Hans Weijs Jr. (born 19 December 1986) is a Dutch

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driver. He has won two rounds of the

Junior World Rally Championship The FIA Junior WRC, also known as JWRC and previously known as Junior World Rally Championship, is an international rallying competition restricted to drivers under 29 years old. The championship currently consists of five select rallies of th ...

, finishing runner-up in the standings in 2010. His father, Hans Weijs, Sr., is also a rally driver and runs his own garage in Elst.

Career

In 2004 Weijs entered for a selection day of KNAF Talent First, a program run by the Dutch national motorsport federation to find and support new young talent, which he won. He made his debut in the

World Rally Championship The World Rally Championship (abbreviated as WRC) is the highest level of global competition in the motorsport discipline of rallying, owned and governed by the FIA. There are separate championships for drivers, co-drivers, manufacturers and t ...

in 2006, on

Rallye Deutschland The ADAC Rallye Deutschland is a Rallying, rally event held in Germany. The event was first held in 1982 and originally hosted by e.g. Frankfurt, Mainz and Koblenz. In 2000, the rally was relocated to the region around Trier. Previously part of ...

, in a

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, finishing in 39th position. He also finished

Wales Rally GB Wales Rally GB was the most recent iteration of the United Kingdom's premier international motor rally, which ran under various names since the first event held in 1932. It was consistently a round of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) calen ...

in a

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. 2007 saw Weijs enter six rounds of the WRC in an Evo IX. Weijs entered the

(JWRC) in 2008 in a Citroën C2 R2 Max with the continued support of KNAF Talent First programme. He scored two points in his first season, finishing 17th in the final standings. 2009 saw considerable improvement in results after switching to a more competitive C2 S1600. He finished third in JWRC on

Rally de Portugal The Rally de Portugal (formerly: Rallye de Portugal) is a rally competition held in Portugal. First held in 1967, the seventh running of the race, the 7º TAP Rallye de Portugal was the third event in the inaugural FIA World Rally Champi ...

, and won at the end of the year on

Rally Catalunya The Rally Catalunya (formerly: Rallye Catalunya) is a rally competition held in Catalonia region of Spain, on the World Rally Championship schedule. Now held on the wide, smooth and sweeping asphalt roads around the town of Salou, Costa Daurada ...

. He finished the season fifth in the standings. In 2010 Weijs won in Germany and scored two further podiums prior to the final round of the season in Catalunya. Weijs led on the final day of the rally, which would have seen him beat

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to the title. However, a crank sensor failure dropped him to third, which allowed Burkart, who finished the rally fourth, to win the title. Weijs finished Second on his

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debut on the

Ypres Rally The Belgium Ypres Westhoek Rally (BYWR) founded by Frans Thévelin in 1965 is one of the most famous rallies in the European Rally Championship, the Belgian Rally Championship, the British Rally Championship, and the Intercontinental Rally Challen ...

, a round of the

Intercontinental Rally Challenge The Intercontinental Rally Challenge was an FIA-sanctioned rallying series organised by SRW Events and Eurosport Events, and aimed to "give new opportunities to young or amateur rally drivers competing in recognised regional and international ral ...

in a

Škoda Fabia S2000 The Škoda Fabia S2000 is a Super 2000 rally car built by Škoda Motorsport. It is based upon the Škoda Fabia road car. History It made its début at Rallye Monte Carlo 2009, with factory team Škoda Motorsport and drivers Jan Kopecký and ...

. In 2012 Hans Weijs competes in the

South African Rally Championship South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz ...

, running for the South African Volkswagen Rally team in a

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Career results

Complete WRC results

JWRC results

References

External links

Hans Weijs Motorsport

Profile at eWRC-results.com
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