IAME Karting · X30 Senior
Eva Dorrestijn
A holiday rental track, a kart of her own weeks later, and an FIA selection fifteen years on.
Team Koene · X30 Senior, #266
Her story
She always loved going fast and being on the limit. Her father karted before she was born, but she did not grow up with racing. On holiday the family went to a rental track because her father wanted to drive, and beside it was a little track for children, so she could drive too.
The first time she drove a kart she fell in love with it. The feeling of going fast and being free was the best feeling ever, as she describes it. Shortly after that holiday she had her own kart, and that is where the story begins.
Since then she has raced her way up the IAME ladder, now in X30 Senior with Team Koene, and in 2025 the FIA Women in Motorsport Commission selected her through the FIA Karting Academy Trophy. That same year she drove her first F1 Academy rookie test.
In her own words
- Driving style
- Smooth and consistent
- Favourite track
- Le Mans (karting)
- Race-day habit
- Bananas and music
- Role model
- Her dad
- Biggest dream
- To make it into the F1 paddock
Track record
Champion · IAME X30 Junior 2022
Dutch and Belgian champion.
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