2015
Gravel debut in Poland | With Pieter Tjoen to ERC Ypres | WRC debut in snowy conditions in Sweden | Overall victory with Porsche GT3 |
2013
Season final! | Classic Le Mans! | Historic racing | Guest-taxi in Dutch rally | 2 out of 2 | Classic racing! | First time with the new Peugeot 208 | Driving a MK2 Escort BDA | Dutch playground | Legend Boucles de Spa |
2012
2011
My first rally in a S2000 car together with VW Motorsport. | A drive in on of the two safety cars, special thanks to Paradigit. | A switch from the Renault Clio R3 to the Citroen DS3 R3. |
2010
2009
2008
After a 4 months brake Poland became our second outing in the i20 WRC. A difficlut event due to the fast stages and a lack of rhythm. We finished on the 14th position and gained a lot of experience!
To gain rhythm I accepted Pieter Tjoen's invitation to compete in Ypres in Citroen DS3 R5 with him on my side. We took the lead from the first stage, unfortunately the rally ended with a crash.
A dream came true! First ever rally in a WRC and the first event with Hyundai Motorsport. We finished 11th overall in our first ever snow rally.
A nice season opener with Porsche owner Pierro Vandeputte on my side. We became outright winners after winning all the stages. A nice experience in a nice car!
An important result for as well as Peugeot Sport. The first class victory for the 208 T16 on the highest level, the WRC.
My first ever full season (6 rounds) in a 4x4 with Seb Marshall on my side. We managed to lead nearly every round and only retired events due to technical issues. This performance brought me back to the highest level in rally, the world rally championship!
For the first time with a Porsche on race pace, codriven by Sharon Mylleville. We won the Moorslede rallysprint!
Pieter and myself won the rally aswell as the championship during the tricky rally Condroz in Belgium!
First outing of this beautiful car since a long long time! Some action from Hockenheim.
My first rally with an R2 car, back in France again. Great feeling to win the rally amoung lots of fast drivers fighting for the championship!
Driving a 0 car in a very nice Belgium short rally together with 18 year old Kjell on my side. He did very very well for his first time in the codriverseat and I finally got a drive in a proper MK2 Escort! My number one...
A short rally on and around the Zandvoort racetrack! With a fifth place overall and a class win I pushed this car to the limit. It was great!
Together with occasional German codriver Wolf-Dieter Ihle I really enjoyed the historic rally event. Despite of technical problems we were albe to drive only three special stages. Though it was fantastic to drive this 'Ex Works' Golf II over the slippy stages on German pacenotes!
Something I've never done before, driving a rallystage without a codriver! A different discipline, a different challenge! I managed to be fastest overall out of 200 historic racingcars.
Afer four months back in the S2000 Skoda in a rally with great memories! And so it felt, difficult without having the rithm but great. Though we showed again to be fastest in some of the stages.
In the urly '80 Audi won several WRC championships, therefore Audi made the Sport Quattro. I am pleased to be part of the club that day, when club members took a ride with me on the passenger seat. (only original Sport Quattro owners are able to become a club member) Isn't this such a fantastic car?!!!
'VW classic parts' asked me to drive some of their most unique classic cars. As you can see I tried my best again to make 420.000 people smile!
Amough F1 driver Nico Rosberg and F1 test driver Giedo van de Garde I was also part of this years 'City Race' show. Thanks to Lamborgini owner Michel van Westing over 450.000 people could see me having fun in the 4x4 Lambo. It was a great succes!
Second overall in my second race just 1 second behind championship leader Ola Nilsson who is doing his third year in the series. There were more guest starters such as my teammate Sebastien Ogier, aswell as Carlos Sainz, Juha Kankkunen and Markku Alen.
First ever race competed in the Scirocco R cup, at Norisring. 4th overall after being fastest in free practice
A drive in one of the safetycars in a Dutch rally, the official BIO GAS Scirocco R. This car is driven by Carlos Sainz in WRC Germany as a '0 car' in 2010.
