Bent Viscaal
Viscaal on the podium of the2025 24 Hours of Le Mans
Nationality	Dutch
Born	(1999-09-18)18 September 1999 (age 26) Almelo,Overijssel, Netherlands
European Le Mans Series career
Debut season	2022
Current team	Proton Competition
Racing licence	FIA Silver(2022) FIA Gold(2023–)
Car number	77
Former teams	Algarve Pro Racing
Starts	22 (22 entries)
Wins	1
Podiums	6
Poles	10
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	3rd in2024 (LMP2 Pro-Am)
Previous series
2022 2021 2019-2020 2018 2017 2017	European Le Mans Series FIA Formula 2 Championship FIA Formula 3 Championship Euroformula Open Championship F4 Spanish Championship SMP F4 Championship

Bent Max Calvin Viscaal (born 18 September 1999 inAlmelo) is aDutch racing driver who is competing in the2025 European Le Mans Series withProton Competition. He previously raced in theEuropean Le Mans Series forAlgarve Pro Racing.

Viscaal is the runner-up of the2018 Euroformula Open Championship as well as the2017 F4 Spanish Championship. Viscaal resides in a small Dutch town calledAlbergen.^[1][2]

Viscaal made his motor racing debut in karting in 2010 in the Dutch Mini Juniors Championship. In 2011, he became champion in the Mini Juniors class of the Euro Wintercup, and in 2012, he finished second in the Dutch KF3 Championship. From that season on, he also participated in foreign races, especially in Germany. In 2014, he made his debut in international karting in the European KF Junior Championship. In 2015, he became champion in theGerman Junior Championship. In 2016, he drove his last season in karts, in which he finished sixth in the OK class of the European Championship.^{[citation needed]}

In 2017, Viscaal made the switch to formula racing and made his debut in Formula 4 in both theSMP andSpanish Formula 4 Championships forMP Motorsport.^[3][4] In the SMP championship, he won four races at theAhvenisto Race Circuit, theAuto24ring and theTT Circuit Assen (twice), finishing second in the final standings with 218 points behindChristian Lundgaard. In the Spanish championship, he won five races at theCircuito de Navarra, theCircuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, theCircuit Paul Armagnac (twice) and theAutódromo do Estoril, yet again finishing second in this championship behind Lundgaard with a 266 points deficit.^[5]

In 2018, Viscaal switched to theEuroformula Open Championship to make his Formula 3 debut for theTeo Martín Motorsport team.^[6] In a season dominated byFelipe Drugovich, he won a race atSilverstone and finished on the podium in eleven other races, finishing second behind Drugovich with 246 points. He did win the rookie championship with fourteen wins, one second place and one retirement in sixteen races. The Euroformula Open also hosted the Spanish Formula 3 championship, in which Viscaal was also second behind Drugovich with five second places.^[7]

In 2019, Viscaal switched to the newFIA Formula 3 Championship, where he raced for theHWA Racelab team.^[8] He had a reasonable debut season, but only managed to score a fifth place at theCircuit Paul Ricard. With 10 points, he finished fifteenth in the championship. At the end of the year, he drove in a race weekend of the MRF Challenge at the Bahrain International Circuit, winning two of the four races and finishing on the podium in another.^[9]

In 2020, Viscaal remained inFIA F3, but this time withMP Motorsport. At theHungaroring he earned his first podium finish after a time penalty fromLogan Sargeant.^[10] In the second race of this weekend, he originally took victory, but after two time penalties of five seconds each and a late safety car phase, he was classified seventeenth in the final results.^[11] AtSilverstone, Viscaal scored his first victory after a last-lap battle withLirim Zendeli.^[12] With 40 points, he finished thirteenth in the final standings.^[13]

In 2021, Viscaal switched to theFormula 2 Championship withTrident, partneringMarino Sato.^[14][15] He scored his first points in round three at theBaku Street Circuit where he finished fourth, giving Trident their best race finish in the modernF2 era.^[16] Following a point-less round atSilverstone Viscaal finished seventh after having started from 18th in a chaotic first sprint race atMonza, thus propelling him to fourth on the starting grid for the second race. He managed to move up to second by the checkered flag and scored his first ever Formula 2 podium, which was also Trident's first in theFIA Formula 2 era.^[17] The following round at theSochi Autodrom Viscaal was forced to retire in both races after collisions in the opening laps. After a two-month break Viscaal returned to race in the final two rounds of the series. Having stated that theJeddah Corniche Circuit, which hosted the penultimate round of the season, was "[...] one of the best tracks [he'd] ever driven",^[18] Viscaal finished the sprint race in ninth place and ended race 2 in second place.^[19] Viscaal left Trident and the series following the season.

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For 2022, Viscaal switched to endurance racing, citing the high costs of running in formula cars as his main reason. Viscaal starred in his debut race, the opening race of the2022 European Le Mans Series season, by finishing in second position, despite having no more endurance experience than a handful of testing laps. Due to his outstanding performances, Viscaal was invited to participate in the2022 24 Hours of Le Mans withARC Bratislava, recording the fastest 50-lap average pace of all 24 Hours race debutants.^{[citation needed]}

In 2023, Viscaal participated in theFIA World Endurance Championship withPrema Racing in theLMP2 category, teaming up withJuan Manuel Correa,Andrea Caldarelli andFilip Ugran in the No.9 car.^[20] With a best race result of fourth, he helped his team to ninth in the teams' standings.^{[citation needed]}

Viscaal returned to theELMS on a full-time basis in 2024, partneringRené Binder and Giorgio Roda atProton Competition in the LMP2 Pro-Am class. He would also return to the24 Hours of Le Mans forProton Competition w/ Iron Lynx in the LMP2 class which would return to theWorld Endurance Championship for a one-off.^[21]

In May, it was announced that Viscaal would be making hisGTP debut in theIMSA SportsCar Championship atLaguna Seca, driving a Proton-fieldedPorsche 963 withGianmaria Bruni.^[22]

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^† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

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Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2022	ARC Bratislava	Miroslav Konôpka Tristan Vautier	Oreca 07-Gibson	LMP2	360	26th	21st
2023	Prema Racing	Juan Manuel Correa Filip Ugran	Oreca 07-Gibson	LMP2	310	34th	16th
2024	Proton Competition	Macéo Capietto Jonas Ried	Oreca 07-Gibson	LMP2	86	DNF	DNF
2025	Proton Competition	René Binder Giorgio Roda	Oreca 07-Gibson	LMP2	365	23rd	6th
				LMP2 Pro-Am			3rd

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• Sportspeople from Almelo
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• WeatherTech SportsCar Championship drivers

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