Arie Luyendyk, Jr.

Arie Luyendyk Jr. ( , ; born September 18, 1981) is a Dutch and American auto racing driver, television personality, and son of two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Arie Luyendyk. He has competed mostly in North America where his father lives and made his career. Luyendyk is best known for competing in the Indy Lights Series where he finished second, third and fourth in the Championship over a number of years. He was named a test-driver in A1 Grand Prix alongside Jeroen Bleekemolen for A1 Team The Netherlands starting the 2007–08 season.

Luyendyk has competed in various sports-car series, including the 12 Hours of Sebring and the 24 Hours of Daytona.

Luyendyk was a contestant on ABC's dating competition The Bachelorette season 8 in 2012, where he placed first runner-up, and starred in the 22nd season of its sister show The Bachelor, which premiered on January 1, 2018. In 2023, he was a contestant on The Traitors, where he finished in fourth place.

Early life Luyendyk was born in the Netherlands, to Arie and Mieke Luyendyk. He graduated from Desert Mountain High School in 2000.

Career Luyendyk began racing karts in 1992, and moved to Sports Car Club of America club Formula Ford competition six years later at the age of sixteen. He raced in a number of American junior formulae, notching wins in the Skip Barber Formula Dodge series and top five finishes the U.S. Formula Ford 2000 Championship. In 2001, Luyendyk finished third in the Formula Continental class at the SCCA National Championship Runoffs as well as winning the SCCA Southern Pacific divisional title on the strength of four wins in that same class.

Luyendyk competed full-time in the first three seasons of the Indy Racing League's Indy Pro Series (now known as Firestone Indy Lights), beginning in 2002. In his Firestone Indy Lights career, Luyendyk has one victory, four pole positions and 24 top-five finishes. Luyendyk finished second in the Firestone Indy Lights Championship in 2002, third in 2004, and fourth in 2008.

Luyendyk driving an Indy Lights car on the Streets of St. Petersburg in 2005 In 2005, Luyendyk attempted to make his IndyCar Series debut by qualifying for the 2005 Indianapolis 500 in a car owned by Curb-Agajanian/Beck Motorsports. Luyendyk's qualifying speed of was close to slower than the next slowest qualifier at the time. A. J. Foyt hired driver Felipe Giaffone to qualify a third car for him, and Giaffone's four-lap average bumped Luyendyk from the field.

Luyendyk did qualify for the 2006 Indianapolis 500 in a car owned by his father and backed by cheapcaribbean.com and Blue Star Jets. The team had limited practice time due to a second week engine program. However, his first race in the more powerful cars ended early due to handling issues, with Luyendyk finishing 54 laps out of 200 and ending in 28th place in the field of 33.

In the 2007–08 A1 Grand Prix season, Luyendyk drove for A1 Team Netherlands in the A1 Grand Prix World Cup of Motorsport as the team's "rookie driver". His best result was a fifth place training time at Round 5 held in Taupo, New Zealand. He has returned to the Firestone Indy Lights Series to race for AGR-AFS Racing as the teammate to Raphael Matos. He captured his first series win in the final race of the 2008 season at Chicagoland Speedway by passing Matos on a late race restart. Luyendyk would finish the 2008 season fourth in the Championship, recording five podium finishes.

In 2010, Luyendyk returned part-time to Indy Lights and drove in the Freedom 100 for Andersen Racing and three other oval races for Alliance Motorsports. His best finish was seventh at Chicagoland.

In 2013, Luyendyk made the switch to off-road racing in the Stadium Super Trucks series, finishing seventh in points. In his partial season, Luyendyk notched a heat win and three fourth place finishes in seven starts. Two years later, he won the bronze medal at X Games Austin 2015 in the SST category.

Luyendyk finished the season driving in the Traxxas TORC Series with Aero Motorsports backed by Ethika and Cooper Tires. In Luyendyk's TORC debut he finished fourth at Crandon International Off-Road Raceway driving in the Pro Light class. On November 18, 2013, Luyendyk completed a test with Dale Coyne Racing in the DW12 IndyCar. Luyendyk ran 138 laps.

During the 2018 Stadium Super Trucks, Luyendyk recorded his first series win at Barbagallo Raceway in Perth, Australia. He scored a second victory at Detroit in June. His third SST win came two years later at Road America when he won the weekend's first race after an early roll.

Television In 2009, Luyendyk became the driver analyst for Versus broadcasts of Indy Lights races. In 2012 Luyendyk returned to the booth, commentating the Indy Lights races for the NBC Sports Network. He appeared as himself in season nine of Hell's Kitchen. The chefs visited the Grand Prix of Long Beach in which Luyendyk was participating.

In 2023, Luyendyk appeared as a contestant on the reality game show The Traitors, which aired on Peacock.

The Bachelorette and The Bachelor Luyendyk placed second on the eighth season of the reality show The Bachelorette, starring Emily Maynard.

Luyendyk appeared in the first episode of the 17th season of The Bachelor. Luyendyk also competed on Wipeout: Summer Episode 7: "Bachelors vs. Bachelorettes", where he was eliminated early.

In 2017, it was announced that Luyendyk would appear in the 22nd season of The Bachelor. He asked Rebecca "Becca" Kufrin to marry him at the season finale however he later regretted rejecting Lauren Burnham, the runner-up, and tried to rekindle things with Burnham. Luyendyk and Kufrin broke up after the show, but the breakup was televised. Luyendyk revealed that he had been talking to Burnham, and later the two began dating.

Personal life Luyendyk works as a real estate broker for RE/MAX in Scottsdale, Arizona. After realizing he had made a mistake upon proposing to Becca Kufrin on The Bachelor, he proposed to the runner-up, Lauren Burnham, and Burnham moved to Scottsdale to be with Luyendyk. The couple married on January 12, 2019. They have a daughter who was born on May 29, 2019. On June 11, 2021, Lauren gave birth to twins. On September 18, 2025, Lauren gave birth to a daughter.

Luyendyk appeared as an agent on a 2019 episode of HGTV's House Hunters International set in Amsterdam.

Racing record

SCCA National Championship Runoffs Year Track Car Engine Class Finish Start Status 2001 Mid-Ohio Van Diemen RF01 Ford Formula Continental 3 2 Running

American open-wheel racing (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Indy Lights

IndyCar Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Rank Points Ref 2005 CURB/Agajanian/Beck MotorsportsHMSPHXSTPMOTINDYTXSRIRKANNSHMILMISKTYPPIRSNMCHIWGLFON NC – 2006 Luyendyk RacingHMSSTPMOTINDYWGLTXSRIRKANNSHMILMISKTYSNMCHI 36th 10

Indianapolis 500 Year Chassis Engine Start Finish Team 2005 Dallara ChevroletDNQ Beck 2006 Panoz Honda3128 Luyendyk

Complete A1 Grand Prix 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 DC Points 2007–08 NetherlandsNEDSPRNEDFEACZESPRCZEFEAMYSSPRMYSFEACHNSPRCHNFEANZLSPRNZLFEAAUSSPRAUSFEARSASPRRSAFEAMEXSPRMEXFEACHNSPRCHNFEAGBRSPRGBRSPR7th 87

Stadium Super Trucks (key) (Bold – Pole position. Italics – Fastest qualifier. * – Most laps led.) Stadium Super Trucks results Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Pts Ref 2013 PHO4 LBH7 LAN11 SDG4 SDG4 STL12 TOR TOR CRA CRA OCF OCF OCF CPL 7th 154 2014 STP STP LBH IMS5 IMS6 DET3 DET4 DET2 AUS10 TOR TOR OCF OCF CSS LVV LVV 11th 110 2015 ADE ADE ADE STP STP LBH DET10 DET8 DET8 AUS3 TOR TOR OCF OCF OCF SRF SRF SRF SRF SYD LVV LVV 13th 72 2016 ADE ADE ADE STP STP LBH LBH DET2* DETC1 DET8 TOW4 TOW5 TOW3 TOR TOR CLT10 CLT2 OCF5 OCF9 SRF SRF SRF 6th 173 2017 ADE ADE ADE STP5 STP4 LBH6 LBH6 PER PER PER DET10 DET6 TEX7 TEX8 HID HID HID BEI7 GLN GLN ELS7 ELS9 8th 183 2018 ELS9 ADE2 ADE5 ADE7 LBH3 LBH14 PER1 PER8 DET3 DET1 TEX6 TEX10 ROARpl† ROARpl† SMP SMP HLN3 HLN11 MXC MXC 7th 305 2019 COA COA TEX TEX LBH LBH TOR TOR MOH6 MOH8 MOH MOH ROA ROA ROA POR POR SRF SRF 19th 28 2020 ADE ADE ADE ROA1* ROA9 N/A2 – 2021 STP3 STP4 MOH MOH MOH MOH NSH7 NSH6 LBH LBH 10th 75 2025 LBH10 LBH4 T-6th 29 † – Replaced by Casey Mears, points went to Luyendyk

Season in progress. The race was abandoned after Matt Mingay suffered serious injuries in a crash on lap three. Standings were not recorded by the series for the 2020 season.