(1943-04-15) April 15, 1943 (age 81) Eindhoven, Netherlands
Antoine Emile "Toine" Hezemans (born 15 April 1943, in Eindhoven[1]) is a Dutch former touring and prototype racing car driver in the 1960s and 1970s. After retiring from racing, Hezemans started manufacturing karting engines. He developed the Rotax 100 cc engines into a World championship winner in his new factory at Eindhoven Airport in Holland. His Rotax engines won 10 times the world championships in various classes and wiped out the Italian karting competition. He sold his company Bombardier Rotax Holland b.v. back to Bombardier in Canada in 1996. In 2000 he started his own team with Dodge Vipers and won numerous races in the Gt 1 Championship. He made a deal with GM in the USA and got hold of 2 Corvettes C6 and was successful privateer Team, winning 2 times the 24 hours of Spa. One of the drivers was his son, Mike Hezemans. Even today he has a European Nascar team where his sons Loris Hezemans and Liam Hezemans won the European Nascar championships 3 times. Since 1978, he is very active in real estate projects in Miami, Brussels and Amsterdam.[2]
Hezemans won the European Touring Car Championship in 1970 with Alfa Romeo GTAm and in 1973 with BMW 3.0 CSL and in 1975 the Euro GT class with Porsche 934.
In the 1970s Hezemans drove also Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 prototype racers, winning the 1971 Targa Florio with Nino Vaccarella in an Alfa Romeo 33/3.[3]
In 2022, Team Hezeberg joined Nascar Cup, fielding a Ford Nascar. Team Hezeberg was a partnership between Hezemans and Ernest Berg. Jacques Villeneuve did the first race for the team and after that Loris Hezemans drove 5 races. Daniil Kvyat was added to the roster by fielding a Toyota. Due to training limitations Team Hezeberg stopped at the end of 2022 season.
Toine has three sons: Mike Hezemans, Loris Hezemans and Liam Hezemans.
Antoine Emile "Toine" Hezemans (born 15 April 1943, in Eindhoven) is a Dutch former touring and prototype racing car driver in the 1960s and 1970s. After...
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1. Jacques Villeneuve and Loris Hezemans (2022) On October 9, 2021, NASCAR Whelen Euro Series champion Loris Hezemans, and NASCAR Camping World Truck...
European GT champion)/Gijs van Lennep, Tim Schenken / Howden Ganley and ToineHezemans/Manfred Schurti. Their main competition came from their compatriot Kremer...
production in 1975, and none were exported to the United States. In 1973, ToineHezemans won the European Touring Car Championship in a 3.0 CSL and co-drove...
racing chassis were built, by G.T.I. racing; and financed and owned by ToineHezemans and new President Roman Artioli, 2 cars going to the factory team GT1...
Capri's 300 bhp. Their drivers were Chris Amon/Hans-Joachim Stuck and ToineHezemans/Dieter Quester with a third for the Wicky Racing Team. At the March...
for two years, 1976 and 1977, with 31 of them, total, being built. ToineHezemans drove this car to victory at the European GT Championship, while in...
started in December 2002. Tom Weickardt, owner of American Viperacing, ToineHezemans, owner of Carsport Holland, and Paul Kumpen, owner of GLPK Racing, incorporated...
Matra). The others had Piers Courage/Andrea de Adamich, Masten Gregory/ToineHezemans and Carlo Facetti/Teodoro Zeccoli. Porsche had their 908/02 spyders...
1979 Zandvoort BMW M1 Procar round 26 August 1979 Group 2 1:34.100 ToineHezemans Ford Capri RS 3100 1974 Zandvoort ETCC round 11 August 1974 Original...
Abarths, a prototype, and two sports cars, with drivers Johannes Ortner, ToineHezemans, and Gijs van Lennep, who were already setting such good times on Friday...
the final restart preventing Hezemans from scoring a top-15 finish in his Xfinity Series debut. In September, Hezemans took the lead in the Euro Series...
America for the 1970 world manufacturers championship. Vaccarella and ToineHezemans won the 1971 Targa Florio in an Alfa Romeo. They crossed the finish...
Capri RS 2600 4498.436 187.431 European Touring Car Championship 1973 ToineHezemans Dieter Quester BMW 3.0 CSL 4422.980 184.290 European Touring Car Championship...
entered their 1976-spec cars. Georg Loos had two cars for Klaus Ludwig/ToineHezemans and Tim Schenken/Hans Heyer (current DRM champion). The French JMS Racing...
third time with a Porsche 935/77, together with Rolf Stommelen and ToineHezemans. Thirty-one years later David Donohue, Antonio García, Darren Law and...
1971 The 1750 GTAm and the 2000 GTAm cars were driven to victory by ToineHezemans, who won the 24 hours of Francorchamps with this car. These cars won...
Championship 1978 February 4 February 5 Peter Gregg Rolf Stommelen ToineHezemans Brumos Porsche Porsche 935/77 G 99 2,611.200 mi (4,202.319 km) 680 World...
ADAC-Avus-Rennen um den Großen Preis der BZ Group 5 Special Production 2:03.400 ToineHezemans Porsche 935/77A 1978 Internationales ADAC Mampe Avus-Rennen Group 5...
field the No. 27 car part-time in 2022 for Hezemans and fellow Euro Series driver Jacques Villeneuve. Hezemans, who drove part-time in the Xfinity Series...
(584.221 mi) 6 Hours of the Glen World Sportscar Championship 1978 ToineHezemans John Fitzpatrick Peter Gregg GeLo Racing Team Porsche 935/77 six hours...
Various 1970 European Touring Car Championship (Drivers) (4) Division 3 ToineHezemans Alfa Romeo 2000 GTAm European Touring Car Championship (Manufacturers)...
his two cars, but it had his best driving team of John Fitzpatrick/ToineHezemans. The other three teams were regular Championship contenders –the French...
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