Kiss Hungary to make more Goodyear FIA ETRC history in 2026
Norbert Kiss will start the 2026 Goodyear FIA European Truck Racing Championship aiming to make more history.
Norbert Kiss will start the 2026 Goodyear FIA European Truck Racing Championship aiming to make more history.
After securing a record seventh crown in 2025, Hungarian Kiss has made extending his tally of titles to eight priority number one when Misano World Circuit hosts the opening round of the new season from 30-31 May.
The 40-year-old said: “For sure, what else could [our target] be. We had such a good run in the past seasons. I won’t say it was easy because it was difficult, a lot of work went into it and sometimes it was a bit of a struggle. But we were successful, the team enjoyed it, and the team stays the same, so our target stays the same.”
Kiss has become the Goodyear FIA ETRC benchmark driver with five successive titles between 2021-2025. He was also champion in 2014 and 2015, having made his truck racing debut in 2011 following early forays racing online, in single-seaters and touring cars.
“The motivation never was to win seven titles or eight titles or whatever, my motivation is to be there to race,” Kiss explained. “I love to race, I love the preparation, the technical aspect as well, I just like to be there on the race weekend, to do the free practice, the qualifying, the races and to try to win and to try to be the best on any given day. If you do well during the whole season it hopefully adds up to be another championship, which of course is the cherry on the top, it’s always nice to win the championship.
“I love truck racing, I love the format that we do so many races during a weekend. I also like the reverse-grid races. It’s always fun, it’s always a bit a bit more exciting. There is more risk, not so much reward, but more fun and more excitement for the spectators.”
The Goodyear FIA ETRC will be contested over seven events in 2026 with visits to Slovakia Ring, Nürburgring, Most, Zolder, Le Mans and Jarama following the Misano season opener next month.
“Truck racing is quite unique because the technical regulations give you the possibility to develop during the season, even during the weekend,” Kiss said. “The teams are building the trucks, some teams build the engines as well. It makes it very interesting every season, you have to analyse yourself very carefully and try to find your mistakes. There are always things you can improve, you try to make a step ahead.
“Every year we never know what everybody else is doing, what everybody else is bringing. Next week we go to Most for the test and maybe we have some information about the others and what everybody is capable of, what everybody is preparing, but we cannot be sure until the first qualifying and the first races if it’s good or not good.”
Despite his unprecedented success, Kiss is always working to improve his performances on board his Révész Racing MAN.
“You always learn as a driver, you always gain experience, you always gain some understanding of what happened in a weekend with different circumstances, different weather conditions,” Kiss said. “Then, of course, you have to look at yourself as a driver, what can you do better in order to improve. Was there a mistake, was there a wrong set-up choice during a weekend that made it worse and obviously it’s my decision usually.
“Also, when you start truck racing there is a lot of new things when you come from other disciplines, it’s a different driving style in truck racing which you have to understand. It takes a couple of race weekends or a couple of seasons to understand truck racing.
“Every year you go back to the same tracks and I always can reflect on last season always find some mistakes that I have done. In the coming season I try not to do the same mistakes again and try to improve.”
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