HRP loses out in DMSB court case; Alt waives concession part

Team principal Jens Holzhauer thought about it briefly and then said no. Following the final checkpoint as part of the Balance of Performance, the Safety/Technical/Sporting Commission (CSTS) held a meeting with series manager Max von Saurma, Karsten Bartschat, Fabian Schuster (ADAC), Max Kumpf (Chairman of the Sporting Commission), Jörg Raboldt (Chairman of the Technical Stewards), Torben Jennert (DMSB Technical Steward) and Stefan Beck (Chairman of the CSTS/Race Director) and recalculated the concession points.

Camshafts remain on the shelf

“Following our top performance at Assen and the Nürburgring,” remarked Jens Holzhauer with a touch of sarcasm, “concession parts were approved for us.” Florian Alt had been unable to compete at the front on either race weekend and had therefore benefited from the allocation. It was decided to authorise the use of the kit camshaft set, the specifications of which are defined in the current version of the Eligible Parts List.

These are the very camshafts that had already been supplied by Honda the previous year but, due to the rule change for Euro Moto 2026, have since been languishing on the shelves at home. Although, according to Holzhauer, they deliver seven to ten PS of power, this situation is not going to change. “The effort involved is simply too great for a lead time of just two weeks,” says Alt’s team boss, describing the situation. “We have no experience with this; we would have had to develop new engine mapping and schedule an extra test. Only then could we have fitted the camshaft set into one of the sealed engines. It was simply a question of time.”

Letter from the DMSB

Following the mass crash at Oschersleben – which all riders survived unscathed apart from a few bruises and grazes – the Holzhauer team also pulled out all the stops to whip up a new bike for Florian Alt from scratch.

As ready-built replacement motorbikes are not permitted in Euro Moto, you have to make do with whatever individual parts you have to hand. According to his own account, Jens Holzhauer obtained permission from the technical commissioners to assemble a race bike from his exhibition bike, which was parked outside the pit. Alt was back on the grid, albeit with a few aches and pains, and rode the second race.

Alt bleibt bei seiner Honda-Version

Foto: Felix Wiessmann

Subsequently, Team GERT56 lodged a protest regarding the reconstruction of the Honda, which Holzhauer contested by lodging a so-called appeal. The case was then heard before the DMSB Court of Appeal and dismissed. Jens Holzhauer was completely taken aback.

“Without the approval of a technical commissioner, which I received in front of witnesses,” he explains, “I wouldn’t have gone to all that trouble and would have gone home. Suddenly, nobody wanted to know anything about the approval. They took advantage of us to ensure there were enough motorbikes on the starting grid in what was already a small field. That’s how I see it.”

“First they approved the motorbike,” he continues, “after all, we’d been through the technical inspection even after fitting the engine into the exhibition motorbike. There were no problems then either. And then at 8.44 pm, the news came that we’d been disqualified. To be honest, I still don’t understand it to this day.” The official reasoning behind the decision is still pending.