Antoine Emile "Toine" Hezemans (born 15 April 1943, in Eindhoven[1]) is a Dutch former touring and prototype racing car driver in the 1960s and 1970s. After retiring from racing, Hezemans started manufacturing karting engines. He developed the Rotax 100 cc engines into a World championship winner in his new factory at Eindhoven Airport in Holland. His Rotax engines won 10 times the world championships in various classes and wiped out the Italian karting competition. He sold his company Bombardier Rotax Holland b.v. back to Bombardier in Canada in 1996. In 2000 he started his own team with Dodge Vipers and won numerous races in the Gt 1 Championship. He made a deal with GM in the USA and got hold of 2 Corvettes C6 and was successful privateer Team, winning 2 times the 24 hours of Spa. One of the drivers was his son, Mike Hezemans. Even today he has a European Nascar team where his sons Loris Hezemans and Liam Hezemans won the European Nascar championships 3 times. Since 1978, he is very active in real estate projects in Miami, Brussels and Amsterdam.[2]
In 2022, Team Hezeberg joined Nascar Cup, fielding a Ford Nascar. Team Hezeberg was a partnership between Hezemans and Ernest Berg. Jacques Villeneuve did the first race for the team and after that Loris Hezemans drove 5 races. Daniil Kvyat was added to the roster by fielding a Toyota. Due to training limitations Team Hezeberg stopped at the end of 2022 season.
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