A great event with lots of fantastic spectators. My first rally together with Fred Miclotte. We were able to set some fastest times in the S2000 class but unfortunately forced to retire later. (due to technical problems)
My first official rally with VW Motorsport. WRC Monte Carlo it was. Not easy for the first time but a uge experience. We won the S2000 class aswell in this one. Again together with Lara Vanneste.
Aswell as my first rally with a 4wd car on gravel. WRC Rally Wales it was. A fantastic experience to work with a factory team such as VW Motorsport. We won the S2000 class together with Lara Vanneste in the codriverseat.
Sponsors of the ‘Paradigit ELE Rally’ were able to take place in the codriverseat. Good fun to let faces smile!
Due to financial reasons no J-WRC season but the French Gravel Championship in 2011. This time with Lara Vanneste on my side. We became 2wd champion and 4th overall by the end of the season. I turned 22 in 2011.
Me and My sponsor BIO MCN were invited by Ken Block to drive this gymkhana event. Amoung lots of American and Japanese drift teams with lots of power we managed to finish 3rd with the Nissan 350Z running on Bio Methanol
The Hellendoorn rally in Holland. We finished first in group N.
The event was held in the middle of Porec in Croatia. Four times WRC champion Juha Kankkunen finished 3rd, ex WRC driver Armin Schwarz finished 2nd and I won the event! I had a fantastic time with all the drivers. Will be continued…
Though on one of the stages I had the pleasure to drive with Alexander Pechtold on my side, without pacenotes of course. Mr. Pechtold is a chairman of one of our parliamentary parties.
Two IRC rallies were included in this championship in 2010. In both IRC rounds we managed to win the 2wd class. Later in the season we became champion in the European Trophy. Together with Erwin Mombaerts in the co-driver seat.
We won the 350Z cup, by winning this one we were the first one winning a class with alternative fuel on board! Bio-Methanol it was. Former 3FM Radio DJ ‘Paul Rabbering’ codrove me trough this one.
We ended up third due to electrical problems. Later in the season we won the J-WRC round in Portugal. I drove the whole season again with Erwin Mombearts on my side. I turned 21 in 2010.
My first and only S1600 drive so far.
Later in the year I promoted Hancook tyres by climbing up the leaderbord with the clio R3 in one of the rallies counting for the Dutch Rally Championship. Pierre Krieger codrove him trough this one. We reached the 7th place overall and first 2wd car.
Aswell with Erwin Mombearts on my side. We finished second in the Trophy by the end of the year.
Owned by Englishman ‘Guy Woodcock’, this rallysprint took place in Amsterdam (NL). We swapped seats in between the stages.
This Subaru Impreza P2000 WRC was owned my Dutch rally driver ‘Martin van Iersel at that time. Richard Burns drove this car in the late ‘90s in the WRC.
WRC Ireland was the first one that year. I won more than 50% of the stages. Unfortunately forced to stop on day one due to an electrical failure. (‘super rally’) We became second in J-WRC in the second rally in Portugal. WRC Poland was the third one which we’ve won! By winning that one I became the first Dutchman and youngest ever able to win a J-WRC round overall. Footage from WRC Ireland, Portugal, Poland and Spain. With Erwin Mombearts on my side that season. I turned 20 in 2009.
Together with my main sponsor ‘Rob Gommers’ at that time, aswell as the owner of the ex ‘works’ prodrive BMW M3.
Thanks to ATM Motorsport. At that time they were in charge of our Clio R3. Bjorn Degandt guided me trough this one. We became 4th overall in a strong field.
Images from WRC Jordan, Finland, Germany, Corsica and Spain. The codriverseat was shared by Erwin Mombaerts and Bjorn Degandt.
Just before the first J-WRC rally Jordan. We finished first 2wd car. Bjorn Degandt was the codriver. I turned 19 in 2008
(WRC Germany) A standard ‘group N’ car was the first 4wd car I’d ever driven. With Harmen Scholtabers in the codriverseat.
An ex Prodrive ‘works’ BMW M3 it was. My Dad in the codriverseat this time.
Supported by the KNAF, the Dutch autosport federation. I won the Mitsubishi Colt Cup in the Dutch Rally Championship with Harmen Scholtalbers in the codriverseat. I turned 18 in 2007.