Last seen wildly celebrating on the startline as Luke Farrugia steered his MaltaBusa FIM-E Super Street Bike entry over the Santa Pod finishline to win the 2025 Euro Finals, Simon Giordmania and team have readjusted for 2026. The headline move being Farrugia moving over to barred action with a Funnybike entry in FIM-E Top Fuel Bike competition and Simon taking over riding duties for this year. Simon gave us his views on the changes in both personnel and mechanical ahead of the season opening round. “After discussions during the off-season, the team together with Luke decided against competing in two classes, prioritising safety and focus. Luke showed great ambition, but we agreed it was best to concentrate on one class for this year whist we’ll keep working together and see what the future brings. We’ve made significant upgrades made to the bike including major changes to chassis, geometry, and engine setup, but not least myself resuming riding duties after three years away from compet

After a very mixed 2025 both on and off track, Team Brothers now look to this season with a two bike entry for a returning Daniel Donat Lencses and continuing Margot Schmidt representing the Hungaro-Dutch outfit. We caught up with Margot to get the low down for 2026. “Daniel is thankfully fully recovered after his health issues last year that kept him away from the tour for most of the year, and will be joining the team again for the whole season. Unfortunately, Eric Richard [FIM-E Top Fuel Bike] decided to retire at the end of last year and we will definitely miss him [as will all of us with the very quick yellow Funnybike Eric brought over from France]. So this season it's Daniel and Me in Team Brothers! Daniel's bike has been completely rebuilt over the winter, with a new setup that he tested at an ACU domestic round at Santa Pod recently. A 6.67/225mph to take the Springspeed event win and class low ET give us high hopes for good results this year! My bike stayed in our Dutch works

After two seasons getting to grips with his FIM-E Super Twin, Denmark’s Anders Jensen is looking to expand his horizons beyond Scandinavia with a revised set-up for 2026 “Our current intentions are we will race at Santa Pod in May, Tierp, Hockenheim and Mosten Raceday [non-championship sprint race in Denmark] in August. The bike is completely rebuilt, with a new clutch setup and revised fuel line setup. We are all really looking forward to race some more in FIM-E competition in 2026 which will be our second year in the Super Twin Class!” Having earnt his stripes in the Super Twin Top Gas before moving to fuel in 2024, Anders will be looking at improving on his 6.968 best elapsed time mark set at the Summit Racing Equipment Internationals, Tierp Arena in August of last year and more touring Super Twins is a very good sign for the future of the class. FIM-E Schedule 2026 22nd – 25th May, Main Event, Santa Pod Raceway, England 6th – 9th August, Summit Racing Equipment Internationals, Tier

A recent excursion provided an opportunity to catch up with Stuart Crane at the Warpspeed base in rural Norfolk, England and discuss off season updates and prospects for 2026. “So for the 2026 season we are going to be 3 bike team consisting of 3 turbo funny bikes, myself and Mark Smith as usual and [Malta’s] Gabriel Briffa's bike with Luke Farrugia riding. My bike has received upgrades to the turbo system to increase airflow along with the debut of our custom built billet crankcases [which are works of art]. I will be looking to try and run a 6.05 to beat the current world record held in the USA. Mark's bike has just had a complete motor refresh and is carrying on where he left off in the 2025 season and is hoping to aim for 6.3's this season for the Draper Tools entry. Gabriel's bike is a completely new set up to Luke as this is his first time on a big tyre bike [previously focussing on Super Street Bike]. The bike has had a major upgrades in the engine department it's been upgraded