2020 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series

The 2020 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series is the twelfth Racecar Euro Series season, and the eighth under the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series branding. Loris Hezemans and Lasse Sørensen entered the season as the defending champion in the EuroNASCAR PRO and EuroNASCAR 2 category respectively, although Sørensen will not defend his title as he moved up to the EuroNASCAR PRO class in 2020. Hendriks Motorsport will enter the season as the defending team's champion.

2020 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series
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Esports series: EuroNASCAR Esports Series

1. Vallelunga

2. Zolder

3. Hockenheim

4. Most

5. Valencia

Locations of the circuits scheduled to host a NASCAR Whelen Euro Series race in 2020

Loris Hezemans is the reigning NASCAR Whelen Euro Series Champion.

Teams and drivers

NASCAR Whelen Euro Series released a provisional 33-car entry list for the teams participating on 27 March 2020.[1]

EuroNASCAR PRO

Team	No.	Body Style	Race Driver
Alex Caffi Motorsport[2]	1	Ford Mustang	TBA
Alex Caffi Motorsport[2]	2	Toyota Camry	TBA
RDV Competition	3	Chevrolet Camaro	Frédéric Gabillon[3]
RDV Competition	10	Chevrolet Camaro	Ulysse Delsaux[4]
FEED Vict Racing[5][6]	4	TBA	TBA
	5		Jacques Villeneuve[5]
	6		Patrick Lemarié[5]
	8		Dario Caso[6][7]
Hendriks Motorsport[8]	7	Ford Mustang	Martin Doubek[9]
	18		Giorgio Maggi[10]
	50		Loris Hezemans[8]
PK Carsport	11	Chevrolet Camaro	Stienes Longin[7]
PK Carsport	24	Chevrolet Camaro	Alon Day[11][12]
Solaris Motorsport by CAAL Racing[13][1]	12	Chevrolet Camaro	Francesco Sini[13]
42 Racing[14][1]	17	Ford Mustang	Bernardo Manfrè[15][16]
42 Racing[14][1]	42	Ford Mustang	Luigi Ferrara[16]
DF1 Racing	22	Chevrolet Camaro	TBA[17][18]
	23		Henri Tuomaala[19][20]
	66		Lasse Sørensen[21][19]
	99		Justin Kunz[22][23][7]
CAAL Racing	27	Chevrolet SS	TBA
	31		Mauro Trione[7]
	54		Gianmarco Ercoli[24][7]
	88		Gianni Morbidelli[25]
Mishumotors[1]	33	TBA	TBA
Marko Stipp Motorsport[N 1] DF1-MSM Racing[26][1][N 1]	46	TBA	TBA
Marko Stipp Motorsport[N 1] DF1-MSM Racing[26][1][N 1]	48	TBA	Evgeny Sokolovsky[26]
Speedhouse 64[1]	64	TBA	TBA
Team Bleekemolen[27]	69	Ford Mustang	Sebastiaan Bleekemolen[27]
Memphis Racing[1]	77	TBA	TBA
Not Only Motorsports[28][1]	89	TBA	Fabio Spatafora[28]
Braxx Racing[7]	90	Ford Mustang	Scott Jeffs[29]
Braxx Racing[7]	91	Chevrolet Camaro	Marc Goossens[30]

