The first round of the Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe at the Red Bull Ring in Austria is now successfully behind us, and we at Šenkýř Motorsport are more than satisfied. We secured two pole positions and several podium finishes in both the overall standings and the individual categories. It was a fantastic debut in the series, a perfect test for the team, and a great deal of valuable experience for all our drivers.
“We’ve just completed the first round of the Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe, and we’re very pleased. Two pole positions, plus a second-place grid position in the overall standings, along with victories and podium finishes in the Pro-Am, Am, and Masters categories. And on top of that, the performance of all our drivers continues to improve.
We raced with five cars, which is always very complicated logistically and organizationally, but the team worked great and the cars were always perfectly prepared. It’s a shame about Radek Kolařík’s big crash into the guardrails after being hit from behind by another competitor; hopefully the damage won’t be too bad. Otherwise, it was a great debut for Šenkýř Motorsport in the Porsche brand series. We’re already looking forward to the second round in three weeks at the Slovakiaring,” concludes team boss Robert Šenkýř after the first race of the PSCCE26 series.
PSCCE26 at the Red Bull Ring: A Race Report from the Šenkýř Motorsport Team's Perspective
Report from the first PSCCE26 race at the Red Bull Ring, where we fielded five Porsche 992 GT3 Cup cars driven by Samuel Vetrák (SK), Radek Kolařík (CZ), Pavel Bouška (CZ), Matyas Faiereisl (CZ), and Dobroslav Kárník (CZ).
Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe 2026 - Red Bull Ring, Round 1
03.06.2026
The first Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe race at the Austrian Red Bull Ring is successfully behind us and we at Šenkýř Motorsport are more than satisfied.
We drove with five cars, which is always very difficult logistically and organizationally, but the team worked great and the cars were always perfectly prepared.
Two pole positions and one second place on the grid in the absolute ranking, victories and podium finishes in the Pro-Am, Am and Masters categories. And the ever-improving performances of all drivers.
It was a great premiere in the series, a perfect test of the team and a good portion of new experiences for all our drivers.
Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe 2026 - Red Bull Ring, Round 1
The first Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe race at the Austrian Red Bull Ring is successfully behind us and we at Šenkýř Motorsport are more than satisfied. We drove with five cars, which is always very difficult logistically and organizationally, but the team worked great and the cars were always perfectly prepared. Two pole positions and one second place on the grid in the absolute ranking, victories and podium finishes in the Pro-Am, Am and Masters categories. And the ever-improving performances of all drivers. It was a great premiere in the series, a perfect test of the team and a good portion of new experiences for all our drivers.
03.06.2026 07:09 (wednesday)
Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe - Round 1 - Austria - Recap
02.06.2026
The Red Bull Ring delivered an unforgettable opening round of the 2026 Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe season, featuring two sprint races, the 100 Miles of Austria endurance race, intense battles throughout the field and plenty of memorable moments. Relive the best action from an incredible weekend in Austria.
Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe - Round 1 - Austria - Recap
The Red Bull Ring delivered an unforgettable opening round of the 2026 Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe season, featuring two sprint races, the 100 Miles of Austria endurance race, intense battles throughout the field and plenty of memorable moments. Relive the best action from an incredible weekend in Austria.
02.06.2026 07:02 (tuesday)
Raceday shortreel – Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe 2026
Weekend is over and we are more than happy!
30.05.2026 18:00 (saturday)
Matyáš Faiereisl - Post-race commentary
PSCCE Red Bull Ring finished✅. Great pace and good results during the first race weekend in the GT3 Cup car. Unfortunately, I didn't finish the endurance race due to a clutch failure, but I still enjoyed the other races. See you all at the Slovakiaring.🤩
We started the first race from pole position. In the opening corner there was some contact, which dropped me back to P2. Later on, I made a mistake myself and fell to P3.
In the end, we finished the race in third place. Overall, I’m satisfied with the result, and we’ve gained some valuable experience that we can take into Race 2.
Today is finally race day. We had the first qualifying session this morning, and it was a bit of a compromise because one of yesterday’s practice sessions was cancelled, so we had to bed in a new set of brakes during qualifying. That meant we could only really push properly in the second half of the session. In the end, it didn’t turn out too badly. I started from second place in my class. I lost one position early on, but then managed to make it back up, so I finished first in my category in the opening race. I’m really happy about that—the race went well. Now we’ll see how the rest of the day unfolds. For the second qualifying session, I’m starting one position further back than I did for the first race, so we’ll see how it goes. Either way, I’m looking forward to it.
