Richard Verschoor

Richard Bastiaan Verschoor (born 16 December 2000) is a Dutch racing driver who is currently competing for Trident in the Formula 2 Championship.

Verschoor graduated to Formula 2 in 2021 with MP Motorsport before switching to Charouz Racing System, and moved to Trident for 2022 and Van Amersfoort Racing in 2023.

after two years in the FIA Formula 3 Championship with MP Motorsport.

Verschoor started karting in 2011.

He raced in several national karting series in the Netherlands from 2011 to 2013.

Verschoor ended his season 13th overall, with one podium.

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.

He is a former Red Bull Junior Team member, the 2016 SMP F4 and Spanish F4 champion, where he won both single-seater championships in his debut year.

Verschoor moved to single-seaters in 2016, joining the SMP F4 Championship at 15 years old.

He won the opening race of the season at Sochi, taking his first single-seater victory.

Following this, he had a series of ten consecutive wins and took the championship title with three races to spare, nearly 70 points ahead of fellow Dutch racer Jarno Opmeer.

Verschoor also contested the other Koiranen GP's series, the maiden F4 Spanish Championship with MP Motorsport.

He won the first race of the campaign, and proceeded to claim his second title in dominant form, winning all but three races.

He also had part-time campaigns in ADAC Formula 4 with Motopark and Italian F4 with Bhaitech Engineering.

In 2017, before Verschoor's main campaign, he participated in the Toyota Racing Series with Giles Motorsport.

He took two podiums in the opening round to take the championship lead early on.

He picked up his first win in the series at Teretonga after Thomas Randle picked up a post-race penalty.

A further win in the third race stretched his lead even more.

However, he would get one more win and another podium for the rest of the season.

He eventually lost out on the championship and ultimately ended third in the standings.

In January 2017, it was announced Verschoor would continue his relationship with MP Motorsport and step up to Formula Renault Eurocup alongside new Red Bull Junior Neil Verhagen.

He scored points in the first two rounds.

He had one podium in the penultimate race of the season at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and finished the season ninth.

However, he had a streak of seven consecutive non-scoring finishes from Hungary to Austria.

He then secured a fourth place in Paul Ricard, before earning his maiden podium in the series with a third, at the final round in Barcelona.

Overall, he ended ninth overall in the standings, and fourth in the rookies'.

Verschoor also took part in a part-time campaign in the Northern European Cup that year.

He made his debut in Assen, where he took a second place and a victory.

He achieved another podium in Hockenheim to rank ninth overall.

In December 2017, it was announced that he would switch to Josef Kaufmann Racing, the team which won the last two Eurocup driver titles with Lando Norris and Sacha Fenestraz.

However, in his first year without Red Bull, his season was not to be promising.

His highlight of the season was mainly a second place in a red-flagged race at the Red Bull Ring.

Three more points finishes followed, before he was dropped by the team.

He was not replaced.

Verschoor returned to the Toyota Racing Series in 2018, with M2 Competition.

He won the opening races in the first three rounds, putting him in a championship fight.

Despite winning two races in the final round, he placed as runner-up in the championship, losing out by five points to champion Robert Shwartzman.

Verschoor became the first Dutch driver to win the Macau Grand Prix, winning at his first attempt in 2019.