Sebastiaan Bleekemolen

Sebastiaan Bleekemolen (born 9 August 1978 in Haarlem) is a Dutch racing driver that currently competes in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, driving for the family-owned Team Bleekemolen in the No. 69 Ford Mustang in the Elite 1 class.[1] His brother Jeroen and father Michael are also racing drivers. His father is a former Formula One driver, who has competed with RAM and ATS. Sebastiaan won the Benelux and Dutch Formula Ford 1800 championships in 1996, but decided early in his career formula racing was not his thing and already started driving sports cars and touring cars from 1997.

Sebastiaan Bleekemolen
Sebastiaan Bleekemolen driving the #24 Team Bleekemolen Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Type 997 in the Porsche Supercup in 2006 at Silverstone.
Nationality	Dutch
Born	(1978-08-09) 9 August 1978 Haarlem
Related to	Michael Bleekemolen (father) Jeroen Bleekemolen (brother) Nick Bleekemolen (nephew)
NASCAR Whelen Euro Series career
Debut season	2019
Current team	Team Bleekemolen
Car number	69
Starts	13
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	16th in 2019
Finished last season	16th in 2019
Previous series
2014-15 2014-15 2012 2011 2011 2010 2010-13 2009-10 2008 2008, 2014 2006-07 2005 2004 2004, 2009, 2012 2003-13, 2014-15 03-04, 06-08, 10-14 2002-03 2001-04, 2007-13 2001 2001 2000 1999-2002 1998-99 1998 1997-98 1996 1996	Renault Clio Cup Benelux United SportsCars VLN Endurance Carrera World Cup Eurocup Clio Tourwagen Diesel Cup American Le Mans Series Dutch GT4 24H Series ADAC GT Masters Dutch BMW 130i Cup Dutch Porsche GT3 Cup Dutch Supercar Challenge German Carrera Cup Dutch Winter Endurance Porsche Supercup Dutch Alfa 147 Challenge Dutch Renault Clio Cup International Clio Cup FIA GT Championship Dutch Touring Cars Renault Sport Clio Trophy Dutch Mégane Trophy Dutch Formula Acrobaleno Renault Spider Europe Benelux Formula Ford 1800 Dutch Formula Ford 1800
Championship titles
2014 2003-04, 2009-10 2002, 2004, 2011 1996 1996	Renault Clio Cup Benelux Dutch Winter Endurance Dutch Renault Clio Cup Benelux Formula Ford 1800 Dutch Formula Ford 1800

Since 2002 he has been very successful in sports car racing and touring car racing. He became the Dutch Renault Clio Cup champion three times, winning the championship in 2002, 2004 and 2011. He won the Dutch Winter Endurance championship in 2003-04 and in 2009-10.

Since 2010 he participated in the American Le Mans Series. He has always driven a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup in the GTC class, but with three different teams. Since the merger of the American Le Mans Series and the Rolex Sports Car Series, which became the IMSA Tudor United SportsCar Championship, he drives a SRT Viper GT3-R with Riley Motorsports in the GTD class together with his brother and Ben Keating.

Racing record

Complete FIA GT Championship results

(key) (Results are overall/class)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pos	Points
2001	Team Carsport Holland	Dodge Viper GTS-R	MNZ DNS	BRN Ret	MAG 6	SIL 2	ZOL Ret	HUN 3	SPA Ret	A1R 3	NÜR Ret	JAR Ret	EST 4	11th	18

