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Croatia Challenge 2025

The Croatia Challenge 2025 – My Favourite Images

The Croatia Challenge is held in the forests of Križevci, close to Zagreb. Run yearly by the Off Road Klub Križevci, this event is one of the toughest and most exciting off-road challenges in Europe. Teams travel from across the continent to tackle extreme terrain, deep mud, technical climbs, and everything else the Croatian wilderness throws at them.

This year’s event was no exception, with incredible driving, teamwork, and some unforgettable moments both on and off the track. As always, the atmosphere was electric—long days, late nights, and the kind of camaraderie that makes the Croatia Challenge such a special part of the off-road calendar.

I had the privilege of capturing the action throughout the week, and below you’ll find a gallery of 79 of my favourite images from the 2025 event, along with links to the YouTube videos I created to bring the atmosphere to life.

Of course, this is only a small selection—there are countless more photos and videos available through the club and official channels. If you’d like to see more, check out the links below:

👉 Scroll down for the gallery and video links!

GALLERY

This years Winners:

Adventure Class – 
1st Sorca Gheorgh & Laurentiun Dobrica from Romania
2nd Kruno Klopatan & Denis Mikulcic from Croatia
3rd Erik Kristancic & Anej Blazic from Slovenia

Challenge Class – 
1st Benoit Bannefoi & Ludovic Facy from France
2nd Josip Jakotic & Andro Hrvatin from Croatia
3rd Claudiu Pestean & Rares Bucur from Romania

🔗 Off Road Klub KriževciOfficial Website
🔗 Facebook PageOff Road Klub Križevci
🔗 YouTube VideosCroatia Challenge 2025 Play List
🔗 Shorts/ReelsTikTok
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VIDEOS

Action

Main Event Video – Highlights
Night Stage

Interviews

Shorts/Reels

View on TikTok


Media Day at Brands Hatch

On Tuesday 14th February I attended the MSVR Brands Hatch media day. The event launched the clubs events for the year including cars from:

GT CUP, LMP3 Cup, Mini Challenge, Lotus, Radical, PBMW & TTRS, VAG Trophy & VW Cup, SsangYong Racing Challenge, Super 7 Series, ZCars, MSVT Trackday Trophy and Team Trophy, F3 Cup, Monoposto, Champion of Brands & SuperSeries, BRDC British F3 Championships, Deutsche Fest and Festival Italia.

From the day I have written a Masterclass article for The Royal Photographic Society Journal, if you are a member look out for it in April.


Audi TT with Tandy

Recently I have been contacted by a few retouchers looking for collaboration, I was finally impressed by one guy in-particular and thought it was time to give it a shot and see what others can help me to achieve. The person in question was Nick Tandy, a very talented retoucher from right here in the UK.

The image we used was one that I shot at Goodwood Festival of Speed earlier in June, with many cars on display it was hard not to take a few pics. Nick took the racing TT and put it right where it should be, speeding up the track. A good start which will hopefully lead to a great professional team in the future.


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