2020 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series

Teams and drivers

EuroNASCAR PRO

EuroNASCAR 2

EuroNASCAR Club Challenge

Driver changes

• On 25 October 2019, Ander Vilariño announced that he won't be competing with Racing Engineering in 2020. It was originally announced on 16 January 2020 that Vilariño will be switching teams to DF1 Racing for the 2020 season, but he later announced his withdrawal from the season on 26 June 2020 due to family and business concerns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Vilariño, however, does not rule out the possibility for a wildcard entry at Valencia.
• On 21 November 2019, DF1 Racing announced that they will promote Justin Kunz to the EuroNASCAR PRO class in 2020. Kunz had previously competed in the then-Elite 1 class in 2018.
• On 21 November 2019, it was announced that Myatt Snider will leave the series to compete in the NASCAR Xfinity Series with Richard Childress Racing and RSS Racing, initially planning to compete part-time before committing to running the full schedule after the first eight races of the season.
• On 26 November 2019, Alessio Bacci announced on Instagram that he has signed a contract to compete with Alex Caffi Motorsport in the EuroNASCAR 2 class for 2020.
• On 12 December 2019, it was announced that Alain Mosqueron, the champion of the regularity-based EuroNASCAR Club Challenge, plans to run a part-time schedule in the EuroNASCAR 2 class with DF1 Racing for the 2020 season. He will also stay in Club Challenge to defend his title.
• On 27 December 2019, it was announced that Jacques Villeneuve, Patrick Lemarié, and Simon Pilate will be competing full-time for FEED Racing in 2020. Villeneuve will be driving the No. 5 car in the EuroNASCAR PRO class while Lemarié and Pilate will be making their Euro Series debuts in the EuroNASCAR PRO and EuroNASCAR 2 class respectively in the No. 6 team.
• On 6 January 2020, Julia Landauer announced that she will be making a move to the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series in 2020. She will be competing full-time with PK Carsport in the EuroNASCAR 2 class.
• On 20 January 2020, Igor Romanov announced that he will made his Euro Series debut in the regularity-based EuroNASCAR Club Challenge class.
• On 22 January 2020, Alon Day announced on social media that he will be leaving CAAL Racing after five years with the team. Five days later on 27 January, it was announced that Day will be switching teams to PK Carsport to replace Nicolò Rocca in the No. 24 team. Monster Energy will be sponsoring Day and the No. 24 team for the full season.
• On 25 January 2020, it was announced that Gianmarco Ercoli will be switching teams to CAAL Racing after five years with Racers Motorsport. Ercoli had previously competed for CAAL Racing on his debut season in 2014.
• On 30 January 2020, it was announced that Guillaume Dumarey will be returning to the series with PK Carsport after a one-year absence to compete in the GT4 European Series in 2019.
• On 30 January 2020, it was reported that Giovanni Trione will move up to the EuroNASCAR 2 class after several years of competing in Elite Club. He is scheduled to be the teammate of his father Mauro in CAAL Racing's No. 31 team.
• As a result of the merger between FEED Racing and Racers Motorsport that was announced on 30 January 2020, Dario Caso and Alessandro Brigatti will be switching teams to FEED Vict Racing for the 2020 season.
• On 3 February 2020, it was announced that Scott Jeffs will be moving up to the EuroNASCAR PRO class full-time for the 2020 season.
• On 4 February 2020, it was announced that Andreas Jochimsen will be making his series debut with DF1 Racing in the EuroNASCAR 2 class for 2020.
