Peter van Merksteijn junior

Peter van Merksteijn jr.

Nation:	Netherlands
World Rally Championship (WRC)
First rally:	Rally Germany 2007
Co-driver:	Eddy Chevaillier
Team:	Van Merksteijn Motorsport
Vehicle:	Citroën DS3 WRC
Rallies Victories Podiums WP 21st - - -
Points:	2
Status: After rally 13 of 13, 2011 season
Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC)
First rally:	Belgium Ypres Rally 2007
Co-driver:	Francis Strikker
Team:	Peter van Merksteijn jr.
Vehicle:	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX
Rallies: Victories: Podiums: WP 1 - - -
Points:	-

Peter van Merksteijn junior (born September 1, 1982 in Hengelo ) is a Dutch rally driver . In the 2011 season he took part in ten races of the World Rally Championship .

Career

At the 2008 Catalonia Rally .

Peter van Merksteijn jr. began his rally career in 2006 with a Renault Mégane in national competitions. The following year he started with the support of his father's team, Peter van Merksteijn sr. , who is also a racing driver and won the LMP2 class at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2008 , with a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX in the Dutch rally championship. He won the Group N championship that year .

In the same year he started with the same vehicle for the first time in a round of the World Rally Championship in Germany , where he finished 70th overall.

Peter van Merksteijn jr. in the DS3 WRC at the 2011 Rallye Deutschland

From the Rally of Portugal season in 2011 he starts in the Van Merksteijn Motorsport team his father in a Citroën DS3 WRC in ten of thirteen rounds of the World Rally Championship. At the 2011 Rally Germany he scored his first two championship points with a ninth place overall.

On September 19, 2011 he won the Hellendoorn Rally belonging to the Dutch rally championship . Since World Rally Cars of the older specification are still permitted in this series , Van Merksteijn competed there in a Citroën C4 WRC against, among others, the Ford Focus WRC, Subaru Impreza WRCs, Mitsubishi Lancer WRC.

WRC results

year	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	Points	rank
2007	Peter van Merksteijn, Jr.	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	MON	SWE	NOR	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	FIN	GER 70	NZL	ESP 60	FRA	JPN	IRL		0	-
		Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII																GBR 29
2008	Van Merksteijn Motorsport	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	MON	SWE DNF	MEX	ARG	JOR	ITA DNF											0	-
		Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII							GRE	DOOR	FIN DNS
		Ford Focus RS WRC 06										GER 17	NZL	ESP DNF	FRA	JPN	GBR
2009	Van Merksteijn Motorsport	Ford Focus RS WRC 06	IRL	NOR 18	CYP	POR DNF	ITA	ARG	GRE	POLE	FIN	OUT	ESP	GBR					0	-
2010	Van Merksteijn Motorsport	Ford Focus RS WRC 08	SWE 17	MEX	JOR	DOOR	NZL	POR	BUL	FIN	GER	JPN	FRA	ESP	GBR				0	-
2011	Van Merksteijn Motorsport	Citroën DS3 WRC	SWE	MEX	POR 15	JOR DNF	ITA DNF	ARG DNF	GRE DNF	FIN	GER 9	OFF 13	FRA DNF	ESP 17	GBR DNF				2	25th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Driver profile of Peter van Merksteijn ( memento from February 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (vm-motorsport.nl accessed on March 18, 2011)
2. ↑ Results Rally Germany 2007 (wrc.com accessed on March 18, 2011)
3. ↑ Debut in Portugal  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (rallye-magazin.de from March 1, 2011; accessed on March 18, 2011)  
4. ↑ Participations and results (ewrc.com accessed on March 18, 2011)

Web links

Commons : Peter van Merksteijn junior  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website Van Merksteijn Motorsport (English)
• Driver profile on ewrc.com