Richard Verschoor


Richard Verschoor is a Dutch racing driver. He is a former Red Bull Junior Team member, reigning SMP F4 and Spanish F4 champion, where he won both single-seater championships in his debut year and is currently competing in the FIA Formula 3 Championship.
Verschoor became the first Dutch driver to win the Macau Grand Prix, winning at his first attempt in 2019.

Career

Karting

Verschoor started karting in 2011. He raced in several national karting series in the Netherlands from 2011 to 2013. In 2014, Verschoor moved to the European series where he won the CIK-FIA Karting Academy Trophy. He remained victorious in 2015, when he won German Karting Championship. Also in 2015, he finished sixth and third in the World and European CIK-FIA KF Championship respectively.

Formula 4

Verschoor moved to single-seaters in 2016, joining the SMP F4 Championship. He won the opening race of the season at Sochi and after that became a member of the Red Bull Junior Team. Following this, he had a series of ten consecutive wins and took the championship title with three races to spare.
Verschoor also contested the other Koiranen GP's series F4 Spanish Championship with MP Motorsport, where he claimed his second title in dominant form. He also had part-time campaigns in ADAC Formula 4 with Motopark and Italian F4 with Bhaitech Engineering.

Formula Renault

In January 2017, it was announced Verschoor would continue his relationship with MP and step up to Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 alongside new Red Bull Junior Neil Verhagen. He had one podium in the penultimate race of the season at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and finished the season ninth.
In December Verschoor was dropped from the Red Bull programme. The same day it was also announced that he will switch to Josef Kaufmann Racing, the team which won the last two Eurocup driver titles with Lando Norris and Sacha Fenestraz.

GP3 Series

On 22 August 2018, Roberto Merhi left the 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship. Dorian Boccolacci was promoted to replace him at MP Motorsport, leaving a vacancy in the GP3 seat. Verschoor entered the GP3 Series at the round 6 in Spa-Francorchamps.

FIA Formula 3 Championship

Verschoor was announced to continue his relationship with MP Motorsport in the newly formed FIA Formula 3 Championship.

Racing record

Career summary

* Season still in progress.

† As Verschoor was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.

Complete GP3 Series results

YearEntrant123456789101112131415161718PosPoints
2018MP MotorsportCAT
FEA		CAT
SPR		LEC
FEA		LEC
SPR		RBR
FEA		RBR
SPR		SIL
FEA		SIL
SPR		HUN
FEA		HUN
SPR		SPA
FEA
17		SPA
SPR
7		MNZ
FEA
8		MNZ
SPR
9		SOC
FEA
4		SOC
SPR
3		YMC
FEA
14		YMC
SPR
7		15th30

Complete FIA Formula 3 Championship results

YearEntrant123456789101112131415161718DCPoints
2019MP MotorsportCAT
FEA
19		CAT
SPR
19		LEC
FEA
14		LEC
SPR
4		RBR
FEA
10		RBR
SPR
12		SIL
FEA
17		SIL
SPR
21		HUN
FEA
27†		HUN
SPR
17		SPA
FEA
17		SPA
SPR
11		MNZ
FEA
4		MNZ
SPR
4		SOC
FEA
10		SOC
SPR
7		13th34
2020MP MotorsportRBR1
FEA
8		RBR1
SPR
2		RBR2‡
FEA
7		RBR2
SPR
4		HUN
FEA
4		HUN
SPR
5		SIL1
FEA
11		SIL1
SPR
SIL2
FEA
SIL2
SPR
CAT
FEA
CAT
SPR
SPA
FEA
SPA
SPR
MNZ
FEA
MNZ
SPR
MUG
FEA
MUG
SPR
7th*45*

† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

‡ Half points were awarded, as less than 75% of the scheduled distance was completed.

* Season still in progress.