Complete Porsche Supercup results

(key) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	DC	Points
2003	Team Bleekemolen	ITA 6	ESP 9	AUT 11	MON Ret	GER 13	FRA 14	GBR 11	GER 8	HUN	ITA	USA 6	USA Ret	9th	70
2004	Team Bleekemolen	ITA 5	ESP 9	MON 9	GER	USA	USA	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL 7	ITA	NC‡	0‡
2006	Team Bleekemolen	BHR	ITA 9	GER 15	ESP Ret	MON 19	GBR 14	USA	USA	FRA 11	GER	HUN	ITA	18th	23
2007	Bleekemolen Race Planet	BHR 11	BHR 9	ESP 11	MON 5	FRA 15	GBR 20	GER	HUN	TUR 13	BEL Ret	ITA 24†		12th	42
2008	Bleekemolen Race Planet	BHR 12	BHR 8	ESP 13	TUR 10	MON 17	FRA 20	GBR 5	GER 18	HUN 24	ESP Ret	BEL 17	ITA 25	16th	44
2010	Bleekemolen Harders Plaza Racing	BHR 17	BHR 10	ESP Ret	MON 15	ESP 10	GBR 22†	GER 8	HUN Ret	BEL Ret	ITA 8			16th	35
2011	Team Bleekemolen	TUR 11	ESP 12	MON 6	NNS 9	GBR 14	GER 16	HUN Ret	BEL 8	ITA Ret	UAE 12	UAE 14		11th	49
2012	Team Bleekemolen	BHR 6	BHR 8	MON Ret	ESP 6	GBR 9	GER Ret	HUN 11	HUN 9	BEL 11	ITA 17			11th	54
2013	Team Bleekemolen	ESP 18	MON 18	GBR 18	GER 8	HUN 21	BEL 18	ITA 18	UAE Ret	UAE 10				18th	15
2014	VERVA Lechner Racing Team	ESP	MON 18	AUT	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	USA			NC‡	0‡

^† Did not finish, but was classified as he had completed more than 90% of the race distance.
^‡ Not eligible for points.

Complete American Le Mans Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Results are overall/class)

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Rank	Points
2010	Black Swan Racing	GTC	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Porsche 3.8 L Flat-6	Y	SEB	LBH	LAG 17/1‡	UTA	LIM	MDO	ROA	MSP	PET 23/2		20th	26
2011	Black Swan Racing	GTC	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Porsche 3.8 L Flat-6	Y	SEB 21/1	LBH	LIM	MSP	MDO	ROA	BAL	LAG 24/2‡	PET 27/1		11th	60
2012	Green Hornet Racing	GTC	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Porsche 3.8 L Flat-6	Y	SEB 37/3	LBH	LAG 28/5‡	LIM	MSP	MDO	ROA	BAL	VIR	PET	24th	17
2013	Alex Job Racing	GTC	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	Y	SEB	LBH	LAG	LIM	MSP	ROA	BAL	AUS	VIR	PET 25/4‡	NC‡	0‡

^‡ Not eligible for points. Bleekemolen was the third driver of the car and third drivers were only able to score points in Sebring and Road Atlanta. At the 2013 Petit Le Mans Bleekemolen was the fourth driver and was not able to score points.

Complete Eurocup Clio results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	DC	Points
2011	Team Bleekemolen	SPA 1 3	SPA 2 5	NÜR 1 Ret	NÜR 2 29	LEC 1	LEC 2	CAT 1 Ret	CAT 2 6	8th	35

Complete United SportsCar Championship results

(key) (Results are overall/class)

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Rank	Points
2014	Riley Motorsports	GTD	SRT Viper GT3-R	SRT 8.0 L V10	C	DAY 40/19	SEB 62/24†	LGA	BEL	WGL	MOS	IMS	ELK	VIR	AUS	ATL 45/17†	95th	17
2015	Riley Motorsports	GTD	Dodge Viper GT3-R	Dodge 8.3 L V10	C	DAY 22/9	SEB 26/9	LGA	BEL	WGL	LIM	ELK	VIR	AUS	ATL 28/12		23rd	66

^† Did not complete sufficient laps in order to score points.

Complete NASCAR results

Whelen Euro Series – Elite 1

NASCAR Whelen Euro Series – Elite 1 results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	NWES	Pts
2019	Team Bleekemolen	69	Ford	VAL 17	VAL 12	FRA 16	FRA 12	BRH 21	BRH 17	MOS 5	MOS 10	VEN 14	HOC 24	HOC 25	ZOL 12	ZOL 22	16th	354

References

1. "Team Bleekemolen joins NASCAR Whelen Euro Series". hometracks.nascar.com. NASCAR Media Group, LLC. Retrieved 19 February 2019.

External links

• Official website

Sporting positions
Preceded by Sepp Koster	Dutch Formula Ford champion 1996	Succeeded by Christijan Albers
Preceded by unknown	Benelux Formula Ford champion 1996	Succeeded by unknown