Kevin Abbring

Kevin Abbring

Nation:	Netherlands
World Rally Championship (WRC)
First rally:	Rally Germany 2007
Last rally:	Rally Great Britain 2015
Co-driver:	Sebastian Marshall
Team:	Hyundai World Rally Team
Vehicle:	Hyundai i20 WRC
Rallies Victories Podiums WP 29 - - -
Points:	-
Status: After rally 13 of 13, 2015 season

Kevin Abbring (born January 20, 1989 in Eindhoven ) is a Dutch rally driver.

Career

Kevin Abbring started his racing career in the junior rallycross series . At the age of 16, he won the Dutch and Belgian titles three times. He had his first rally experience at the age of 17. Abbring started in 2006 as a co-driver of his father Edwin in the Belgian championship. In the 2007 season Kevin Abbring got behind the wheel himself and won the Mitsubishi Colt Cup , part of the Belgian championship. In 2008, Abbring made the step into the Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC). In a Renault Clio R3, he won a special stage at the Rallye Deutschland. In 2009 Abbring stayed in the JWRC and won in Poland, making him not only the first Dutchman to be included in the JWRC winners list, but also the youngest winner to date at the age of 20.

Another JWRC season followed in 2010. In that season he won 13 special stages and the Rally Portugal . The lack of funding prevented another year in the JWRC, instead Abbring drove the French gravel championship and became champion in a Citroën DS3 R3 2WD.

In 2011 Abbring completed his first WRC outings for Volkswagen. With a class win in the Škoda Fabia S2000 at the Rally Great Britain , things went very well and he was awarded the FIA Institute Driver of the Year award in the WRC2 class. In 2012 he won the WRC2 class in Monte Carlo . However, he could no longer convince in the following three rallies. In Mexico he was undone by a technical problem, in Portugal he had an accident in the shakedown and in Great Britain he was classified in tenth place.

After a rather disappointing year, Abbring returned to France in 2013 and celebrated victory in the Volant Peugeot Cup with a Peugeot 208 VTi R2 . In the ERC 2014 he was on the podium twice (Peugeot 208 T16 R5) and recorded a class win at the Rally France. In 2014 Abbring started working for Hyundai Motorsport as a test driver. At least four appearances in the top tier of the World Rally Championship (WRC) are planned for 2015 . In his first rally for Hyundai, he narrowly missed the championship points ranks with eleventh place in Sweden.

Individual results WRC

year	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	Points	rank
2007	Knaf Talent First	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII	MON	SWE	NOR	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	FIN	DEU	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	IRL	GBR	0	-
												41
2008	Knaf Talent First	Renault Clio R3	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	JOR	ITA	GRE	DOOR	FIN	DEU	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	GBR		0	-
							DNF	DNF			33	34		40	30th
2009	Knaf Talent First	Renault Clio R3	IRL	NOR	CYP	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	POLE	FIN	OUT	ESP	GBR					0	-
			22nd			19th		DNF		11	DNF		27
2010	Knaf Talent First	Renault Clio R3	SWE	MEX	JOR	DOOR	NZL	POR	BUL	FIN	DEU	JPN	FRA	ESP	GBR				0	-
						15th		21st	21st		DNF		DNF
2011	Volkswagen Motorsport	Škoda Fabia S2000	SWE	MEX	POR	JOR	ITA	ARG	GRE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR				0	-
															12
2012	Volkswagen Motorsport	Škoda Fabia S2000	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	DEU	GBR	FRA	ITA	ESP				0	-
			12		DNF	DNF						25th
2014	Peugeot Rally Academy	Peugeot 208 T16	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR				0	-
													14th
2015	Hyundai Motorsport N	Hyundai i20 WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR				0	-
				11					15th		11		DNF		DNF

Source:

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Web links

Commons : Kevin Abbring  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• official homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ wrc.com Kevin Abbringl , Accessed on May 9, 2015
2. ↑ ewrc-results.com Kevin Abbring , accessed January 1, 2016.