supersport 300 Race 2:
1st – Cosimo Sozzo (Italy) – 1.51.072 (new Supersport 300 race track record)
2nd – Marco Vigilucci (Italy) – 1.53.029
3rd – Stefano Leone (Italy) – 2.01.184
250 GP Race 1:
1st – Thomas Altendorfer (Austria) – 1.32.958
2nd – Guido Testoni (Italy) – 1.35.162
3rd – Bernard Depierreux (Belgium) – 1.38.092
4th – Rolf Haller (Switzerland) – 1.50.518
5th – Angelo Testoni (Italy) – 1.58.364
Marco Vigilucci (Italy) – did not finish
250 GP Race 2:
1st – Thomas Altendorfer (Austria) – 1.32.324 (new 250 GP track record)
2nd – Guido Testoni (Italy) – 1.33.580
3rd – Bernard Depierreux (Belgium) – 1.37.333
4th – Rolf Haller (Switzerland) – 1.45.240
5th – Angelo Testoni (Italy) – 1.55.861
Supermoto Race 1:
1st – Philipp Neumuller (Austria) – 1.31.869
2nd – Salvatore Sallustro (Italy) – 1.32.095
3rd – Cosimo Sozzo (Italy) – 1.39.953
Supermoto Race 2:
1st – Philipp Neumuller (Austria) – 1.30.156 (new Supermoto track record)
2nd – Salvatore Sallustro (Italy) – 1.31.996
3rd – Cosimo Sozzo (Italy) – 1.41.265
Photo credit: Jan Vavra
Words by Jan Vavra
