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Xavier Maassen

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Xavier Maassen
NationalityNetherlands Dutch
Born (1980-06-22) 22 June 1980 (age 44)
Heerlen, Netherlands
Blancpain Endurance Series career
Debut season2011
Current teamProspeed Competition
Racing licence FIA Silver
Car number75
Former teamsFaster Racing by DB Motorspor
Starts5
Wins0
Poles0
Fastest laps0
Previous series
2011
2010
2009
2008–09
2007
2006
2003–06
2003–05
2002
2001–02
2001–02		Belcar
FIA GT1 World Championship
Dutch Supercar Challenge
FIA GT Championship
Formula Renault 3.5 Series
Formula Renault 2.0 NEC
Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0
Formula Renault Netherlands
Formula Ford Netherlands
Formula Ford Benelux
Formula Ford Belgium
Championship titles
2001–02Formula Ford Belgium
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years2009 – 2011, 2015
TeamsLuc Alphand Aventures
JMW Motorsport
Best finish16th (2009)
Class wins0

Xavier Maassen (born 22 June 1980 in Heerlen) is a Dutch racing driver who previously competed in the FIA GT1 World Championship for Mad-Croc Racing. Recently, he has participated in the Blancpain Endurance Series for Prospeed Competition. He lives in Lanaken in Belgium.

Career

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Single-seaters

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Formula Ford

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Maassen began his racing career with success in Formula Ford, winning the Belgian championship in 2001 and 2002. He also finished fifth in the Benelux series in 2001, and was runner-up to Jaap van Lagen in 2002. He also finished fifth in the Dutch series in 2002.[1]

Formula Renault

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Maassen racing in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series in 2007.

Maassen stepped up to Formula Renault in 2003, finishing seventh in Formula Renault 2.0 Netherlands, before finishing runner-up to Junior Strous in 2004. Having competed in selected Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 in the previous two seasons, Maassen moved to the series full-time in 2005, finishing tenth overall. In 2006, he combined another season in the Eurocup, where he finished 13th, with a season in the North European Championship, a merger of the Dutch and German national series. He finished third in the overall standings behind Filipe Albuquerque and Chris van der Drift.

Maassen stepped up to the Formula Renault 3.5 Series in 2007, but failed to score any points in 17 starts for Prema Powerteam.[1]

GT racing

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Maassen began racing in the FIA GT Championship in 2008 driving a Corvette C6.R for the Selleslagh Racing Team alongside Christophe Bouchut. He won just his second GT race at Monza, and the pair finished 13th in the driver's standings.

Maassen started the 2009 season driving a Corvette for Luc Alphand Aventures, but the team missed the races at Spa and Algarve, and so raced for another Corvette team, Sangari Team Brazil at those races. Maassen also raced for Luc Alphand Aventures at the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, finishing second in the GT1 category.[1]

Maassen competed in the new FIA GT1 World Championship in 2010, returning to the DKR Engineering team, now under the Mad-Croc Racing banner.

Racing record

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Complete Formula Renault 2.0 NEC results

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(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 DC Points
2006 JD Motorsport OSC
1
2 		OSC
2
3 		SPA
1
18 		SPA
2
1 		NÜR
1
13 		NÜR
2
5 		ZAN
1
3 		ZAN
2
2 		OSC
1
1 		OSC
2
5 		ASS
1 		ASS
2 		AND
1
5 		AND
2
8 		SAL
1
4 		SAL
2
6 		3rd 252

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

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(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
2007 Prema Powerteam MNZ
1
Ret 		MNZ
2
17 		NÜR
1
22 		NÜR
2
17 		MON
1
17 		HUN
1
14 		HUN
2
13 		SPA
1
14 		SPA
2
Ret 		DON
1
Ret 		DON
2
14 		MAG
1
Ret 		MAG
2
Ret 		EST
1
22 		EST
2
Ret 		CAT
1
23 		CAT
2
17 		32nd 0
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Complete GT1 World Championship results

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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
2010 Mad-Croc Racing Corvette C6.R ABU
QR
14
 		ABU
CR
10
 		SIL
QR
12
 		SIL
CR
11
 		BRN
QR
5
 		BRN
CR
15
 		PRI
QR
4
 		PRI
CR
6
 		SPA
QR
1
 		SPA
CR
Ret
 		NÜR
QR
18
 		NÜR
CR
18
 		ALG
QR
7
 		ALG
CR
14
 		NAV
QR 		NAV
CR 		INT
QR 		INT
CR 		SAN
QR 		SAN
CR 		31st 17
Source:[3]

24 Hours of Le Mans results

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Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
2009 France Luc Alphand Aventures France Julien Jousse
France Yann Clairay 		Chevrolet Corvette C6.R GT1 336 16th 2nd
2010 France Luc Alphand Aventures France Julien Jousse
France Patrice Goueslard 		Chevrolet Corvette C6.R GT1 238 DNF DNF
2011 United Kingdom JMW Motorsport United Kingdom Rob Bell
United Kingdom Tim Sugden 		Ferrari 458 Italia GTC GTE
Pro 		290 24th 9th
2015 Taiwan Team AAI Taiwan Jun-San Chen
United Kingdom Alex Kapadia 		Porsche 911 GT3-RSR GTE
Am 		316 37th 8th
Sources:[4][3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Xavier Maassen career statistics at Driver Database
  2. ^ "Xavier Maassen: Statistics". FIA GT1 World Championship. Archived from the original on 24 November 2010. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Xavier Maassen Results". Motorsport Stats. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  4. ^ "Xavier Maassen". Automobile Club de l'Ouest. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
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