The Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe had a great start into its 2025 season at the Slovakiaring near Bratislava. As Porsche Slovakia held their Porsche festival at the same time, a huge crowd of more than 2000 visitors joined the event, creating a great atmosphere and enjoying a fantastic day of fun, entertainment and of course impressive racing by the well-prepared drivers and teams, who were glad to be able to present there skills to a large audience.

After two dry test days, rain showers, a partly very wet track and tricky conditions greeted the drivers for qualifying on Saturday morning. Therefore three red flags in total had to be brought out during the two sessions, but nevertheless it was possible to create fair and safe conditions for everybody.

Pole position for Race 1 went to Ivan Peklin from Ukraine ahead of ProAM drivers Mantas Janavicius from Lithuania and Austrian Tobias Poschik. Lithuanian Rimas Cesiulis was fastest in the AM class. The second qualifying session had ProAM driver David Dziwok from Poland on top for Race 2, followed by his fellow countryman Jakub Chmiel and Lithuanian Egidijus Grazys. Karel Neffe from the Czech Republic topped the AM category.

On a still fully wet track Ivan Peklin then became the first race winner of the PSCCE 2025. The Ukrainian transferred his pole position into a rather unchallenged victory in the first Sprint Race of the day, while Austrian ProAM driver Tobias Poschik made a great recovery after a non-perfect start and still finished in P2 ahead of Tomasz Lach from Poland, who had a great getaway, made up a few positions and held the second position until Poschik overtook him on lap 10.

Lithuanian Ramunas Grigaitis in P7 overall topped the AM class ahead of Cesiulis. Petr Brecka, one of the very well known names in the series, unfortunately was out already during the first lap. After a contact with Jakub Chmiel on lap 4, Estonian Georg Jeets also had to retire, while the investigation into the incident saw no reason for further action.

The second Sprint race in the early afternoon was still declared a wet race, but the weather had improved significantly and the track had nearly dried up already in the beginning. Again it was the pole sitter who dominated the race: David Dziwok controlled the field from the very beginning, step by step extended his lead up to more than six seconds. Marius Bartkus from Lithuania crossed the finish line in P2, ahead of another Polish ProAM driver, Jakub Chmiel, who finished in P3 despite a five-second-penalty for a jump start, as he had been out of the start corridor. But as the two drivers close behind him, Jeets and Milan Sitnianski, suffered the same fate, there was no change from the positions achieved on track.

Czech Petr Brecka this time could make up for his bad luck in the first race and in P7 overall won the AM category ahead of his fellow countryman Karel Neffe, who despite a five-second penalty for an avoidable collision with Tomasz Lach did not lose his position.

As usual, the Endurance race, the “100 Miles of Slovakia” were the closing highlight of the day in the late afternoon. Now completely dry and sunny, conditions were also great for the spectators to see a race that was only decided in a very close fight during the last two laps.

In the first part, Georg Jeets in car 81 had immediately taken the lead and defended it until the driver chance, while Milan Sitniansky from the Czech Republic made up a few places to P2, ahead of Karel Neffe in car 84. Neffe´s co-driver, Ivan Peklin, immediately snatched P2 from Sitniansky after the re-start, while Jaap van Lagen, who had taken over car 64 in P5, 16 seconds behind, from Tomasz Lach, started a great recovery race. In P4 on lap 18, in P 3 on lap 22, the experienced Dutch Pro with clearly the fastest lap times in the field closed the gap to the top, which was held by Lithuanian Taurus Tunyla in car 81, ahead of Peklin. On the penultimate lap he overtook the Ukrainian who finally came third with his teammate Neffe. But a final attack on the lead and victory during the last lap did not work out: Tunyla was able to defend an advantage of 0.331 seconds over van Lagen, securing the win for him and Jeets.