All-wheel-drive Winter Series 2025 final standings:
Championship spreadsheets
The 14th season of RGE's longest running annual league is concluded,now it's time to review the season. This year 2 slower cars were brought into racing in rallycross to reduce the tyre problems usually plagueing AWS 40 minutes long rallycross races - successfully as racers were able to focus more on racing itself,making this more like normal circuit racing on mixxed surfaces. But despite the efforts,this season went into AWS history as the 3rd least populated season and least attended since 2016. Both signups and actual competitors counts went down by 6 compared to previous season - there were only 28 signups and 20 actual participants,2 drivers (both were rookies) failed to score points,so only 18 drivers qualified themselves for season finale - 5 less than last season. Attendance did not range a lot - from 14 in round 4 to 9 in both last rounds,averaging 10.7 drivers per round,which is a drop by 1.9 compared to 2024 and 3.3 less than all time average.
AWS 2025 Drivers Champion: RGˆDzidoris
One of the most experienced AWS participants finally reached the top this season - Dzidoris was the rookie of the year back in 2017,when he finished 3rd in overall standings,since then he was the vice champion for 3 seasons and after low performance in latest 2 seasons,this year he went into series fully motivated - the lithuanian won the first 2 rounds and won another 2 out of latest 4 rounds,finishing in top4 in both other rounds. The 4 wins from this season puts him on the top of winningest drivers chart with 12,passing V.Lakūnas,who has 11. Also the 3 scored pole positions puts him on top of the respective chart as he has a total of 11,passing the same rival. Dzidoris is the 4th different lithuanian driver who scores AWS drivers champion title,which is 5th in total for the Lithuania.
The main rival to the champion this season was his teammate Falcon. The canadian scored his 1st ever AWS race win in round 3 in the 600m dirt oval,doubling the his total pole positions count to 4. Even if the points standings were tied after half of the season,Falcon could not beat his rival anymore in remaining races,settling for vice champions honor,which is 2 positions better than his previous best season result back in his rookie season in 2014. The defending 2-time series champion saw the competition running away early in the season and only due his 5th round race win was still mathematically eligible of his title defence,however he was not able to challenge for race win in season finale,ending him in 3rd position in standings.
AWS 2025 Rookie of the Year: Cyk
There was not much competition for this award - a total of 5 rookies participated (another 4 were signed up but never attended),3 of them just in a single round. So it was all up to the remaining 2 rookies - after round 4 the difference was just 7 points,however the 2nd place driver did not attend last 2 rounds,leaving this award to the french newcomer Cyk. He attended all 6 rounds,finishing in positions between 6th and 10th,finishing 6th in overall standings. Madjester was the fastest in qualifying for round 4,but finished just 6th in results - that's his best finishing result out of 2 tries,taking 11th position overall. 3rd best rookie was Nejc,who finished 10th in his only attended race. Last season's best rookie,the sim's veteran S.Martin did not sign up for this season.
AWS 2025 Cross Challenge winner: RGˆDzidoris
If overall title was his 1st,the Cross Challenge award is already Dzidoris' 3rd one - he was the best in rallycross rounds in 2017 and 2018,when we were still racing RB4 and FXR in rallycross tracks. This year he was the driver to beat in both Blackwood and Fern Bay rounds,where he lost just a single point from max possible,while he finished 3rd in the dizzy 600 meters oval,finishing in standings with 5 points gap over the 2nd placed driver who won that round. Falcon was 2nd best also in rallycross rounds,finishing 2nd in season opener and 4th in season finale. The defending award winner Sobis took 3rd position in standings,breaking the points tie with 4th placed driver due the better 2nd best finishing result.
AWS 2025 Oval Trophy winner: YES Sobis
Only successful defence of Sobis was Oval Trophy as he finished between best 2 in both rounds,winning the Winter 200 for the 3rd time - he's the only driver with multiple wins in this round. Despite being fastest in qualifying in both oval rounds and winning the 1st one,Falcon had to settle for 2nd position in standings also for this award,the overall champion was 3rd.
AWS 2025 Teams Champions: Race Green Autosports
The defending 8-time teams champions and series hosts dominated this season with both numbers and performance - already after 2/3 of the season the title was successfully defended and the team finished the season with round 100 points gap over competition. Besides drivers in standings top2 positions and their 3rd driver in 5th overall,the team collected a total of 5 race wins,16 top5 finishes,5 pole positions and 3 fastest laps of the race. The rest of teams standings podium were taken by best performing single driver teams - Yes Motorsports finished 2nd due Sobis' 3rd position in standings,taking home 1 race win,6 top5 finishes and a fastest lap of the race,Zafiralis profited by Thehemuli's performance,who finished 4th in standings,bringing home also 6 top5 finishes and 2 fastest laps of the race.
AWS 2025 Nations Cup winners: Lithuania
First 5 seasons of AWS went under flag of Latvia,next 5 seasons - under flag of Lithuania. Finland won standings in the last 3 seasons and according to plan should have won this and next,however their performance and numbers were rather low this season,so Lithiuania stepped back in the game to become all time best nation in AWS by scoring a record breaking 6th Nations Cup. Lithuanian duo of Dzidoris and Sobis scored a total of 5 race wins,12 top5 finishes,3 pole positions and 2 fastest laps of the race. Despite outnumbering champions in standings top10,Finland could not compete for the nations title,losing it by big margin of 70 points,finishing the season winless and all 6 top5 finishes and both fastest laps of the race were scored by their best driver of the season Thehemuli. Canada finished 3rd in nations standings with sole performance of the vice champion - it's the first ever nations podium for the north american country in AWS,earning the position from 1 win,5 top5 finishes and two fastest laps of the race.
Race Green Events thanks all participants and wishes much success in all other leagues and events they are taking part. We hope you enjoyed racing in AWS and you all get much fun and valuable experience from the races.
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With attendance numbers decreasing constantly for past 4 seasons,lots of question marks are raising over the future of this league. Current idea is to plan another season in 2026,most likelly dropping one more round to make the season a bit easier and see how in goes before making any decisions.