Arie Luyendyk Jr.

Arie Luyendyk Jr.
Arie Luyendyk Jr.
	Luyendyk Jr. in 2012
Nationality	American
Born	18 September 1981; The Netherlands
Related to	Arie Luyendyk (father)
Firestone Indy Lights Series
Years active	2002–2018
Teams	Luyendyk Racing; Sam Schmidt Motorsports; Brian Stewart Racing; Guthrie Racing; AGR-AFS Racing; Andersen Racing; Alliance Motorsports
Starts	66
Wins	1
Poles	4
Best finish	2nd in 2002
Previous series
2007–2008; 2006; 2001	A1 Grand Prix (rookie driver); IndyCar Series; SCCA Formula Continental
Representing United States
Summer X Games

Arie Luyendyk Jr. (/ˈɑːri ˈlaɪəndaɪk/; Dutch: [ˈaːri ləjɛnˈdik]; born September 18, 1981)^[1] is a Dutch-born American auto racing driver and son of two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Arie Luyendyk. He has competed mostly in North America where his father lives and made his career. Luyendyk is best known for competing in the Indy Lights Series where he finished 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the Championship over a number of years. He was named a test-driver in A1 Grand Prix alongside Jeroen Bleekemolen for A1 Team The Netherlands starting the 2007–08 season.^[2]

Luyendyk has competed in various sports-car series competing in the 12 Hours of Sebring and the 24 Hours of Daytona.

He was a contestant on ABC's dating competition The Bachelorette season 8 in 2012, where he placed first runner-up, and starred in the 22nd season of its sister show The Bachelor, which premiered on January 1, 2018.

Early life

Luyendyk was born in The Netherlands,^[3] to Arie and Mieke Luyendyk.^[4] At age 3,^[3] he immigrated with his family, including sister Maida, to the United States and settled in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Luyendyk has two younger twin brothers, Alec and Luca.^[4]

Career

Luyendyk began racing karts in 1992, and moved to Sports Car Club of America club Formula Ford competition six years later at the age of 16. He raced in a number of American junior formulae, notching wins in the Skip Barber Formula Dodge series and top five finishes the U.S. Formula Ford 2000 Championship. In 2001, Luyendyk finished third in the Formula Continental class at the SCCA National Championship Runoffs as well as winning the SCCA Southern Pacific divisional title on the strength of four wins in that same class.

He competed full-time in the first three seasons of the Indy Racing League's Indy Pro Series (now known as Firestone Indy Lights), beginning in 2002. In his Firestone Indy Lights career, Luyendyk has 1 victory, four pole positions and 24 top-5 finishes. Luyendyk finished second in the Firestone Indy Lights Championship in 2002, third in 2004, and fourth in 2008.

Luyendyk driving an Indy Lights car on the Streets of St. Petersburg in 2005

In 2005, Luyendyk attempted to make his IndyCar Series debut by qualifying for the 2005 Indianapolis 500 in a car owned by Curb-Agajanian/Beck Motorsports. However, with limited track time and a car that never handled properly, Luyendyk's qualifying speed of 215.039 mph (346.072 km/h) was close to 2 mph (3.2 km/h) slower than the next slowest qualifier at the time. A. J. Foyt hired driver Felipe Giaffone to qualify a third car for him, and Giaffone's 217.645 mph (350.266 km/h) four-lap average bumped Luyendyk from the field.

Luyendyk did qualify for the 2006 Indianapolis 500 in a car owned by his father and backed by cheapcaribbean.com and Blue Star Jets. The team had limited practice time due to a second week engine program. However, his first race in the more powerful cars ended early due to handling issues, with Luyendyk finishing 54 laps out of 200 and ending in 28th place in the field of 33.

Luyendyk practicing for the 2008 Firestone Freedom 100

In the 2007-08 A1 Grand Prix season, Luyendyk drove for A1 Team Netherlands in the A1 Grand Prix World Cup of Motorsport as the team's "rookie driver". His best result was a fifth place training time at Round 5 held in Taupo, New Zealand. He has returned to the Firestone Indy Lights Series to race for AGR-AFS Racing as the teammate to Raphael Matos. He captured his first series win in the final race of the 2008 season at Chicagoland Speedway by passing Matos on a late race restart. Luyendyk would finish the 2008 season fourth in the Championship, recording five podium finishes.

In 2010 he returned part-time to Indy Lights and drove in the Freedom 100 for Andersen Racing and three other oval races for Alliance Motorsports. His best finish was seventh at Chicagoland.