Robert Šenkýř – Review of the test days ahead of the race day
It’s Saturday, and we’re about to begin the first race day of this year’s Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe. We have five cars on track at the Red Bull Ring, competing across all categories: Pro, Pro-Am, Masters, and also a newcomer racing in the Rookie category. We’re looking forward to the challenge in every class. Behind us are two test days, Thursday and Friday, filled with productive work. I believe we’re well prepared, and all five of our drivers, together with our coaches, are ready to achieve the best possible result.
Erik Janiš - Coach evaluation of training sessions
We’re here at the first race of this year’s championship, and everything is working great. The car is well set up, the weather is beautiful, and we’re putting in pretty solid lap times. Of course, there’s always room for improvement. We’re also coaching our clients using video and data analysis. Everything is going as it should, and I hope that tomorrow in the race everything will go our way so we can collect some valuable points and achieve a strong result.
Okay, so the first official practice is today. We were running better yesterday; this morning we had some trouble with the brakes, so we had to bed in some new ones, and hopefully, it will run well now. This track is very demanding on the brakes, so we will need to prepare an extra set because they wear out incredibly fast here. As for the driving... I am still getting used to it here, but I hope we will put in a good run tomorrow.
We are here at the Red Bull Ring, we have the first test behind us. We are trying to set up the car, the weather is on our side and I believe it will only get better and better as the day goes on.
Today is going perfectly, we have perfect weather and I had a minor accident yesterday, so it was repaired at night and today we are running it in and basically we are already going through the protocol depending on how it will look tomorrow during qualifying and during the race, so the new tires are already going and we are trying to apply what we learned yesterday today.
Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe 2026 - Red Bull Ring 28.-30.05.2026
About race
For the Red Bull Ring round of the 2026 Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe, we entered 5 cars out of a total field of 21 competitors, making us the best-represented team on the starting grid according to the entry list.
In short
SERIES:
Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe 2026
WHERE:
Red Bull Ring (AT)
WHEN:
28.-29.05.2026
RACE:
Saturday 30.05.
CATEGORIES:
Rookies, Pro-Am, Masters
DRIVERS:
#3 Vetrák Samuel (SK), Porsche 992 GT3 Cup, category: Pro-Am
Bližší info o Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe 2026
The Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe enters its eighth season in 2026. The championship will feature six race weekends at some of Central Europe’s most prestigious circuits, including the Formula 1 venues of the Red Bull Ring and the Hungaroring.
Each race weekend consists of two 25-minute sprint races and one 60-minute endurance race. All 18 races can be contested either individually or by a pair of drivers, and thanks to the various classifications, the series offers competitive opportunities for drivers of all experience levels.
The grid will consist exclusively of Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992) cars, meaning the championship uses the same machinery as the renowned Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup. In keeping with the slogan “Bring your family and friends,” the PSCCE hospitality area at every event provides an ideal platform for entertaining sponsors and business partners.
All official practice sessions, qualifying sessions, and races will take place on Fridays and Saturdays.
Pavel started joining us at trackday events with his Porsche and soon decided to become part of our BE A RACE DRIVER project.
Thanks to hard work, perseverance and a passion for motorsport, he has gradually developed into a fast and confident driver who now successfully takes part with us in several racing series. As part of our Classic program, Pavel also competed in the very demanding 24h Classic race at the Nürburgring in the BMW M3 E30 during the 2025 season.
With his current Lamborghini Huracan Supertrofe Evo II, he participates in all our race tests and the Endless Summer program, Carbonia Cup races, and with a racing driver's license, he has already tried out two races of the International Czech Circuit Championship and the Porsche 992 Cup Central Europe races.
As a young driver, Matyas will compete in the overall classification and in the Rookies standings for drivers under 25. His journey toward a racing career began two years ago with his first sessions in a BMW M2 Trackday Evo. In the 2025 season, he moved to the new BMW M4 GT4 G82, with which he started his very first race ever in the Carbonia Cup. At the end of the 2025 season came his debut — and immediately his first pole position — in a Czech Championship race in Brno, followed by three wins in the final round of the series at Balaton in Hungary. Matyas already tried the Porsche during free practice for the final PSCCE 2025 race in Brno and impressed with his speed.
