Twin Turn Simracing by Debeka Bornheim and their #23 Dallara P217 clinched the 2025 VSCA SportsCar Championship LMP2 title at Road Atlanta after a season of grit, consistency, and controversy involving post-race penalties and team members departing VSCA at the season's conclusion.
In motorsport, some titles are taken by dominance, others by endurance — and Twin Turn’s was undoubtedly the latter. Across ten months and eleven rounds, the German outfit’s #23 Dallara P217 proved that consistency can be just as lethal a weapon as outright speed.
From a modest ninth-place finish at The Roar Before the 24 to a second-place class run at Daytona, Twin Turn climbed the LMP2 ladder one careful step at a time. By the mid-season mark, podiums at Sebring, Laguna Seca, and Canadian Tire Motorsport Park had turned them from quiet contenders into the team everyone was watching.
It wasn’t a campaign built on fireworks — just the kind of methodical precision and resilience that often separates champions from chasers. Their single victory, at Indianapolis in August, came at the perfect time, reaffirming their control of the championship while rivals faltered coming back from the series' summer break.
Petit Le Mans: The Crown and the Cloud
The stage for the season finale could hardly have been grander — the fourth annual Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. For Twin Turn, the math was simple: finish solidly and the championship would be theirs.
They did exactly that, taking fourth place in class. But by the moment the cars rolled back into pit lane, the tone shifted when emotions towards race control boiled over after the race. Two post-race penalties from Race Control — one for contact with the #3 Tri-State Racing Dallara and another involving the #11 Vision 1 Motorsports entry — sparked a wave of frustration inside the Twin Turn camp, ultimately costing them a chance at the Endurance Cup and thus the perfect triple crown.
The team vehemently disagreed with the rulings, which they believed misjudged the on-track dynamics of a high-pressure, endurance-style fight. Hours later, word spread that both driver Viktor Sönnergren and team co-owner Sebastian Isenberg had quit VSCA altogether and rumors started to spread in the paddock Twin Turn Simracing may possbly not return to defend its series title in 2026 — a stunning development amidst a crowning championship moment.
Seemingly forgotten in the controversy, the #23 Dallara still claimed the 2025 LMP2 SportsCar Championship by 111 points over Vision 1 Motorsports — a margin that spoke volumes about the team’s collective performance, even as the celebration dimmed under the weight of controversy.
A Season of Steady Hands and Shared Effort
The championship story wasn’t about one driver or one weekend — it was about a rotating cast who all left their mark. Ryan Suralik, who joined as a rookie, reflected on the emotional whirlwind of his first full campaign: “Winning the championship in both the team’s and my rookie season is so crazy,” Suralik said.
“We proved we belong here. Even when I had setbacks — especially after the licensing issue early in the year — they never lost faith in me.”
Team owner Dominik Isenberg echoed that sentiment, framing the title as the product of teamwork rather than raw pace:
“We didn’t envision this at the start,” he said. “Clinching the title with only one win but a pile of bonus points feels incredibly rewarding. We just kept our heads down and kept performing.”From Daytona’s early chaos to Detroit’s street fight and the heartbreak of Sebring — where a late technical failure cost them an Endurance Cup shot — Twin Turn built its title brick by brick, never once losing the overall lead after round five.
The post-race disputes at Road Atlanta, though, struck deeper. After ten months of battles fought within the white lines, the final headlines came not from lap charts but from the decisions that followed them.
For some, that’s the cruel poetry of racing — the fine print can sometimes rewrite the grand story. For others, it’s a reminder that passion and policies often share the same paddock.
Despite the drama, the numbers don’t lie. Nine starts. Eight top-fives. Nine top-tens. A 111-point margin over one of the most competitive LMP2 grids VSCA has ever seen.
Dominik Isenberg summed it up best in the aftermath:
“It was a fight for everything — with Vision One, with ourselves, with the unpredictability of endurance racing. Those swings between adversity and triumph are what made the season unforgettable.”
As the champagne bottles emptied and the team packed up their haulers under the Georgia night sky, one truth remained — Twin Turn Simracing by Debeka Bornheim had earned every inch of this title. It might not have ended the way they dreamed, falling short of their highly-anticipated triple crown, but as motorsport often reminds us: even when the checkered flag waves, the story is never quite finished.
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