EuroNASCAR 2

Team	No.	Body Style	Race Driver
Alex Caffi Motorsport[2]	1	Ford Mustang	Vladimiros Tziortzis[31]
Alex Caffi Motorsport[2]	2	Toyota Camry	Alessio Bacci[7]
RDV Competition	3	Chevrolet Camaro	TBA
RDV Competition	10	Chevrolet Camaro	Ulysse Delsaux[4]
FEED Vict Racing[5][6]	4	TBA	TBA[5]
	5		TBA
	6		Simon Pilate[5]
	8		Alessandro Brigatti[6][7]
Hendriks Motorsport[8]	7	Ford Mustang	Martin Doubek[9]
	18		Vittorio Ghirelli[10]
	50		Tobias Dauenhauer[8]
PK Carsport	11	Chevrolet Camaro	Julia Landauer[32]
PK Carsport	24	Chevrolet Camaro	Guillaume Dumarey[33]
Solaris Motorsport by CAAL Racing[13][1]	12	Chevrolet Camaro	TBA
42 Racing[14][1]	17	Ford Mustang	TBA
42 Racing[14][1]	42	Ford Mustang	Francesco Garisto[14]
DF1 Racing	22	Chevrolet Camaro	Andre Castro[34]
	23		Henri Tuomaala[19][20]
	66		Andreas Jochimsen[35][19]
	99		Marcel Lenerz[36]
	TBA		Alain Mosqueron[23][37][7]
CAAL Racing	27	Chevrolet SS	TBA
	31		Giovanni Trione[7]
	54		Arianna Casoli[38]
	88		Max Lanza[39]
Mishumotors[1]	33	TBA	TBA
Marko Stipp Motorsport[N 1] DF1-MSM Racing[26][1][N 1]	46	TBA	TBA
Marko Stipp Motorsport[N 1] DF1-MSM Racing[26][1][N 1]	48	TBA	Kenko Miura[40]
Speedhouse 64[1]	64	TBA	TBA
Team Bleekemolen[27]	69	Ford Mustang	Michael Bleekemolen[27]
Memphis Racing[1]	77	TBA	TBA
Not Only Motorsports[28]	89	TBA	Davide Dallara[28]
Braxx Racing[7]	90	Ford Mustang	TBA
Braxx Racing[7]	91	Chevrolet Camaro	Sven van Laere[30]

EuroNASCAR Club Challenge

Team	No.	Body Style	Race Driver
Not Only Motorsports[28]	89	TBA	Igor Romanov[7][28]
DF1 Racing	99	Chevrolet Camaro	Alain Mosqueron[23][37][19]
Marko Stipp Motorsport	TBA	TBA	Gordon Barnes[41]

Notes

Car No. 46 entered as Marko Stipp Motorsport and car No. 48 entered as DF1-MSM Racing.

