Nico Verdonck
Nico Verdonck ( born December 5, 1985 in Brussels) is a Belgian racing driver.
Verdonck began his motorsport career in 1998 in karting, where he was active until 2002. In 2003, the young gun in the Belgian Formula Renault and immediately won the runner-up title in the series. With only one year of experience in Formula racing changed Verdonck, 2004 in the International Formula 3000 championship, which was held as part of the Formula 1, for Belgian Team Astro Mega. The Belgian, who was only 18 years old, became the youngest driver in the history of Formula 3000th He reached as best finish an eighth place, finishing at the end of the season 15th in the standings and was thus in front of his team members Jan Heylen and Olivier Tielemans. For the last race weekend, he was replaced by Raffaele Giammaria.
2005 Verdonck was neither a cockpit in the GP2 Series, the successor series F3000, nor in any other racing series. However, he started the season progresses as a guest driver in the Formula 3 Euro Series. 2006 received the Belgian again no cockpit and he had to be content with two appearances in the Spanish Formula 3 Championship. 2007 moved Verdonck in the German Formula 3 Cup at JB Motorsport and denied the first time in two years a full season. With a win, he finished at the end of the season behind his teammate and countryman Frédéric Vervisch third overall. 2008, the Belgians switched to RP Motorsport in the Italian Formula 3 Championship. After the season with two podium finishes on the first weekend was a good start, he had his commitment already quit after four race weekends, as his team had left the championship.
2009 Verdonck returned to the Formula racing back and switched to sports car racing. For he DAMS raced in the Formula Le Mans and won with eight wins the championship. He also started in 2008 and 2009 with two races of the Belgian GT Championship.