Pro Light TORC truck at Crandon

In 2013 Luyendyk made the switch to off-road racing in the Stadium Super Trucks series,^[5] finishing seventh in points. In his partial season Luyendyk notched a heat win and three 4th-place finishes in seven starts.

Luyendyk finished the season driving in the Traxxas TORC Series with Aero Motorsports backed by Ethika and Cooper Tires. In Luyendyk's TORC debut he finished fourth at Crandon International Off-Road Raceway driving in the Pro Light class. On November 18, 2013 Luyendyk completed a test with Dale Coyne Racing in the DW12 IndyCar. Luyendyk ran 138 laps.

Television

In 2009, Luyendyk became the driver analyst for Versus broadcasts of Indy Lights races. In 2012 Luyendyk returned to the booth, commentating the Indy Lights races for the NBC Sports Network. He appeared as himself in season nine of Hell's Kitchen. The chefs visited the Grand Prix of Long Beach in which Luyendyk was participating.

Luyendyk placed second on the eighth season of the reality show The Bachelorette, starring Emily Maynard.

Luyendyk appeared in the first episode of the 17th season of The Bachelor. Luyendyk also competed on Wipeout: Summer Episode 7: "Bachelors vs. Bachelorettes", where he was eliminated early.

In 2017, it was announced that Luyendyk would appear in the 22nd season of The Bachelor. He asked Rebecca "Becca" Kufrin to marry him at the season finale however he later regretted rejecting Lauren Burnham, the runner-up, and tried to rekindle things with Burnham.^[6] Luyendyk and Burnham are engaged as of March 6, 2018.^[7]

Personal life

Luyendyk currently works as a real estate broker for RE/MAX in Scottsdale, Arizona.^[8] He is engaged to the runner-up, Lauren Burnham of The Bachelor^[7] with a wedding planned for January 12, 2019.^[9] Burnham has moved to Scottsdale to be with Luyendyk.^[10]

Racing record

SCCA National Championship Runoffs

Year	Track	Car	Engine	Class	Finish	Start	Status
2000	Mid-Ohio	Van Diemen RF01	Ford	Formula Continental	3	2	Running

American open-wheel racing

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Indy Lights

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Rank	Points
2002	Luyendyk Racing	KAN 10	NSH 2	MIS 2	KTY 6	STL 2	CHI 2	TXS 7										2nd	236
2003	Sinden Racing	HMS 4	PHX 10	INDY 15	PPIR 3	KAN 12	NSH 9	MIS 11	STL 3	KTY 4	CHI 4	FON 10	TXS 13					7th	299
2004	Sam Schmidt Motorsports	HMS 9	PHX 2	INDY 3	KAN 7	NSH 11	MIL 9	MIS 8										3rd	330
2004	AFS Racing								KTY 4	PPIR 5	CHI 4	FON 14	TXS 4					3rd	330
2005	AFS Racing	HMS	PHX 4	STP 5	INDY										FON 6			11th	228
2005	Brian Stewart Racing					TXS 10	IMS 6	NSH 8	MIL 7	KTY 10	PPIR 10	SNM	CHI	WGL				11th	228
2006	AFS Racing	HMS 4	STP1 DNS	STP2	INDY	WGL 11	IMS	NSH 11	MIL	KTY	SNM1	SNM2	CHI 6					15th	105
2007	Guthrie Racing	HMS	STP1	STP2	INDY	MIL	IMS1	IMS2	IOW	WGL1 17	WGL2 22	NSH	MDO	KTY	SNM1	SNM2	CHI	35th	21
2008	AGR-AFS Racing	HMS 4	STP1 6	STP2 22	KAN 3	INDY 14	MIL 8	IOW 2	WGL1 7	WGL2 7	NSH 3	MDO1 8	MDO2 11	KTY 3	SNM1 17	SNM2 16	CHI 1	4th	428
2010	Andersen Racing	STP	ALA	LBH	INDY 14	IOW	WGL	TOR	EDM	MDO	SNM							17th	82
2010	Alliance Motorsports											CHI 7	KTY 9	HMS 12				17th	82

IndyCar

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Rank	Points
2005	CURB/Agajanian/Beck Motorsports	HMS	PHX	STP	MOT	INDY DNQ	TXS	RIR	KAN	NSH	MIL	MIS	KTY	PPIR	SNM	CHI	WGL	FON	NC	–
2006	Luyendyk Racing	HMS	STP	MOT	INDY 28	WGL	TXS	RIR	KAN	NSH	MIL	MIS	KTY	SNM	CHI				36th	10