Driver changes

On 25 October 2019, Ander Vilariño announced that he won't be competing with Racing Engineering in 2020.[42] It was originally announced on 16 January 2020 that Vilariño will be switching teams to DF1 Racing for the 2020 season, but he later announced his withdrawal from the season on 26 June 2020 due to family and business concerns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Vilariño, however, does not rule out the possibility for a wildcard entry at Valencia.[17][18]
On 21 November 2019, DF1 Racing announced that they will promote Justin Kunz to the EuroNASCAR PRO class in 2020. Kunz had previously competed in the then-Elite 1 class in 2018.[22]
On 21 November 2019, it was announced that Myatt Snider will leave the series to compete in the NASCAR Xfinity Series with Richard Childress Racing and RSS Racing, initially planning to compete part-time before committing to running the full schedule after the first eight races of the season.[43][44][45]
On 26 November 2019, Alessio Bacci announced on Instagram that he has signed a contract to compete with Alex Caffi Motorsport in the EuroNASCAR 2 class for 2020.[7]
On 12 December 2019, it was announced that Alain Mosqueron, the champion of the regularity-based EuroNASCAR Club Challenge, plans to run a part-time schedule in the EuroNASCAR 2 class with DF1 Racing for the 2020 season. He will also stay in Club Challenge to defend his title.[37]
On 27 December 2019, it was announced that Jacques Villeneuve, Patrick Lemarié, and Simon Pilate will be competing full-time for FEED Racing in 2020. Villeneuve will be driving the No. 5 car in the EuroNASCAR PRO class while Lemarié and Pilate will be making their Euro Series debuts in the EuroNASCAR PRO and EuroNASCAR 2 class respectively in the No. 6 team.[5]
On 6 January 2020, Julia Landauer announced that she will be making a move to the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series in 2020. She will be competing full-time with PK Carsport in the EuroNASCAR 2 class.[32]
On 20 January 2020, Igor Romanov announced that he will made his Euro Series debut in the regularity-based EuroNASCAR Club Challenge class.[7]
On 22 January 2020, Alon Day announced on social media that he will be leaving CAAL Racing after five years with the team. Five days later on 27 January, it was announced that Day will be switching teams to PK Carsport to replace Nicolò Rocca in the No. 24 team. Monster Energy will be sponsoring Day and the No. 24 team for the full season.[11][12]
On 25 January 2020, it was announced that Gianmarco Ercoli will be switching teams to CAAL Racing after five years with Racers Motorsport. Ercoli had previously competed for CAAL Racing on his debut season in 2014.[24]
On 30 January 2020, it was announced that Guillaume Dumarey will be returning to the series with PK Carsport after a one-year absence to compete in the GT4 European Series in 2019.[33]
On 30 January 2020, it was reported that Giovanni Trione will move up to the EuroNASCAR 2 class after several years of competing in Elite Club. He is scheduled to be the teammate of his father Mauro in CAAL Racing's No. 31 team.[7]
As a result of the merger between FEED Racing and Racers Motorsport that was announced on 30 January 2020, Dario Caso and Alessandro Brigatti will be switching teams to FEED Vict Racing for the 2020 season.[6]
On 3 February 2020, it was announced that Scott Jeffs will be moving up to the EuroNASCAR PRO class full-time for the 2020 season.[29]
On 4 February 2020, it was announced that Andreas Jochimsen will be making his series debut with DF1 Racing in the EuroNASCAR 2 class for 2020.[35]
On 8 February 2020, it was announced that Max Lanza will be switching teams to CAAL Racing, with Lanza scheduled to drive the No. 88 Chevrolet SS full-time in the EuroNASCAR 2 class.[39]
On 27 February 2020, it was announced that Ulysse Delsaux plans to compete in both classes with the renumbered No. 10 Chevrolet Camaro for 2020.[4]
On 3 March 2020, it was announced that Marcel Lenerz, who competed in VLN in 2019, will be making his series debut as the driver of DF1 Racing's No. 99 Chevrolet Camaro in the EuroNASCAR 2 class.[36]
On 3 March 2020, it was announced that Tobias Dauenhauer will be making a switch from ADAC GT4 Germany to the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series in 2020. Dauenhauer is set to make his series debut as the driver of Hendriks Motorsport's No. 50 Ford Mustang in the EuroNASCAR 2 class.[8]
After competing in a one-off appearance at Zolder last year, it was announced on 4 March 2020 that Sven van Laere will be competing full-time in the EuroNASCAR 2 class as the driver of Braxx Racing's No. 91 team.[30]
On 5 March 2020, it was reported that former Formula One driver and four-time Superstars Series champion Gianni Morbidelli will be making his debut in the series, switching from TCR Europe Touring Car Series to the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series in 2020 as the EuroNASCAR PRO class driver of CAAL Racing's No. 88 team. This will mark Morbidelli's return to stock car racing since the 2008–09 Speedcar Series season, where he was crowned as Speedcar Series' final champion.[25]
On 6 March 2020, Hendriks Motorsport announced that Giorgio Maggi and Vittorio Ghirelli will be driving the team's newly-expanded third car in 2020. Maggi will be promoted to the EuroNASCAR PRO class while Ghirelli will be staying in the EuroNASCAR 2 class to compete for the championship title.[10]
On 7 March 2020, Andre Castro announced that he will be switching teams to DF1 Racing for 2020. He previously competed for both PK Carsport and Marko Stipp Motorsport in 2019.[34]
Defending EuroNASCAR 2 champion Lasse Sørensen is scheduled to make his full-season debut in the EuroNASCAR PRO class in 2020 after he received a promotion from DF1 Racing to race the team's No. 66 Chevrolet Camaro in the PRO class.[19]
Henri Tuomaala will be switching teams to DF1 Racing following DF1's acquisition of the No. 23 entry from Memphis Racing.[19]
On 16 March 2020, it was announced that former Supersport team owner Evgeny Sokolovsky will be making a switch from Raceway Venray's Late Model V8 Oval Series to the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series in 2020. Sokolovsky will be competing for Marko Stipp Motorsport in the EuroNASCAR PRO class.[26]
On 16 March 2020, it was announced that Lotus Italia Cup driver Francesco Garisto will be making his series debut and compete for 42 Racing in the EuroNASCAR 2 class for 2020.[14]
On 27 March 2020, it was announced that Fabio Spatafora will be returning to the series after a six-year absence, while Davide Dallara will be making his series debut this year. Both drivers will be competing with Not Only Motorsports for 2020.[28]
On 15 April 2020, it was announced that Kenko Miura will be switching teams from Alex Caffi Motorsport to Marko Stipp Motorsport via its DF1-MSM Racing collaboration entry with DF1 Racing. Miura is scheduled to make a return to the EuroNASCAR 2 class in 2020.[40]
On 27 April 2020, it was announced that Henri Tuomaala will be competing in both classes for the 2020 season.[20]
On 12 May 2020, it was announced that Cypriot driver Vladimiros Tziortzis will be making his full-time debut in the series with Alex Caffi Motorsport in the EuroNASCAR 2 class.[31]
On 27 July 2020, it was reported that Bernardo Manfrè will be entering the series in 2020 as part of his plans to relaunch the Shadow Racing Cars brand. Later on 13 August 2020, it was confirmed that he will be driving the No. 17 Ford Mustang for 42 Racing in the EuroNASCAR PRO class.[15][16]
On 5 August 2020, it was announced that Marko Stipp Motorsport has signed Gordon Barnes, who will be making his debut in the Club Challenge class.[41]
On 13 August 2020, it was announced that Luigi Ferrara will be competing with 42 Racing for the full season.[16]

