Last year’s great success of Thomas Krasonis, combined with the ever-increasing interest in the Championship in our country, has resulted in the first time in Greek television history that we have live broadcasts of the EuroNASCAR races! ANT1+ subscriber’s platform will broadcast to its subscribers all the action from both Saturday and Sunday’s races, with a description in Greek!
The racing season kicks off on the weekend of 12-13 April at Valencia’s Circuit Ricardo Tormo, which will host the Spanish race for the eleventh time.
The Italian race will be the second of the season, as it will be held at the Autodromo di Vallelunga on 17-18 May.
The Brands Hatch circuit will host the British round of EuroNASCAR on 7-8 June, while three weeks later, on 28-29 June, the half-mile oval at Raceway Venray will host the Dutch race. This will also be the only race on an oval track outside of America.
After the summer break, EuroNASCAR action will resume on 30 and 31 August at the Autodrom Most for the Czech race. This exciting weekend will conclude the regular season and determine the standings before the Playoffs, as all drivers will “throw away” their two worst results.
EuroNASCAR will kick off the Playoffs in Germany for the semi-finals on September 20-21 at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben.
The season will conclude in Belgium at Circuit Zolder on 11-12 October. The legendary circuit in the Limburg Forest will host the EuroNASCAR Finals for the eighth time with four NASCAR races that will be exciting to crown the NASCAR champion as well as the winners of the cups and trophies.
After a successful 2024 season, Thomas Krasonis has signed a contract with PK Carsport for the 2025 NASCAR Euro Series to do double duty and compete in both the PRO and OPEN championships. The Greek will take the wheel of the #13 Chevrolet Camaro fielded by the top team led by two-time EuroNASCAR Champion Anthony Kumpen. Krasonis’ goal is to win the OPEN championship and become a top 5 driver in the PRO division. The 23-year-old recently announced his plans to the media in Athens and also took a ride in a EuroNASCAR car in his home country.
“The goals are clear after last season: I want to win the OPEN championship and finish in the top 5 in the PRO division,” said Krasonis, who will also be eligible for the Junior Trophy in PRO. “I will focus on each race in both championships, there’s no priority for me. I want to be a contender in both championships and fight for trophies. I’m really excited and I’m looking forward to the new season with PK Carsport and I’m grateful for their trust. I’m sure we can achieve our goals together as I have the support of Anthony Kumpen and Alon Day, both champions in the series. I also thank my sponsors Costamare Shipping and Dodoni, without them this whole project would not be possible.”
Team Principal Kumpen is delighted to have Krasonis on the Belgian top team’s roster for the 2025 campaign. “We are happy to have Thomas on board,” he said. “He showed really good progress last season, as he was on the podium several times in the second half of the season. He should be a contender for the OPEN championship. He has a really good coach in Alon Day. We have won championships with Alon and myself at PK Carsport. With the progress he has made and the experience we have as a team, the title has to be his. I’m looking forward to this collaboration, it will be a strong car with a new number, the #13. The driver likes the number 13, but I like it too. We will be running a second car, but that will be announced later.”
PK Carsport has won a total of five PRO championships with Kumpen, Day and Vittorio Ghirelli. In addition, Stienes Longin put his name on the OPEN trophy in 2016. The Belgian squad is one of the most successful and experienced teams in the paddock. Therefore, Krasonis will certainly have a lot of pressure to perform well, but also a strong car to achieve his goals and chase his dream of becoming a European NASCAR Champion.
Three days of thrilling on-track action and engaging off-track promotional activities marked the NASCAR Euro Series’ historic first appearance in Greece. Team FJ, founder, owner and organizer of the official European NASCAR championship brought two cars to Athens and the Megara Circuit for testing and promotional activities alongside Greek driver Thomas Krasonis, one of the championship’s rising stars. The initiative was met with resounding success.
Friday marked a historic moment as a NASCAR car hit the track in Greece for the first time. Thomas Krasonis and NASCAR Euro Series President and CEO Jerome Galpin showcased the thunderous EuroNASCAR V8 machine around the Megara Circuit.
During a press conference, Krasonis announced his 2025 NASCAR Euro Series campaign with powerhouse team PK Carsport. The 23-year-old has been appointed NASCAR Euro Series ambassador in Greece.
