For the first time the Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe raced at the new Balaton Park Circuit in Hungary for Round 3 of the 2025 season. So all teams and drivers had to face the challenge of getting used to the new venue. Most of them gave a very positive feedback of the 4.115 km long, rather flat track with its special characteristics of many corners and the lack of very long straights.

Sunshine and warm temperatures created a nice summer feeling enjoyed by both drivers and fans, while Porsche Hungary celebrated the weekend by organizing a “Raceborn” event with over 900 participants and 300 Porsche cars, including a parade on the track.

After two days of testing, David Dziwok from Poland set pole position in qualifying for the first Sprint race. Estonian Gregor Jeets made it to the front row in P2, followed by Marius Bartkus from Lithuania. Peter Brunner from Switzerland with a very strong performance in P4 overall was fastest in the AM category. The second qualifying for race 2 saw Mantas Janavicius from Lithuania claiming pole ahead of Jeets and his fellow countryman Egidijus Gražys, with Brunner in P6 overall again topping the AM class.

David Dziwok from Poland lost a few positions at the start after contact in Turn1 with his fellow countryman Jakub Chmiel, but with a great recovery race he made it back to the top already in lap 5 and in the end won the first Sprint race rather unchallenged. Jeets had been out on lap 1 already, while Ramunas Grigaitis, who had a very good start and turned up on P3 in the beginning later spun and got stuck in the gravel, causing a second Safety-Car on lap P2 and P3 were only finally settled long after the race after a review of different time penalties for track limits and causing avoidable collisions. In the end, AM driver Peter Brunner was classified in P2 ahead of Marius Bartkus and Milan Sitniansky from the Czech Republic.

In the early afternoon, Egidijus Gražys from Lithuania won the second Sprint race ahead of Austrian Tobias Poschik, also second in the Sprint championship behind Dziwok, with whom he shares car 69, and  Milan Sitniansky, after two drivers, Mantas Janavicius, who had seen the chequered flag in first place on track, and Gregor Jeets received five-second-penalties for violating track limits. Jakub Chmiel again was involved in a Turn 1 incident, this time with Poschnik, and had to retire due to a tyre issue. Peter Brunner in P6 overall again claimed victory in the AM class, after Czech driver Petr Brecka, class leader at the time, had spun on lap 7 on his own, also causing a four lap Safety Car period.

The final race of the day, the “100 Miles of Hungary”, finally brought a good end for Gregor Jeets after not being very lucky before. Together with Tauras Tunyla from Lithuania the Estonian won the Endurance race, the third victory of the pair in the third Endurance race of the season, extending their lead in this championship. The Czech/German pairing of Milan Sitniansky and Dieter Svepes came second even with two five-second-penalties for track limits, with Lithuanians Mantas Janavicius and Marius Bartkus, the ProAM winners, in P3.

In fifth place overall, Peter Brunner  scored his third AM class victory of the day, as well as Austrian Günther Brenninger, the only starter in the Masters category, becoming well-known faces on the podium, along with Jennifer Biela-Moll from PAG, Melisa Čengić from PCEE and Géza Aradi from Porsche Zentrum Budapest, who assisted in the prize givings.