Daniël de Jong

Daniël de Jong
Daniël de Jong at the 2011 Nürburgring World series by Renault round
Nationality	Dutch
Born	(1992-07-09) 9 July 1992 Rotterdam, Netherlands
GP2 Series career
Debut season	2012
Current team	Trident
Car no.	12
Former teams	MP Motorsport, Rapax
Starts	68
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	23rd in 2015
Previous series
2011–13 2011 2009–10 2008–10 2008 2008 2008 2005–06, 2009–10	Auto GP Formula Renault 3.5 Series Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC Finnish Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault 2.0 NEZ Formula Renault 2.0 WEC Dutch Winter Endurance Series

Daniël de Jong (born 9 July 1992) is a professional racing driver from the Netherlands.

Career

Formula Renault 2.0

After a lengthy karting career in his native Holland and a brief stint in the Dutch Winter Endurance Series, de Jong made his single–seater debut in 2008 in the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup (NEC), finishing the season 13th overall. He also contested two races in the Formula Renault 2.0 NEZ series, taking two pole positions and a race victory to finish the season in 8th place,^[1] and a single round of the Formula Renault 2.0 West European Cup at Spa–Francorchamps.

In 2009, de Jong took part in both the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 and Formula Renault 2.0 NEC championships with MP Motorsport. In the Eurocup, he took a single points–finish at the Hungaroring to be classified in 25th place, whilst in the NEC series he took podium places at the Nürburgring and Spa–Francorchamps to finish 9th, despite missing the third round of the season at Alastaro.^[2]

2010 saw de Jong remain in the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 series for a second season. After finishing second to Kevin Korjus in the first race of the season at Motorland Aragón,^[3] he finished in the points on a further eight occasions to finish 9th in the standings.^[4] He also took part in selected events of the Formula Renault 2.0 NEC season, taking a race win at the final event of the season at the Nürburgring together with a second–place at Brno earlier in the season. He finished the year 11th in the standings, despite only taking part in six of the 18 races.^[5]

Formula Renault 3.5 Series

Daniël de Jong at the 2011 Nürburgring World series by Renault round

In October 2010, de Jong drove a Formula Renault 3.5 Series car for the first time, testing for Draco Racing at the first post–season test in Barcelona.^[6] A week later he tested for Comtec Racing at Motorland Aragón and it was announced in February 2011 that he had signed to race for the team in the 2011 season, partnering British Formula 3 graduate Daniel McKenzie.^[7] cool

Auto GP

Alongside his Formula Renault 3.5 commitments, de Jong will also contest the Auto GP season in 2011, driving for his long–time Formula Renault 2.0 team MP Motorsport.^[8] He remains with the team (now in a partnership with Manor Motorsport) for the 2012 season.

GP2 Series

In 2012, de Jong made his GP2 Series debut at the Valencia Street Circuit, driving for the Rapax team. He also drove for the team at Silverstone, and will also do so at the Hungaroring and at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.^[9] He is the third Dutchman in the championship, alongside Giedo van der Garde and Nigel Melker. He missed the round at Hockenheim due to his Auto GP commitments,^[10] but returned to action in the next round at the Hungaroring.^[11] He was then replaced by Stefano Coletti for the round at Monza.^[12]

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2005–06	Dutch Winter Endurance Series	?	?	0	?	?	?	?	227th
2008	Formula Renault 2.0 NEC	MP Motorsport	16	0	0	0	0	119	13th
	Formula Renault 2.0 Finland	MP Motorsport	All races accounted for in the NEZ championship
	Formula Renault 2.0 NEZ	?	2	1	2	0	2	46	8th
	Formula Renault 2.0 WEC	MP Motorsport	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
2009	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	MP Motorsport	14	0	0	0	0	3	25th
2009	Formula Renault 2.0 NEC	MP Motorsport	14	0	0	0	2	164	9th
2009–10	Dutch Winter Endurance Series	De Heus by Bas Koeten	1	0	0	0	0	10	100th
2010	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	MP Motorsport	16	0	0	0	1	48	9th
2010	Formula Renault 2.0 NEC	MP Motorsport	6	1	2	3	2	105	11th
2011	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Comtec Racing	17	0	0	0	0	2	29th
2011	Auto GP	MP Motorsport	6	0	0	0	0	19	14th
2012	Auto GP World Series	Manor MP Motorsport	16	0	0	3	3	104	5th
2012	GP2 Series	Rapax	8	0	0	0	0	0	26th
2013	Auto GP	Manor MP Motorsport	13	0	0	0	2	77	7th
2013	GP2 Series	MP Motorsport	22	0	0	0	0	3	24th
2014	GP2 Series	MP Motorsport	22	0	0	0	0	2	28th
2015	GP2 Series	MP Motorsport	17	0	0	0	0	1	23rd
2015	GP2 Series	Trident	17	0	0	0	0	1	23rd

^† As de Jong was a guest driver, he was ineligible for championship points.