• On 8 February 2020, it was announced that Max Lanza will be switching teams to CAAL Racing, with Lanza scheduled to drive the No. 88 Chevrolet SS full-time in the EuroNASCAR 2 class.
• On 27 February 2020, it was announced that Ulysse Delsaux plans to compete in both classes with the renumbered No. 10 Chevrolet Camaro for 2020.
• On 3 March 2020, it was announced that Marcel Lenerz, who competed in VLN in 2019, will be making his series debut as the driver of DF1 Racing's No. 99 Chevrolet Camaro in the EuroNASCAR 2 class.
• On 3 March 2020, it was announced that Tobias Dauenhauer will be making a switch from ADAC GT4 Germany to the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series in 2020. Dauenhauer is set to make his series debut as the driver of Hendriks Motorsport's No. 50 Ford Mustang in the EuroNASCAR 2 class.
• After competing in a one-off appearance at Zolder last year, it was announced on 4 March 2020 that Sven van Laere will be competing full-time in the EuroNASCAR 2 class as the driver of Braxx Racing's No. 91 team.
• On 5 March 2020, it was reported that former Formula One driver and four-time Superstars Series champion Gianni Morbidelli will be making his debut in the series, switching from TCR Europe Touring Car Series to the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series in 2020 as the EuroNASCAR PRO class driver of CAAL Racing's No. 88 team. This will mark Morbidelli's return to stock car racing since the 2008–09 Speedcar Series season, where he was crowned as Speedcar Series' final champion.
• On 6 March 2020, Hendriks Motorsport announced that Giorgio Maggi and Vittorio Ghirelli will be driving the team's newly-expanded third car in 2020. Maggi will be promoted to the EuroNASCAR PRO class while Ghirelli will be staying in the EuroNASCAR 2 class to compete for the championship title.
• On 7 March 2020, Andre Castro announced that he will be switching teams to DF1 Racing for 2020. He previously competed for both PK Carsport and Marko Stipp Motorsport in 2019.
• Defending EuroNASCAR 2 champion Lasse Sørensen is scheduled to make his full-season debut in the EuroNASCAR PRO class in 2020 after he received a promotion from DF1 Racing to race the team's No. 66 Chevrolet Camaro in the PRO class.
• Henri Tuomaala will be switching teams to DF1 Racing following DF1's acquisition of the No. 23 entry from Memphis Racing.
• On 16 March 2020, it was announced that former Supersport team owner Evgeny Sokolovsky will be making a switch from Raceway Venray's Late Model V8 Oval Series to the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series in 2020. Sokolovsky will be competing for Marko Stipp Motorsport in the EuroNASCAR PRO class.
• On 16 March 2020, it was announced that Lotus Italia Cup driver Francesco Garisto will be making his series debut and compete for 42 Racing in the EuroNASCAR 2 class for 2020.
• On 27 March 2020, it was announced that Fabio Spatafora will be returning to the series after a six-year absence, while Davide Dallara will be making his series debut this year. Both drivers will be competing with Not Only Motorsports for 2020.
• On 15 April 2020, it was announced that Kenko Miura will be switching teams from Alex Caffi Motorsport to Marko Stipp Motorsport via its DF1-MSM Racing collaboration entry with DF1 Racing. Miura is scheduled to make a return to the EuroNASCAR 2 class in 2020.
• On 27 April 2020, it was announced that Henri Tuomaala will be competing in both classes for the 2020 season.
• On 12 May 2020, it was announced that Cypriot driver Vladimiros Tziortzis will be making his full-time debut in the series with Alex Caffi Motorsport in the EuroNASCAR 2 class.

