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− | + | |colspan=2 align=center|[[File:Kickert.png|200px]]<br><small>''Pieter Kickert, pictured in 2015''</small> | |
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− | | | + | |'''Name''' |
− | | | + | |Pieter Kickert |
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− | | | + | |colspan=2 align=center|''Two-time [[Life Grand Prix Series|Life GP]] race winner'' |
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− | | | + | '''Pieter Kickert''' (born 12th February 1971) is a Dutch racing car driver famous for his early exploits in [[Life Grand Prix Series|Life GP]] and later for his extensive touring car career. He is also the father of racing driver [[Emma Kickert]]. Since retiring from racing, he has taken over as the head of [[McEwan Automotive]]'s [[McEwan Academy Driver Squad|junior driver programme]]. |
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− | '''Pieter Kickert''' (born 12th February 1971) is a Dutch racing car driver famous for his | ||
==Early Career== | ==Early Career== | ||
− | Kickert started out racing at | + | Kickert started out racing at 16 when he entered minor races at his local track Zandvoort. He showed his talent quickly winning many races, and spent the following four years competing in club and national races in the Netherlands, earning enough prize and sponsorship money to pursue an international career. |
− | == | + | ==Life Grand Prix Season== |
− | In 1991, Kickert entered the new Life | + | In 1991, Kickert entered the new Life Grand Prix Series as it was an international series in which he could afford to buy his own car to compete. However, he overestimated the reliability of the car, and bought too few spare parts. After several mechanical failures left him with no parts and little money to replace them with, he announced that he would withdraw his team's entries from the coming rounds. [[Foster's Good Call Racing]] immediately offered him a drive in one of their cars. Kickert accepted and rewarded their faith with instant results. In just his second race for the team, he finished second in Belgium. Two races later, he won his first race at the Luxembourg Life GP after it was red-flagged early due to a track invasion. |
− | + | He also gained a reputation for being stubborn after he completed the majority of the European round without a front wing, still scoring points for a fifth place finish. Later, he would repeat a similar trick by driving much of the Portuguese round with a car that was stuck in first gear. His performances were enough to earn him a second season with Good Call, and his 1992 season started well with a win in Spain and a pole position in Austria. However, things went sideways for Kickert when he suffered an injury in a scary crash at Zolder. He would be replaced by former Formula One World Champion [[Jérémy-Étienne Voeckler]], who was out of contract at Williams and bored. When Voeckler announced that he would also run the last three rounds of the year, Good Call gave Kickert sufficient support to self-enter a car under the Kickert Motorsport Engineering banner. | |
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+ | In 1993, Kickert again chose to run his shoestring owner-driver operation. This would be his toughest season yet: despite two second places and a respectable 18 points overall, his efforts were only good enough for 12th in the Championship. With no 1994 season of Life Grand Prix for him to continue in, it was time for Kickert to move up the motorsport ladder. | ||
− | == | + | == International Formula 3000 == |
+ | For the 1994 season, Kickert {{Tooltip|found himself a drive|Will edit this when we know which team it actually turns out to be}} in [[Alternte International Formula 3000|International Formula 3000]]. Despite the chaos of [[1994 Alternate Formula One season|Formula One that year]], Kickert did not get called up by any teams in that series. He also chose to remain in Formula 3000 in 1995. | ||
+ | == Formula One == | ||
+ | Finally, Pieter Kickert's breakthrough came when he found a drive in Formula One for the [[1996 Alternate Formula One season|1996 season]]. This was already a heady time for the Dutchman, as he was also celebrating the birth of his daughter [[Emma Kickert|Emma]]. It must therefore have been crushing for Kickert when on the eve of the Australian Grand Prix, {{Tooltip|his team|will edit this when we know which team it actually turns out to be}} announced that they would not be able to compete in Formula One after all due to a funding shortfall. | ||
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+ | == Sports and Touring Cars == | ||
+ | After this experience, Kickert turned his back on open-wheelers and chose to focus instead on the world of touring and sports cars. | ||
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+ | ==Career Results== | ||
+ | ===[[Life Grand Prix Series]]=== | ||
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!rowspan=2| [[1991 Life Grand Prix Series season|1991]] | !rowspan=2| [[1991 Life Grand Prix Series season|1991]] | ||
! [[Kickert Motorsport Engineering]] | ! [[Kickert Motorsport Engineering]] | ||
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− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| ESP<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| ESP<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| AND<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| AND<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| FRA<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| FRA<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| ITA<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| ITA<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| AUT<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| AUT<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| CZE<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| CZE<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#dfffdf"| GER<br | + | |bgcolor="#dfffdf"| GER<br><small>4</small> |
