Max Enderlein: Brewery consultant rather than a full-time rider in Euro Moto

Thanks to three guest riders, the Supersport field swelled to 18 entrants at the 2026 Euro Moto season finale this weekend at Hockenheim. Alongside Thomas Eder and Maximilian Kofler, three-time IDM champion (2018, 2019 and 2022) Max Enderlein will be on the starting grid. The 29-year-old from Hohenstein-Ernstthal is riding a second MV Agusta F3 800 RR for the Axalta MV Agusta Racing Team in the ADAC, alongside Euro Moto regular Luca Göttlicher from Team LJ Racing / MC Augsburg e.V.

The Axalta MV Agusta Racing Team is led by IDM veterans Daniel Rauh and Achim Weber and is still known to long-standing IDM fans under the name Langenscheidt Racing by Fast Bike Service. The team’s greatest success came in 2015 when they won the IDM Superstock 1000 with French rider Mathieu Gines on a Yamaha.

New project in the Euro Moto Supersport

Now, then, a new project, one into which the team was, so to speak, ‘coerced’ from outside. Speaking to SPEEDWEEK.com, Daniel Rauh explained: “I was approached at a trade fair and told I should start building project bikes again. That’s how things got going again with the MV. The plan was to compete for the whole of the 2026 season, but as is so often the case, the main problem was financing the whole thing. That was already the problem this year. That’s why we cancelled it early on.”

At least this one guest appearance with Max Enderlein remains. “I think, in him, we have a rider who’s a good fit on a personal level and who can drive the project forward. We’ll see how things pan out next year,” added Daniel Rauh.

Max Enderlein is now the rider on the bike. He was asked by Daniel Rauh and Achim Weber to complete the entire season, which didn’t fit in with his plans. So he wasn’t too disappointed that the project didn’t get off the ground. He wasn’t averse to a one-off appearance at Hockenheim, however, and commented: “At the start of the year, the topic came up again and Daniel asked me if I’d be willing to make at least one guest appearance. So we ended up working together after all, prepared everything as well as we could, and here we are now.” In preparation, they’d spent two days testing at a race training session in Hockenheim in August and had also taken part in the official test at the Nürburgring on the Thursday before the Euro-Moto race.

Enderlein’s expertise in demand

Max Enderlein is, of course, honoured that the team chose him. “Well, I’ve won the championship three times, but I haven’t been involved for a long time. The problem is finding someone who’s up to a certain standard and is willing to make a guest appearance. Towards the end of the season, that’s not at all easy. For me, it’s obviously a new motorbike, but I do bring a bit of experience to the table.”

On the state of the technology, he says: “It’s still in its infancy, of course. We’re running YSS suspension, which nobody else in Euro Moto is using. I don’t know if anyone’s using it in the Supersport World Championship either. We’ve got really good support, but it’s naturally a bit different from Öhlins suspension, which I’m very familiar with.”

Max Enderlein hadn’t yet developed an appetite for more races on the first day of Euro Moto at Hockenheim, especially as he’d hurt himself slightly in a crash. “Let’s just get through this weekend first, then we’ll have a calm think about it. However, nothing has fundamentally changed in my situation regarding free time for racing,” said the consultant at a US software and hardware company. “I’m currently working at the Radeberger Brewery,” he explained with a wink.