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Toine Hezemans

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Dutch racing driver

NetherlandsAthletesBorn 1943 · age 83
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Antoine Emile Hezemans 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 the Netherlands.

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Antoine Emile Hezemans 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 the Netherlands. His Rotax engines won ten 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 US and got hold of two 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 three times. Since 1978, he is very active in real estate projects in Miami, Brussels and Amsterdam.

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Born 1943 · age 83
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