By Inaugural ESR (European Series Road Racing) season stats burst, take two.
Forty-one (thirty in SBK / eleven in SSP) racers (including ESR guest-rider entrants, just for this article BeNeLux Trophy SBK exponents, which tackled ESR races in Chimay and Hengelo) from eleven nations, scored at least one top ten Superbike/Supersport finish at ESR meetings following high-speed action at already-mentioned Circuit De Varsselring in Hengelo, Circuit De Chimay plus Jarno Saarinen Circuit at Imatra and Horice x2.
Northwest 200 (ESR Championships round held last May) results not counted for this stats piece (the same as previous ESR 2026 top ten finishes stats article).
In descending order, those to score top-10s within this year’s ESR Superbike/Supersport races, are as follows:
(Amount of 2026 top ten finishes for competitors, positioned near their name).
Superbike:
Laurent Hoffmann (Belgium) – 9 (2026 ESR SBK runner-up)
Fedrik Matthys (Belgium) – 9 (2026 ESR SBK Champion)
Anssi Koski (Finland) – 8 (2026 ESR SBK – overall 3rd position)
Lukas Maurer (Switzerland) – 6
Kevin De Haan (Netherlands) – 5 (2026 ESR SBK – overall 7th position)
Yan Ancia (Belgium) – 4 (2026 BeNeLux Trophy SBK Champion)
Mike Parmentier (Belgium) – 4
Sander Claessen (Belgium) – 3
Tomas Toth (Slovakia) – 3
Dominik Haslinger (Austria) – 3
Jakub Sprojcar (Czech Republic) – 3 (2026 ESR SBK – overall 5th position)
Eemeli Lahti (Finland) – 2
Niko Lehtiranta (Finland) – 2
Markus Karlsson (Sweden) – 2
Ouri Bikkems (Belgium) – 2
Nico Muller (Germany) – 2
Kenny Koskinen (Finland) – 2
Peter Hickman (England) – 2
Thijs Peeters (Netherlands) – 2
Ville Valtonen (Finland) – 2
Florian Astner (Austria) – 2
Thibault De Hert (Belgium) – 2
Eddy Ferre (France) – 2
Pekka Pouhakka (Finland) – 2
Rasmus Lindstrom (Sweden) – 2 (2026 ESR SBK – overall 4th position)
Petr Najman (Czech Republic) – 1
Pontus Rostlinger (Sweden) – 1 (2026 ESR SBK – overall 10th position)
Amalric Blanc (France) – 1 (2026 ESR SBK – overall 11th position)
Martin Hajek (Czech Republic) – 1
Roope Ollonqvist (Finland) – 1
Supersport (2026 only at Imatranajo):
Gary Johnson (England) – 2
Juho Kantola (Finland) – 2
Rasmus Nurmi (Finland) – 2
Juho-Oskari Mahonen (Finland) – 2
Mikko Uski (Finland) – 2
Erno Kivimaki (Finland) – 2
Sebastian Frotscher (Germany) – 2
Ari-Petteri Kuivalainen (Finland) – 2
Mike Mace (England) – 2
Niko Tanskanen (Finland) – 1
Ville Eemil Kultti (Finland) – 1
(Racers with the exact same number of top 10 finishes, sorted by their personal best result across the season and earlier achievement).
Photo credit: Jan Vavra
Words by Jan Vavra
