Kurt Mollekens

Kurt Emiel Julia Mollekens (born 8 March 1973 in Bonheiden) is a Belgian race car driver and team owner.

Mollekens debuted as a driver in top-level karting during 1990, staying there until 1992 when he moved up to Formula Ford. His debut Formula Ford year was successful, him winning all three titles he challenged for – Benelux Formula Ford, Dutch Formula Ford and Belgian Formula Ford.

Mollekens also achieved success in the 1993 British Formula Ford season, which helped him into Formula Opel Euroseries (1994) and the British Formula 3 Championship (1995). He stayed in the latter during 1996, at which time he won the international Formula Three race at Zandvoort,^[1] his biggest win. Mollekens joined Formula 3000 in 1997 and spent two years there with the Keerbergs Transport Racing team, which he owned. In 1999, he continued to run the team without driving, instead driving for Peugeot in the Belgian Pro Car Series.

Mollekens continued as an F3000 team owner until 2001, and after a hiatus as a driver in 2000, returned as a competitor in some races of the FIA GT Championship of 2001 and 2002. In 2002, his team left Formula 3000, moving to the lesser-known World Series by Nissan, and latterly, World Series by Renault, in which the team competed until 2008. After a hiatus KTR planned to return to racing in 2009 in the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0. In 2004, Mollekens continued as a driver in part of the European Touring Car Championship.

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Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Pts
1997	KTR	SIL EX	PAU 10	HEL Ret	NÜR DNQ	PER 5	HOC 6	A1R Ret	SPA Ret	MUG Ret	JER Ret			19th	3
1998	KTR	OSC Ret	IMO 2	CAT 2	SIL 8	MON 5	PAU 10	A1R 10	HOC Ret	HUN	SPA DNQ	PER 8	NÜR 4	7th	19

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1997	Castrol Juma Racing	Alain Cudini Stéphane De Groodt	BMW M3	Spa 3.0	453	6th	1st
1998	Renault Sport Belgium	Pierre-Yves Corthals Franck Lagorce	Renault Mégane	SP	474	3rd	3rd
1999	Team Peugeot Belgique Luxembourg	Thierry Van Dalen Thierry Tassin	Peugeot 306 GTi	SP	491	2nd	2nd
2000	Peugeot Team Belgique Luxembourg	Frédéric Bouvy Didier Defourny	Peugeot 306 GTi	SP	478	1st	1st
2001	PSI Motorsport	Stéphane Cohen Eric Geboers	Porsche 996 Bi-Turbo	GT	127	DNF	DNF
2002	PSI Motorsport	Eric Geboers Markus Palttala	Porsche 996 Bi-Turbo	GT	312	DNF	DNF
2003	Zakspeed Racing	Didier de Radigues Pedro Lamy	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	G2	468	5th	1st
2004	BMW Motorsport	Antonio Garcia Pedro Lamy Andy Priaulx	BMW M3 GTR	G2	278	DNF	DNF
2005	Larbre Compétition	Christophe Bouchut Gabriele Gardel Vincent Vosse	Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello	GT1	567	3rd	3rd
2006	GLPK Carsport	Mike Hezemans Anthony Kumpen Bert Longin	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT1	580	3rd	3rd
2007	PK Carsport	Frédéric Bouvy Anthony Kumpen Bert Longin	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	GT1	529	3rd	3rd
2008	PK Carsport	Frédéric Bouvy Anthony Kumpen Bert Longin	Saleen S7-R	GT1	255	DNF	DNF
2009	PK Carsport	Mike Hezemans Anthony Kumpen Jos Menten	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT1	559	1st	1st
2010	WRT Belgian Audi Club	Stéphane Lémeret Stéphane Ortelli François Verbist	Audi R8 LMS	GT3	497	13th	5th

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2000	PSI Motorsport	Damien Coens Louis Zurstrassen	Porsche 996 GT3	GTB	709	9th	5th
2004	PSI Motorsport	Frédéric Bouvy Vincent Vosse	Porsche 996 GT3 Cup	GTB	690	14th	8th
2005	PSI Motorsport	Markus Palttala Vincent Radermecker Leo Van Sande	Porsche 996 Bi-Turbo	GTA	746	7th	2nd
2006	GLPK Carsport	Mike Hezemans Anthony Kumpen Bert Longin	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	Belcar 1	815	3rd	3rd
2007	PK Carsport	David Hart Anthony Kumpen Bert Longin	Chevrolet Corvette C6 Z06.R GT3	Belcar 1		DNF	DNF
2009	Delahaye Racing Team	Frédéric Bouvy Damien Coens Christian Kelders	Ferrari F430 GT3	Belcar 1		DNF	DNF

Kurt Mollekens

Racing record

Complete International Formula 3000 results

Complete 24 Hours of Spa results

Complete 24 Hours of Zolder results

References

External links

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