Michael Herck

Michael Herck
Michael Herck
Born	August 4, 1988 (age 38); Bucharest, Romania
Nationality	Belgian, Romanian
Occupation	Racing driver (former)

Michael Herck (born 4 August 1988 in Bucharest, Romania) is a former racing driver with dual Romanian and Belgian nationality.

Early years

Adopted at 18 months by Belgian millionaire André Herck, who was originally from Bucharest, Michael Herck was raised in Monaco. He initiated his motorsport journey in French karting, securing the national Minime championship title in 2000.

Formula Renault

Transitioning from karting, Herck participated in the Formula Renault Monza Winter Series during 2003 and competed fully in the 2004 season. That year, he clinched the championship by achieving five wins and accumulating 375 points. Additionally, he claimed victory in the Spanish 1.6-litre series and took part in the Belgian counterpart.

In 2007, Herck joined Comtec Racing to compete in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, though he did not manage to score any points that season.

Formula Three

Advancing to Formula Three competition in 2005, Herck secured the Austrian championship title and made selective appearances in both the British and German championships. The following year, with backing from fellow Belgian Bas Leinders, he raced in the Formula 3 Euro Series, finishing fifteenth overall with twelve points.

GP2 Series

Herck commenced his GP2 career by entering the inaugural GP2 Asia Series in 2008 with FMS International. However, a wrist injury forced him to miss the final round. Initially replaced by Giacomo Ricci at David Price Racing for the main GP2 Series, Ricci was later succeeded by Andy Soucek as Herck recovered. He made his GP2 debut at Magny-Cours and continued with DPR for both the 2008–09 Asia series and the 2009 main season.

During a feature race at Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, Herck crossed the line sixth but was stripped of his first GP2 points due to technical violations. His first official points came during the 2009–10 GP2 Asia Series, where he finished seventh at Abu Dhabi. He narrowly missed out on his first podium and victory after being overtaken late in the sprint race, ultimately placing thirteenth overall.

In the 2010 GP2 main championship, Herck earned several points finishes and initially secured pole position at his home round in Belgium; however, this pole was later revoked due to a regulatory breach. He ended that season ranked sixteenth in the standings.

Following DPR's exit from GP2, Herck signed with Scuderia Coloni for the 2011 campaign. Teamed with James Jakes and Luca Filippi during the Asia series, he achieved eighth place overall, scoring points in three of four races. Nevertheless, his performance declined during the main series, where he managed only one point and finished twenty-first overall.

Retirement

After an unsatisfactory performance throughout the 2011 GP2 Series season, Herck opted out of participating in the non-championship GP2 Final event in Abu Dhabi that year and retired from professional racing to concentrate on academic pursuits, as confirmed by his adoptive father André Herck.

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Poles	Wins	Points	Position
2003	Formula Renault Monza Winter Series	Dynamic Engineering	2	0	0	18	8th
2004	Formula Renault Monza	Dynamic Engineering	16	3	5	375	1st
	Formula Junior 1600 Spain	?	9	6	4	119	1st
	Formula Renault 1600 Belgium	?	4	0	1	65	11th
2005	Austrian Formula Three Championship	Junior Racing Team	7	6	3	75	1st
	British Formula 3		5	0	0	0	NC
	Formula Renault 2.0 Italia		0	0	0	0	NC
	Recaro Formel 3 Cup	Jama Investments	3	1	0	0	NC
2006	Formula 3 Euro Series	Bas Leinders Junior Racing Team	19	0	0	12	15th
	British Formula 3		2	0	0	0	NC
	Masters of Formula Three		1	0	0	N/A	13th
2007	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Comtec Racing	14	0	0	0	NC
2007	Formula 3 Euro Series	Bas Leinders Junior Racing Team	2	0	0	0	NC
2008	GP2 Asia Series	FMS International	8	0	0	0	23rd
2008	GP2 Series	David Price Racing (DPR)	13	0	0	0	30th
2008–09	GP2 Asia Series	David Price Racing	11	0	0	0	33rd
rowspan=2 2009 \|- align=left GP2 Series David Price Racing (DPR) 19 0 0 0 23rd \|- align=left Formula Renault 3.5 Series Interwetten.com 6 0 0 7 23rd \|-	2009–10 GP2 Asia Series David Price Racing 8 0 0 7 13th \|-	2010 GP2 Series DPR 20 0 0 12 16th \|-	rowspan=2 2011 GP2 Asia Series Scuderia Coloni 4 0 0 9 8th \|- GP2 Series Scuderia Coloni 18 1 21st \|-

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

(key) (Bold font denotes pole position) (Italic font signifies fastest lap)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Position	Points
2007	Red Devil Team Comtec	MNZ 1	MNZ 2	NÜR 1 21st	NÜR 2 20th	MON 1 DNQ	HUN 1 Retired	HUN 2 18th	SPA 1 Retired	SPA 2 12th	DON 1 Retired	DON 2 16th	MAG 1 Retired	MAG 2 Retired	EST 1 16th	EST 2 16th	CAT 1 24th	CAT 2 16th	31st	0
2009	Interwetten.com Racing	CAT 1	CAT 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	MON 1	HUN 1 Retired	HUN 2 5th	SIL 1 20th	SIL 2 18th									23rd	7

