Wouter van Eeuwijk

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Wouter van Eeuwijk (born December 29, 1979 in Venlo ) is a former Dutch racing driver .

Career

At the beginning of his motorsport career, Van Eeuwijk, like most of his companions, went karting , in which he was active until 1996. In 1997 he moved to the Formula König and in the single-seater racing . He finished the season, for the GM team antretend, in third and climbed in the following year in the German Formula 3 Championship , where he an Opel - Dallara F397, turn of the GM-DSF-F3 team s, piloted and finished seventeenth with 9 points. He started the 1999 season with the D2 Team Rosberg & Lohr , but did not win any points until his accident.

accident

The Castrol-S is the combination of curves directly after the start / finish.

The accident that was to end van Eeuwijk's motorsport career occurred on August 22, 1999 during the fifth race weekend of the German Formula 3 championship at the Nürburgring . In a duel with his compatriot Elran Nijenhuis in the ninth lap of the Sunday run, which was set to 18 laps, van Eeuwijk's Renault -Dallara F399 was hit by the car of his opponent (more precisely: by his left front wheel) immediately in front of the right rear wheel at the entrance of the Castrol-S Eeuwijks car half a flashover occurred, upside down in the gravel trap opened, in this position across the curbs slipped and the track and finally came to rest on a lawn. The roll bar could not withstand the forces that occurred , which in van Eeuwijk's case resulted in fractures of cervical vertebrae two, five and six as well as a bruising of the spinal cord over vertebrae six. Since then he has been paralyzed from the shoulders down and his breathing function was initially impaired, but has returned to normal in the meantime, contrary to the prognosis. The initially unconscious pilot was brought to the Brothers Hospital in Trier by helicopter, the race was stopped one lap after the accident behind the safety car and given half the points according to the regulations. A month later there was a similar accident involving Pedro Diniz in Formula 1 , but it had no consequences.

Others

After Wouter van Eeuwijk, the "Wouter van Eeuwijk Cup" ( Wouter van Eeuwijk bokaal ) was named, the largest indoor karting event in the Netherlands , which was held from 2000 to 2002 and in which numerous prominent racing drivers such as Jeroen Bleekemolen , Jan Lammers , Peter Kox , Tom Coronel and Carlo van Dam took part.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ formula king on the dune circuit of Zandvoort ( Memento of 28 August 2007 at the Internet Archive ) 1997.motorracetime.de
  2. ^ Condition of Wouter van Eeuwijk is still very serious ( Memento from May 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 1999.motorracetime.de
  3. ↑ A friend, a good friend, that's the most beautiful thing there is in the world welt.de
  4. ↑ Van Eeuwijk paralyzed after a serious accident spiegel.de
  5. ↑ Serious accident by Wouter van Eeuwijk / score halved  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF; 25 kB) formel3guide.com@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.formel3guide.com
  6. ↑ 1999 - German F3 - Wouter van Eeuwijk youtube.com
  7. ↑ CV Milko Mebus ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) milkomebus.com
personal data
SURNAME Eeuwijk, Wouter van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Venlo , the Netherlands