🏳️ Erick Van Wagenen

Erick Van Wagenen is a club-level driver who raced in NASA, a national multiclass endurance championship mixing amateur and semi-professional entrants with graded professionals on the same grid. His indexed career spans nineteen years from 2003 to 2022, with twenty-seven starts across three NASA classes: American Iron, CMC and PTD, driving a BMW 330i for the majority of his racing.[1]

Van Wagenen won ten times across his NASA career and finished on the podium in nineteen of his twenty-seven starts, a strike rate that reflects consistent performance in his classes rather than a single breakthrough season. His most recent indexed activity came in 2022, when he took four podiums from four rounds before the season ended with him eighteenth in the championship standings. He won the NASA championship in 2019 driving the BMW.[2]

His regular opponents at NASA include Matt Pruden and Chris Bachmann, both club and developing drivers respectively, whom Van Wagenen typically finished ahead of. He also raced against entry-level professionals including Jonathan Perichon, an FIA Bronze driver with significant NASA experience and GT4 America starts, whom he beat four times, and Lucas Weisenberg, an FIA Silver driver with dual-series credentials in NASA and IMSA Pilot Challenge, whom he beat once.