Hannes van Asseldonk

Hannes van Asseldonk (born 10 January 1992) is a retired Dutch racing driver, who most recently competed in the Formula 3 Euro Series for Fortec Motorsport.

He made his début at the level in the Pacific series with Motaworld Racing, taking part in the season-opening round at Sepang as a guest driver.

[7] This was a precursor to his main campaign in the pan-European championship later in the year, competing for the Josef Kaufmann Racing team alongside Robin Frijns and Petri Suvanto.

[10] He took another third place at the final meeting of the year – and, ultimately the series – at Monza,[11] with Frijns winning the race again ahead of Côme Ledogar.

Van Asseldonk hit form in the series straight away, and ultimately took the first victory of his career,[13][14] ahead of drivers who had taken part in the full season up to that point; he followed this up with a fifth place in the reverse-grid second race, having failed to advance up the order, after starting in the same position.

Van Asseldonk continued his form to the next event at Mugello; he claimed pole position for the weekend's first race by almost 0.3 seconds ahead of closest rival Patric Niederhauser.

[28][29] Following on from his Macau performance, van Asseldonk signed to compete in the Toyota Racing Series with Giles Motorsport,[30] for the 2012 championship held in January and February.