By This week sees the 2023 IRRC (International Road Racing Championship) fraternity make the trip to Germany’s top real roads venue, Frohburger Dreieck.
38, 36 competitors respectively are anticipated to sample the final IRRC Superbike, Supersport races of 2023, with 17 nations in total having representation.
Notable event wildcards include the in-form David Datzer, Macau Grand Prix Champion Erno Kostamo and high-profile road racing returnee, Mullingar’s Derek McGee.
UK entrants include the Never Be Clever Racing pairing of Rhys Hardisty and Forest Dunn plus another, welcome roads scene returner, twice Supersport TT winner Gary Johnson.
The full provisional IRRC Frohburg Supersport/Superbike entry lists, reads as follows:
(Title sponsor located near racer’s name)
Superbike:
Lukas Maurer – Maurer Racing
Didier Grams – G&G Motorsport by BMW Motorrad
Patrick Hoff – Neumann Racing
Markus Karlsson – Hoffmann by MRP
Nico Muller – Muller Motorsport by Edeka Meisel
Udo Reichmann – Reichmann Racing
Marnix D’Hondt – Fun Racing Team
Pontus Roestlinger – PoEm Racing
Roger Bantli – Bantli
Freddie Heinrich – Motorrad Eder Augsburg
Jaroslaw Szczesny – SRT Supported Kopec Racing
Rene Mikvy – ZD-Motorsport
Virgil Amber Bloemhard – Performance Racing Achterhoek
Luca Gottardi – Syntainics Racing by Penz 13
Paul Manx – Van Eijs Technical Support
Morgan Baplu – Vodden En Been Racing Team
Rhys Hardisty – Never Be Clever Racing
Erno Kostamo – 38 Motorsport Syntainics
Tomas Toth – Garo Racing Team
Lasse Karki – Team Vuokrakontti
Dirk Kaletsch – AVIA Racing Marburg Cappel
Johannes Schwimmbeck – MTP Racing
Mike Ceuppens – Texas Motors
David Datzer – MTP Racing by Syntainics
Kamil Holan – Blue Garage
Rob Van Eijs – Van Eijs Technical Support
Emil Krchnavy – ZD-Motorsport
Olivier Lupberger – Team Moto Meile/Lupberger
Jorn Hamberg – Performance Racing Achterhoek
Forest Dunn – Never Be Clever Racing
Wally Jacobs – Rob Van Eijs
Christoph Kreller – KRC Racing Crew
Dirk Walter – DWR99
Marcel Elsner – Team Ecki Powered by Schuttflix
Laurent Hoffmann – Hoffmann by MRP
Steven Bellavoine – Steven Bellavoine
Florian Astner
Rene Grundei – ZSG-Racing
Sylvester Kristensen – SRT-Racing
Aku Korhonen – Pikku 2 Racing
Supersport:
Marek Cerveny – WRP Wepol Racing
Jorn Hamberg – Performance Racing Achterhoek
Ilja Caljouw – Performance Racing Achterhoek
Nicolas Therouin – ProSpeed MotoSport
Gary Johnson – Team Schleizer Dreieck
Mike Ceuppens – Texas Motors
Wayne Bourgeais – Objectif 2R
Jimmy Wauters – Jimmy Wauters
Matthieu Pauchard – MC Racle Bitume
Rico Vetter – VRP Vetter Racing Performance
Thomas Wendel – 2WAM.de Racing
Robert Rohde – Robdorfer Racing Team
Yannik Jacops – SJL Racing International Road Race Team
Rhys Hardisty – Never Be Clever Racing
Sebastian Frotscher – Team Schleizer Dreieck
Patrick Glauser – PG Racing
Tobias Hinze – 4TY7 Racing
Anssi Koski – AK 51 Racing Team
Jakub Sprojcar – TTRace
Wolfgang Schuster – Schuster Road Racing
Lukas Maurer – Closed Roads Racing
Petr Najman – Festa Laserscanning Europe by PSB
Enrico Rocchi – RocknRoad
Forest Dunn – Never Be Clever Racing
Derek McGee – McGee Racing
Jamie Williams – JLG/NCE Racing
Lukas Vaclavovic – TTRace
Wesley Ankersmid – Rth Racing
Dirk Walter – Dirk Walter
Brian Fuidge – Royal Navy Royal Marines Road Race Team
Andreas Jochum – TTSL-Sued.de
Tobias Grunzinger – Wula Road Racing
Israel Gillette – Moto Mutt International
Peter Lionel – Team Peter Racing
Mauro Poncini – Team Manici Racing
Romain Cleaz Savoyen – RCS Team
Photo credit: Nick Wheeler
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
