Beitske Visser (born 10 March 1995) is a

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. She has raced in kart, single-seater, GT and prototype series.

Career

Beitske Visser in the InMotion IM-e 2017

Karting

Born in

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, Visser began

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in 2007 and raced in various European and International championships, working her way up from the junior ranks to progress through to the KZ1 category by 2011, when she finished in tenth position in the CIK-FIA European KZ1 Championship.

First car race

On 6 August, 2011, Visser made her car racing debut in the Supercar Challenge at

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, in the GT class, driving a

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R4S. Despite a 25-second penalty, she passed Roger Grouwels towards the end of the race she claimed her first car racing win in her race debut.

Open-wheel racing

;ADAC Formel Masters

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saw her début in the

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championship with Lotus, also known as Motopark Academy. Visser finished eighth in the championship with wins at

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and

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, and another ten point-scoring finishes. She joined the

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racing academy at the start of the 2013 season but was dropped from the program at the end of the season. She remained in the series with the team for the 2013 season; she won one race during the season, at the

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, and finished eighth again, in the final championship standings. ;GP3 Series In

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, Visser competed in the opening round of the

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with

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. She also competed in the Spa-Francorchamps round of the 2015 season with Trident. ;Formula Renault 3.5 Series As well as the GP3 Series, Visser graduated to the Formula Renault 3.5 Series in

, joining AVF. She scored her first point during Race 1 at Spa-Francorchamps. She completed two seasons with Adrian Valles' team, before switching to

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in 2016. She scored a best result of 5th (Jerez 2016) and a best finish of 13th in the championship (2016). ;Hiatus Visser left Formula V8 at the end of 2016, and took up a development role with a student team from

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(

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), who were developing an electric open-wheeler. In June 2017, the team broke the EV lap record at

, going 16 seconds faster than the previous best. ;Formula E Visser became, alongside

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, one of the test and reserve drivers for

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ahead of the 2018–19 Formula E season. Visser also competed in the 2024–25 Season pre-season Women's test in

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for

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, and was classified 6th. ;W Series Visser was accepted into the qualifying stages of the

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to be held at the Wachauring in January 2019, and subsequently qualified as one of the 18 regular drivers. She finished second in the championship to

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with four podiums including a win at

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. The Dutchwoman was set to contest the 2020 championship before it was cancelled in response to the

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. A 10-event

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series was held on ''

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'' in its place, with Visser taking the championship with a round remaining. She was 8th in the 2021 W Series, and 2nd in the 2022 W Series.

Endurance racing

;GT4 In mid-2017, she was admitted into the BMW Junior Driver programme, where she was entered into the

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alongside German driver Dennis Marschall. The pairing won the penultimate round of the campaign in Barcelona. She and Marschall will continue in the class in 2018. ;LMP2 Visser made her prototype début in the

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for

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, replacing regular driver

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after she was injured testing the teams'

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. She finished 6th in the 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps alongside

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and

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, and 11th in the Le Castellet 240 partnering

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Racing record

Career summary

^† As Visser was a guest driver, she was ineligible to score points.

Complete Supercar Challenge results

Complete Formula V8 3.5 Series results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) ^† Driver did not finish, but was classified as she completed over 90% of the race distance.

Complete GP3 Series results

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

Complete 24 Hours of Nürburgring results

Complete W Series results

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

Complete European Le Mans Series results

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

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

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

References

External links

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