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| Yelmer Buurman | |
|---|---|
 Buurman at the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans | |
| Nationality |  Dutch |
| Born | (1987-02-19) 19 February 1987 (age 37) Ubbergen, Netherlands |
| GT3 career | |
| Debut season | 2008 |
| Current team | A.C. Milan |
| Racing licence |  FIA Platinum |
| Car number | 3 |
| Former teams | PSV Eindhoven R.S.C. Anderlecht |
| Starts | 23 |
| Wins | 2 |
| Poles | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 4 |
| Best finish | 1st in 2008 |
| Previous series | |
| 2008–2009–10 2008 2007 2006–07 2005–06 2004–05 2004 2003–05 2003–04 2003–04 2002 2002 | GP2 Asia Series GP2 Series Formula Renault 3.5 Series Formula Three Euroseries British Formula 3 Formula Renault UK FTR 2000 Winter Series FR2.0 Netherlands Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 FRUK Winter Series Formula König Dutch Winter Endurance |
Yelmer Evert Frans Buurman (born 19 February 1987) is a Dutch professional racing driver. He was 3rd in the Blancpain Endurance Series in 2013, and second in the FIA GT1 Championship in 2012. Besides achieving victories in those categories, also won several races in the Superleague Formula, and was second in the 2013 24 Hours of Nürburgring.
Career
Formula König
Born in Ubbergen, Gelderland, Buurman drove in the German-based Formula König championship in 2002, finishing twentieth in the season standings.
Formula Renault
Buurman concentrated on various Formula Renault championships from 2003 to 2005, competing in the British, Dutch, European and American series during this period. In the British Winter Series in 2003, he began a four-year association with the Fortec Motorsport team. His most successful FRenault championships were the 2003 British Winter Series and the 2004 Dutch season, finishing third in both.
In 2007, Buurman made a brief appearance for Fortec in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, replacing the injured Richard Philippe for four races. At the second race weekend in which he replaced Philippe, he finished fifth and fourth in the two races.
Formula Three
Following two races in British Formula Three in 2005, Buurman concentrated on this formula for 2006 and 2007. In 2006, he finished in fourth place in the British championship and drove in four races in the Formula Three Euroseries for Fortec. In 2007, he switched to the Euroseries full-time with the Manor Motorsport team, taking sixth place in the championship. He also competed in the stand-alone Macau Grand Prix and Masters F3 events in both years.
GP2 Series
In 2008, Buurman competed in both the GP2 Series and the new GP2 Asia Series for the Arden team, alongside Sébastien Buemi. He was not originally scheduled to race in the Asian championship, but replaced Adam Langley-Khan when the Pakistani driver decided to focus on his A1 Grand Prix and education commitments and left the team after two rounds of the season.
After ten races of the GP2 Series season, Buurman was replaced at Arden by Luca Filippi, who had in turn lost his previous drive with the ART Grand Prix team to Sakon Yamamoto.
Buurman was signed by the newly renamed Ocean Racing Technology team for the remainder of the 2008–09 GP2 Asia Series season. He was replaced for the final round by Karun Chandhok however, but he finished 19th in the championship. He was recalled to the team for the final two rounds of the 2009–10 GP2 Asia Series season.
Superleague Formula
Following the loss of his GP2 drive, Buurman moved to the new Superleague Formula series as a driver for the PSV Eindhoven team. He finished in second position in the 2008 championship. For the 2009 season, he drove for the R.S.C. Anderlecht team. For 2010, Buurman will drive for his third different side, moving to the Atech Grand Prix-run A.C. Milan outfit.
Sports car racing
In 2011, Buurman debuted in the FIA GT1 Championship in the final round at Potrero de los Funes, with a Chevrolet Corvette C6.R of Exim Bank Team China, winning the two races.
Buurman became a full-time driver for Vitaphone in the FIA GT1 Championship in 2012 along with Michael Bartels; posted four wins, two seconds places, two thirds, two fourths and two fifths, so that finished fifth in the championship behind the pairings Marc Basseng / Markus Winkelhock and Stef Dusseldorp / Frédéric Makowiecki. He also contested in the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 6 Hours of Castellet with a LMP2's car Lola B12/80, where he finished third in the Paul Ricard race.
Marc VDS Racing Team hired a Buurman to drive a BMW Z4 for the 2013 Blancpain Endurance Series, more precisely in the Pro Cup class, along with Maxime Martin and Bas Leinders. The trio won a race, so that finished fourth in the series. Furthermore, Buurman finished second in the 24 Hours of Nurburgring.
Buurman won the 2018 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup and the Pro-Am division of the 2020 British GT Championship.