  Team changes

• On 15 November 2019, it was announced that Alex Caffi Motorsport will form a partnership with Race Art Technology for the 2020 season. Race Art Technology previously competed in the 2018 season under the Race Art - Blue Mot banner.
• On 27 December 2019, it was announced that FEED Racing, Jacques Villeneuve and Patrick Lemarié's junior formula academy team, will be entering the series in 2020. The team initially announced that they will field the No. 5 and No. 6 teams. Later, on 30 January 2020, it was announced that FEED Racing and Racers Motorsport will merge its operations to form FEED Vict Racing and confirms that it will expand its operations into a four-car team as a result of the merger. The official entry list announcement would reveal that Racers' former No. 9 team will be renumbered to the No. 4 team for 2020.
• On 16 January 2020, it was announced that the No. 22 team, previously ran as a joint effort between Marko Stipp Motorsport and DF1 Racing in 2019, will solely be run by DF1 Racing as part of the team's expansion for the 2020 season. The team's official website would later reveal that the team will also field a fourth car in 2020 following the team's acquisition the No. 23 entry from Memphis Racing.
• On 8 February 2020, it was announced that CAAL Racing will be expanding its operations into a four-car team with the addition of the No. 88 Chevrolet SS to its roster.
• On 12 February 2020, it was revealed through social media that RDV Competition's No. 36 team would be renumbered to the No. 10 for 2020.
• On 26 February 2020, it was announced that Solaris Motorsport has formed a technical alliance with CAAL Racing starting from the 2020 season.
• On 3 March 2020, it was revealed that Hendriks Motorsport is scheduled to expand into a three-car team in 2020 with the addition of the No. 18 Ford Mustang that will be driven by Giorgio Maggi and Vittorio Ghirelli.
• 42 Racing, who competed in a part-time schedule in 2019, is scheduled to make their full-time debut in the series in 2020. 42 Racing will be fielding the No. 17 and No. 42 teams for 2020.
• On 27 March 2020, it was announced that Italian team Not Only Motorsport will be joining the series with the No. 89 team.
• The official entry list announcement on 27 March 2020 reveals the following changes:
• *Both Mishumotors and Memphis Racing will downsize into a one-car team in 2020.
• *Marko Stipp Motorsport will be expanding into a two-car team, as the second entry that the team run in conjunction with DF1 Racing at Hockenheim last year will be competing full-time as the No. 48 team.
• *Go Fas Racing, The Club Motorsports, and Racing Engineering will be leaving the series after a two, three, and one year stay in the series respectively, while Motorsport 98 will be leaving the series after a one-year return in 2019.
• *Braxx Racing's No. 78 entry will be renumbered to the No. 91 in 2020.

  Schedule

EuroNASCAR PRO

EuroNASCAR 2

EuroNASCAR Club Challenge

Calendar changes

• On October 16, 2019, NASCAR Whelen Euro Series announced that NASCAR GP Italy will move to ACI Vallelunga Circuit, ending the series' three-year stay at Autodromo di Franciacorta. Vallelunga also moves back to September as the fifth round of the season, with Brands Hatch, Most, and Venray moving one spot ahead as a result.
• The NASCAR GP Germany at Hockenheim and NASCAR GP Belgium at Zolder swapped places, with Zolder now hosting the sixth round while Hockenheim is scheduled to host the season-finale round for the first time.
• The double-points Playoffs will be extended from the last two rounds of the season to the last three rounds of the season.

  Calendar changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic

• On 12 March 2020, NASCAR Whelen Euro Series announced that they will postpone the Valencia NASCAR Fest due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Valencia is originally rescheduled to 31 October-1 November but it was later rescheduled to 5–6 December in the revised calendar.
• After Motorsport UK announced on 24 March 2020 that they will extend the suspension of any motor racing activities in United Kingdom until 30 June due to the pandemic, NASCAR Whelen Euro Series announced that the American Speedfest VIII at Brands Hatch, originally scheduled to be held on 6–7 June, will be postponed.
• On 16 May 2020, Euro Series President Jérôme Galpin states in an interview with AUTOhebdo that the 2020 season will be starting in early September, with 5 of the 7 scheduled rounds are confirmed to be staying in the revised calendar.
• On 19 May 2020, NASCAR Whelen Euro Series announced that the OMV MaxxMotion NASCAR Show at Autodrom Most will be postponed until 14–15 November. On the same announcement, it's also announced that the round at Venray will be postponed while the rounds at Vallelunga, Zolder, and Hockenheim will be keeping their original dates in the revised calendar.
• On 12 June 2020, NASCAR Whelen Euro Series announced the following revisions for the 2020 season calendar:
• * The NASCAR GP Netherlands at Raceway Venray has been cancelled, leaving the series with 12 races in 6 rounds as opposed to the scheduled 13 races in 7 rounds.
• * The Valencia NASCAR Fest at Circuit Ricardo Tormo will be rescheduled to 5–6 December as the scheduled final round of the season.
• * The American Speedfest at Brands Hatch will be keeping its slot in the revised calendar, although a date for the round has not been determined yet.
• On 23 July 2020, it was announced that the American Speedfest round at Brands Hatch will be cancelled, leaving the series with 10 races in 5 rounds for the 2020 season.

  Rule changes

• All classes will be rebranded starting from the 2020 season, with the Elite 1, Elite 2, and the regularity-based Elite Club classes are set to be renamed as EuroNASCAR PRO, EuroNASCAR 2, and EuroNASCAR Club Challenge respectively.