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! [[Foster's Good Call Racing]] | ! [[Foster's Good Call Racing]] | ||
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− | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| SWE<br><small>Ret</small> | |
− | + | |bgcolor="#dfdfdf"| BEL<br><small>2</small> | |
− | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| SUI<br><small>Ret</small> | |
− | + | |bgcolor="#ffffbf"| LUX<br><small>1</small> | |
− | + | |bgcolor="#dfffdf"| EUR<br><small>5</small> | |
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− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| SWE<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| ''ENG<br><small>Ret</small>'' |
− | |bgcolor="#dfdfdf"| BEL<br | + | |bgcolor="#cfcfff"| POR<br><small>NC</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| SUI<br | + | |bgcolor="#ffdf9f"| USE<br><small>3</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#ffffbf"| LUX<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| USW<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#dfffdf"| EUR<br | + | |bgcolor="#dfffdf"| JPN<br><small>4</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| GBR<br | ||
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| ''ENG | ||
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!rowspan=2| [[1992 Life Grand Prix Series season|1992]] | !rowspan=2| [[1992 Life Grand Prix Series season|1992]] | ||
! [[Foster's Good Call Racing]] | ! [[Foster's Good Call Racing]] | ||
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− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| ARG<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| ARG<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| BRA<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| BRA<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#ffffbf"| ESP<br | + | |bgcolor="#ffffbf"| ESP<br><small>1</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| FRA<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| FRA<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| ITA<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| ITA<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| '''''AUT | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| '''''AUT<br><small>Ret</small>''''' |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| CZE<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| CZE<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#ffdf9f"| FIN<br | + | |bgcolor="#ffdf9f"| FIN<br><small>3</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| GER<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| GER<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| SUI<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| SUI<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| BEL<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| BEL<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#ffffff"| NED<br | + | |bgcolor="#ffffff"| NED<br><small>INJ</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#ffffff"| ENG<br | + | |bgcolor="#ffffff"| ENG<br><small>INJ</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#ffffff"| GBR<br | + | |bgcolor="#ffffff"| GBR<br><small>INJ</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#dfffdf"| CAN<br | + | |bgcolor="#dfffdf"| CAN<br><small>6</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| USE<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| USE<br><small>Ret</small> |
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− | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| USW<br><small>Ret</small> | |
− | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| JPN<br><small>Ret</small> | |
− | + | |bgcolor="#dfffdf"| AUS<br><small>6*</small> | |
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! [[1993 Life Grand Prix Series season|1993]] | ! [[1993 Life Grand Prix Series season|1993]] | ||
! [[Kickert Motorsport Engineering]] | ! [[Kickert Motorsport Engineering]] | ||
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− | |bgcolor="#dfdfdf"| ARG<br | + | |bgcolor="#dfdfdf"| ARG<br><small>2</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| BRA<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| BRA<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| VEN<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| VEN<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#dfffdf"| USA<br | + | |bgcolor="#dfffdf"| USA<br><small>4</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| CAN<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| CAN<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| IRE<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| IRE<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| GBR<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| GBR<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| NED<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| NED<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| GER<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| GER<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| POL<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| POL<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#dfdfdf"| AUT<br | + | |bgcolor="#dfdfdf"| AUT<br><small>2</small> |
− | + | |bgcolor="#dfffdf"| ITA<br><small>4</small> | |
− | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| FRA<br><small>Ret</small> | |
− | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| NAM<br><small>Ret</small> | |
− | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| JPN<br><small>Ret</small> | |
− | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| MAS<br><small>Ret</small> | |
− | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| INA<br><small>Ret</small> | |
− | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| NZL<br><small>Ret</small> | |
− | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| AUS<br><small>Ret</small> | |
− | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| MAC<br><small>Ret</small> | |
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! [[ZimSport]] | ! [[ZimSport]] | ||
! Vauxhall Vectra | ! Vauxhall Vectra | ||
| '''<span style="padding:1px 4px; color:white; background-color:#0000ff;">I</span>''' | | '''<span style="padding:1px 4px; color:white; background-color:#0000ff;">I</span>''' | ||
! 032 | ! 032 | ||
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| ORA<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| ORA<br>1<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#dfffdf"| ORA<br | + | |bgcolor="#dfffdf"| ORA<br>2<br><small>14</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| KNO<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| KNO<br>1<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#ffdf9f"| '''KNO<br | + | |bgcolor="#ffdf9f"| '''KNO<br>2<br><small>3</small>''' |
− | |bgcolor="#dfffdf"| '''SAN<br | + | |bgcolor="#dfffdf"| '''SAN<br>1<br><small>6</small>''' |
− | |bgcolor="#dfffdf"| '''SAN<br | + | |bgcolor="#dfffdf"| '''SAN<br>2<br><small>14</small>''' |
− | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| SPA<br | + | |bgcolor="#efcfff"| SPA<br>1<br><small>Ret</small> |
− | |bgcolor="#cfcfff"| '''SPA<br | + | |bgcolor="#cfcfff"| '''SPA<br>2<br><small>23</small>''' |
− | | SUZ<br | + | | SUZ<br>1<br><small>EX</small> |
− | | SUZ<br | + | | SUZ<br>2<br><small>EX</small> |
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− | | LIE<br | + | | LIE<br>2<br> |
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+ | ! 13th | ||
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+ | ! [[2016 Rejects Touring Car Championship season|2016<br>RTCC]] | ||
+ | ! [[ZimSport|Mobil Racing ZimSport]] | ||
+ | ! Holden Vectra | ||
+ | | '''<span style="padding:1px 4px; color:white; background-color:#ff0000;">M</span>''' | ||
+ | ! 31 | ||
+ | |bgcolor="#dfffdf" | BAT<br><br><small>7 | ||
+ | |bgcolor="#cfcfff" | BRH<br>1<br><small>18 | ||
+ | |bgcolor="#dfffdf" | '''BRH<br>2<br><small>4''' | ||
+ | |bgcolor="#cfcfff" | AUT<br><br><small>16 | ||
+ | |bgcolor="#efcfff" | '''KNO<br>1<br><small>Ret''' | ||
+ | |bgcolor="#efcfff" | KNO<br>2<br><small>Ret | ||
+ | |bgcolor="#efcfff" | DIJ<br><br><small>Ret | ||
+ | |bgcolor="#dfffdf" | '''OSC<br>1<br><small>10''' | ||
+ | |bgcolor="#cfcfff" | OSC<br>2<br><small>30 | ||
+ | |bgcolor="#dfffdf" | ZAN<br><br><small>14 | ||
+ | |bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | ''SPA<br><br><small>2'' | ||
+ | |bgcolor="#dfffdf" | ADR<br><br><small>8 | ||
+ | |bgcolor="#dfffdf" | SUZ<br><br><small>8 | ||
+ | |bgcolor="#efcfff" | '''GRO<br><br><small>Ret''' | ||
+ | ! 74 | ||
+ | ! 11th | ||
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+ | ! [[2017 AutoReject Super Touring season|2017<br>ARST]] | ||
+ | ! [[Kickert Motorsport Engineering|Triumph Team Netherlands]] | ||
+ | ! Triumph 2000 | ||
+ | | '''<span style="padding:1px 4px; color:white; background-color:#008888;">P</span>''' | ||
+ | ! 79 | ||
+ | |AUS<br> | ||
+ | |BAT<br> | ||
+ | |GBR<br> | ||
+ | |bgcolor="#cfeaff"|FRA<br><small>12 | ||
+ | |ESP<br> | ||
+ | |bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|CAN<br><small>2 | ||
+ | |USE<br> | ||
+ | |USW<br> | ||
+ | |RSA<br> | ||
+ | |bgcolor="#cfcfff"|ITA<br><small>25 | ||
+ | |BEL<br> | ||
+ | |CZE<br> | ||
+ | |JPN<br> | ||
+ | |bgcolor="#cfeaff"|HKG<br><small>16 | ||
+ | ! 65 | ||
+ | ! 24th | ||
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Revision as of 07:31, 26 July 2022
Pieter Kickert, pictured in 2015 | |
Details | |
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Name | Pieter Kickert |
Born | 12th Feb 1971 |
Nationality | Dutch |
Achievements | |
Two-time Life GP race winner |
Pieter Kickert (born 12th February 1971) is a Dutch racing car driver famous for his early exploits in Life GP and later for his extensive touring car career. He is also the father of racing driver Emma Kickert. Since retiring from racing, he has taken over as the head of McEwan Automotive's junior driver programme.
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Early Career
Kickert started out racing at 16 when he entered minor races at his local track Zandvoort. He showed his talent quickly winning many races, and spent the following four years competing in club and national races in the Netherlands, earning enough prize and sponsorship money to pursue an international career.
Life Grand Prix Season
In 1991, Kickert entered the new Life Grand Prix Series as it was an international series in which he could afford to buy his own car to compete. However, he overestimated the reliability of the car, and bought too few spare parts. After several mechanical failures left him with no parts and little money to replace them with, he announced that he would withdraw his team's entries from the coming rounds. Foster's Good Call Racing immediately offered him a drive in one of their cars. Kickert accepted and rewarded their faith with instant results. In just his second race for the team, he finished second in Belgium. Two races later, he won his first race at the Luxembourg Life GP after it was red-flagged early due to a track invasion.
