2023 NXT Gen Cup season

The 2023 NXT Gen Cup was the first season of NXT Gen Cup, world’s first fully electric junior touring car cup. It began at Falkenbergs Motorbana on 7 July and ended at Mantorp Park on 23 September.

Calendar

Round Circuit Date Supporting
1 Falkenbergs Motorbana, Bergagård, Sweden 7–9 July TCR Denmark Touring Car Series
V8 Thunder Cars
2 Motorsport Arena Oschersleben, Oschersleben, Germany 28–30 July ADAC Racing Weekend Oschersleben
3 Nürburgring, Nürburg, Germany 4–6 August Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
ADAC GT4 Germany
Porsche Carrera Cup Germany
4 Karlskoga Motorstadion, Karlskoga, Sweden 17–19 August Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia
Porsche Sprint Challenge Scandinavia
5 Ring Knutstorp, Kågeröd, Sweden 30 August–1 September V8 Thunder Cars
Radical Cup Scandinavia
6 Mantorp Park, Mantorp, Sweden 21–23 September Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia
Porsche Sprint Challenge Scandinavia

Entry list

All of the drivers used the LRT NXT1.

No. Driver Rounds
2 Greaham Hofmans[1] All
3 Linus Granfors[2] All
4 Theo Jernberg[3] All
5 Sebastian Kinnmark[4] All
6 Isak Arvidsson[5] 1–2
Mats Overhoff[6] 3
Mikkel Njor[7] 4–6
7 Enzo Hallman[8] All
8 Elias Adestam[9] All
9 Bente Boer[10] 3
Isak Arvidsson[11] 4, 6
Lukas Stiefelhagen[12] 5
11 Ellis Spiezia[13] All
12 Filip Bartoš[14] All
14 Katie Turner[15] All
16 Månz Thalin[16] All
19 Alexander Gustafsson[17] All
21 Siri Hökfelt[18] All
26 Oscar Pedersen[19] 1
27 Alexzander Kristiansson[20] All
47 Jonathan Engström[21] All
50 Victor Nielsen[22] All
51 Louise Larsson[23] All
91 Sebastian Serban[24] 6
Icon Class
Guest Starter

Results

Round Circuit Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver
1 R1 Falkenbergs Motorbana Elias Adestam Ellis Spiezia Elias Adestam
R2 Enzo Hallman Ellis Spiezia
2 R1 Motorsport Arena Oschersleben Ellis Spiezia Elias Adestam Elias Adestam
R2 Ellis Spiezia Ellis Spiezia
3 R1 Nürburgring Linus Granfors Theo Jernberg Linus Granfors
R2 Linus Granfors Linus Granfors
4 R1 Karlskoga Motorstadion Elias Adestam Linus Granfors Elias Adestam
R2 Jonathan Engström Linus Granfors
5 R1 Ring Knutstorp Lukas Stiefelhagen Linus Granfors Linus Granfors
R2 Linus Granfors Elias Adestam
6 R1 Mantorp Park Linus Granfors Mikkel Njor Elias Adestam
R2 Jonathan Engström Mikkel Njor

Championship standings

Scoring system

Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th FL
Points 30 25 21 17 14 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1

Additionally, the top three placed drivers in qualifying also received points:

Qualifying position 1st 2nd 3rd
Points 4 2 1

Drivers' championship

Pos. Driver FAL
OSC
NÜR
KAR
KNU
MAN
Points
1 Elias Adestam 11 15 1 9 12 3 11 14 22 1 13 4 243
2 Linus Granfors 23 4 162 6 11 1 4 1 1 9 21 Ret 240
3 Ellis Spiezia 4 1 21 1 2 2 17† 7 4 15 4 2 229
4 Enzo Hallman 5 2 Ret 8 32 8 33 2 6 3 32 8 193
5 Jonathan Engström 14 7 6 2 4 5 2 4 10 4 9 7 167
6 Alexzander Kristiansson 7 12 7 3 14†3 13 62 5 8 2 8 3 146
7 Victor Nielsen 18†2 6 3 4 8 9 5 8 11 6 5 5 138
8 Alexander Gustafsson 6 5 5 5 6 4 9 9 7 5 12 10 135
9 Theo Jernberg 8 9 43 7 7 12 7 3 93 11 10 11 120
10 Mikkel Njor 10 10 3 13 6 1 82
11 Månz Thalin 11 Ret 12 13 5 7 Ret 11 12 7 11 12 71
12 Greaham Hofmans 12 13 14 14 9 14 11 16 Ret 12 7 6 60
13 Sebastian Kinnmark 13 10 8 10 15† 15 13 12 14 10 16 14 54
14 Isak Arvidsson 16 11 9 15 8 6 14 9 49
15 Siri Hökfelt 9 8 10 11 16† 16 12 13 16 Ret 15 15 46
16 Oscar Pedersen 3 3 42
17 Louise Larsson 10 14 11 12 Ret Ret 14 17 13 16 13 13 37
18 Filip Bartoš 15 16 13 16 13 10 15 15 15 14 17 16 29
19 Lukas Stiefelhagen 51 8 27
20 Mats Overhoff 10 6 19
21 Bente Boer 11 11 12
22 Katie Turner 17 17† 15 Ret Ret 17 16 18 WD WD 18 Ret 3
Guest drivers ineligible to score points.
Sebastian Serban 19 17
Pos. Driver FAL
OSC
NÜR
KAR
KNU
MAN
Points
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver Second place
Bronze Third place
Green Points classification
Blue Non-points classification
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Retired, not classified (Ret)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)
Bold – Pole

