Xavier Maassen

Xavier Maassen
Nationality	Dutch
Born	(1980-06-22) 22 June 1980 Heerlen, Netherlands
Blancpain Endurance Series career
Debut season	2011
Current team	Prospeed Competition
Car no.	75
Former teams	Faster Racing by DB Motorspor
Starts	5
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Previous series
2011 2010 2009 2008–09 2007 2006 2003–06 2003–05 2002 2001–02 2001–02	Belcar FIA GT1 World Championship Dutch Supercar Challenge FIA GT Championship Formula Renault 3.5 Series Formula Renault 2.0 NEC Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault Netherlands Formula Ford Netherlands Formula Ford Benelux Formula Ford Belgium
Championship titles
2001–02	Formula Ford Belgium
24 Hours of Le Mans career Participating years 2009 – 2011, 2015 Teams Luc Alphand Aventures JMW Motorsport Best finish 16th (2009) Class wins 0

Xavier Maassen (born 22 June 1980 in Heerlen) is a Dutch racing driver who previously competed in the FIA GT1 World Championship for Mad-Croc Racing. Recently, he has participated in the Blancpain Endurance Series for Prospeed Competition. He lives in Lanaken in Belgium.

Career

Single-seaters

Formula Ford

Maassen began his racing career with success in Formula Ford, winning the Belgian championship in 2001 and 2002. He also finished fifth in the Benelux series in 2001, and was runner-up to Jaap van Lagen in 2002. He also finished fifth in the Dutch series in 2002.^[1]

Formula Renault

Maassen racing in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series in 2007.

Maassen stepped up to Formula Renault in 2003, finishing seventh in Formula Renault 2.0 Netherlands, before finishing runner-up to Junior Strous in 2004. Having competed in selected Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 in the previous two seasons, Maassen moved to the series full-time in 2005, finishing tenth overall. In 2006, he combined another season in the Eurocup, where he finished 13th, with a season in the North European Championship, a merger of the Dutch and German national series. He finished third in the overall standings behind Filipe Albuquerque and Chris van der Drift.

Maassen stepped up to the Formula Renault 3.5 Series in 2007, but failed to score any points in 17 starts for Prema Powerteam.^[1]

GT racing

Maassen began racing in the FIA GT Championship in 2008 driving a Corvette C6.R for the Selleslagh Racing Team alongside Christophe Bouchut. He won just his second GT race at Monza, and the pair finished 13th in the driver's standings.

Maassen started the 2009 season driving a Corvette for Luc Alphand Aventures, but the team missed the races at Spa and Algarve, and so raced for another Corvette team, Sangari Team Brazil at those races. Maassen also raced for Luc Alphand Aventures at the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, finishing second in the GT1 category.^[1]

Maassen competed in the new FIA GT1 World Championship in 2010, returning to the DKR Engineering team, now under the Mad-Croc Racing banner.

Racing record

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

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

Complete GT1 World Championship results

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2009	Luc Alphand Aventures	Julien Jousse Yann Clairay	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT1	336	16th	2nd
2010	Luc Alphand Aventures	Julien Jousse Patrice Goueslard	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT1	238	DNF	DNF
2011	JMW Motorsport	Rob Bell Tim Sugden	Ferrari 458 Italia GTC	GTE Pro	290	24th	9th
2015	Team AAI	Jun-San Chen Alex Kapadia	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	GTE Am	316	37th	8th

References

External links

• Official website