Beitske Visser

Beitske Visser at the Formula Renault 3.5 race at the Nürburgring 2014

Beitske Visser (born March 10, 1995 in Dronten ) is a Dutch car racing driver . She competed in Formula V8 3.5 from 2014 to 2016 .

Career

Visser began her motorsport career in karting in 2000 , in which she remained active until 2012. Among other things, she won the KZ2 class of the WSK Master Series in 2010 and came second in the WSK Euro Series. 2012 changed Visser in the single-seater racing and was a cockpit in from Motopark Academy supervised Team Lotus in the ADAC Formula Masters . Visser won two races. While her team-mate Marvin Kirchhöfer won the championship, Visser was eighth in the drivers' standings. In 2013 she stayed with the racing team in the ADAC Formula Masters. Visser won a race and finished the season again in eighth place overall. This year Visser was promoted by Red Bull . She became the first woman to receive support from Red Bull in formula racing.

In 2014 Visser moved to AVF in Formula Renault 3.5 . With a fifth place as the best result, she reached 21st place overall. She lost to her teammate Zoël Amberg with 11 to 66 points. In addition, Visser competed for Hilmer Motorsport in the 2014 season opener of the GP3 series . In 2015 Visser contested her second season in Formula Renault 3.5 for AVF. At Spa-Francorchamps she achieved the second fastest time in the first qualifying. However, she was excluded from the qualifying classification and moved to the end of the field because the underbody of the vehicle did not comply with the regulations. In the drivers' championship she was 23rd. So she was internally defeated by Alfonso Celis Jr. with 3 to 17 points. Visser also competed for Trident Racing at a 2015 GP3 series event .

In 2016 , Formula Renault 3.5 was renamed Formula V8 3.5. Visser had initially signed a contract with Pons Racing . However, the racing team got out of the championship at short notice, so Visser switched to Teo Martín Motorsport . With a fifth place as the best result, she finished the championship in 13th place.

In mid-2017 she was accepted into the BMW Motorsport Junior Program.

In 2018 she competed with Nico Menzel for the RN Vision STS team in the GT4 European Series . There she finished sixth out of 31 drivers in the silver (professional) category.

As a test driver for Andretti Autosport , Visser took part in the test day in Ad Diriyah in December 2018 , where she shared a car with Alexander Sims . She remained a test driver for the team for the rest of the season, but had no appearances.

In January 2019, she qualified for the first season of the W Series . In this championship she finally achieved second place, with a race win and 4 podium finishes. In the same year she competed in six races at the International GT Open and achieved a podium finish with Richard Gonda .

statistics

Career stations

2000–2012: karting 2012 : ADAC Formula Masters (8th place) 2013 : ADAC Formula Masters (8th place) 2014 : Formula Renault 3.5 (21st place)

2014 : GP3 series (27th place) 2015 : Formula Renault 3.5 (23rd place) 2015 : GP3 series (28th place) 2016 : Formula V8 3.5 (13th place)

2018: GT4 European Series (6th place) 2019 : W Series (2nd place) 2019: International GT Open (11th place)

Individual results in Formula Renault 3.5 / Formula V8 3.5

year	team	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	Points	rank
2014	AVF	MNZ		ALC		MON	SPA		MOS		ONLY		HUN		LEC		JRZ			11	21st
		DNF	17th	18th	16	17th	10	14th	13	13	19th	DNF	17th	12	15th	11	5	12
2015	AVF	ALC		MON	SPA		HUN		SPI		SIL		ONLY		LMS		JRZ			3	23.
		DNF	19th	13 *	DNS	DNF	9	15th	12	10	DNF	13	16	15th	14th	13	12	DNF
2016	Teo Martín Motorsport	ALC		HUN		SPA		LEC		SIL		SPI		MNZ		JER		CAT		48	13.
		10	12	7th	DNS	7th	DNF	9	10	9	10	8th	9	14 *	9	7th	5	10	8th

Individual results in the GP3 series

year	team	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	Points	rank
2014	Hilmer Motorsport	ESP		AUT		GBR		GER		HUN		BEL		ITA		RUS		UAE		0	27.
		19th	15th
2015	Trident Racing	ESP		AUT		GBR		HUN		BEL		ITA		RUS		BRN		UAE		0	28.
										DNF	15th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “Red Bull sign first-ever female driver Beitske Visser to junior team”. bbc.com, April 10, 2013, accessed March 26, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Valentin Khorounzhiy: “Visser to get debut season in Formula Renault 3.5 with AVF”. paddockscout.com, March 26, 2014, accessed March 26, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Peter Allen: “Mason and Visser secure Hilmer seats for GP3 opener”. paddockscout.com, May 8, 2014, accessed May 8, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Peter Allen: Beitske Visser to continue with AVF in FR3.5 in 2015. paddockscout.com, December 22, 2014, accessed on February 25, 2015 (English). 
5. ↑ Peter Mills: Spa FR3.5: Matthieu Vaxivière takes pole ahead of Beitske Visser. autosport.com, May 30, 2015, accessed November 5, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Peter Mills: Spa FR3.5: Beitske Visser loses front row qualifying result. autosport.com, May 30, 2015, accessed November 5, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Malja in GP2, Visser in GP3 with Trident at Spa. paddockscout.com, August 19, 2015, accessed August 19, 2015 . 
8. ↑ Pons and Tech 1 teams pulled out of 2016 Formula V8 3.5 season. autosport.com, March 29, 2016, accessed November 5, 2016 . 
9. ↑ David Gruz: Visser makes Teo Martin switch in Formula 3.5. Motorsport.com, April 14, 2016, accessed November 5, 2016 . 
10. ↑ BMW Motorsport completes the 2017 junior class . June 8, 2017, accessed on September 29, 2017 .  
11. ↑ BMW Motorsport Juniors Beitske Visser and Nico Menzel start in the BMW M4 GT4. March 15, 2018, accessed April 6, 2018 .  
12. ↑ GT4 European Series Final Standings 2018. Accessed October 1, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Ad Diriyah Testing - Test Session 2 - Classification. (PDF) FIA Formula E, accessed on July 11, 2020 (English). 

Web links

• Official website of Beitske Visser (archive version from 2014)
• Career statistics from Beitske Visser (English)