Sportbike team makes the leap from Euro Moto/IDM to the World Championship

With their return to the World Championship paddock, a new chapter is beginning for Rob Vennegoor’s Dutch team. The team is no stranger to the scene. RT Motorsports first made a name for itself in the WorldSBK paddock in 2011, when it competed in the Superstock 600 class with rider Jed Metcher and secured the championship title alongside MTM.

Since 2016, the team has been a fixture in the WorldSBK paddock and has established itself as professional and competitive. “During this time, our team achieved numerous victories with a string of talented riders,” recalls Vennegoor. “In the World Supersport 300 Championship, we came close to challenging for the overall title, finishing second in 2021 with Tom Booth-Amos and third in 2024 with Inigo Iglesias.”

Future: Sportbikes

In 2025, RT Motorsports shifted its focus to the new Sportbike category and initially competed in the IDM Championship. In the World Championship, the organisation remained in the 300cc class for another year. It was only this year that they switched to the Sportbike class in the World Championship as well.

The Dutch team brought Inigo Iglesias on board in 2025 and enjoyed immediate success: Iglesias secured the IDM Sportbike title with RT Motorsports. “We continued our successful sportbike programme this season,” said Vennegoor, “with RT Motorsports once again competing in the IDM Sportbike series and securing several victories, whilst at the same time further expanding its technical and operational expertise in this category.”

In the IDM, which operated under the name Euro Moto this year, the team raced with manufacturer Triumph, fielding Dutch rider Tom Kuil and Austrian Jakob Rosenthaler, who, however, had to end his season early due to injury. At the Euro Moto finale in Hockenheim, the team fielded a separate entry with the Spaniard Daniel Mogeda and manufacturer Honda. It was clear where the journey was headed.

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“The team’s many years of experience, its professional approach and its proven track record of success did not go unnoticed,” Vennegoor is certain. “Following extensive discussions, RT Motorsports has reached an agreement with Honda Motor Europe Ltd. to compete as a Honda team in the 2027 World Sportbike Championship. Under the name RT Motorsports – Honda, the team will start the first season of this new project with two riders. A new chapter with Honda is beginning.”

There are no plans yet for the 2027 IDM

“We are extremely proud to be embarking on this new project, and Honda’s trust is a great reward following many years of hard work, successes achieved and – just as importantly – the building of strong and lasting relationships with our loyal partners,” Vennegoor concludes. “A team isn’t built in a year; it takes much longer to develop. We’re very proud to have reached this point, but more than that, we’re determined to make this project with Honda a success. We are currently in talks with several riders and will announce our rider line-up and our partners for the 2027 season in the coming weeks. I would like to thank Honda for the trust they have placed in RT Motorsports, as well as all our partners who continue to support our project. We look forward to tackling this new challenge together.”