Duncan Huisman (born 11 November 1971 in
Doornspijk
Doornspijk is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located in the municipality of Elburg.
The village was first mentioned in 796 as Thornspiic, and is a combination of thorn and tapering land. The original village was flooded b ...
,
Gelderland
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) is a Dutch
racing
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driver. He won the
Guia Race
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four times and the
24 Hours of Nürburgring
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Four is the smallest co ...
in 2005. He claimed three titles at the Dutch Touring Car Championship in 1997, 2000 and 2002, and resulted runner-up at the 2010 and 2011
Dutch GT4 Championship
The HDI-Gerling Dutch GT Championship was an auto racing championship based in the Netherlands. The series, founded in 2009 by the SRO Group as the Dutch GT4 Championship, uses grand tourer cars conforming to the Fédération Internationale de l' ...
. He has also competed in the
FIA GT Championship
The FIA GT Championship was a sports car racing series organized by the Stéphane Ratel Organisation (SRO) at the behest of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The championship was mostly concentrated in Europe, but throughout ...
and the
Porsche Supercup
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. His older brother
Patrick is also a successful racing driver.
Touring car racing
He is three times Dutch Touring Car Champion, having won the title in 1997, 2000 and 2001 in a
BMW 3 Series
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The first generation of the 3 Series was only avail ...
.
Between 2001 and 2004 he drove in the
European Touring Car Championship
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, before it was renamed the
World Touring Car Championship
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. In 2005 he first drove in the WTCC for the final two rounds with BMW Team UK, winning in what was only his second race. He competed for just over half a season in 2006 for BMW Team Italy/Spain finishing the season thirteenth overall.
Duncan drove for the
WSR-managed ''Team
Aviva
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'' in the WTCC event in
Macau
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at the end of 2007 prompting speculation that he will join ''
Team RAC
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'' in the 2008 British Touring Car Championship (
BTCC) alongside
Colin Turkington
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following the departure of
Tom Onslow-Cole to
Vauxhall
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's
VXR Racing.
[http://www.vauxhall.co.uk/vx/vxr/html/team.html Vauxhall VX Racing Website (Team Profile)] Stephen Jelley
Stephen Jelley (born 12 May 1982) is a British auto racing driver.
Career
Single-seaters
Born in Leicester, Jelley moved up from Formula Ford to the National Class of the British Formula 3 Championship for 2004, taking three class wins. In 2 ...
was Onslow-Coles replacement, and Huisman returned again for just two 2008 WTCC rounds at
Oschersleben
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History
On November 23, 994 Oschersleben was first mentioned in a document by the Emperor Otto III. In 123 ...
for
Wiechers-Sport
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World Touring Car Championship
...
in a
BMW 320si
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.
Racing record
Complete World Touring Car Championship results
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
Complete GT1 World Championship results
References
External links
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1971 births
Living people
People from Elburg
Dutch racing drivers
World Touring Car Championship drivers
FIA GT Championship drivers
FIA GT1 World Championship drivers
Porsche Supercup drivers
ADAC GT Masters drivers
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship drivers
24 Hours of Spa drivers
European Touring Car Championship drivers
24H Series drivers
BMW M drivers
Racing Bart Mampaey drivers
Sportspeople from Gelderland
Schnitzer Motorsport drivers
Nürburgring 24 Hours drivers