Laurens van Hoepen
Laurens van Hoepen (born 6 September 2005) is a Dutch racing driver who currently competes in the Formula Regional European Championship with ART Grand Prix, having previously raced in the Ultimate Cup Series in 2021. Career. Karting. Van Hoepen started karting at the age of eight in his native Netherlands, winning a series of national championships before jumping onto the international scene in 2015. A protégé of Formula 2 and Formula E champion Nyck de Vries, he won the IAME Euro Series in the X30 Mini class in 2017 and finished in the top ten of both  the FIA European Championship and the WSK Champions Cup in OK in 2020, driving for Nico Rosberg's Racing Academy and Charles Leclerc's Leclerc by Lennox Racing respectively. For 2021 he remained with Leclerc's team and made the step up to KZ2 shifter karts, finishing third overall in the CIK-FIA Karting European Championship. Formula Regional. 2021. Van Hoepen made his racing debut directly in Formula Regional machinery in late 2021, driving for Graff Racing in the Challenge Monoplace category of the . He hit the ground running, winning his first ever single-seater race from pole at Le  Mans, ahead of Formula E race winner and 24 Hours of Le Mans class winner Nico Prost. He would go on to win seven of the nine races he entered—enough to claim 3rd in the championship standings despite having missed the first half of the season. 2022. For the 2022 season Van Hoepen moved to the Formula Regional European Championship with ART Grand Prix, partnering Gabriele Minì and Mari Boya. Racing record. Racing career summary. <nowiki>*</nowiki> Season still in progress.