Club de Ultrace 2025 is behind us and for many of us it felt like the moment when “Running From Nothing” stopped being just a slogan on our visuals and became a real description of what we do. Over one weekend, the stadium and its surroundings were transformed into one of the most intense hubs of car culture in Europe. This year, the event grew not only in numbers, but above all in ambition: new partners, a redefined Night Experience, a completely new drift format under the Ultrace PA name and a line-up of cars that, even a few years ago, would have sounded more like a fantasy than an actual plan.
The foundation for everything that happened in 2025 was still the same as always: relationships. We spent the whole year travelling, visiting partners and friends, and following up on every crazy idea that appeared during those conversations. Out of that came a new line-up of main sponsors and partners: Rennmeister, BMW, Alpine, Porsche. Each of them brought something very specific to the table. Jägermeister once again became deeply involved in the night side of the event. BMW and Porsche supported the presence of brand icons on the esplanade and in the stadium, while Alpine used Ultrace as the backdrop for a bold presentation of its future and its heritage.
In 2025, the people we hosted on stage and around the show mattered just as much as the cars themselves, as each of them represents a different face of what modern car culture has become. That same philosophy shaped the physical space of the event, where the main stage, built entirely from LED panels, became a living canvas for animations created by artist Filip Popik, while various LED installations placed throughout different areas of the stadium turned the entire architecture into an active part of the storytelling. James Kirkham brought the perspective of someone who thinks in narratives, design, and the way automotive stories are built and communicated at the highest level. Mike Koziel came in with the eye of a documentarian, someone who knows how to translate real scenes, real builds, and real atmosphere into images and moments that stay with you. The Kyza is a pure visual voice, not just “car content,” but a very specific way of seeing style, motion, and detail that shapes taste and inspires builders globally. Kazuki Ohashi was not only a guest, he arrived with a statement in the form of his Porsche 935ML, showing what happens when motorsport roots, contemporary design, and obsessive execution meet in one project.
What made their presence important was not a schedule slot or a microphone, it was how naturally they moved through the event. They spent time on the esplanade, at the stands, in conversations with owners and builders, and inside the real flow of the weekend. That is the part we care about most, when the distance between “audience” and “creators” disappears, and Ultrace becomes less of a show you watch and more of a culture you step into. This year, having those four around did not just add names to the line-up, it raised the level of the conversations happening everywhere, from the hero cars to the smallest details on the quietest builds.
Area around main stage was like always, the heart of Club de Ultrace. Over a thousand cars, selected from several times more applications, were spread around the stadium. What made 2025 special, however, was the hero car line-up and the way those cars were displayed. Again we went for complex, multi-layered presentations that looked less like a parking space and more like a piece of a movie set or racetrack cut out and dropped in front of the stadium.
The hypercar and supercar group alone could have been a separate show. On the esplanade, visitors could see two Bugatti EB110 Super Sports, a Bugatti Divo, a Bugatti Veyron 16.4, a Koenig Specials Ferrari Testarossa, a Porsche Carrera GT reimagined as a Gemballa Mirage GT, and a Jaguar XJ220, all brought together under one concept, with support from partners and private collectors. Nearby, an AMG GT3 Raw spec by Race Service underlined how far motorsport engineering has come and how natural it feels today to see such machinery at a tuning show. In another zone, an artistic installation hosted two cars treated almost like sculptures, surrounded by carefully designed scenography, light and sound.
Motorsport history appeared again in the form of a Lotus LMP2 prototype and a Maserati MC12 Corsa, which looked like they had been rolled straight off a long-distance grid and placed on the concrete of the arena. At the Alpine stand, the brand’s presence went well beyond a standard manufacturer booth. Visitors could see a historic A110 that once won the Rally of Morocco, current road models and, above all, the Alpine Alpenglow Hy6 concept, a vision of a hydrogen-powered hypercar with over 700 horsepower. In the BBS area an E36 Judd racing became a living demonstration of how deep the connection between classic touring cars, aero and modern wheel design can go. Jürgen Alzen Motorsport brought a brutal GT40 race car with serious aero and race history, a reminder that some machines are built first and foremost to fight for lap times.
Alongside the automotive premieres, we expanded the event with a dedicated artistic section. We brought together a group of artists who transformed this space with works that merged automotive design and creative expression. Selected car elements served as the foundation for original artworks, each permanently incorporating unique visual concepts created especially for the show. The entire section formed a cohesive environment in which art and automotive culture complemented one another, adding a new layer of depth to the overall experience. This vision was brought to life by an outstanding lineup of creators: Zulu Kuki, Swanski, Nawer, Marta Hołdera, and Julian Guzman. Each contributed a distinctive style and perspective, shaping a section that felt both unified and diverse. This initiative allowed us to present automotive industry not only as machines, but also as platforms for creative expression shaped by individual vision.