Slávek has been taking part in selected Šenkýř Motorsport trackday events for several seasons now. Gradually, his desire to try a race car grew, and thanks to his ownership of a modified Audi R8 V10, we chose a car with the same engine — the Lamborghini Huracan ST EVO II.
The logical next step was racing school and his first race weekend with the BMW M4 GT4 G82 Evo from the Šenkýř Motorsport team at the Autumn Brno Cup 2025. That successful weekend in Brno was topped off by his first GT4 category win, and two weeks later by a quality test during free practice at PSCCE in Brno. After a test weekend in February 2026 as part of Endless Summer in Barcelona, we decided to try at least the first PSCE 2026 race at the Red Bull Ring.
Radek started out at trackday events with a BMW M2 Trackday Evo. Over time, it started to feel „too small“ for him.
After agreeing with the team, Radek moved straight into the Porsche 992 GT3 Cup, and with several starts in the ESET Cup and especially many sessions in the Endless Summer winter training events, he gained the confidence needed to enter the Porsche 992 GT3 Cup series.
Radek continues to take part in Šenkýř Motorsport trackday events; the Race category is the ideal platform for his driving development.
Samuel is taking his passion to a more professional racing level under the guidance of Richard Gonda and with the excellent support of the Šenkýř Motorsport team.
His training process with BMW M2 and BMW M4 GT4 cars began in 2021. He made his racing debut in 2022, when he started with our team’s support in a BMW M4 GT4 F82 in several ESET Cup races and was part of the rookie team for the 24 Hours of Barcelona. After a few working years, he returned to racing this year — straight into the Porsche 992 GT3 Cup category.
"Robert and his team enabled me to enter the world of motorsport in the most professional way, guiding but also igniting another passion and today I can't imagine my life without driving a race car."
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.
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.
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.
The third weekend of the Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe series at Tor Poznań in Poland (July 2–4, 2026) is behind us, and this time we’re leaving with perfect results: three pole positions, three overall victories, and several other podium finishes in the individual categories.
This coming weekend, June 18–20, 2026, we’ll be competing in the next race of the 2026 Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe. The second race of this one-make series will take place at the Slovakiaring, and Šenkýř Motorsport will be there. We’ll be keeping you updated directly from the race venue through this article and Šenkýř Motorsport’s social media channels.
Red Bull Ring, Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe 2026 race, from Thursday to Saturday, May 28–30, 2026 and a total of 5 cars with drivers from our BE A RACE DRIVER project. That's the Šenkýř Motorsport team's program for this weekend.
Two driving groups of Šenkýř Motorsport under the banner of the German racing team Walkenhorst Classic, two BMW M3 E30 and 2.5 hours of racing on a unique German track, more commonly known as the Green Hell. This is the ADAC 24H Classic Rennen 2025. We bring you race results, on-site coverage, driver commentary, a gallery with photos and videos from the circuit and general race information. All together in one place.
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The first Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe race at the Austrian Red Bull Ring is successfully behind us and we at Šenkýř Motorsport are more than satisfied.
We drove with five cars, which is always very difficult logistically and organizationally, but the team worked great and the cars were always perfectly prepared.
Two pole positions and one second place on the grid in the absolute ranking, victories and podium finishes in the Pro-Am, Am and Masters categories. And the ever-improving performances of all drivers.
It was a great premiere in the series, a perfect test of the team and a good portion of new experiences for all our drivers.
The Red Bull Ring delivered an unforgettable opening round of the 2026 Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe season, featuring two sprint races, the 100 Miles of Austria endurance race, intense battles throughout the field and plenty of memorable moments. Relive the best action from an incredible weekend in Austria.
Weekend is over and we are more than happy!