Complete GP2 Series results

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Position	Points

|-

| 2008
! nowrap |  DPR 
| CAT 
 Feature
| CAT 
 Sprint
| IST 
 Feature
| IST 
 Sprint
| MON 
 Feature
| MON 
 Sprint
| style="background:#EFCFFF;" | MAG 
 Feature
 Retired 
| style="background:#cfcfff;" | MAG 
 Sprint
15th 
| style="background:#cfcfff;" | SIL 
 Feature
23rd 
| style="background:#ffffff;" | SIL 
 Sprint
DNS
| style="background:#cfcfff;" | HOC 
 Feature
17th 
| style="background:#EFCFFF;" | HOC 
 Sprint
Retired 
| style="background:#EFCFFF;" | HUN 
 Feature
Retired 
| style="background:#cfcfff;" | HUN 
 Sprint
17th 
| style="background:#cfcfff;" | VAL 
 Feature
12th 
| style="background:#cfcfff;" | VAL 
 Sprint
14th 
| style="background:#cfcfff;" | SPA 
 Feature
14th 
| style="background:#cfcfff;"   :Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps  SPA SPR11th[[ ]][[ ]]

!30th 
!0

|- 2009 GP2 Series season David Price Racing DPR [CAT FEA]13[/CAT FEA][CAT SPR]Ret[/CAT SPR][MON FEA]16[/MON FEA][MON SPR]16[/MON SPR][IST FEA]Ret[/IST FEA][IST SPR]Ret[/IST SPR][SIL FEA]9[/SIL FEA][SIL SPR]8[/SIL SPR][NÜR FEA]14[/NÜR FEA][NÜR SPR]12[/NÜR SPR][HUN FEA]15[/HUN FEA][HUN SPR]DNS[/HUN SPR][VAL FEA]13[/VAL FEA][VAL SPR]Ret[/VAL SPR][SPA FEA]Ret[/SPA FEA][SPA SPR]9[/SPA SPR][MNZ FEA]20†[/MNZ FEA][MNZ SPR]13[/MNZ SPR][ALG FEA]DSQ[/ALG FEA][ALG SPR]Ret[/ALG SPR] 23rd 0 |- 2010 GP2 Series season David Price Racing DPR [CAT FEA]17[/CAT FEA][CAT SPR]21[/CAT SPR][MON FEA]16[/MON FEA][MON SPR]Ret[/MON SPR][IST FEA]6[/IST FEA][IST SPR]5[/IST SPR][VAL FEA]8[/VAL FEA][VAL SPR]3[/VAL SPR][SIL FEA]22[/SIL FEA][SIL SPR]14[/SIL SPR][HOC FEA]9[/HOC FEA][HOC SPR]8[/HOC SPR][HUN FEA]7[/HUN FEA][HUN SPR]Ret[/HUN SPR][SPA FEA]Ret[/SPA FEA][SPA SPR]13[/SPA SPR][MNZ FEA]Ret[/MNZ FEA][MNZ SPR]Ret[/MNZ SPR][YMC FEA]16[/YMC FEA][YMC SPR]10[/YMC SPR] 16th 12 points |- 2011 GP2 Series season Scuderia Coloni [IST FEA]14[/IST FEA][IST SPR]12[/IST SPR][CAT FEA]Retired[/CAT FEA][CAT SPR]Retired[/CAT SPR][MON FEA]13[/MON FEA][MON SPR]15[/MON SPR][VAL FEA]10[/VAL FEA][VAL SPR]6[/VAL SPR][SIL FEA]24[/SIL FEA][SIL SPR]18[/SIL SPR][NÜR FEA]11[/NÜR FEA][NÜR SPR]10[/NÜR SPR][HUN FEA]12[/HUN FEA][HUN SPR]Retired[/HUN SPR][SPA FEA]16[/SPA FEA][SPA SPR]15[/SPA SPR][MNZ FEA]Retired[/MNZ FEA][MNZ SPR]DNS[/MNZ SPR] 21st 1 point |- !colspan=24|(Sources) |}

Full GP2 Asia Series Results

(key) (Entries in bold denote pole position) (Entries in italics signify fastest lap)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final Position	Points
2008	FMS International	DUB1 FEA Retired	DUB1 SPR 17th	SEN FEA 9th	SEN SPR 12th	SEP FEA 11th	SEP SPR 11th	BHR FEA 15th	BHR SPR 14th	23rd	0
2008–09	David Price Racing	SHI FEA 16th	SHI SPR 16th	DUB FEA 15th	DUB SPR Cancelled	BHR1 FEA 18th	BHR1 SPR 18th	LSL FEA 15th	LSL SPR Retired	33rd	0
2009–10	David Price Racing	YMC1 FEA < br > 13th	YMC1 < br> SPR < br > 9th	YMC2 < br> FEA < br > 7th	YMC2 < br> SPR < br > 2nd					13th	7
2011	Scuderia Coloni	YMC < br> FEA < br > 13th	YMC < br> SPR < br > 5th	IMO < br> FEA < br > 4th	IMO < br> SPR < br > 5th					8th	9
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