Super 16 assemble for Goodyear FIA ETRC season kick-off
Sixteen competitors from France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Portugal and Spain will contest the 2026 Goodyear FIA European Truck Racing Championship season opener at Misano World Circuit this week.
Sixteen competitors from France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Portugal and Spain will contest the 2026 Goodyear FIA European Truck Racing Championship season opener at Misano World Circuit this week.
Made up of 14 all-season contenders, plus two drivers competing on a race-by-race basis, the entry list underlines the continued appeal and popularity of the series.
Of the 16 drivers lining up at Misano World Circuit this week, 14 are all-season racers, with a further two drivers competing on a race-by-race basis. Meanwhile trucks powered by four different manufacturers will be on track.
Heading the chase for Goodyear FIA ETRC glory is reigning champion Norbert Kiss, who is bidding for a record-extending eighth title in 2026. The Hungarian will line up for Révész Racing and carry the #1 on the side of his MAN.
Germany’s Jochen Hahn, who finished runner-up to Kiss last term and has six FIA ETRC titles to his name, will be IVECO-powered once again in 2026, while Mark Taylor (MAN) will defend his Chrome title with 2025 runner-up Bradley Smith and John Newell among his opposition, and also competing with MAN power.
Smith takes over the race truck previously used by Antonio Albacete, a double winner of the overall FIA ETRC title, who gets an all-new MAN for 2026.
For the second season running, Steffen Faas will race a Freightliner, the only driver planning a full Goodyear FIA ETRC campaign this year to do so.
German Clemens Hecker will count on Scania power in 2026, while countrymen Sascha Lenz and Stefan Kursch compete in MAN trucks. Lenz finished fourth in the final 2025 Goodyear FIA ETRC table, just five points behind Steffi Halm (IVECO), a winner on one occasion last season.
Double 2025 race winner José Eduardo Rodrigues flies the Portuguese flag in the Goodyear FIA ETRC with the third-generation driver competing in a MAN. Briton Luke Garrett is also MAN-equipped, as is Germany’s René Reinert, who placed fifth in the points in 2025 on the back of four race wins.
Luis Recuenco had been due to join the Goodyear FIA ETRC grid at Misano with his new-for-2026 Mercedes, but the Spaniard will instead start his campaign at Slovakia Ring next week.
French driver Jonathan André and Lukas Hahn, the son of multiple title winner Jochen Hahn, are the two race-by-race entrants in action at Misano with both Goodyear FIA ETRC regulars over the years.
Provisional entry list: Round 1, Misano, 30-31 May
1 Norbert Kiss (Hungary), Révész Racing Kft, MAN (Titan)
2 Jochen Hahn (Germany), IVECO (Titan)
18 John Newell (Great Britain), MAN (Chrome)
22 Lukas Hahn (Germany), IVECO (Chrome)*
23 Antonio Albacete (Spain), Team T Sport Bernau, MAN (Titan)
24 Steffen Faas (Germany), tankpool24 Racing, Freightliner (Chrome)
25 Clemens Hecker (Germany), Scania (Chrome)
30 Sascha Lenz (Germany), MAN (Titan)
33 Stefan Kursch (Germany), MAN (Chrome)
38 José Eduardo Rodrigues (Portugal), MAN (Titan)
42 Luke Garrett (Great Britain), MAN (Chrome)
44 Steffi Halm (Germany), IVECO (Titan)
46 Bradley Smith (Great Britain), MAN (Chrome)
66 Jonathan André (France), MAN (Chrome)*
77 René Reinert (Germany), MAN (Titan)
81 Mark Taylor (Great Britain), MAN (Chrome)
*Race-by-race entry
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