Bastiaan van Nieuwenhuijzen

Bastiaan van Nieuwenhuijzen

Bastiaan van Nieuwenhuijzen (born 5 April 1990 in Maaskantje, Netherlands) is a Dutch professional racing driver, who currently drives for Kjellerup by Écurie Prenois in the AutoReject World Series.

History

Van Nieuwenhuijzen started his single-seater career in Dutch Formula Ford, winning the title in 2011. He then progressed to Formula 3 Euroseries, spending two seasons driving for Motopark Academy.

Bastiaan van Nieuwenhuijzen is now a member of the Scuderia Alitalia young driver programme, and as a result was placed at their junior team Parma Corse for the 2014 Formula One Rejects Big Car Championship season. However, the series folded before he was able to make his race debut.

After Phil McCracken was sacked by Scuderia Alitalia, Bastiaan was called up to replace him at Kit-Kat Warriors' F2RWRS team for the Zandvoort Grand Prix. After struggling initially, he finally found pace in the last three rounds of the season, scoring his only points of the season in Spain, and unlucky not to finish in the podium during the season finale crashfest at Indianapolis.

With Kit-Kat Warriors quitting F2RWRS, he moved to his employer's own team Scuderia Lancia Alitalia for the 2015 season.

Van Nieuwenhuijzen won the 2017 AutoReject 3.5 championship on countback, after winning eight races to the three of equal points scorer Marko Jantscher.

He'd make his ARWS debut in 2018, initially driving for Equipe Gauthier, before a switch midway through the season to Kjellerup by Écurie Prenois. Van Nieuwenhuijzen would take his first win at the ARWS German Grand Prix, his second race for Kjellerup. Van Nieuwenhuijzen would take five wins on his way to fourth in the championship.

Van Nieuwenhuijzen's second full season in 2019 was even better for the Dutchman who held the lead of the championship for the whole year. Van Nieuwenhuijzen took eight wins on his way to his first championship.

Results

F2RWRS

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	DC	Pts
2014	Kit-Kat Warriors	TUR	MON	FRA	GBR	AUT	GER	NED 9	BEL 9	HUN 18	CZE 16	ITA 14	POR Ret	ESP 4	CAN Ret	USA Ret	21st	5
2015	Scuderia Lancia Alitalia	TAS 1	RSA 5	TUR 8	MON Ret	FRA 5	GBR EX	GER 13	NED 1	BEL 2	POR Ret	ITA Ret	SIN 4	JPN Ret	USA 4	100 1	2nd	59

AutoReject 3.5 Results

Year	Team	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		DC	Pts
2017	RonDen Racing Engineering	AUS HEA Ret	AUS FEA DNQ	FRA HEA 1	FRA FEA 13	AUT HEA 6	AUT FEA 8	ITA HEA 1	ITA FEA 2	GBR HEA 1	GBR FEA 3	USA HEA 1	USA FEA 3	NED HEA 1	NED FEA 1	GER HEA 1	GER FEA Ret	BEL HEA 2	BEL FEA 1	JPN HEA Ret	JPN FEA DNQ	1st	168

AutoReject World Series results

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	DC	Pts
2018	Equipe Gauthier	Gauthier G3.18	Pure-Hart PHWS-2	AUS 3	NSW 7	ITA 6	MAR Ret	CAL Ret	USA 19†	CAN Ret	GBR 8	AUT WD										4th	59
	Kjellerup by Écurie Prenois	Kjellerup 018	Renault RSXXII									AUT 5	GER 1	SCA 6	BEL 1	MON 1	RSA Ret	BRA Ret	ARG 1	JPN 12†	CHN 1
2019	Kjellerup by Écurie Prenois	Kjellerup 019	Renault RSXXII-19	AUS 1	NSW 2	KIN 1	ITA 2	MAR 4	CAN Ret	USA Ret	GBR 2	AUT Ret	GER 1	SCA 1	BEL Ret	MON 1	RSA 1	BRA Ret	ARG 1	JPN 1	CHN 2	1st	111
2020	Kjellerup by Écurie Prenois	Kjellerup 020	Renault RSXXII-20	AUS Ret	NSW 2	ARG C	BRA C	500 C	CAN C	GBR C	BEL C	MON C	ITA C	AUT C	GER C	SAF C	INA C	MAL C	PAC C	JPN C	CHN C	4th	7

• * Season in progress
• Results in bold represent pole position, italics represents fastest lap.

Sporting Accolades
Preceded by: Terry Hawkin 2016	AutoReject 3.5 Champion 2017	Succeeded by: Nathanael Cameron 2018
Preceded by: Terry Hawkin 2018	AutoReject World Series Champion 2019	Succeeded by: Incumbent