One of the strongest stories of this year unfolded around the project of Kazuki Ohashi - the white Porsche 935ML. The car, already known from events in Japan, took on a new life set against the backdrop of the stadium, sitting low and wide with every line sharpened by the light. It ended up winning Best of Show and for many people it became the unofficial face of Ultrace 2025: a combination of motorsport roots, contemporary design and obsessive execution down to the last detail. Nearby, Hollyhall’s wild Ford Capri reminded everyone how far imagination can go when a builder decides to reinterpret a silhouette from the Group 5 era using modern materials and American power. On the other side of the style spectrum, a Nissan Laurel from Daigo Saito drew crowds with its intricate details, while Sakamoto’s full-carbon R32 showed what happens when Japanese craftsmanship meets a no-compromise approach to materials.
Partnerships with racing-focused and heritage-driven companies gained new weight this year. Jägermeister-liveried cars once again painted a big piece of the event in bright orange, with period-correct race machines echoing the atmosphere of classic DTM and endurance racing. Chrome Cars added their own mix of icons to the show, connecting our event with the world of privately held collections and film cars. Alpine built a bridge between past and future with its display, while BMW and Porsche strengthened the manufacturer presence inside and around the stadium with carefully chosen examples rather than generic showroom line-ups.
As in previous years, drift remained an integral part of Ultrace, but in 2025 it officially appeared under a new banner: Ultrace PA. What started years ago as a cooperation with Next Level evolved into an original format that we now fully curate ourselves. Over the weekend, the dedicated layout next to the stadium was in almost constant use, with cars going door to door not just for the cameras but for a live audience that filled the stands around the track. Suzuki Arios arrived with his Ferrari 360 drift car, proving again that almost any platform can be turned sideways if someone is stubborn enough. SultanFQ brought a white McLaren that looked almost out of place on the start line until the moment it lit up the rear tyres. Adam LZ returned behind the wheel of an E36, joining local and international drivers in long trains and improvised battles. For many visitors, especially those who had never seen drifting live before, Ultrace PA was the moment the event really became three-dimensional: you could see static perfection on the esplanade, then walk a few minutes and watch cars being driven on the limit.
The visual story of Club de Ultrace 2025 was carried by a strong media team. Throughout the weekend, photographers and filmmakers like Race Service, Riocam, Kamil Koźlarek, Visual Boy, Alex Grabowski, Renounced, alexpffr, and Konrad Korus moved between the platforms, the drift arena, the Night Experience floors and the quieter corners of the stadium. Their work ensured that the atmosphere of the event would live on long after the last car left the stadium ramps, and it also gave many owners and builders the chance to see their projects through someone else’s lens.
The Night Experience story, which started as a risky idea a year earlier, developed this time into a fully-fledged project in its own right. We kept the same venue, the conference and business centre inside the stadium, but rebuilt everything from scratch. Three floors, ten thousand square metres and a completely new stage design made especially for 2025. For the first time, we treated the afterparty as something equal to the main show, not just an add-on for those who stayed in Wrocław for the night. Tickets went on sale together with the event passes and we crossed the barrier of five thousand sold, confirming that the trust you had shown us was not a coincidence.
On the music side, we invited people we listen to: Mall Grab and DJ Gigola, LB aka LABAT and Penera. The sets were strong and direct, the sound and light matched the standard of clubs and festivals we take inspiration from, and once again Jägermeister helped us turn the entire building into one coherent night experience instead of a collection of random rooms.
This year also marked an important symbolic moment for us. Ultrace has existed in one form or another for around fifteen years, and during the main ceremony we took a brief pause from the usual intensity to acknowledge the people who helped the event grow to its current scale. Inspired a little by championship rings from the NBA, we prepared special signet rings bearing the Club de Ultrace logo and handed them to selected individuals on stage. Right after that, the focus returned to the cars as the Top 16 ceremony and Best of Show voting started, with the two final cars on screen both being Porsches and the Madlane 935ML taking the main trophy in the end.
Looking back at Ultrace 2025, we see a year in which we continued threads started before but were not afraid to change the format where it was needed. We kept the stadium, but rebuilt the Night Experience stage from the ground up. We kept drift as a core element, but turned it into Ultrace PA, a fully independent show, created entirely by us . We kept our friends and long-term partners, but opened the doors to new brands and people. At the same time we are fully aware that the scale of the event also brings challenges, from logistics and queues to the way the city and services around Tarczyński Arena must adapt to tens of thousands of visitors over a single weekend.
All of this makes “Running From Nothing” feel like the right summary of where we are. We started years ago with almost no resources, driven mainly by the desire to see our favourite cars in one place. In 2025 we hosted hypercars, prototypes, race legends, underground drift builds and show cars from all over the world, plus artists, designers and content creators who influence how the next generation will think about cars. And yet the most important part remains unchanged: people who are willing to take time off, travel long distances, finish projects in the last nights before the show and trust us enough to buy a ticket for an idea rather than just a schedule.
Ultrace 2025 is now a closed chapter, but the work on the next editions has already started. Everything we took from this year is already feeding straight into what comes next, because as the event grows, the real challenge is keeping the experience smooth and intentional without losing the energy that makes Ultrace feel unique. What will not change is our approach: bringing together the most interesting cars we can find, the most inspiring people we can reach, and giving all of them a space in which car culture can breathe freely, without compromise.
