NASCAR Euro Series have revealed the Entry List for the 2025 Valencia NASCAR Fest, featuring 53 drivers from 24 teams across all three divisions.
The NASCAR Euro Series is ready to wake up from their long slumber. After six months of off-season, EuroNASCAR will return to the track this weekend for the 2025 Valencia NASCAR Fest.
EuroNASCAR’s landscape has changed significantly since the last checkered flag was waved in the 2024 season. New series name, new partners, new faces, and updated machinery are the name of the game for 2025.
All of the changes meant that the first season of the so-called “new era” promises to deliver more excitement while still keeping the same recipe that made EuroNASCAR so successful.
Circuit Ricardo Tormo welcomes the arrival of EuroNASCAR’s new era with an Entry List filled with many star drivers and teams.
With 53 drivers from 24 teams participating across all three divisions, thousands of Spanish race fans will get the first glimpse of what we can expect from the on-track action for 2025.
Team Changes
The reveal that Valencia’s Entry List will feature 24 cars does seem disappointing on paper. After all, EuroNASCAR’s Entry List regularly features more than 25 cars in recent times, including a peak of 35 that’s set at Brands Hatch in 2022.
However, upon closer inspection, we can see that the car counts in each division are on the cusp of expectancy.
EuroNASCAR PRO’s cast of 23 drivers is the same as 2024’s average. A similar story is told in EuroNASCAR OPEN, where their 22-car field size is one less from last year’s average.
The reason why the number of total cars is lower is because there are less teams entering their cars just for a single division.
Three teams that ran primarily in one class last year – Double V Racing, Granducato Speed, and 3F Racing – will not continue their participation in 2025.
Race Art Technology also did not continue their participation in their series. Team representative Paolo Pello confirmed to us that the Swiss team is working on other programs for this season.
Another team that’s also missing in the Entry List is Vict Motorsport. Dario Caso’s traditional red Italicus Camaro is not present for the first time since the 2024 NASCAR Oval GP.
However, Vict has not completed the full campaign in the past few years. Therefore, it’s likely that Vict will return at some point during the 2025 season.
On the subject of teams, several outfits have made radical changes for 2025. The Entry List confirms that the entry rights for two of EuroNASCAR’s most powerful entries will now be used by the new teams.
The first case took place at Hendriks Motorsport. Hendriks only “officially” entered one car, that being Martin Doubek’s No. 7 Orion Ford Mustang.
However, the entry for Hendriks’ flagship No. 50 team lives on as part of Rette Jones Racing’s new No. 30 team.
CAAL Racing also underwent a similar change for 2025. Unlike Hendriks, the Italian team still entered two cars: The existing No. 88 team and the new No. 89 team.
However, the rights for CAAL’s own flagship No. 54 team has been given to the brand new Alumitec Racing outfit. With Gianmarco Ercoli behind the wheel of Alumitec’s No. 11 Ford, it all but confirms that the team is the continuation of CAAL’s legendary No. 54 car.
One last minor change will take place at Club Motorsport. Fabrizio Armetta’s team will enter just the No. 55 team, which will feature Armetta across both divisions.
EuroNASCAR PRO
Outside of Armetta, the Entry List revealed three more drivers that will be racing in EuroNASCAR’s top division. All of them are series veterans: Marc Goossens, Kenko Miura and Romain Iannetta.
Goossens continues his journeyman status with his fifth team in as many years. After losing his seat at Team Bleekemolen, Academy Motorsport approached the Belgian and signed him to race the No. 1 Ford Mustang.
Miura maintains his yearly Valencia outing with his participation in his self-owned Team Japan Needs24 entry. We will be reaching Miura soon to figure out his full plans for the 2025 season.
Lastly, Iannetta makes a surprise return to the series with his former on-track rivals CAAL Racing. CAAL penned a contract with the Frenchman to lead the team’s brand new No. 89 Chevrolet Camaro.
EuroNASCAR OPEN
The Entry List for EuroNASCAR’s second division revealed four drivers that haven’t been unveiled before. Two of them are the aforementioned Armetta and Miura, both running double duty with their self-owned teams.
Young Belgian talent Andres Beers is the third previously unannounced driver. After making a one-off debut with Club at Zolder last year, Beers is set for his first full-time campaign with Academy Motorsport.
The fourth driver is Eric Clément, who is set for his first appearance since 2019. Clément will join his former teammate Iannetta in CAAL’s new No. 89 Camaro.
EuroNASCAR Rookie Challenge
Club Challenge’s revamp to Rookie Challenge have sparked a great deal of interest in EuroNASCAR’s regularity based division. A field size of 13 championship drivers meant that Rookie Challenge will have its largest entry size in history.
Reigning champion Federico Monti returns to the division for his first title defense in the series. Monti’s campaign will be a tough one as he’ll face opposition from all sides of the grid.
Prior to the Entry List announcement, there are six drivers who have announced their plans for 2025. They are RDV’s Yann Cristovao, PK’s Maxim van Laere, SpeedHouse’s Andreas Kuchelbacher, José Antonio Peñalta and Nuño Caetano, as well as Lux’s Nicole Davidson.
They will be joined by a fully concentrated effort from Marko Stipp Motorsport, Team Bleekemolen and Bremotion. MSM will feature returnee Yann Schar and two new drivers in Mike Wise and Daniel Boys.
Russian-born Italian Daniil Shapka and Bruno Mulders will take part for Team Bleekemolen. Mulders will exercise his right to compete for the championship as someone competing in his first season in the sport.
Also using this right is Bremotion’s Vanessa Neumann, who will use the practice provision to her advantage. Vanessa’s PRO teammate Garrett Lowe also entered Rookie Challenge with this provision, but he chose to not contend for the championship.
CAAL Racing completes the final piece of the puzzle with Davide Frulio’s EuroNASCAR debut onboard the No. 89 squad.
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