The Baltic Touring Car Championship has ended with a spectacular finale in Poznan; 2025 Champions are decided!
The sixth and final round of the Baltic Touring Car Championship 2025 season for the second year in a row was decided with our friends WSMP series on their home soil – the beautiful Tor Poznan race track! 164 participants, 58 from BaTCC gathered to battle out the Championships in hot conditions.
Ragnar Simuland – the new BaTCC BMW 325 CUP champion!
Simuland had to play safe to secure necesary points to seal the championship and the best way to do it is take pole position and drive off to the sunset and win the race 1 with the fastest lap, he did not plan to stop there win in race 2 aswell and fastest lap, dominating way to get his title! Aurimas Mistautas was close but could not do much about Simuland, and finished both races comfortably in second. The series vice leader before the round – Matiss Malinovskis, had a DNF in race 1 and lost out some crucial points and that was enough for Mistautas to clinch second position in overall standings with Malinovskis in third. Karol Wyka is fourth overall, followed by Darius Gaidulionis and Janis Horeliks.
Oh, what a drama those guys had for the Masters category title. The points in standings were really close before the round and every one of these three had good chances for the title – everything could happen on the track! Karol Wyka on his home track had to fight hard to keep his chances alive and he did the maximum, in great battles with Janis Horeliks in both races, he managed to get victories that was just enough to seal the title with 576 points. Gaidulionis lost some points in Race 1 and that was crucial for him to be relegated to P2 with 574 points, and Janis Horeliks is third with 572, just 4 points separating the BMW 325 CUP standings is classic of the class.
In Rookie class Laimonas Starkevicius continued his streak of domination, taking yet another win of the round and becoming a champion with 590 points, 90 more than Saulius Jonaitis, who took the second step of the podium in Poznan! Third best among newcomers – Erik Stefanovic!
Olivier Villeneuve is the Gentleman of the year for the third year in a row!
BMW Turbo Cup
The inaugural season of the BMW Turbo Cup class has been intriguing since the first lap of the racing, the similarities of the cars and the quality of drivers have proven that it’s a wonderful chance to enjoy and race modern, beautiful and fast cars. The standings were never clear or predictable until the very last event. Artjoms Koclamazasvili held a good lead in the standings but still the job was not done before Poznan races. Artjoms took the pole position and managed to hold the lead with 0,5 sec gap over Algirdas Gelzinis in race 1 and with that securing enough points to become the 2025 BMW Turbo Cup class champion! Race 2 saw yet another different winner of the race – this time it was Aras Kvedaras, who became the 7th different race winner of the season. Rolands Arnis Alfredsons took the third step of the podium in Poznan. Algirdas Gelzinis finished the season in second place with Mantas Jasiulevicius in third.
GTs – welcome the new Champions!
Gediminas Baksys had nothing to prove as he had already clinched the title in BGT PRO class but nevertheless he came to Poznan the enjoy the beauty of racing and to battle out against Polish competitors. Tomas Rudokas is the vice champion of the season, with Ramunas Capkauskas in third.
Several scenarios were possible in the BGT AM+ class where Egidijus Gelunas, Paulius Urbonavicius and Romet Reisin could decide the final positions battling out on the track. After three eventful races it was clear that Egidijus Gelunas is the 2025 BGT AM+ champion with 217 points, beating Paulius Urbonavicius by 11 points. Romet Reisin won the first race, but technical difficulties prevented from repeating that in the next ones but enoug to pass Egidijus Gutaravicius and secure the third spot in the standings.
Baltic Touring Cars!
Tomas Buskevicius had already sealed the title in his comeback season and Valdis Kikusts even with 3 races and 75 points on the table could not catch him. Kikusts dominated the Poznan race with a hat-trick of victories and proving that 2nd position in the standings is his in this season. While battle for third place was on until the very last lap of the season between Ricards Alekss Svaglis and Lelde Jukama. Svaglis managed to prove his pace and by finishing all races ahead of Lelde secured the BTC1 third position with 162 points, 13 more than Lelde.
In BTC2 class it was a show of speed by Kristupas Sablinskas – dominant 3 victories in Tor Poznan, smile and second position in the standings behind Kairo Kallas, who could not come to Poland because of a flu. Tadas Petukauskas had the pace and consistency in Poznan, grabbing second place three times, but it was just not enough to pass Orestas Burgaila in the standings for the third place.
Arturas Kliobavicius is the king of the BTC3 in 2025! He had enough points to sit home on a sofa, but he decided to come and enjoy the Tor Poznan and have a good time on the track racing. And he did that -3 victories out of three races! Ikars Putnins was second in all of them, but it was just not enough to take Atis Veismanis out of the second place in the standings – Veismanis at the end of the year has 157 points, while Putnins takes third with 149. Marta Starka took the third spot of the podium in Tor Poznan.
The Endurance
42 teams from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Iceland lined up for the united 2h endurance race and what a race it was with a lot of actions, overtakes, joys and failures. The best team overall from the Baltics was Baltic Karting Academy with Rokas Kvedaras and Vilius Reskevicius. These fast fellows have dominated the Hankook Endurance challenge overall and in their BGT AM class whole season and Poznan was no exception – overall win and a class win. Porsche Latvia Racing(Maris Palma and Vadims Vakarjuks) team snatched a win in BGT AM+ class and second place overall in Hankook Endurance Challenge. The DNF for Reimpex by GSR team meant that the team lost not only the 2nd place in overall standings, but also champion title in BGT AM+ class.
Viptuning team with Artjoms Koclamazasvili by the wheel took the overall win in Nankang 2h Endurance Academy and in BMW Turbo Cup class followed by LIK Racing by KTK team and Rode Racing – whois consistency, pace and race craft secured them championship title in the class.
RS Motorsport Jurmala with 2024 BMW 325 CUP champion Ricards Subeckis by the wheel proved their dominance and not only won BMW 325 CUP class among 8 teams, but also managed to take P11 in the huge and fast paced grid and with the victory in Poznan, comes also the champion title in the Nankang 2h Endurance academy! Agentus-Retiva by KTK team made their debut in the 2h race and were really good in it – second place, followed by another Lithuanian team Palme Racing by LIK. In the season standing Daugavins Racing finished second, with Degviela Motorsport taking the third place.
LDV Racing as again showed sportsmanship, pace and reliability and took the victory in BTC1 class in the race and also in the season. Osmo Racing by Baltic Maintenance ran out of the luck on lap 16 when the engine blew. Autokaslita team with their Honda S2000 are the season champions in BTC2 class, while BTC3 class champions are long time endurance favorites RS Racing Team from Estonia.
The title in BTC4 goes to Metruna by Capkauskas Autocentras, but in ABC Race class to Portmann Racing.
Stay tuned for news and information for the 2026 season!
Thanks to you all for this season!