Racing record
Career summary
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Fortec Motorsport | MNZ 1 |
MNZ 2 |
NÜR 1 14 |
NÜR 2 5 |
MON 1 |
HUN 1 |
HUN 2 |
SPA 1 |
SPA 2 |
DON 1 5 |
DON 2 4 |
MAG 1 |
MAG 2 |
EST 1 |
EST 2 |
CAT 1 |
CAT 2 |
20th | 15 |
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 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Trust Team Arden | CAT FEA Ret |
CAT SPR 10 |
IST FEA 14 |
IST SPR Ret |
MON FEA 12 |
MON SPR 8 |
MAG FEA 12 |
MAG SPR 2 |
SIL FEA 15 |
SIL SPR 10 |
HOC FEA |
HOC SPR |
HUN FEA |
HUN SPR |
VAL FEA |
VAL SPR |
SPA FEA |
SPA SPR |
MNZ FEA |
MNZ SPR |
20th | 5 |
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 | Trust Team Arden | DUB1 FEA |
DUB1 SPR |
SEN FEA |
SEN SPR |
SEP FEA 6 |
SEP SPR 5 |
BHR FEA 9 |
BHR SPR 8 |
DUB2 FEA 3 |
DUB2 SPR 5 |
9th | 13 | ||
| 2008–09 | Ocean Racing Technology | SHI FEA |
SHI SPR |
DUB FEA Ret |
DUB SPR C |
BHR1 FEA Ret |
BHR1 SPR 13 |
LSL FEA Ret |
LSL SPR DNS |
SEP FEA 5 |
SEP SPR 11 |
BHR2 FEA |
BHR2 SPR |
19th | 4 |
| 2009–10 | Ocean Racing Technology | YMC1 FEA |
YMC1 SPR |
YMC2 FEA |
YMC2 SPR |
BHR1 FEA 12 |
BHR1 SPR 10 |
BHR2 FEA 13 |
BHR2 SPR 7 |
21st | 0 |
Superleague Formula
2008-2009
(Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | Operator | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Position | Points | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | PSV Eindhoven | Azerti Motorsport | DON | NÜR | ZOL | EST | VAL | JER | 2nd | 337 | ||||||
| 4 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 9 | |||||
| 2009 | R.S.C. Anderlecht | Zakspeed | MAG | ZOL | DON | EST | MOZ | JAR | 4th | 305 | ||||||
| 2 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 16 | D | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 15 | |||||
2009 Super Final Results
- Super Final results in 2009 did not count for points towards the main championship.
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | R.S.C. Anderlecht Zakspeed |
MAG 4 |
ZOL N/A |
DON DNQ |
EST 4 |
MOZ N/A |
JAR 1 |
2010
| Year | Team | Operator | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | NC | 11 | Position | Points | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | A.C. Milan | Atech | SIL |
ASS |
MAG |
JAR |
NÜR |
ZOL |
BRH | ADR |
POR |
ORD |
BEI |
NAV |
5th | 631 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | 16 | X | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 11 | 4 | X | 10 | 16 | X | 6 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 3 | C | 7 | 12 | X | |||||
| 2011 | Azerti Motorsport | Netherlands – PSV Eindhoven | HOL |
BEL |
4th | 130 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Complete GT1 World Championship results
| Year | Team | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Pos | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Exim Bank Team China | Corvette C6.R | ABU QR |
ABU CR |
ZOL QR |
ZOL CR |
ALG QR |
ALG QR |
SAC QR |
SAC CR |
SIL QR |
SIL CR |
NAV QR |
NAV CR |
PRI QR |
PRI CR |
ORD QR |
ORD CR |
BEI QR |
BEI CR |
SAN QR 1 |
SAN CR 1 |
15th | 33 |
| 2012 | BMW Team Vita4One | BMW E89 Z4 GT3 | NOG QR 11 |
NOG CR 10 |
ZOL QR 1 |
ZOL CR 2 |
NAV QR 3 |
NAV QR 5 |
SVK QR 3 |
SVK CR 1 |
ALG QR 2 |
ALG CR 5 |
SVK QR 1 |
SVK CR 1 |
MOS QR 10 |
MOS CR 7 |
NUR QR 4 |
NUR CR 4 |
DON QR 9 |
DON CR 9 |
3rd | 144 |
* Season still in progress.
24 Hours of Le Mans Results
| Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 |  Status Grand Prix
|
 Alexander Sims Romain Iannetta
|
Lola B12/80-Judd | LMP2 | 239 | DNF | DNF |
References
- Yelmer Buurman career summary at DriverDB.com
- "Filippi replaces Buurman at Arden". autosport.com. 2008-07-17. Retrieved 2008-07-17.
- "Buurman fills Monteiro's first seat". autosport.com. 2008-11-29. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
- Beer, Matt (2010-02-24). "Ocean recalls Buurman for Bahrain". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 2010-02-24.
- Beer, Matt (2010-03-10). "Buurman gets AC Milan drive for 2010". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
- Newbold, James (30 March 2021). "Have a go hero: How a GT1 cameo launched a professional career". Autosport. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
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| Sporting positions | ||
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| Preceded byMirko Bortolotti Andrea Caldarelli Christian Engelhart |
Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup Champion 2018 With: Maro Engel & Luca Stolz |
Succeeded byAndrea Caldarelli Marco Mapelli |
| Preceded byJonny Cocker Sam De Haan |
British GT Championship Pro-Am Champion 2020-2021 With: Ian Loggie |
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- 1987 births
- Living people
- People from Ubbergen
- Dutch racing drivers
- GP2 Series drivers
- British Formula Renault 2.0 drivers
- Dutch Formula Renault 2.0 drivers
- Formula Renault Eurocup drivers
- North American Formula Renault drivers
- British Formula Three Championship drivers
- Formula 3 Euro Series drivers
- Superleague Formula drivers
- GP2 Asia Series drivers
- World Series Formula V8 3.5 drivers
- FIA GT1 World Championship drivers
- 24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
- GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup drivers
- ADAC GT Masters drivers
- 24 Hours of Spa drivers
- 24H Series drivers
- British GT Championship drivers
- Fortec Motorsport drivers
- Manor Motorsport drivers
- Arden International drivers
- Ocean Racing Technology drivers
- Status Grand Prix drivers
- Sportspeople from Gelderland
- Mercedes-AMG Motorsport drivers
- Nürburgring 24 Hours drivers
- Craft-Bamboo Racing drivers
- Lamborghini Super Trofeo drivers
- Iron Lynx drivers