Italics – Fastest Lap

 — Did not finish, but classified

1 4 points for Pole

2 – 2 points for P2

3 – 1 point for P3

References

  1. ^ "14-year-old Dutch electric karting talent Greaham Hofmans joins NXT Gen Cup". NXT Gen Cup. 5 May 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  2. ^ "Newly crowned Formula Nordic champion Linus Granfors set for NXT Gen Cup debut". NXT Gen Cup. 4 July 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  3. ^ "17-year-old Theo Jernberg joins first NXT Gen Cup season". NXT Gen Cup. 19 October 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  4. ^ "Karting champion Sebastian Kinnmark makes NXT Gen Cup move". NXT Gen Cup. 17 January 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  5. ^ "Sim racer Isak Arvidsson returns from injury to make NXT Gen Cup debut". NXT Gen Cup. 6 July 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  6. ^ "German karting ace Mats Overhoff makes NXT Gen Cup debut at Nürburgring". NXT Gen Cup. 2 August 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  7. ^ "Danish electric rally ace Mikkel Njor joins remaining NXT Gen Cup season". NXT Gen Cup. 15 August 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  8. ^ "Karting star Enzo Hallman joins inaugural NXT Gen Cup season". NXT Gen Cup. 23 November 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  9. ^ "Single seater ace Elias Adestam enters inaugural NXT Gen Cup season". NXT Gen Cup. 19 January 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  10. ^ "Bente Boer makes international debut in NXT Gen Cup at legendary Nürburgring". NXT Gen Cup. 2 August 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  11. ^ "NXT Gen Cup returns to Sweden to kick off second season half". NXT Gen Cup. 17 August 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  12. ^ "Dutch karting champion Lukas Stiefelhagen joins NXT Gen Cup". NXT Gen Cup. 28 August 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  13. ^ "Ellis Spiezia becomes first international NXT Gen Cup driver". NXT Gen Cup. 21 October 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  14. ^ "Young Czech racer Filip Bartos joins NXT Gen Cup". NXT Gen Cup. 8 November 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  15. ^ "Katie Turner makes her racing debut in NXT Gen Cup at Falkenberg". NXT Gen Cup. 6 July 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  16. ^ "14-year-old Månz Thalin joins inaugural NXT Gen Cup season". NXT Gen Cup. 22 September 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  17. ^ "CrossCar junior champion Alex Gustafsson switches to NXT Gen Cup". NXT Gen Cup. 6 April 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  18. ^ "16-year-old Siri Hökfelt joins first-ever NXT Gen Cup season". NXT Gen Cup. 10 March 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  19. ^ "Merited karting youngster Oscar Pedersen steps up to NXT Gen Cup". NXT Gen Cup. 5 July 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  20. ^ "Experienced Alexzander Kristiansson joins NXT Gen Cup". NXT Gen Cup. 2 November 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  21. ^ "Single seater winner Jonathan Engström joins NXT Gen Cup". NXT Gen Cup. 19 December 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  22. ^ "Danish single seater talent Victor Nielsen joins NXT Gen Cup". NXT Gen Cup. 27 June 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  23. ^ "Louise Larsson becomes the first confirmed driver for NXT Gen Cup". NXT Gen Cup. 10 August 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  24. ^ "Guest driver Sebastian Serban makes it a record NXT Gen Cup grid at Mantorp". NXT Gen Cup. 21 September 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2025.