Val Hillebrand

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Val Hillebrand drove a Chrysler Viper GTS-R in the 2004 FIA GT Championship

Val Hillebrand (born June 22, 1981 in Wickede ) is a former Belgian racing driver .

Racing career

Monoposto

Val Hillebrand began his career in the late 1990s to the single-seater -Nachwuchsformeln Renault and Ford . In 1999 he was third overall in the Dutch Formula Ford 1800 Championship. In 2000 he played a full season in the German Formula 3 championship . He drove a Dallara 399 for JB Motorsport and scored 15 points in 16 races, which was in the final championship standings (overall winner Giorgio Pantano , ahead of Alexander Müller , Pierre Kaffer , André Lotterer , Stefan Mücke and Patrick Friesacher ).

Sports car

In 2001 Val Hillebrand switched to sports car racing . He became a team member at Racing for Holland , Jan Lammers' racing team . The racing team reported a Dome S101 in the FIA Sports Car Championship , where it achieved some success. After third places in the 1000 km race in Monza , the 2.30 hour race at Spa-Francorchamps and the 2.30 hour race in Donington, Lammers and Hillebrand won the last race of the season, the 2.30 Hour race on the Nürburgring .

In 2002 Lammers and Hillebrand won the overall championship with three wins this season. With 97 points, the two were well ahead of third-placed Courage C60 pilot Jean-Christophe Boullion , who was 20 points behind with 77 points. After he did not contest any races in 2003, he returned as a driver in 2004 and drove a Chrysler Viper GTS-R in the FIA GT Championship . He competed three times in the 24 Hours of Le Mans , was registered in several races in the Le Mans Series in 2006 and had his last race appearance in the 24 Hours of Zolder in 2007 , where he finished sixth overall.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2001 NetherlandsNetherlands Racing for Holland Dome S101 NetherlandsNetherlands Donny Crevels NetherlandsNetherlands Jan Lammers failure battery
2002 NetherlandsNetherlands Racing for Holland bv Dome S101 NetherlandsNetherlands Tom Coronel NetherlandsNetherlands Jan Lammers Rank 8
2005 NetherlandsNetherlands G-Force Racing Bokkenrijders Courage C65 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Gavin Pickering BelgiumBelgium Frank Hahn failure Power transmission

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dutch Formula Ford 1800 Championship
  2. ↑ German Formula 3 Championship 2000
  3. ^ Monza 1000 km race 2001
  4. ↑ 2.30-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps 2001
  5. Jump up ↑ 2001 Donington 2.30-hour race
  6. ↑ 2.30-hour race on the Nürburgring 2001
  7. ↑ FIA Sportscar Championship 2002
  8. ↑ Zolder 24-hour race 2007
personal data
SURNAME Hillebrand, Val
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Wickede