Michael Herck

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Michael Herck
Nationality	Belgian
Date of Birth	August 4, 1988 (1988-08-04) (age 19)
Place of Birth	Bucharest, Romania
2008 GP2 Series
Debut season	2008
Current team	David Price Racing
Car No.	25
Starts	0
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Championship titles
2004 2005	Formula Renault Monza Formula Junior 1600 Spain Austrian Formula Three

Michael Herck (born August 4, 1988 in Bucharest, Romania) is a Belgian-Romanian^[1] race car driver.

1 Career
2 Racing record
- 2.1 Career summary
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Formula Renault

After karting, Herck moved to the Formula Renault Monza Winter Series in 2003 and competed in the full series the next year. He won the 2004 championship with five wins and 375 points. He also competed in the Belgian and Spanish 1.6-litre series in 2004, winning the latter championship.

In 2007 he drove in the World Series by Renault for the Comtec Racing team, but failed to score any points.

[edit] Formula Three

Herck driving for Comtec Racing at the Donington Park round of the 2007 World Series by Renault season.

Herck moved to Formula Three for 2005, winning the Austrian championship. He also made selected appearances in that year's British and German championships. In 2006 he competed in the Formula Three Euroseries with backing from compatriot Bas Leinders, scoring twelve points to finish fifteenth in the championship.

[edit] GP2 Series

Herck competed in the first eight races of the inaugural GP2 Asia Series in 2008 for the FMS International team before breaking his wrist in an accident, missing the last round of the season.^[2]

He is scheduled to drive in the main GP2 Series for 2008 as well, but was initially replaced by Giacomo Ricci in the David Price Racing team until his wrist heals.^[3] After two rounds of the championship, Ricci was dropped in favour of Andy Soucek as Herck continues to recover.^[4]

[edit] Racing record

[edit] Career summary

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Poles	Wins	Points	Final Placing
2003	Formula Renault Monza Winter Series	Dynamic Engineering	2	0	0	18	8th
2004	Formula Renault Monza	Dynamic Engineering	16	3	5	375	1st
	Formula Junior 1600 Spain	?	9	6	4	119	1st
	Formula Renault 1600 Belgium	?	4	0	1	65	11th
2005	Austrian Formula Three	Junior Racing Team	7	6	3	75	1st
	British Formula Three	Junior Racing Team	5	0	0	0	NC
	Recaro Formel 3 Cup	Jama Investments	3	1	0	0	NC
	Formula Renault 2.0 Italia	?	0	0	0	0	NC
2006	Formula Three Euroseries	Bas Leinders Junior Racing Team	19	0	0	12	15th
	British Formula Three	Bas Leinders Junior Racing Team	2	0	0	0	NC
	Masters of Formula Three	Bas Leinders Junior Racing Team	1	0	0	N/A	13th
2007	World Series by Renault	Comtec Racing	14	0	0	0	NC
2007	Formula Three Euroseries	Bas Leinders Junior Racing Team	2	0	0	0	NC
2008	GP2 Asia Series	FMS International	8	0	0	0	NC
2008	GP2 Series	David Price Racing	0	0	0	0	TBD