Frits van Eerd

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Frits van Eerd in a Dallara P217 at the 6-hour race at Silverstone 2018

Frits van Eerd (born March 25, 1967 in Veghel ) is a Dutch entrepreneur, racing team owner and racing car driver .

Entrepreneur

Frits van Eerd is a member of the Dutch entrepreneurial family van Eerd, which owns the Van Eerd Group . The basis was a food wholesale company founded in 1921 . In the early 1980s, his father, Karel van Eerd , took over the grocer Jumbo , which became the second largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands through acquisitions and consistent branch expansion . Frits van Eerd owns 25% of the company shares. The remaining 75% belong equally to his two sisters and his father.

Racing career

Frits van Eerd came to professional racing through historic motorsport. After initial attempts at Formula Ford in the late 1990s were unsuccessful, he contested races with historic Formula 1 vehicles between 2006 and 2016 . Among other things , he used a Tyrrell 026 , a Benetton B197 and a Minardi PS04B in various international series.

In 2017 he entered the FIA World Endurance Championship and the European Le Mans Series with his own racing team . Equipped with sufficient financial means from his own company, he built a professional racing team in a short time. He received support from Jan Lammers , who was at his side as a consultant and driver. Other pilots were Giedo van der Garde Rubens Barrichello and Nyck de Vries . Emergency vehicles were the chassis of the Dallara P217 .

In 2017 he made his driver debut at the Le Mans 24 Hours . Together with Barrichello and Lammers, he reached 13th place in the overall ranking. 2018 finished eleventh overall with Lammers and van der Garde. His best place in the European Le Mans Series was seventh in the 2017 4-hour race at the Red Bull Ring . In the world championship he finished eighth in the 6-hour race of Silverstone 2018 , a race of the FIA World Endurance Championship 2018/19 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2017 NetherlandsNetherlands Racing Team Nederland Dallara LMP2 BrazilBrazil Rubens Barrichello NetherlandsNetherlands Jan Lammers Rank 13
2018 NetherlandsNetherlands Racing Team Nederland Dallara P217 NetherlandsNetherlands Giedo van der Garde NetherlandsNetherlands Jan Lammers Rank 11
2019 NetherlandsNetherlands Racing Team Nederland Dallara P217 NetherlandsNetherlands Giedo van der Garde NetherlandsNetherlands Nyck de Vries Rank 26

Web links

Commons : Frits van Eerd  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the van Eerd family (Dutch)
  2. ↑ 4-hour race at the Red Bull Ring 2017
personal data
SURNAME Eerd, Frits van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch entrepreneur and racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Veghel