“I can only say that I am proud of this achievement and that I never thought in the beginning of my journey with the NASCAR Euro Series that I would arrive at this point.”, said Krasonis, who will pilot the #13 Chevrolet Camaro in both the PRO and OPEN championships. “I managed to achieve a dream of mine by bringing EuroNASCAR to Greece and the people who followed the event were amazed by the car! I am glad that the NASCAR Euro Series got positive feedback in Greece and I hope that we can have a race in my country in the future. As the series ambassador in Greece I will try my best to make the people of Greece super fans of the championship!”
80 passengers between media, sponsors and guests enjoyed the unfiltered thrill of the EuroNASCAR car’s unique character.
With the April 12-13 season opener at Valencia’s Circuit Ricardo Tormo approaching, the car, equipped with the new Samsonas 5-speed sequential gearbox flawlessly completed over 530 Km on track, further validating the reliability and accessibility of the European NASCAR machine.
After a highly strenuous season, which had started at the beginning of 2024 with intensive preparation and participation in the New Smyrna races in the United States, the curtain came down in Zolder for Thomas Krasonis.
“The EuroNASCAR championship has come to an end as it should! I want to thank my team, Marko Stipp Motorsport, for the technical support they provided me with all season and for their confidence in me. Thanks to Alon Day for coaching me, believing in me and helping me to improve. Thanks to my sponsors, COSTAMARE SHIPPING and Dodoni S.A. for the immediate and practical support they have provided me. Thanks to my coach Paul Tymba and the entire OAKA athlete training team for taking on the task of getting me in the right physical condition for this season. Thank you to my family, the people who love me and my true friends for their support! After 32 races in Europe and the US my racing season is complete. See you next year, always aiming for the ultimate. All the best to you all!” said Thomas Krasonis.
It was a triumphant finish to this year’s season for Thomas Krasonis, who closed the NASCAR Euro Whelen season in the best possible way, with multiple podium finishes in the grand final at Zolder.
The first Greek professional racing driver, gave his best in the four races of the weekend, climbing twice on the winners’ podium and finishing the season in third place in the EuroNASCAR 2, Junior PRO and Endurance Team standings!
This is a very big success, given that EuroNASCAR involves drivers with many years of presence in the event, which raises the level of competition dramatically. And this, moreover, was evident throughout the season, with the battles on the tracks being spectacular!
In the EuroNASCAR 2 category, Thomas Krasonis had a double presence on the podium, as he was third on both Saturday and Sunday. In Saturday’s race he started from fifth position, moved smartly and strategically and at the right moment gained two places, moving up to the winners’ podium. He started from fifth position on Sunday, with a similar development of the race, as the fall of the chequered flag found him again on the third step of the podium.
In the first EuroNASCAR PRO race, Thomas started from 19th on the grid and finished 14th, while in Sunday’s race he was 15th on the grid, coming very close to the podium, occupying fourth place in the final standings.
After the completion of the last race weekend of the season, therefore, Thomas Krasonis is third in the final EuroNASCAR 2 standings with 510 points, with the title going to Martin Doubek who scored 568 points. Second was Patrick Schober with 525.
In EuroNASCAR PRO Thomas finished the season in eighth place in the standings with 442 points, with Champion Vittorio Ghirelli scoring 555 points. In the Junior PRO individual standings for drivers up to 25 years old, Thomas Crasonis is third, behind Paul Jouffreau and Liam Hezemans. Finally, in the EuroNASCAR Endurance Team Championship he is in third place with 279 points, behind Patrick Schober and Gil Linster.
We recall that Thomas Krasonis participated this year in both EuroNASCAR categories, EuroNASCAR 2 and EuroNASCAR PRO, with the team with which in 2023 he made the big step in his racing career, Marko Stipp Motorsport.
Thomas drove the number “46” Chevrolet Camaro on all the Championship circuits this year, following a full schedule.
All the action of each race weekend can be followed through the EuroNASCAR YouTube channel
Supporters of Thomas Krasoni’s effort in the NASCAR Euro Whelen are Costamare Shipping Company and the “Dodoni” Dairy Industry.
Thomas Krasonis is ready to face the big challenge of the last race weekend of the year.
Thanks to the very good results of the semi-final weekend in Oschersleben, Germany, Thomas Krasonis has moved up several places in the rankings of both the PRO and EuroNASCAR 2 categories. In PRO he is now in ninth place with 330 points, while he is third in the Juniors’ individual standings.
