By In below twelve days’ time the 2025 IRRC (International Road Racing Championship) series erupts into realization, with the Netherlands foremost active roads venue, the Hengelo based Varsselring hosting competition enterprises.
26, 36 racers are set to sample the Supersport, Superbike race tussles whilst in total, seventeen nations enjoy representation.
UK racers entered include Performance Racing Achterhoek’s Adam McLean, twice TT Races winner Gary Johnson, Never Be Clever Racing’s Rhys Hardisty & Darryl Tweed.
Super Twins, 125/Moto 3 race winner at Cookstown Derek McGee, Dutch roads wizards Jorn Hamberg, Thijs Peeters, Ilja Caljouw additionally are entered as is American rider, Israel Eugene Gillette.
The full provisional IRRC Hengelo Superbike/Supersport entry-lists, read as follows:
(Title sponsor located near racer’s name)
Superbike:
David Datzer (Germany) – Datziii Racing by TW3 Racing
Nico Muller (Germany) – Muller Motorsport by Edeka Meisel
Pontus Roestlinger (Sweden) – Rostlinger Racing 8
Dominik Haslinger (Austria) – Racing Team MSC Mettmach/Uniwood
Mike Parmentier (Belgium)– Mike Parmentier
Jean Pierre Polet (Belgium) – Roads Warrior
Rene MIkvy (Slovakia) – ZD Motorsport
Michal Podrabsky (Czech Republic) – M&D Racing team
Lasse Karki (Finland) – Team Vuokrakontti
Morgan Baplu (Belgium) – Vodden en Been Racing Team
Erno Kostamo (Finland) – RVS Motorsport
Rhys Hardisty (Wales) – Never Be Clever Racing
Johannes Schwimmbeck (Germany) – KFZ Schwimmbeck #44
Jakub Sprojcar (Czech Republic) – TT Race
Anssi Koski (Finland) – AK 51 Racing Team
Adam McLean (Northern Ireland) – Performance Racing Achterhoek
Darryl Tweed (Northern Ireland) – Never Be Clever Racing
Patrick Vander Eecken (Luxembourg) – Pure Capital
David Brook (England)– Brook Suspension.com
Thijs Peeters (Netherlands) – Peeters Racing
Emil Krchnavy (Slovakia) – KRS Racing by ZD Motorsport
Christoph Kreller (Germany) – KRC Racing Crew
Wally Jacobs (Netherlands) – NN Racing
Laurent Hoffmann (Belgium) – Hoffmann by MRP
Fedrik Matthys (Belgium) – Hoffmann by MRP
Florian Astner (Austria) – FA Road Racing
Supersport:
Gary Johnson (England) – Team Schleizer Dreieck
Derek McGee (Ireland) – Bell Bike Sport
Mike Ceuppens (Belgium) – Texas Motors
Daniel Chovanec (Slovakia) – VK Racing
Ilja Caljouw (Netherlands) – Performance Racing Achterhoek
Luuk Pruijn (Netherlands) – Nelon Racing
Thomas Wendel (Germany) – TMG21 Racing Team
Moritz Klaus (Germany) – MK Racing
Rico Vetter (Germany) – Vetter Racing Performance by SIEVI
Rhys Hardisty (Wales) – Never Be Clever Racing
Sebastian Frotscher (Germany) – Team Schleizer Dreieck
Marek Cerveny (Czech Republic) – WRP Wepol Racing Parts
Adam McLean (Northern Ireland) – Performance Racing Achterhoek
Matej Vit (Czech Republic) – TME Racing
Darryl Tweed (Northern Ireland) – Never Be Clever Racing
Michael Mace (England) – Mike Mace Racing
Petr Najman (Czech Republic) – Laserscanning Europe by PSB Motorsport
David Brook (England) – Brook Suspension.com
Thierry Vanhollebeke (Belgium) – Racing Tich
Eddy Takkenkamp (Netherlands) – AJ by Lichtstaal and Intriq
Kevin Mos (Netherlands) – Nelon Racing
Martin Baca (Czech Republic) – VK Racing
Jamie Williams (Isle of Man) – JLG/NCE Racing
Bart Roenhorst (Netherlands) – Team Hengelo
Jorn Hamberg (Netherlands) – HMB Racing
Gregory Botty (Belgium) – BG Racing
Jonathan Lesceux (Belgium) – JLJ Racing team
Tom Kreunen (Netherlands) – Team Hengelo
Jonas Stracke (Germany) – Hepelmann Motorsport
Israel Eugene Gilette (United States of America) – Moto Mutt International
Alexandre Bigot (France) – Team Bigota
Mathieu Rieder (France) – RIM Racing Team
Freek Lammers (Netherlands) – Zuurbier Motorsport
Romain Cleaz-Savoyen (France) – RCS Team
Mauro Poncini (Switzerland) – Delmo Racing
Wesley Ankersmid (Netherlands) – Performance Racing Achterhoek
Special thanks to Czech road racing statistician, writer, historian Jan Vavra for compiling these lists.
Photo credit: Thijs Van Der Horst
Words by Stevie Rial, Jan Vavra
