About Me

Christopher Jason van der Drift was born on 8 March 1986 in Hamilton, he is of dual nationality holding a Dutch and Kiwi passport.

After a very successful karting career in New Zealand and Australia wrapping up 12 New Zealand Karting championships over 10 years the next logical step was to move up into the “racing car” world and with the help of his parents Chris
moved to Europe in 2003.

Without having ever driven a race car before he signed up to a BMW scholarship program, once he received the entry he was off to Spain to take part, he went on the win the scholarship in his first try and was supported by BMW for the 2004 season of the German Formula BMW Championship.

Thanks to Chris’s parents & Oma for putting everything on the line he was able to compete his first season of racing in Europe.

Chris was Champion in his first attempt.

From there Chris was picked up and raced in the 2006 Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup and NEC (Champion), 2007 International Formula Master, 2008 Formula Master (Champion), 2008/09 GP2 Series Asia (part series) 2009 World Series by Renault 3.5, 2009 A1GP (part series), 2010 Superleague Formula. After a massive accident at Brands Hatch which nearly took Chris’s life he parted ways with his then manager. 2011 World Series by Renault 3.5 (part series), 2012 Auto GP World Series, 2012 Italian GT, 2013 International GT Open, 2014 Blancpain GT Series Sprint & Endurance, 2015 Porsche Carrera Cup Asia (Champion), 2016 V8 Supercar Pirtek Enduro Cup, 2017 Porsche Carrera Cup (Champion), 2017 China GT Championship (Champion), 2018 Porsche Carrera Cup (Champion), 2019 GT World Challenge Asia, 2019 Lamborghini Super Trofeo (Champion), 2021 TCR New Zealand (Champion), 2021 GT3 Endurence Series NZ, 2023 Lamborghini Super Trofeo (Champion).

Chris is a Multiple Champion in both single seaters and GT cars, currently he has over 70 victories, 173 podiums, 51 pole positions and 46 fastest race laps to his name.

He has a wealth of experience, and can be regarding as one of the most versatile drivers around, whatever car he jumps into you can be sure he will get the most out of it.