EuroNASCAR Endurance Teams champion RDV Competition narrowly avoided calamity to score a Teams win in 2025’s opener at Valencia.
Reigning teams champion RDV Competition have quietly extended their good run of form in EuroNASCAR’s Endurance Teams Championship.
Thomas Krasonis has taken most of the headlines from Valencia, and deservedly so after his historic wins. However, RDV opened their 2025 season with their fourth consecutive Endurance Teams win in Circuit Ricardo Tormo.
RDV’s driver pairing of Paul Jouffreau and Patrick Schober completed all 66 possible laps in the fastest time. Jouffreau and Schober achieved victory with a collective total time of 2 hours, 2 minutes and 11.388 seconds.
RDV’s win looked dominant on paper thanks to Jouffreau’s win on Saturday and two more podiums from Jouffreau and Schober during the weekend. However, the weekend could’ve gone very bad for RDV on EuroNASCAR OPEN Race 2.
As mentioned in our report, Schober was one of the drivers involved in the opening lap collision. The Austrian came very close to beaching the No. 3 Circuit Ricardo Tormo Ford in the gravel trap.
Runner-up went into debutants Rette Jones Racing, who came within seven seconds from the win. The American team’s package was solid thanks to hard work done by their alliance partner, former four-time teams champion Hendriks Motorsport.
PK Carsport’s No. 24 infitto.eu Camaro team made their first Endurance Teams podium in third. The Belgian outfit finally got their long overdue top-3 result after several seasons of being a non-factor in the Teams Championship.
Team Bleekemolen’s No. 69 team and Bremotion’s No. 99 team completed the top-5 positions. It’s a return to form for these two teams after their 2024 was greatly hampered by unreliability and misfortunes.
Marko Stipp Motorsport’s No. 48 and No. 47 teams finished sixth and seventh as the last cars completing all 66 laps.
The first of the “lapped” cars went to Alumitec Racing in eighth. Alumitec lost a possible top-5 result after Valentino Gambarotto spun off in his debut race on Saturday.
Gambarotto beached the chrome No. 11 Alumitec Ford in the gravel trap and needed marshalls’ help to extract himself out. Gambarotto did rejoin the race, but he lost a lap by the time he did so.
M Racing’s No. 34 Camaro and Bremotion’s No. 77 OnlyFans Camaro squad filled out the top-10 positions. M Racing lost a lap due to Thomas Toffel’s puncture in OPEN Race 2, while the same race cost Bremotion a lap due to Vanessa Neumann’s early race spin.
Despite winning two races out of a possible four, PK Carsport’s No. 13 team was only eleventh. Thomas Krasonis’ race from hell in OPEN Race 2 cost the squad a chance to win in Valencia.
In fact, several teams who finished on the rostrum in Valencia actually finished lower than expected in the Endurance Teams Championship due to problems that they suffered in the season opener.
Kenko Miura’s Team Japan Needs24 was thirteenth after he tangled with Max Lanza on PRO Race 2. Two mechanical issues for Michael Bleekemolen and Martin Doubek relegated Team Bleekemolen’s No. 72 and Hendriks’ No. 7 teams down to 16th and 21st respectively.
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