Erik is a multiple Czech Champion and historically one of the two Czech go-kart European champions. The driver who was part of the junior Formula 3 Mercedes Benz team, the Czech national team member in the A1 GP. Since 2014, in addition to his own racing, he has been engaged in engineering activities for GT3 teams. As an engineer, he was also involved in second place for Senkyr Motorpsort in the International GT Masters 2019 at the Red Bull Ring.
Birthday: 23.09.1987 Nationality: CZ Inverted Name: Janiš, Erik (CZ)
The e Endurance Race 100-Miles of the Czech Republic Has Begun
Today’s final race is here.
The 100-Mile Endurance Race of the Czech Republic started at 4:50 p.m., and the drivers have one hour of racing ahead of them. At least one pit stop is mandatory, whether the car is shared by two drivers or driven by a single driver.
Šenkýř Motorsport has entered three cars:
#9 Matyáš Faiereisl (CZ) and Richard Gonda (SK), Row 1, Position P2
#7 Pavel Bouška (CZ) and Erik Janiš (CZ), Row 4, Position P7
#5 Radek Kolařík (CZ), Row 5, P10
The weather is ideal. Almost clear, 19 degrees, and perfect conditions for the race.
The first Friday practice session in Brno is behind us
The first Friday practice session—and the fifth overall—of the 2026 Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe at the Brno Autodrom is behind us! Our drivers have completed more laps on a dry track, and the team continues to work intensively on setting up the Porsche 992 GT3 Cup cars ahead of Saturday’s qualifying sessions and races.
In addition to our race drivers, the coaches—who will serve as co-drivers in this weekend’s endurance race—also took to the track for practice. This allowed the team to use the extra track time to prepare both the crews and the Porsche 992 GT3 Cup race cars.
#9 Matyáš Faiereisl (CZ), PRO / Rookies category, fastest time: 2:02.414, number of laps: 15
#7 Pavel Bouška (CZ), Masters category, fastest time: 2:03.543, number of laps: 12
#5 Radek Kolařík (CZ), Masters category, fastest time: 2:05.657, number of laps: 20
#7 Erik Janiš (CZ), fastest time: 2:02.108, number of laps: 6
#9 Richard Gonda (SK), fastest time: 2:03.402, number of laps: 4
Tomáš is a driver who has worked his way up from hobby hillclimb races to the top of the licensed races of the Czech and Slovak Republic circuit and hillclimb championship. He also won the FIA CEZ Championship several times. From his first successes with the BMW M3 E36, he has worked his way up to the GT3 category with regular training and diligence, and rightly belongs to the Šenkýř Motorsport coach group.
According to statistics, the most successful Slovak rider in terms of the number of victories in major international races gained pole position and the highest percentage chance of winning the race. In his career, he won the prestigious Formula F3 Eurocup series and also tried out the special Formula GP2, GP3 and Indy-lights. Since 2017, he has been a pilot in GT3 category races for Šenkýř Motorsport team.
Erik is a multiple Czech Champion and historically one of the two Czech go-kart European champions. The driver who was part of the junior Formula 3 Mercedes Benz team, the Czech national team member in the A1 GP. Since 2014, in addition to his own racing, he has been engaged in engineering activities for GT3 teams. As an engineer, he was also involved in second place for Senkyr Motorpsort in the International GT Masters 2019 at the Red Bull Ring.
Czech race car driver, first Czech driver of the Champ Car World Series and second in Formula 1. In 2003, he was the official test driver of the Jordan F1 team. On October 24, 2004, as the first Czech, he started for the first time in the ChampCar race on the circuit in Surfers Paradise. Still active as a test and racing driver in the GT3 category. Since 2017 he has been cooperating with Šenkýř Motorsport as an engineer in the FIA CEZ and International GT Open series.
Filip is one of the best currently driving pilots in the Central Europe region, with many titles and successes throughout Europe. From his debut in the Alfa Romeo WTCC, through his beginnings with BMW in the various evolutions of the BMW M3 of the Senkyr Motorsport team and his subsequent career in DTM cars, he has returned to the GT category. It doesn't matter where Filip started, he was always one of the fastest drivers on the track, who can analyze his ride and successfully moved himself and the car to the edge.
Two-time European hillclimb champion in the overall classification of touring cars division, multiple champion of the Czech and Slovak Republic in hillclimb and circuit races, long-term official member of the Czech national team and driver with a successful thirty-year racing career. Founder and owner of the Šenkýř Motorsport team, who created the methodology and concept of 1:1 coaching for trackday cars and their drivers.
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Today’s final race is here.
The 100-Mile Endurance Race of the Czech Republic started at 4:50 p.m., and the drivers have one hour of racing ahead of them. At least one pit stop is mandatory, whether the car is shared by two drivers or driven by a single driver.
Šenkýř Motorsport has entered three cars:
The weather is ideal. Almost clear, 19 degrees, and perfect conditions for the race.
Let’s do this.
The first Friday practice session—and the fifth overall—of the 2026 Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe at the Brno Autodrom is behind us! Our drivers have completed more laps on a dry track, and the team continues to work intensively on setting up the Porsche 992 GT3 Cup cars ahead of Saturday’s qualifying sessions and races.
In addition to our race drivers, the coaches—who will serve as co-drivers in this weekend’s endurance race—also took to the track for practice. This allowed the team to use the extra track time to prepare both the crews and the Porsche 992 GT3 Cup race cars.
Před pitboxem na něj následně čeká kouč Erik Janiš, se kterým společně rozebírají průběh testovací jízdy a konzultují další úpravy nastavení vozu.