Indianapolis 500

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish	Team
2005	Dallara	Chevrolet	DNQ		Beck
2006	Panoz	Honda	31	28	Luyendyk

Complete A1 Grand Prix results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	DC	Points
2007–08	Netherlands	NED SPR PO	NED FEA PO	CZE SPR PO	CZE FEA PO	MYS SPR PO	MYS FEA PO	CHN SPR PO	CHN FEA PO	NZL SPR PO	NZL FEA PO	AUS SPR PO	AUS FEA PO	RSA SPR PO	RSA FEA PO	MEX SPR PO	MEX FEA PO	CHN SPR PO	CHN FEA PO	GBR SPR PO	GBR SPR PO	7th	87

References

↑ "Arie Luyendyk Jr". X Games (ESPN). Archived from the original on December 14, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2017.
↑ "Bleekemolen & Luyendyk Jr. to drive for Team Netherlands". GPUpdate.net. 1 August 2007. Retrieved January 30, 2011.
1 2 Huggins, Sarah (October 25, 2017). "Who's the Next Bachelor 2018? It's Arie Luyendyk Jr". ABC. Archived from the original on December 22, 2017. Retrieved December 21, 2017. Born in the Netherlands, Arie, 36, and his family immigrated to the United States when he was just three years old.
1 2 Kallmann, Dave (June 7, 2011). "Life Has Slowed Only a Bit for Luyendyk". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Wisconsin. Archived from the original on December 22, 2017. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
↑ DiZinno, Tony (24 April 2013). "Arie Luyendyk Jr. adapts to racing Stadium Super Trucks". NBC Sports. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
↑ The 'Bachelor' finale leaves both women stunned Yahoo Entertainment, Retrieved March 6, 2018.
1 2 Stone, Natalie (March 6, 2018). "The Bachelor's Arie Luyendyk Jr. Gets Engaged to Lauren Burnham After Split from Becca Kufrin". people.com. Retrieved March 7, 2018.
↑ "Arie Luyendyk Jr Scottsdale Realtor - RE/MAX Excalibur". www.excaliburrealestate.com. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
↑ Melas, Chloe (May 23, 2018). "Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Lauren Burnham reveal their wedding plans". cnn.com. Retrieved May 27, 2018.
↑ Tracy, Brianne (March 6, 2018). "Arie Luyendyk Jr. & Lauren Burnham Have 'Talked About Running Away to Vegas' to Elope". people.com. Retrieved March 13, 2018.

External links

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[birthdate-1] "Arie Luyendyk Jr". X Games (ESPN). Archived from the original on December 14, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2017.

[2] "Bleekemolen & Luyendyk Jr. to drive for Team Netherlands". GPUpdate.net. 1 August 2007. Retrieved January 30, 2011.

[abc-3] 1 2 Huggins, Sarah (October 25, 2017). "Who's the Next Bachelor 2018? It's Arie Luyendyk Jr". ABC. Archived from the original on December 22, 2017. Retrieved December 21, 2017. Born in the Netherlands, Arie, 36, and his family immigrated to the United States when he was just three years old.

[LifeHasSlowed-4] 1 2 Kallmann, Dave (June 7, 2011). "Life Has Slowed Only a Bit for Luyendyk". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Wisconsin. Archived from the original on December 22, 2017. Retrieved December 21, 2017.

[5] DiZinno, Tony (24 April 2013). "Arie Luyendyk Jr. adapts to racing Stadium Super Trucks". NBC Sports. Retrieved 12 December 2013.

[6] The 'Bachelor' finale leaves both women stunned Yahoo Entertainment, Retrieved March 6, 2018.

[Burnham-7] 1 2 Stone, Natalie (March 6, 2018). "The Bachelor's Arie Luyendyk Jr. Gets Engaged to Lauren Burnham After Split from Becca Kufrin". people.com. Retrieved March 7, 2018.

[8] "Arie Luyendyk Jr Scottsdale Realtor - RE/MAX Excalibur". www.excaliburrealestate.com. Retrieved 11 September 2018.

[9] Melas, Chloe (May 23, 2018). "Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Lauren Burnham reveal their wedding plans". cnn.com. Retrieved May 27, 2018.

[moving-10] Tracy, Brianne (March 6, 2018). "Arie Luyendyk Jr. & Lauren Burnham Have 'Talked About Running Away to Vegas' to Elope". people.com. Retrieved March 13, 2018.