The other Dutch racing ace enjoying a standout 2023

By:

James Newbold

Sep 7, 2023, 10:43 AM

While Max Verstappen has been rewriting the history books in Formula 1, compatriot Nicky Catsburg has had a similarly prolific season hoovering up honours in sportscar racing, with three class victories in 24-hour races. Here’s what he and those close to him make of a glittering campaign

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It’s no exaggeration to state that Nicky Catsburg has had a year any sportscar driver would envy. He’s won his class in three major 24-hour races, including one outright, and achieved the virtually unprecedented feat of securing a world championship title in July. When you also factor in his GT class title in the Asian Le Mans Series aboard a Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW M4, the amiable Dutchman has claimed major successes aboard four different brands of car.

“It feels strange,” concedes Catsburg. “You have some years where you are begging for a win, you do a good job but you just never can get that result. When it started with winning Asian Le Mans this year, I was like, ‘We won now, the rest of the season will probably be difficult’. But it just keeps getting better and better. To win those three 24-hour races, three different cars, is just super cool.

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James Newbold is Autosport's Plus Editor, responsible for coordinating website feature content.

In a sign of things to come, having completed his Politics and International Relations degree at the University of East Anglia in 2015, he left his graduation ceremony early to catch the last train to Brussels for the following day's Spa 24 Hours.

After a period as a freelancer, he joined the Autosport staff in 2018 and won the Motorsport UK young journalist of the year award. He initially edited Autosport magazine's Performance and Engineering supplements before joining the website team in his current role in 2020.

A keen enthusiast of anything that can be categorised unusual or niche, he enjoys unearthing little-known stories across all branches of motorsport, but has spent most of his career covering sportscars and is a regular part of the Le Mans 24 Hours reporting team.

He lives with his wife and children in Plymouth, England.