Sheldon van der Linde
Sheldon van der Linde (born 13 May 1999) is a South African motor racing driver, who currently drives for Rowe Racing in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters and BMW Motorsport works driver. Career. van der Linde begun his motorsport career at the age of six, racing karts in his native South Africa. He would go on to win multiple national titles before making the transition to racing cars in 2014. In his first season of car racing, van der Linde won the South Africa Polo Cup Championship in dominant fashion. He would go on to win the  Volkswagen Cup South Africa the following year. For 2016, van der Linde raced in the Audi Sport TT Cup, one of the support categories of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters. He would make an immediate impact, winning both races of the opening round at the Hockenheimring. Scoring multiple podiums, as well as two wins, secured van der Linde fourth in his debut season. Thereafter, he has competed in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, ADAC GT Masters, and both Blancpain GT Series'. DTM. 2019. In January 2019, it was announced that van der Linde would be driving for BMW Team RBM in the  2019 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season; thereby making him the first South African driver to compete in the series. He scored a pole position at Zolder and finished 13th in the standings, 19 points behind teammate Joel Eriksson. 2020. van der Linde remained with RBM for the 2020 season, this time alongside Philipp Eng. His season started out strongly, scoring his first DTM podium at the second round of the campaign at the Lausitzring. The South African followed that up by winning race 2 at Assen, a race in which he scored the fastest lap aswell. A consistent season helped van  der Linde to sixth in the championship, finishing as the second-highest BMW driver, narrowly missing out to Timo Glock. 2021. For 2021 van der Linde switched over to partner Glock at ROWE Racing. His campaign would prove to be disappointing, as he experienced seven retirements, four of which came consecutively in the second half of the season, and the South African finished the season in eleventh, having scored a best race finish of fourth place. 2022. In 2022, Schubert Motorsport signed van der Linde to their team. Racing record. Career summary. Season still in progress. Complete IMSA SportsCar Championship  results. Season still in progress.