Team changes

On 15 November 2019, it was announced that Alex Caffi Motorsport will form a partnership with Race Art Technology for the 2020 season. Race Art Technology previously competed in the 2018 season under the Race Art - Blue Mot banner.[2]
On 27 December 2019, it was announced that FEED Racing, Jacques Villeneuve and Patrick Lemarié's junior formula academy team, will be entering the series in 2020. The team initially announced that they will field the No. 5 and No. 6 teams.[5] Later, on 30 January 2020, it was announced that FEED Racing and Racers Motorsport will merge its operations to form FEED Vict Racing and confirms that it will expand its operations into a four-car team as a result of the merger. The official entry list announcement would reveal that Racers' former No. 9 team will be renumbered to the No. 4 team for 2020.[6]
On 16 January 2020, it was announced that the No. 22 team, previously ran as a joint effort between Marko Stipp Motorsport and DF1 Racing in 2019, will solely be run by DF1 Racing as part of the team's expansion for the 2020 season.[17] The team's official website would later reveal that the team will also field a fourth car in 2020 following the team's acquisition the No. 23 entry from Memphis Racing.[19]
On 8 February 2020, it was announced that CAAL Racing will be expanding its operations into a four-car team with the addition of the No. 88 Chevrolet SS to its roster.[39]
On 12 February 2020, it was revealed through social media that RDV Competition's No. 36 team would be renumbered to the No. 10 for 2020.[4]
On 26 February 2020, it was announced that Solaris Motorsport has formed a technical alliance with CAAL Racing starting from the 2020 season.[13]
On 3 March 2020, it was revealed that Hendriks Motorsport is scheduled to expand into a three-car team in 2020 with the addition of the No. 18 Ford Mustang that will be driven by Giorgio Maggi and Vittorio Ghirelli.[8][10]
42 Racing, who competed in a part-time schedule in 2019, is scheduled to make their full-time debut in the series in 2020. 42 Racing will be fielding the No. 17 and No. 42 teams for 2020.[14]
On 27 March 2020, it was announced that Italian team Not Only Motorsport will be joining the series with the No. 89 team.[28]
The official entry list announcement on 27 March 2020 reveals the following changes:[1]
- Both Mishumotors and Memphis Racing will downsize into a one-car team in 2020.
- Marko Stipp Motorsport will be expanding into a two-car team, as the second entry that the team run in conjunction with DF1 Racing at Hockenheim last year will be competing full-time as the No. 48 team.
- Go Fas Racing, The Club Motorsports, and Racing Engineering will be leaving the series after a two, three, and one year stay in the series respectively, while Motorsport 98 will be leaving the series after a one-year return in 2019.
- Braxx Racing's No. 78 entry will be renumbered to the No. 91 in 2020.
On 13 August 2020, it was announced that the relaunched Shadow Racing Cars brand will be entering the series as a partner of 42 Racing.[16]

Schedule

The provisional calendar for the 2020 season was announced on 22 October 2019.[46] Following changes to the calendar as a result of the season's postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all races of the 2020 season will be held on road courses.