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	DC	Points
2011	Comtec Racing	ALC 1 19	ALC 2 15	SPA 1 Ret	SPA 2 Ret	MNZ 1 14	MNZ 2 14	MON 1 19	NÜR 1 16	NÜR 2 19	HUN 1 16	HUN 2 18	SIL 1 18	SIL 2 Ret	LEC 1 20	LEC 2 12	CAT 1 16	CAT 2 9	29th	2

Complete Auto GP Results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pos	Points
2011	MP Motorsport	MNZ 1	MNZ 2	HUN 1	HUN 2	BRN 1	BRN 2	DON 1 6	DON 2 8	OSC 1 6	OSC 2 7	VAL 1 13	VAL 2 11	MUG 1	MUG 2			14th	19
2012	Manor MP Motorsport	MNZ 1 3	MNZ 2 Ret	VAL 1 4	VAL 2 4	MAR 1 7	MAR 2 Ret	HUN 1 11	HUN 2 12	ALG 1 7	ALG 2 7	CUR 1 4	CUR 2 3	SON 1 2	SON 2 6			5th	104
2013	Manor MP Motorsport	MNZ 1	MNZ 2	MAR 1 2	MAR 2 Ret	HUN 1 7	HUN 2 7	SIL 1 4	SIL 2 6	MUG 1 DNS	MUG 2 7	NÜR 1 Ret	NÜR 2 3	DON 1 6	DON 2 13	BRN 2 9	BRN 2 8	7th	77

Complete GP2 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	DC	Points
2012	Rapax Team	MYS FEA	MYS SPR	BHR1 FEA	BHR1 SPR	BHR2 FEA	BHR2 SPR	ESP FEA	ESP SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	VAL FEA 16	VAL SPR 9	GBR FEA Ret	GBR SPR 13	GER FEA	GER SPR	HUN FEA 15	HUN SPR 19	BEL FEA 13	BEL SPR 11	ITA FEA	ITA SPR	SGP FEA	SGP SPR	26th	0
2013	MP Motorsport	MYS FEA Ret	MYS SPR 14	BHR FEA Ret	BHR SPR 19	ESP FEA 16	ESP SPR 18	MON FEA 10	MON SPR 9	GBR FEA 22	GBR SPR 18	GER FEA 15	GER SPR Ret	HUN FEA 12	HUN SPR Ret	BEL FEA Ret	BEL SPR 17	ITA FEA 11	ITA SPR 19	SGP FEA 17	SGP SPR 7	ABU FEA 19†	ABU SPR 17			24th	3
2014	MP Motorsport	BHR FEA 11	BHR SPR 11	ESP FEA Ret	ESP SPR 19	MON FEA 11	MON SPR Ret	AUT FEA 19	AUT SPR 21	GBR FEA 19	GBR SPR 14	GER FEA Ret	GER SPR 16	HUN FEA 14	HUN SPR 18	BEL FEA 10	BEL SPR 13	ITA FEA Ret	ITA SPR 9	RUS FEA 14	RUS SPR 19	ABU FEA 10	ABU SPR Ret			28th	2
2015	MP Motorsport	BHR FEA 18	BHR SPR 13	ESP FEA 15	ESP SPR 9	MON FEA 12	MON SPR 12	AUT FEA 21	AUT SPR 12	GBR FEA 11	GBR SPR 26†	HUN FEA 10	HUN SPR Ret	BEL FEA Ret	BEL SPR DNS	ITA FEA	ITA SPR	RUS FEA	RUS SPR							23rd	1
2015	Trident																			BHR FEA 19	BHR SPR 14	ABU FEA Ret	ABU SPR C			23rd	1

^† Driver did not finish, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

References

↑ "Formula Renault 2.0 NEZ 2008". driverdb.com (Driver Database). Retrieved 2 March 2011.
↑ "Formula Renault 2.0 NEC 2009". driverdb.com (Driver Database). Retrieved 2 March 2011.
↑ "Kevin Korjus takes first win". renault-sport.com (Renault Sport). 17 April 2010. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
↑ "Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup 2010". driverdb.com (Driver Database). Retrieved 2 March 2011.
↑ "Formula Renault 2.0 NEC 2010". driverdb.com (Driver Database). Retrieved 2 March 2011.
↑ "Negrao and De Jong today with Draco in the collective test in Barcelona". dracoracing.com (Draco Racing). 13 October 2010. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
↑ Wilkinson, Andy (22 February 2011). "Comtec sign McKenzie and de Jong for FR 3.5 Series". motorstv.com (Motors TV). Retrieved 2 March 2011.
↑ "MP Motorsport and De Jong join Auto GP". AutoGP.org (Auto GP). 23 February 2011. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
↑ "Daniel de Jong makes GP2 debut with Rapax". daniel-dejong.nl (Daniël de Jong). 15 June 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
↑ "Dillmann returns; debut for Sergio Canamasas". crash.net (Crash Media Group). 2012-07-19. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
↑ "Tom Dillmann absent à Budapest". news.sportauto.fr (in French) (Sportauto). 2012-07-26. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
↑ Freeman, Glenn (2012-09-06). "Jake Rosenzweig replaces Josef Kral at Addax for Monza". autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved 2012-09-10.

External links

Official website
Daniël de Jong career summary at DriverDB.com
Daniël de Jong on Twitter

Teams and drivers that competed in the 2016 GP2 Series season

ART Grand Prix	Racing Engineering	DAMS	Campos Racing	Russian Time	Rapax	Trident

1. Nobuharu Matsushita 2. Sergey Sirotkin	3. Norman Nato 4. Jordan King	5. Alex Lynn 6. Nicholas Latifi	7. Mitch Evans 8. Sean Gelael	9. Raffaele Marciello 10. Artem Markelov	11. Gustav Malja 12. Arthur Pic	14. Philo Paz Armand 15. Luca Ghiotto

Status Grand Prix	Carlin	Prema Racing	MP Motorsport	Arden International	TBA

16. TBA 17. TBA	18. TBA 19. TBA	20. Antonio Giovinazzi 21. Pierre Gasly	22. Oliver Rowland 23. Daniël de Jong	24. TBA 25. TBA	26. TBA 27. TBA

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