He also gained a reputation for being stubborn after he completed the majority of the European round without a front wing, still scoring points for a fifth place finish. Later, he would repeat a similar trick by driving much of the Portuguese round with a car that was stuck in first gear. His performances were enough to earn him a second season with Good Call, and his 1992 season started well with a win in Spain and a pole position in Austria. However, things went sideways for Kickert when he suffered an injury in a scary crash at Zolder. He would be replaced by former Formula One World Champion Jérémy-Étienne Voeckler, who was out of contract at Williams and bored. When Voeckler announced that he would also run the last three rounds of the year, Good Call gave Kickert sufficient support to self-enter a car under the Kickert Motorsport Engineering banner.
In 1993, Kickert again chose to run his shoestring owner-driver operation. This would be his toughest season yet: despite two second places and a respectable 18 points overall, his efforts were only good enough for 12th in the Championship. With no 1994 season of Life Grand Prix for him to continue in, it was time for Kickert to move up the motorsport ladder.
International Formula 3000
For the 1994 season, Kickert found himself a drive in International Formula 3000. Despite the chaos of Formula One that year, Kickert did not get called up by any teams in that series. He also chose to remain in Formula 3000 in 1995.
Formula One
Finally, Pieter Kickert's breakthrough came when he found a drive in Formula One for the 1996 season. This was already a heady time for the Dutchman, as he was also celebrating the birth of his daughter Emma. It must therefore have been crushing for Kickert when on the eve of the Australian Grand Prix, his team announced that they would not be able to compete in Formula One after all due to a funding shortfall.
Sports and Touring Cars
After this experience, Kickert turned his back on open-wheelers and chose to focus instead on the world of touring and sports cars.
Career Results
Life Grand Prix Series
Year | Entrant | # | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Pts | Pos |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1991 | Kickert Motorsport Engineering | 16 | ESP Ret |
AND Ret |
FRA Ret |
ITA Ret |
AUT Ret |
CZE Ret |
GER 4 |
29 | 4th | |||||||||||||
Foster's Good Call Racing | 9 | SWE Ret |
BEL 2 |
SUI Ret |
LUX 1 |
EUR 5 |
GBR Ret |
ENG Ret |
POR NC |
USE 3 |
USW Ret |
JPN 4 | ||||||||||||
1992 | Foster's Good Call Racing | 9 | ARG Ret |
BRA Ret |
ESP 1 |
FRA Ret |
ITA Ret |
AUT Ret |
CZE Ret |
FIN 3 |
GER Ret |
SUI Ret |
BEL Ret |
NED INJ |
ENG INJ |
GBR INJ |
CAN 6 |
USE Ret |
17.5 | 9th | ||||
Kickert Motorsport Engineering | 16 | USW Ret |
JPN Ret |
AUS 6* | ||||||||||||||||||||
1993 | Kickert Motorsport Engineering | 16 | ARG 2 |
BRA Ret |
VEN Ret |
USA 4 |
CAN Ret |
IRE Ret |
GBR Ret |
NED Ret |
GER Ret |
POL Ret |
AUT 2 |
ITA 4 |
FRA Ret |
NAM Ret |
JPN Ret |
MAS Ret |
INA Ret |
NZL Ret |
AUS Ret |
MAC Ret |
18 | 12th |
Touring Cars
Year | Entrant | Car | Cl. | # | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Pts | Pos |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2015 RTCC |
ZimSport | Vauxhall Vectra | I | 032 | ORA 1 Ret |
ORA 2 14 |
KNO 1 Ret |
KNO 2 3 |
SAN 1 6 |
SAN 2 14 |
SPA 1 Ret |
SPA 2 23 |
SUZ 1 EX |
SUZ 2 EX |
LIE 1 |
LIE 2 |
34 | 13th | ||
2016 RTCC |
Mobil Racing ZimSport | Holden Vectra | M | 31 | BAT 7 |
BRH 1 18 |
BRH 2 4 |
AUT 16 |
KNO 1 Ret |
KNO 2 Ret |
DIJ Ret |
OSC 1 10 |
OSC 2 30 |
ZAN 14 |
SPA 2 |
ADR 8 |
SUZ 8 |
GRO Ret |
74 | 11th |
2017 ARST |
Triumph Team Netherlands | Triumph 2000 | P | 79 | AUS |
BAT |
GBR |
FRA 12 |
ESP |
CAN 2 |
USE |
USW |
RSA |
ITA 25 |
BEL |
CZE |
JPN |
HKG 16 |
65 | 24th |