Two consecutive Class C championships
Dylan won the GTi Challenge Class C Championship two years in a row.
Founder and crew
Meet the DVE team.
Led by two-time GTi Challenge Class C champion Dylan van Eden, with team experience across V8 Masters, Formula VW, and sports and GT machinery.
Founder and owner · Dylan van Eden
Racer, engineer, founder.
Dylan’s motorsport story began with quad bikes. DVE’s original biography records four youth quad-bike championship titles before he stepped away to complete school and study Civil Engineering.
The circuit kept calling. With his father—a former racer—as his mentor, Dylan moved into saloon-car racing in a Mk1 Volkswagen Golf. In his first race under true track conditions, he won both heats and finished first overall.
His hands-on experience later expanded across Formula VW championship machinery, high-performance BMWs and Porsches, custom Cobras, Ford Rangers and everyday road cars.
DVE began in a customer-owned workshop before outgrowing that space and establishing its permanent home inside Killarney International Raceway.
Racing credentials.
Dylan’s racing record established the driver-led perspective that now informs preparation, setup, feedback and development in the workshop.
GTi Challenge Driver of the Year
His performance and racecraft also earned the series’ Driver of the Year award.
A 20-year record broken at Killarney
Dylan broke a GTi Challenge Class C lap record at Killarney that had stood unbeaten for 20 years.
Meet the crew.
The wider team adds V8 Masters experience, specialist sports and GT knowledge, and apprentice support across race preparation and road-car work.
Andrew “Cha Chi” Stanley
Before joining DVE, Andrew worked extensively in the V8 Masters series, looking after some of the country’s demanding race machinery.
- Precision building of high-torque gearboxes
- Complex engine swaps under race-week deadlines
- Advanced chassis setup
- Reliability maintenance across race and road cars
Eugene Bosman
Before joining DVE, Eugene worked at Rico Barlow Racing. His experience covers building and maintaining specialist sports and GT machinery.
- Porsche and high-performance Polo Cup machinery
- Backdraft Super Cup cars
- The Nova Prototype
- Aerodynamic setup and complex GT chassis maintenance
Dylan Furlong
Dylan joined DVE as an apprentice mechanic, working directly alongside Dylan van Eden, Andrew Stanley and Eugene Bosman in the Killarney workshop.
- Learning the requirements of championship race preparation
- Developing road-car servicing skills
- Supporting daily workshop operations
Work with the team at Killarney.
Tell us about the car, category and result you are working toward. The team will help define the right preparation and support.
Discuss race support