By 2025 roads season, fastest racers per nation edition take two. Today it’s the swiftest Horice speedsters of fifteen nations combined, from the 62nd 300 Curves of Gustav Havel, 32nd Czech TT/IRRC events.
(Best 2025 lap time, positioned near racer’s name)
Finland: Erno Kostamo – 2.11.416 (new lap record holder plus all-time lap record set during qualifying – 2.11.403)
Switzerland: Lukas Maurer – 2.11.780 (now second fastest rider in Horice history/plus 2.11.688 set during qualifying)
Sweden: Markus Karlsson – 2.13.961 (now fastest Swedish racer ever)
Germany: Johannes Schwimmbeck – 2.14.130
Czech Republic: Petr Najman – 2.14.531 (now fastest Czech racer ever)
Northern Ireland: Darryl Tweed – 2.15.394 (now fastest Northern Irish racer ever)
Belgium: Laurent Hoffmann – 2.15.464
Slovakia: Tomas Toth – 2.15.545 (now fastest Slovak racer ever)
Austria: Florian Astner – 2.16.062 (now fastest Austrian racer ever)
France: Stephane Bednarek – 2.17.920 (now fastest French racer ever)
England: Gary Johnson – 2.18.261
Netherlands: Ilja Caljouw – 2.19.788
Isle of Man: Jamie Williams – 2.21.716
Poland: Dawid Dziedzic – 2.27.306
India: Rushab Shah – 2.38.860 (unofficially, lap time only qualifying/first ever Indian racer at Horice)
An-added bonus, covering quickest Supersport pilots:
Czech Republic: Petr Najman – 2.14.531 (new Supersport lap record)
England: Gary Johnson – 2.17.574 (now fastest English Supersport racer ever)
Switzerland: Mauro Poncini – 2.18.205 (now fastest Swiss Supersport racer ever)
Northern Ireland: Darryl Tweed – 2.18.233
Germany: Wolfgang Schuster – 2.19.066 (plus 2.17.061 set during qualifying)
Sweden: Markus Karlsson – 2.19.458 (now fastest Swedish Supersport racer ever)
Netherlands: Ilja Caljouw – 2.19.788
Slovakia: Tomas Toth – 2.21.713
Isle of Man: Jamie Williams – 2.21.716 (now fastest Manx Supersport racer ever)
France: Mathieu Rieder – 2.24.959
Belgium: Gregory Botty – 2.25.321
India: Rushab Shah – 2.38.860 (unofficially, lap time only from qualifying)
Plus newcomer/female exponents 2025 stats:
Fastest 2025 newcomer: Fedrik Matthys (Belgium) – 2.18.312
Fastest 2025 Supersport newcomer: David Brook (England) – 2.22.716 (plus above mentioned Markus Karlsson debuted with Supersport bike in Horice – 2.19.458)
Fastest 2025 female rider: Veronika Hankocyova (Czech Republic) – 2.30.823 (best female racer lap time in Super Twins class of all time)
Just for reminder, both Horice racing weekends next year, 300 Curves of Gustav Havel (23rd-24th May) and Czech TT intertwined with IRRC (8th-9th August) form parts of the newly launched ESR (European Series Road Racing) for Superbike racing action at Hengelo, Chimay, Imatranajo and disclosed this week, the Briggs Equipment Northwest 200.
Photo credit: Jan Vavra
Words by Jan Vavra
