Stoffel Vandoorne F1 Profile & Career Stats

Stoffel Vandoorne Biography

Stoffel Vandoorne pits during the 2016 Bahrain GP

Vandoorne start his racing career with karting and won the Belgian KF2 championship in 2008 and became second in the CIK-FIA World Cup.

In 2010 he took part of the F4 Europcup 1.6 to become champion in his debut season. Next year he switched to the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 were he won the championship in 2012.

In 2013 he drove for the Fortec Motorsports team in the Renault 3.5 series. In 2013 He also got selected for the McLaren Formula 1 Young Drivers Program. In that program fellow racers like Kevin Magnussen and Nyck de Vries participated.

Stoffel started his first Renault 3.5 series race from pole and also won that race. He became 2nd in the championship behind Kevin Magnussen.

Stoffel Vandoorne, McLaren MCL32, Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

The next year 2014 he was reserve driver for McLaren and drove at the GP2 series. Again he won the first race of the season and became 2nd in the championship behind Jolyon Palmer. The following 2015 season he also drove for ART Grand Prix and won the first four races and became champion with a impressive difference of 160 point to runner up Alexander Rossi.

In 2016 he stayed reserve driver at McLaren. To prepare himself for a 2017 race seat at McLaren, he drove at the Japanese Super Formula. Because Fernando Alonso wasn't able to race after his heavy crash during the Australian Grand Prix he could drive his first F1 race in Bahrain. He started 12th and drove a strong race to finish 10th and scored his first ever F1 point. He even scored the first point for McLaren that season. During the Italian Grand Prix weekend McLaren announced Stoffel as their race driver next to Alonso for 2017 to replace Jenson Button.

McLaren MCL33 launch 2018 Stoffel Vandoorne

The 2017 rookie season was a nightmare. McLaren's partnership with Honda didn't work out as the power unit under performed and broke down a lot. Stoffel didn't adapt very fast and had out qualified his highly rated team mate Alonso only 6 out of 19 times. Because of an engine failure he wasn't even able to qualify for the Bahrain GP.

The Belgian driver retired scored only 5 times and only scored 13 points in his debut season. His higest finish was 7th in Singapore and the last race of Malaysia.

During the Italian GP McLaren negotiated with Toro Rosso to get swap engines. The deal was set to trade the Honda power unit for the Renault. Hopefully Vandoorne can show some better results for 2018.

Stoffel Vandoorne Helmets

Stoffel Vandoorne Championship Results

Stoffel Vandoorne F1 Seasons Summary

Year	Team	Engine	GP	1st	2nd	3rd	Pod	Pole	Laps	FL	Avg Pts	Points
2018	McLaren	Renault	21	0	0	0	0	0	1201	0	0.57	12
2017	McLaren	Honda	19	0	0	0	0	0	959	0	0.68	13
2016	McLaren	Honda	1	0	0	0	0	0	56	0	1.00	1

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