Jeffrey van Hooydonk

Jeffrey van Hooydonk (born 1 October 1977) is a Belgian racing car driver.

A native of Antwerp, Van Hooydonk began racing karts in 1990 and graduated to open-wheel racing five years later. For the next three seasons, he was successful in Formula Renault, winning the European Formula Super Renault championship in 1997. He progressed to German Formula Three the following year, finishing sixth in the championship, and then moving up to Formula 3000 in 1999. Despite scoring one pole position, the next two years were largely unsuccessful, and he switched to the Belcar series in 2001 with a Porsche 996.

After returning the German F3 in 2002, and finishing fifth overall, van Hooydonk was again promoted to F3000 and remained there for the 2003 and 2004 seasons, with moderate success. This was not enough to get him a drive in the new GP2 Series which replaced F3000 in 2005, and, despite a test with the MF1 Formula One team, he returned to tin-top racing by competing in the European Mégane Trophy for that year, finishing the championship in fourth whilst driving for ex-F1 driver Thierry Boutsen's team.

Van Hooydonk has also competed in some endurance races at Zolder, Spa-Francorchamps and Le Mans.

Racing record

Complete International Formula 3000 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 DC Points
1999 Witmeur KTR IMO
Ret		 MON
10		 CAT
11		 MAG
4		 SIL
19		 A1R
DNQ		 HOC
DNQ		 HUN
Ret		 SPA
DNQ		 NÜR
12		 17th 3
2000 Witmeur KTR IMO
13		 SIL
9		 CAT
4		 NÜR
Ret		 MON
9		 MAG
19		 A1R
12		 HOC
Ret		 HUN
Ret		 SPA
Ret		 19th 3
2003 Team Astromega IMO
Ret		 CAT
Ret		 A1R MON
8		 NÜR
8		 MAG
6		 SIL HOC HUN MNZ
5		 13th 9
2004 Coloni Motorsport IMO
6		 CAT
Ret		 MON
7		 NÜR
8		 11th 8
Super Nova Racing MAG
13		 SIL
Ret		 HOC
9		 HUN
9		 SPA
9		 MNZ
7

24 Hours of Le Mans results
Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
2000 Mopar Team Oreca Didier Theys
Didier André		 Reynard 2KQ-LM-Mopar LMP900 292 20th 10th
gollark: Ooooh, a copper!
gollark: I've grabbed four eggs for NDing, but wow is getting the ToDs boring.
gollark: I mean, even if you only turn 1 in 8, you can run a batch of 8 every 4 days or so and hopefully get 1.
gollark: Running them in bulk?
gollark: Wow. I really need to get more.
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Enrique Bernoldi		 Eurocup Formula Renault champion
1997		 Succeeded by
Bruno Besson


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