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Arie Luyendyk Jr.
Luyendyk in 2012
Nationality	American
Born	(1981-09-18) September 18, 1981 (age 43) Netherlands
Related to	Arie Luyendyk (father)
Stadium Super Trucks career
Debut season	2013
Car number	25
Starts	59
Wins	3
Podiums	14
Poles	0
Best finish	6th in 2016
Finished last season	10th (2021)
Previous series
2002–2008, 2010 2007–2008 2006 2001	Indy Lights A1 Grand Prix (rookie driver) IndyCar Series SCCA Formula Continental
Medal record Representing  United States Summer X Games 2015 Austin Stadium Super Trucks
Last updated on: August 9, 2021.

Arie Luyendyk Jr. (/ˈɑːri ˈlaɪəndaɪk/ AR-ee LY-ən-dyke, Dutch: [ˈaːri ˈlœyə(n)ˌdɛik]; born September 18, 1981) is a Dutch-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 2nd, 3rd and 4th 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.

He 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. At age 3, he immigrated with his family, including sister Maida, to the United States and settled in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Luyendyk has two younger twin brothers, Alec and Luca. 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 16. 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.

He 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 1 victory, four pole positions and 24 top-5 finishes. Luyendyk finished second in the Firestone Indy Lights Championship in 2002, third in 2004, and fourth in 2008.

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 215.039 mph (346.072 km/h) was close to 2 mph (3.2 km/h) 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 217.645 mph (350.266 km/h) 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, he 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 4th-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 Series, 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, he 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 Season 22 of "The Bachelor," he became engaged 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.

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

Racing record

SCCA National Championship Runoffs

American open-wheel racing

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Indy Lights

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IndyCar

Indianapolis 500

Complete A1 Grand Prix results

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

Stadium Super Trucks

(key) (Bold – Pole position. Italics – Fastest qualifier. * – Most laps led.)

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.

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External links

• Official website

• 1981 births
• Living people
• Dutch racing drivers
• Dutch emigrants to the United States
• A1 Grand Prix Rookie drivers
• IndyCar Series drivers
• Indianapolis 500 drivers
• Indy Lights drivers
• Racing drivers from Arizona
• Sportspeople from Scottsdale, Arizona
• X Games athletes
• SCCA National Championship Runoffs participants
• Stadium Super Trucks drivers
• U.S. F2000 National Championship drivers
• Bachelor Nation contestants
• Arrow McLaren SP drivers
• AFS Racing drivers
• Andretti Autosport drivers
• Racing drivers from Wisconsin
• 2017 controversies in the United States