MB Energy and Lechner Racing can look back on another successful season in 2025. The partnership – where MB Energy provides solutions to both address and reduce the CO2 emissions from Lechner Racing’s road transport logistics and operations – was successfully expanded to include assessing the emission foot-printing for the fuel in the Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe, in addition to the Porsche Supercup.
The partnership with Lechner Racing serves as a tangible demonstration of the comprehensive services we provide to our B2B customers. By managing delivery, logistics and operational challenges, we showcase our capability to deliver practical solutions. Our collaboration with Lechner Racing began with the introduction of HVO in a single truck and has since evolved to encompass broader targets, energy management, and CO₂-reduction strategies, including offsetting measures and efficiency improvements. Not only does this partnership benefit Lechner Racing by supporting their sustainability efforts, it also enables us to refine our approach and develop offerings that we can extend to other customers.
Our work with Lechner Racing serves as a strong example of our capabilities in delivering more sustainable transport solutions. The partnership not only demonstrates our approach but also provides a valuable showcase that can be leveraged to attract and engage other customers. Through increased visibility in the market of MB Energy and our services, we have successfully expanded our customer base and driven business growth. The practical outcomes and achievements from working with Lechner Racing highlight the effectiveness of our offerings, positioning MB Energy as a provider for more sustainable logistics solutions.
2025 scope
Over a season, the BWT Lechner Racing logistics vehicles are used to transport the team’s race cars and equipment from the headquarters in Thalgau, Austria to racetracks across Europe, and back again. In total the vehicles travelled almost 37.8k kilometres in connection with the 2025 Supercup. Ahead of the season, efficiencies were introduced by the team, whereby the fleet size for Supercup operations was reduced which brought down overall fuel consumption.
The first race of the 2025 season, in Imola, took place less than a week after the rebranding of Mabanaft to MB Energy was announced. Thanks to a dynamic team effort, the implementation of the rebranding was successfully carried out, on time, across the team cars, trucks, liveries, and clothing.
MB Energy delivers Renewable Diesel (HVO100) to Lechner Racing, thereby enabling the team to switch away from conventional diesel fuel for their road transport trucks in connection with the Porsche Supercup. The scope in 2025 was expanded to include more activities from special projects and initiatives, such as the Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe. This means, that wherever feasible, logistics for additional projects were transitioned to HVO.
Ahead of last season, the scope of the partnership was expanded to conduct voluntary accounting of Lechner Racing’s material Scope 1 and 2 emissions[1], to gain a deeper understanding of the company’s direct emissions footprint, identify areas of improvement, and increase emission offsetting efforts through voluntary emission reduction certificates (VERs). These efforts, inclusive of the Thalgau HQ operations, were continued in the 2025 season.
Furthermore, fuel emissions from the racing car fleet were also systematically measured and respectively offset via VERs. In 2025, race car emissions scoping and compensating with VERs took place for both the Porsche Super Cup and Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe – this included both the e-fuels used at Supercup race weekends, and the fossil gasoline used on testing days for both the Supercup and the Sprint Challenge Central Europe.
Achievements 2025
In total, 8,800 litres of Renewable Diesel (HVO100) were delivered directly into Lechner Racing’s depot in the 2025 Supercup season, compared to 9,600 litres in the 2024 season. Meanwhile, Lechner Racing was onboarded with tankpool24 (TP24) fuelling cards for their fleet of Supercup vehicles, which provided an additional option of refuelling conveniently at TP24 stations across Europe, further simplifying logistics an ensuring uninterrupted use of Renewable Diesel (HVO100). Through the use of Renewable Diesel (HVO100) a CO2 emissions reduction of ~70t CO2e compared to a baseline of 100% fossil fuel usage was achieved in 2025, which is more than double the emission reduction of ~30 tonnes CO2e in 2024.
In 2025, VERs were retired to cover the remaining 53 tonnes of CO2 emissions, compared to 90 tonnes compensated through VERs in 2024.
“This partnership with Lechner Racing is a great way for MB Energy to showcase our capability to deliver carbon reduced transport solutions, underscoring our commitment to supporting our customers’ decarbonisation journeys”, says MB Energy CEO, Jon Perkins.
“We want to help our customers by providing tailored solutions to reduce their CO2 emissions,” explains André Cardoso, Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing at MB Energy. “Partnering up with Lechner Racing is a way for us to show how that can be done through a combination fuel supplies and emissions scoping and offsetting.”
[1] Scope 1: emissions from owned sources. Scope 2: market-based emissions from purchased energy.