In the EuroNASCAR 2 standings he is now fourth with 374 points, just 62 away from the top. He is also third in the Endurance Teams Championship standings with 211 points.
“We are all set for the last and most decisive weekend of the season. It’s time for the grand finale and what is certain is that we will give it our all. We definately need to have luck on our side, but what we have to do, we will do. We have been working hard all this time and we will give our best on a track that has special characteristics, but it is one of the most beautiful in the Championship”, said Thomas Krasonis
The time has come for the grand final of the NASCAR Euro Whelen. The Zolder circuit, in Belgium, hosts this season’s finals on the weekend of 12-13 October, which – like the semi-finals – offer double points to the winners and at the same time the chance for big upsets!
Thomas Krasonis, the first Greek professional racing driver, is already on the Belgian circuit, where the seventh and final race weekend of this season’s EuroNASCAR will take place.
In the Zolder final, the points won by each driver will count double. Together with the bonus points for the most positions gained by a driver during a race, they offer the possibility for each driver to accumulate a maximum of 176 points in the EuroNASCAR Finals.
The Zolder circuit is 4.011 kilometres long and opened its doors in 1963. The weekend’s racing programme starts with qualifying which will take place on Saturday at 11.00 a.m.. The first races in both the PRO category (at 3.00 p.m.) and category 2 (at 5.50 p.m.) will be held on Saturday.
On Sunday, the EuroNASCAR 2 drivers will start their second race at 12.25 p.m., to conclude the weekend’s programme with the PRO category race at 3.05 p.m..
We recall that Thomas Krasonis is participating this year in both EuroNASCAR categories, EuroNASCAR 2 and EuroNASCAR PRO, with the team with which in 2023 he made the big step in his racing career, Marko Stipp Motorsport.
Thomas is driving the number “46” Chevrolet Camaro at all the Championship tracks this year, following a full schedule.
All the action of each race weekend can be followed through the EuroNASCAR YouTube channel
Supporters of Thomas Krasoni’s effort in the NASCAR Euro Whelen are Costamare Shipping Company and the “Dodoni” Dairy Industry
Thomas Krasonis was particularly satisfied with both his racing presence and the points from the races in Oschersleben.
“Before the races at the German circuit I had said that it was a very important race weekend, as we would have the opportunity to score a lot of points precisely because in the semi-finals and finals points count double. The truth is that the weekend started for us with bad luck in Saturday’s qualifying in the PRO category. But in the races things went great and we managed to place very well both Saturday and Sunday in both categories. Our distance from the top has been reduced and now we are focusing our attention on the Zolder final in October, where we will give it our all in order to achieve our big goal this year” said Thomas Krasonis.
He went on to say: “I want to thank my team, Marko Stipp Motorsport, which prepared the car perfectly for this weekend’s races. Of course, special thanks to Alon Day, who in the days of testing leading up to the race, showed me everything I needed to do to get these results. We return to Greece to intensify our preparations ahead of the final race weekend on 12 and 13 October in Belgium.”
The race weekend at the Oschersleben circuit in Germany was extremely successful for Thomas Krasonis. The first Greek professional racing driver, completed his presence in the double semi-final of the season in EuroNASCAR, with results that make him more than optimistic ahead of the grand final in Zolder, Belgium on 12 and 13 October!
In Saturday’s first race in the PRO class, Krasonis started from the last position on the grid due to a mechanical problem his car had in qualifying. However, not only was he not disappointed, but by driving impressively in the race, he managed to finish in the top ten, finishing ninth and gaining valuable points. At the same time he was second in the Juniors category.
In Sunday’s race, Thomas Krasonis finished sixth, while he was third in the juniors, completing an ideal weekend in the PRO category.
In EuroNASCAR 2, Thomas Krasonis set sixth time in qualifying, securing his presence on the third row of the grid for Saturday’s race. The race went even better for the Greek driver, who touched the podium, finishing fourth, just a few thousandths of a second behind Gil Linster.
In Sunday’s race he was also sixth on the grid, a position he maintained throughout the race despite the tough battles he fought.
Thanks to the very good results of the weekend in Oschersleben, Thomas Krasonis moved up several places in both the PRO and EuroNASCAR 2 standings. In PRO he is now in ninth place with 330 points, while he is third in the Juniors’ individual standings.
In the EuroNASCAR 2 standings he is now fourth with 374 points, just 62 away from the top. He is also third in the Endurance Teams Championship standings with 211 points.