Beitske Visser

**Beitske Visser** (born 10 March 1995 in Dronten, Netherlands), is a Dutch racing driver, who competes in the 2020 BRSCC W Series Championship using #95 as her race number. A member of the BMW Motorsport racing programme, **Visser** would challenge for the title in 2019, before ultimately finishing second behind Jamie Chadwick with 100 points.

## Background

Visser began her career in karting in 2007, rising through the ranks to graduate to the KZ1 category in 2011. Tenth in the European Championship that season promoted Visser to move into the ADAC Formel Masters in 2012, with an excellent debut campaign seeing Visser claim two wins. The Dutch racer was subsequently inducted into the Red Bull Junior Team for 2013, although she was to be dropped at the end of the season after finishing eighth in Formel Masters for the second successive season.

### GPs and GTs

Visser moved to the Formula Renault 3.5 Series in 2014, although she would only manage a handful of points finishes. Visser also debuted in the GP3 Series, although failed to score in either of her two races. A very similar season followed in 2015, before Visser finally became a regular scorer in FR3.5 in 2016, prompting BMW to induct her into their BMW Junior Driver programme.

Her move to the BMW Junior squad followed a decision to move into the GT4 category, with Visser taking a seat in the GT4 European Series Southern Cup. Visser moved into the full GT4 European Series in 2018 with her BMW backing, claiming two wins en-route to sixth in the series. She subsequently made her FIA Formula E Championship testing debut after signing up to be a reserve driver for the BMW Andretti team.

## W Series History

Visser was one of the original 55 applicants for the 2019 Driver Selection Test, and duly managed to secure a full season seat for the 2019 BRSCC W Series Championship, picking #95 as her race number.

### A Visser Championship: 2019

At the season opening round of the 2019 Hockenheim Race, Visser would be denied the chance to challenge for the lead, as she spent the majority of the race fighting with Sarah Moore and Fabienne Wohlwend. However, at the second round in Zolder Visser would be unstoppable, beating pole sitter Jamie Chadwick off the grid, before fending off the Brit's advances to secure her maiden race victory. She therefore emerged as the main pretender to Chadwick in the title hunt, and would spend the rest of the season fighting with the Brit.

Indeed, at the following round in Misano Visser would spend the afternoon harassing Chadwick for the lead, although the Brit would repulse every one of the Dutchwoman's attacks to secure victory. Their battle continued on to the 2019 Norisring Race, with Visser this time emerging ahead of Chadwick, although the intensity of their fight allowed Marta García to claim victory.Cite error: Closing `</ref>` missing for `<ref>` tag

That result left Visser thirteen points behind Chadwick ahead of the season finale in Brands Hatch, and was the only driver who could deny the Brit the Championship. Chadwick duly struck the first blow by claiming pole position for the finale, with Visser fifth, although she did manage to make a strong start and move into fourth. The Dutchwoman subsequently followed Alice Powell and Emma Kimiläinen past Chadwick to secure third, although that was not enough for her to secure the crown.

As a result, Visser finished second in the Championship, ten points behind Chadwick at the end of the campaign, although that did earn her an automatic entry for the following season.

### Visser Valiance?: 2020

Visser affirmed that she would compete in the 2020 W Series, again using #95 as her race number.

## Full W Series Record

Shown below are a series of tables outlining Beitske Visser's career in the W Series in statistical form.

### W Series Entries

The list below includes all of the teams and cars, as well as overall finishing positions for Beitske Visser during their W Series career:

 2020 | 95

### Career Results

Below is a table showing Beitske Visser's full W Series record.

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 'W Series announces 18 drivers for 2020 season', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 21/10/2019), https://wseries.com/w-hub/w-series-announces-18-drivers-for-2020-season/, (Accessed 01/04/2020)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 [Archived] '2019 W Series Drivers', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20200321160627/https://wseries.com/2019-drivers/, (Accessed 04/04/2020) - Original
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 [Archived] 'Brands Hatch, UK', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506194151/https://wseries.com/races/brands-hatch/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 'Beitske Visser', *driverdb.com*, (Driver Database, 10/03/1995), https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/beitske-visser/, (Accessed 07/04/2020)
5. ↑ David Gruz, 'Former Red Bull junior Visser joins BMW junior programme', *motorsport.com*, (Motorsport Network, 08/06/2017), https://www.motorsport.com/gt/news/former-red-bull-junior-visser-joins-bmw-junior-programme-915576/915576/?s=1, (Accessed 20/02/2019)
6. ↑ Darshan Chokhani, 'VISSER, SPENGLER NAMED BMW ANDRETTI 2018/19 FORMULA E RESERVE', *formularapida.net*, (Formula Rapida S.L., 08/12/2018), http://formularapida.net/visser-spengler-named-bmw-andretti-2018-19-formula-e-reserve/, (Accessed 09/12/2018)
7. ↑ [Archived] 'The Weekend at Hockenheim', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20191013101433/https://wseries.com/races/hockenheim/, (Accessed 01/04/2020) - Original
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 [Archived] 'Zolder, Belgium', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506170558/https://wseries.com/races/zolder/, (Accessed 02/04/2020) - Original
9. ↑ [Archived] 'Misano, Italy', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506173425/https://wseries.com/races/misano/, (Accessed 02/04/2020) - Original