# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-van-merksteijn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:02:32.911Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-van-merksteijn"
name: "Peter van Merksteijn"
slug: "peter-van-merksteijn"
description: "Peter van Merksteijn Jr. is a Dutch racing driver and rally driver who will be driving for the Van Merksteijn Motorsport team in the 2011 World Rally Championship season. He won the Dutch Rally Championship in 2007 in the Group N class with a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX. He made his WRC début in 2007 at the Rallye Deutschland. He is the son of Peter van Merksteijn Sr., who raced in the WRC before and won the 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans in the LMP2 class, using a Porsche RS Spyder."
tagline: "Dutch racing driver"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Merksteijn_JR311.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1982-09-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.16
  momentum:             4.736842105263158
  historical:           6.340389333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_van_Merksteijn_jr."
    title: "Peter van Merksteijn jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_van_Merksteijn_junior"
    title: "Peter van Merksteijn junior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_van_Merksteijn_Jr."
    title: "Peter van Merksteijn Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Van_Merksteijn_Jr."
    title: "Peter Van Merksteijn Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_van_Merksteijn%2C_Jr."
    title: "Peter van Merksteijn, Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_van_Merksteijn_Jr."
    title: "Peter van Merksteijn Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_van_Merksteijn_Jr."
    title: "Peter van Merksteijn Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q906002"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump