First, second place finishers from IRRC Hengelo – Superbike Race Two, Thijs Peeters, Adam McLean both had ample reasons to smile as big-bike Varsselring exhilarations for 2025 finished in productive manner.
For Peeters (Peeters Racing BMW), he successfully completed a quadruple of weekend victories whilst second place collector x2 McLean (Performance Racing Achterhoek Kawasaki) who set the race’s quickest lap-time (1.45.966) opened a ten-point IRRC SBK Championship lead.
McLean’s early series lead chaser is Laurent Hoffmann (Hoffmann by MRP BMW), who this afternoon sealed another third-place finish.
Behind Hoffmann, fourth to sixth SBK R2 clinchers were Mike Parmentier, his team-mate Fedrik Matthys and Nico Muller (Muller Motorsport by Edeka Meisel BMW).
Wally Jacobs, lead Austrian participant Florian Astner, Anssi Koski, Pontus Roestlinger wrapped up the first ten finishers.
Darryl Tweed (Never Be Clever Racing Yamaha) took eleventh, post a determined comeback ride, having dropped as low as nineteenth after a mistake on lap-two.
Before misfortunes, ‘Tweedy’ was running as high as fourth, keeping tabs on former IRRC Supersport Champion Hoffmann.
IRRC Hengelo – Superbike Race Two Result:
1st – Thijs Peeters
2nd – Adam McLean
3rd – Laurent Hoffmann
4th – Mike Parmentier
5th – Fedrik Matthys
6th – Nico Muller
7th – Wally Jacobs
8th – Florian Astner
9th – Anssi Koski
10th – Pontus Roestlinger
11th – Darryl Tweed
12th – David Brook
13th – Jakub Sprojcar
14th – Lasse Karki
15th – Morgan Baplu
16th – Christoph Kreller
17th – Emil Krchnavy
18th – Patrick Van Der Eecken
19th – Rene MIkvy
20th – Michal Podrabsky
Photo credit: Thijs Van Der Horst
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou