Chris van der Drift

Christopher Jason van der Drift (born 8 March 1986) is a New Zealand racing driver of Dutch descent who currently competes in the Asian Le Mans Series for Absolute Motorsport.

Career

Van der Drift started karting at the age of seven and in 1994 he raced his first year in cadets. From there he went on to win six New Zealand Championships and six North Island Championships until 2002.

After ten years of kart racing in New Zealand and also competing in Australia for two years in 2001 JICA and 2002 Ford Kart Stars (finishing both championships in sixth), van der Drift had to take the step into racing cars. At the time, he had no sponsors so it was difficult just to step into a car as his parents didn't have enough to fund that as well.

Racing record Karting career summary

Racing career summary † Team standings.

‡ As van der Drift was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.

Complete New Zealand Grand Prix results Year Team Car Qualifying Main race 2006 International Motorsport Tatuus TT104ZZ - Toyota ? DNF 2021 Tasman Motorsports Tatuus FT-60 - Toyota 3rd 5th 2023 Hamilton Motorsport Tatuus FT-60 - Toyota 9th 4th

Complete Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete Formula Renault 2.0 NEC results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete GP2 Series results

Complete GP2 Asia 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 DC Points 2008–09 Trident Racing CHNFEA CHNSPR UAEFEA UAESPR BHRFEA BHRSPR QATFEA QATSPR MALFEA MALSPR BHRFEA BHRSPR 18th 5

Complete A1 Grand Prix results (key) Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 DC Points 2008–09 New Zealand NEDSPR NEDFEA CHNSPR CHNFEA MYSSPR MYSFEA NZLSPR NZLFEA RSASPR RSAFEA PORSPR PORFEA GBRSPR GBRFEA 7th 36

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Pos Points 2009 Epsilon Euskadi CAT1 CAT2 SPA1 SPA2 MON1 HUN1 HUN2 SIL1 SIL2 LEM1 LEM2 ALG1 ALG2 NÜR1 NÜR2 ALC1 ALC2 11th 41 2011 Mofaz Racing ALC1 ALC2 SPA1 SPA2 MNZ1 MNZ2 MON1 NÜR1 NÜR2 HUN1 HUN2 SIL1 SIL2 LEC1 LEC2 CAT1 CAT2 12th 43

Superleague Formula (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) ‡ Chris van der Drift qualified for the Super Final at Brands Hatch but was unable to compete due to suffering injuries from a large crash in race two which led to him being taken to hospital with a broken ankle, two broken ribs, a cracked shoulder blade, a dislocated shoulder and two broken fingers. His Super Final place was taken up by the seventh highest points-scorer of the weekend, Yelmer Buurman.

† Non Championship round

Complete Auto GP World 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 Pos Points 2012 Manor MP Motorsport MNZ1 MNZ2 VAL1 VAL2 MAR1 MAR2 HUN1 HUN2 ALG1 ALG2 CUR1 CUR2 SON1 SON2 4th 127

Complete Bathurst 12 Hour results Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps 2015 Motorsport Services Frank Lyons Michael Lyons Porsche 997 GT3 Cup B 193 32nd 8th 2016 Motorsport Services Limited Allan Dippie Scott O'Donnell Porsche 997 GT3 Cup B 128 DNF DNF 2018 Team Carrera Cup Asia Andrew Tang Evan Chen Paul Tresidder Porsche 991 GT3 Cup B 82 DNF DNF 2019 Team Carrera Cup Asia Philip Hamprecht Bao Jinlong Paul Tresidder Porsche 991 GT3 Cup B 279 19th 2nd

Complete Stock Car Brasil results

Supercars Championship results Supercars results Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Position Points 2016 Erebus Motorsport Holden Commodore (VF) ADER1 ADER2 ADER3 SYMR4 SYMR5 PHIR6 PHIR7 BARR8 BARR9 WINR10 WINR11 HIDR12 HIDR13 TOWR14 TOWR15 QLDR16 QLDR17 SMPR18 SMPR19 SANQR SANR20 BATR21 SURR22 SURR23 PUKR24 PUKR25 PUKR26 PUKR27 SYDR28 SYDR29 49th 234

Bathurst 1000 results Year Team Car Co-driver Position Lap 2016 Erebus Motorsport Holden Commodore (VF) Shae Davies 17th 156