Mathieu Hezemans

Mathieu "Thieu" Hezemans (born June 21, 1915 in Eindhoven , † February 4, 1985 ) was a Dutch racing driver and entrepreneur.

family

Mathieu Hezemans he was the first racing driver from the Dutch Hezemans family. His son Antoine , called Toine, was a successful GT and sports car driver in the 1970s. This was European Touring Car Champion in 1970 and 1973 , won the Targa Florio in 1971 and, among other things, twice the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring and once the Daytona 24-hour race . His grandchildren Mike and Loris Hezemans also took up the profession of professional racing driver.

Career in motorsport

Mathieu Hezemans ran a car dealership in his hometown of Eindhoven and was one of the first Dutch importers of the Porsche brand . He was active as a driver in the 1950s. Has competed several times in the 1000 km race on the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring . In 1953 he was fifteenth overall and in 1956 26th in the final classification. 1956 he went together with Carel Godin de Beaufort one of Wolfgang Seidel reported Porsche 550/4 Spyder at the 24-hour race at Le Mans , fell after a suspension defect but prematurely.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1956	Wolfgang Seidel	Porsche 550/4 Spyder	Carel Godin de Beaufort	failure	suspension

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
1953	NAV	Porsche 356	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
							15th
1956	Gotfrid Köchert Mathieu Hezemans	Porsche 550	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
						24	DNF
1957	Ecurie Maarsbergen	Porsche 356	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
						43
1958	Mathieu Hezemans	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
						DNF

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909413-06-3 .

Web links

• Mathieu Hezemans at Racing Sports Cars