Azerti Motorsport (also known as Racing for Belgium) is a Belgian motorsport team founded by former racer

Wim Coekelbergs Wim is a masculine given name or a shortened form of Willem and other names and may refer to: * Wim Anderiesen (1903–1944), Dutch footballer * Wim Aantjes (1923–2015), Dutch politician * Wim Arras (born 1964), Belgian cyclist * Wim Blockmans ...

History

Racing for Belgium started racing in Belgian

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in 2003, but graduated to the

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in 2005, taking the driver and teams titles with

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. They also won the 2005 and 2006

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in Spain with Oscar Nogues. In 2007, the team entered an

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in the

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for

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and an

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in the

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series for Wim Coekelbergs and Ron Marchal. For 2008, the team regrouped their activities and planned to move to the

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, but retreated back to the Belgian Clio Cup. Operating under the name Azerti Motorsport, the team moved to

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in 2008, where they have operated several cars, including

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and

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. They have won several races in the series in 2008 (vice-champion with Yelmer Buurman) and 2009. In 2010 the team ran 2 cars, the Corinthians car for

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and the RSC Anderlecht car for

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. Rigon won the first Superleague Formula title for the Belgian squad. The last race weekends of the 2010 SF season

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joined the team with the Bordeaux car and showed as from the first run that he and the car were up to speed, taking P2 in qualifying and winning the prize-money race in Ordos (China). In 2011 Azerti participated on the two final rounds of the Superleague Championship with

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in the RSC Anderlecht car,

Yelmer Buurman Yelmer Evert Frans Buurman (born 19 February 1987) is a Dutch professional racing driver. He was 3rd in the Blancpain Endurance Series in 2013, and second in the FIA GT1 Championship in 2012. Besides achieving victories in those categories, also ...

in the Dutch (holland) car and

Tristan Gommendy Tristan Gommendy (born 4 January 1979) is a French professional racing driver who currently competes in the European Le Mans Series with Duqueine Engineering. Racing career Early career Born in Le Chesnay, Yvelines, Gommendy began his professi ...

in the France car. After 2 years of silence, 2014 marked the team's return, participating the Acceleration14 (FA1 ex A1GP cars) championship. With

Nigel Melker Nigel Melker (born 25 January 1991) is a Dutch racing driver. Career Karting Melker was born in Rotterdam. He began his motorsport career in karting in 2001, winning in the Dutch Mini Junior Cup. In 2005, he won the German Junior championship a ...

as Azerti/Team Holland driver, the team took the championship ship crown home. In the seasons final Azerti scored an impressive double win in Assen. Leading both races from start to finish they clinched both driver and team title and are the first ever FA1 champions.

References

External links

* Belgian auto racing teams Auto racing teams established in 2002 2002 establishments in Belgium World Touring Car Championship teams Superleague Formula teams Acceleration teams {{Belgium-sport-stub