By Belgian Twin Trophy (BTT) organisers Jacques Borremans and Herman Verboven (amongst active racers in featured article image) separate road race challenge ranking initiative of recent years, which increased last season into the newly titled European Super Twin – Road Race Challenge (EST-RRC), looked to have hit a crossroads this year.
This was partly due to the new for 2026, IRRC Sportbike class and the subsequent lack of space in competition schedules at events including Horice.
Fortunately for road racing fans, the BTT scene graces this year selected roads courses, running alongside IRRC/ESR races at Hengelo and twice at Circuit De Chimay. Previously mentioned Horice, Frohburger Dreieck for this season are not holding series rounds.
Overall BTT rankings will-be-awarded in combination with circuit races. This means that EST-RRC Champion of last year, double 2025 Manx Grand Prix victor Jamie Williams, will-not be-deposed as series title holder.
Added TT/Manx Grand Prix experienced 2025 EST-RRC exponents, were Michal ´Indi´ Dokoupil, Dan Ingham, Francesco Curinga, Stefan Holz, Mike Mace and Miroslav ´Laki´ Sloboda.
Continuing with this theme into 2026, overall, 2024 Belgian Twin Trophy Road Race Challenge winner, German rider Lorenz Rotharmel, plans to make this August, his Manx Grand Prix debut.
2026 Belgian Twin Trophy calendar, outlined below:
2nd-3rd May – Hengelo Varsselring (Netherlands)
13th-14th June – Circuit de Chimay I – only Stock Twins 650 class (Belgium)
25th-26th July – Circuit de Chimay II – BTT points will only be for Super Twins pilots (Belgium)
BTT rounds on purpose built circuits:
18th-19th April – Circuit de Croix en Ternois (France)
30th-31st May – TT Circuit Assen (Netherlands)
20th-21st June – Circuit Carole (France)
8th-9th August – Circuit Jules Tacheny de Mettet (Belgium)
An added bonus, the provisional list of BTT riders for May’s Hengelo road race event:
Stock Twins 650:
Ludovic Wouters
Gert Bertels
Dries Van Roosbroeck
Johan Guerin
Koen Van Den Broeck
Mathieu Locuty
Raf Roobrouck
Dirk Steenbeke
Kevin Boussu
Steve Janssens
Jeffrey Vromant
Stefan Hofer
Herman Verboven
Super Twins:
Senna Van Den Hoven
Seppe Noel
Rick Harthoorn
Christian Hirsch
Jo Burm
Koen Koopmans
Ezio Badts
Romain Fortemps
Bram Peersman
Wim Van Den Bossche
Gauthier De Hert
Matthias Pharazijn
Kenny Meersman
Sander Claessen
Alec Willemen
Elias Van Roekel
Kenny Hinck
Christophe Carlier
Jacques Borremans
Johnny Jadoul
Jeremy Goosens
Niko Maes
Waiting list for Super Twins class:
Marc Declerk
Lorenz Rotharmel
Wally Jacobs
Special thanks to Jacques Borremans for providing the above list of riders.
Photo credit: Jan Vavra
Words by Jan Vavra
