The season opener at Misano could hardly have started better: Norbert Kiss won both races on Saturday.
In Race 1 he converted pole position into victory, taking the lead through the first combination while his rivals fought each other behind him, which let him build a big gap. In Race 2 the reverse grid put him eighth, and he picked off the leaders one by one: Sascha Lenz, José Eduardo Rodrigues and Antonio Albacete each made a small mistake and Norbert took his chances.
It was very exciting coming through in Race 2, because there were a lot of fights in front of me. I was in P4 quite quickly and then I was just trying to reach the people in front and attack them a little bit, to make them do some mistakes, and they did eventually. A very good performance and a very good job from the team, Révész Racing.
On Sunday he took a second pole position in a charging qualifying run, but contact with Jochen Hahn in Race 3 and a puncture left him sixth at the finish, with Hahn taking the win. In Race 4 Norbert hit back: he led at the end of lap one and never looked back, with Sascha Lenz and René Reinert completing the podium.
It's too bad about Race 3, because we lost a lot of points with the puncture, but other than that we won the rest, so overall a good weekend. We were very fast and really happy with a good start to the season. Thank you to the fans for voting for me for the Goodyear Wingfoot Award. To be the first one in the history of truck racing to win it, I'm really happy.
The first Wingfoot Award
The Goodyear Wingfoot Award is new to the truck championship for 2026. At every event an expert panel nominates three drivers and the fans vote for their driver of the weekend on Instagram during Race 4. At Misano Norbert received 54 per cent of the vote (Lukas Hahn 31, Albacete 15), making him the first winner in the history of the series.
It was also the first time that Goodyear's new tyre, made with 60 per cent sustainable materials, was used in competition.
After round one Norbert leads with 46 points, four ahead of Jochen Hahn (42), with Sascha Lenz third on 37.