Arie Luyendyk Jr.

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Arie Luyendyk Jr.
Indy Lights
A1 Grand Prix (rookie driver)
IndyCar Series
SCCA Formula Continental
Medal record
Representing  United States
Summer X Games
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Austin Stadium Super Trucks
Last updated on: August 9, 2021.

Arie Luyendyk Jr. (

A1 Team The Netherlands starting the 2007–08 season.[2]

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

He was a contestant on ABC's dating competition

The Bachelor, which premiered on January 1, 2018. In 2023, he was a contestant on The Traitors
where he finished in fourth place.

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] He graduated from Desert Mountain High School in 2000.[5]

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. [citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

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. 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. [citation needed]

Firestone Freedom 100

In 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.[citation needed
]

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.[citation needed]

Pro Light TORC truck at Crandon

In 2013, Luyendyk made the switch to off-road racing in the Stadium Super Trucks series,[6] finishing seventh in points. In his partial season, Luyendyk notched a heat win and three 4th-place finishes in seven starts. Two years later, he won the bronze medal at X Games Austin 2015 in the SST category.[7]

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.[citation needed
]

During the

Barbagallo Raceway in Perth, Australia.[8] He scored a second victory at Detroit in June.[9] His third SST win came two years later at Road America when he won the weekend's first race after an early roll.[10]

Television

In 2009, Luyendyk became the driver analyst for

season nine of Hell's Kitchen. The chefs visited the Grand Prix of Long Beach in which Luyendyk was participating.[11]

In 2023, he appeared as a contestant on the reality game show The Traitors, which aired on Peacock.

The Bachelorette and The Bachelor

Luyendyk placed second on the

Emily Maynard.[12]

Luyendyk appeared in the first episode of the

Wipeout: Summer Episode 7: "Bachelors vs. Bachelorettes",[13]
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. Luyendyk and Kufrin broke up after the show, but the breakup was televised. Luyendyk revealed that he had been talking to Burnham, and later the two began dating.

Personal life

Luyendyk works as a real estate broker for RE/MAX in Scottsdale, Arizona.[14] After realizing he had made a mistake upon proposing to Becca Kufrin on Season 22 of "The Bachelor," he became engaged to the runner-up, Lauren Burnham, on his season [15][16] and Burnham moved to Scottsdale to be with Luyendyk.[17] The couple married on January 12, 2019.[18] They have a daughter who was born on May 29, 2019.[19] On June 11, 2021, Lauren gave birth to twins.

He appeared as an agent on a 2019 episode of

House Hunters International set in Amsterdam.[20]

Racing record

SCCA National Championship Runoffs

Year Track Car Engine Class Finish Start Status
2001 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
AFS Racing KTY
4 		PPIR
5 		CHI
4
FON

14 		TXS
4
2005
 AFS Racing
HMS
PHX

4
STP

5
INDY
FON

6 		11th 228
Brian Stewart Racing TXS
10
IMS

6 		NSH
8 		MIL
7 		KTY
10 		PPIR
10
SNM
 CHI WGL
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
Alliance Motorsports CHI
7 		KTY
9
HMS

12

IndyCar

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Rank Points Ref
2005
CURB/Agajanian/Beck Motorsports
 HMS PHX STP MOT INDY
DNQ 		TXS RIR KAN NSH MIL MIS KTY PPIR SNM CHI WGL FON NC – [21]
2006
 Luyendyk Racing HMS STP MOT INDY
28 		WGL TXS RIR KAN NSH MIL MIS KTY SNM CHI 36th 10 [22]

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

Stadium Super Trucks

(key) (Bold – Pole position. Italics – Fastest qualifier. * – Most laps led.)

Stadium Super Trucks results
Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 SSTC Pts Ref
2013
PHO

4 		LBH
7 		LAN
11
SDG

4
SDG

4
STL

12
TOR
TOR
 CRA CRA OCF OCF OCF CPL 7th 154 [23]
2014 STP STP LBH IMS
5 		IMS
6
DET

3
DET

4
DET

2 		AUS
10
TOR
TOR
 OCF OCF CSS
LVV
LVV
 11th 110 [24]
2015 ADE ADE ADE STP STP LBH
DET

10
DET

8
DET

8 		AUS
3
TOR
TOR
 OCF OCF OCF SRF SRF SRF SRF
SYD
 LVV LVV 13th 72 [25]
2016 ADE ADE ADE STP STP LBH LBH
DET

2*
DET

C1
DET

8
TOW

4
TOW

5
TOW

3
TOR
TOR
 CLT
10 		CLT
2 		OCF
5 		OCF
9 		SRF SRF SRF 6th 173 [26]
2017 ADE ADE ADE STP
5 		STP
4 		LBH
6 		LBH
6
PER
PER
PER
DET

10
DET

6 		TEX
7 		TEX
8 		HID HID HID BEI
7 		GLN GLN ELS
7 		ELS
9 		8th 183 [27]
2018 ELS
9 		ADE
2 		ADE
5 		ADE
7 		LBH
3 		LBH
14
PER

1
PER

8
DET

3
DET

1 		TEX
6 		TEX
10 		ROA
Rpl† 		ROA
Rpl† 		SMP SMP HLN
3 		HLN
11 		MXC MXC 7th 305 [28]
2019 COA COA TEX TEX LBH LBH
TOR
TOR
 MOH
6 		MOH
8 		MOH MOH ROA ROA ROA POR POR SRF SRF 19th 28 [29]
2020 ADE ADE ADE ROA
1* 		ROA
9 		N/A2 – [30]
2021 STP
3 		STP
4 		MOH MOH MOH MOH NSH
7 		NSH
6 		LBH LBH 10th 75 [31]
† – Replaced by Casey Mears, points went to Luyendyk

1 The race was abandoned after Matt Mingay suffered serious injuries in a crash on lap three.
2 Standings were not recorded by the series for the 2020 season.

References

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