PSCCE Red Bull Ring finished✅. Great pace and good results during the first race weekend in the GT3 Cup car. Unfortunately, I didn't finish the endurance race due to a clutch failure, but I still enjoyed the other races. See you all at the Slovakiaring.🤩
#3 Samuel Vetrák-Richard Gonda, P3 in eProAM, P7 overall
#7 Pavel Bouška-Erik Janiš, P4 in eProAM, P8 overall
#3 Vetrák Samuel (SK), P2 in AM, P10 overall
#5 Kolařík Radek (CZ), P6 in Masters, P19 overall
#7 Bouška Pavel (CZ), P2 in Masters, P15 overall
#9 Faiereisl Matyas (CZ) - P3 in Pro, P3 overall
#11 Kárník Dobroslav (CZ) - P1 in ProAM, P4 overall
"We are very satisfied with the results. Now, 100 miles at the Red Bull Ring."
#3 Vetrák Samuel (SK), P3 in AM, P10 overall
#5 Kolařík Radek (CZ), P4 in Masters, P17 overall
#7 Bouška Pavel (CZ), P1 in Masters, P14 overall
#9 Faiereisl Matyas (CZ) - P3 in Pro, P3 overall
#11 Kárník Dobroslav (CZ) - P5 in ProAM, P13 overall
#3 Vetrák Samuel (SK), P11, P1 in Masters
#5 Kolařík Radek (CZ), P18, P4 in Masters
#7 Bouška Pavel (CZ), P19, P5 in Masters
#9 Faiereisl Matyas (CZ) - P2, P2 in Pro
#11 Kárník Dobroslav (CZ) - P5, P2 in ProAM
We started the first race from pole position. In the opening corner there was some contact, which dropped me back to P2. Later on, I made a mistake myself and fell to P3.
In the end, we finished the race in third place. Overall, I’m satisfied with the result, and we’ve gained some valuable experience that we can take into Race 2.
Today is finally race day. We had the first qualifying session this morning, and it was a bit of a compromise because one of yesterday’s practice sessions was cancelled, so we had to bed in a new set of brakes during qualifying. That meant we could only really push properly in the second half of the session. In the end, it didn’t turn out too badly. I started from second place in my class. I lost one position early on, but then managed to make it back up, so I finished first in my category in the opening race. I’m really happy about that—the race went well. Now we’ll see how the rest of the day unfolds. For the second qualifying session, I’m starting one position further back than I did for the first race, so we’ll see how it goes. Either way, I’m looking forward to it.
#3 Vetrák Samuel (SK), P15, P2 in Masters
#5 Kolařík Radek (CZ), P15, P5 in Masters
#7 Bouška Pavel (CZ), P16, P2 in Masters
#9 Faiereisl Matyáš (CZ) - P1, P1 in Pro
#11 Kárník Dobroslav (CZ) - P4, P1 in ProAM
It’s Saturday, and we’re about to begin the first race day of this year’s Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe. We have five cars on track at the Red Bull Ring, competing across all categories: Pro, Pro-Am, Masters, and also a newcomer racing in the Rookie category. We’re looking forward to the challenge in every class. Behind us are two test days, Thursday and Friday, filled with productive work. I believe we’re well prepared, and all five of our drivers, together with our coaches, are ready to achieve the best possible result.
Two test days complete. Porsche Sprint Challenge — tomorrow it’s qualifying and race time.
Šenkýř Motorsport at Red Bull Ring Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe 2026.
We’re here at the first race of this year’s championship, and everything is working great. The car is well set up, the weather is beautiful, and we’re putting in pretty solid lap times. Of course, there’s always room for improvement. We’re also coaching our clients using video and data analysis. Everything is going as it should, and I hope that tomorrow in the race everything will go our way so we can collect some valuable points and achieve a strong result.
So, here we are on the second day of practice. We’ve got good pace, and we’ll try to keep it up in qualifying and then in the race.
Okay, so the first official practice is today. We were running better yesterday; this morning we had some trouble with the brakes, so we had to bed in some new ones, and hopefully, it will run well now. This track is very demanding on the brakes, so we will need to prepare an extra set because they wear out incredibly fast here. As for the driving... I am still getting used to it here, but I hope we will put in a good run tomorrow.
We are here at the Red Bull Ring, we have the first test behind us. We are trying to set up the car, the weather is on our side and I believe it will only get better and better as the day goes on.
Today is going perfectly, we have perfect weather and I had a minor accident yesterday, so it was repaired at night and today we are running it in and basically we are already going through the protocol depending on how it will look tomorrow during qualifying and during the race, so the new tires are already going and we are trying to apply what we learned yesterday today.
Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe 2026.
Full throttle into the new season! Are you ready?