Marc Goossens

Marc Goossens, nicknamed The Goose (born 30 November 1969), is a Belgian professional racing driver that currently competes in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, driving the No. 98 Ford Mustang for CAAL Racing in the Elite 1 class.

Marc Goossens
Goossens in the SRT Motorsports Viper GTS-R in qualifying for the 2012 Petit Le Mans
Born	30 November 1969 Geel, Belgium
NASCAR Cup Series career
2 races run over 2 years
Best finish	69th (2007)
First race	2006 AMD at The Glen (Watkins Glen)
Last race	2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350 (Infineon)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
1 race run over 1 year
Best finish	99th (2006)
First race	2006 Telcel-Motorola 200 (Mexico City)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 1 0
NASCAR Whelen Euro Series career
Debut season	2016
Current team	CAAL Racing
Car number	98
Starts	44
Wins	1
Poles	1
Fastest laps	3
Best finish	5th in 2020
Finished last season	5th in 2020
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	1996 – 2003, 2008, 2010 – 2011, 2013, 2016
Teams	Racing for Belgium/Team Scandia Courage Compétition Nissan Motorsports Team DAMS Riley & Scott Racing Creation Autosportif Jaguar RSR Prospeed Competition
Best finish	4th (1997)
Class wins	0

Racing career

Goossens drove full-time in Formula 3000 from 1994 to 1996 and part-time from 1999 to 2001. In between he drove in endurance races and is a veteran of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. From 2002 to 2005 he then raced in FIA GT. In 2007 and 2008 he drove a Riley-Pontiac Daytona Prototype at the Rolex Sports Car Series, scoring two wins with teammate Jim Matthews.

He also finished 9th in his first NASCAR Busch Series start at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in 2006 for Robert Yates Racing in their No. 90 Ford. Goossens returned to Yates later that year to make his NASCAR Cup Series debut in August of that year at Watkins Glen International in the No. 90, but crashed out and finished 43rd. Goossens made another Cup start in 2007 at Infineon Raceway, driving the No. 91 Toyota for Riley-D'Hondt Motorsports. He was running well until a mechanical failure dropped him to 36th. He was set to make another start in the same car at Watkins Glen, but with rain in the forecast for qualifying and the No. 91 only being a part-time team, the team withdrew as they would have missed the race.

Goossens holds the record of the most wins in 24 Hours of Zolder with six (1997, 1998, 2005, 2007, 2014, 2016) race along with Anthony Kumpen. Also, he won the Belcar in 2005 with a Chevrolet Corvette C5R and in 2011 with a Porsche 911 GT 3 R

Goossens competed at the GTE Pro class of the 2011 Le Mans Series with a ProSpeed Competition Porsche 911, partnering with Marco Holzer.

In 2012 he was hired by the Chrysler Corporation's SRT Motorsports racing team to drive a Viper GT Le Mans in the American Le Mans Series. With Dominik Farnbacher as teammate in 2013, he scored a class win and three podiums. Continuing with SRT in the 2014 United SportsCar Championship, the Belgian scored six class podiums. In 2015 he continued with Viper but in the GT Daytona class, winning the Six Hours at the Glen. In 2016 he drove a Coyote Corvette Daytona Prototype for VisitFlorida Racing with Ryan Dalziel, finishing third at the 24 Hours of Daytona. He continued with VisitFlorida in the 2017 IMSA SportsCar Championship.

Goossens later competed in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, driving for Braxx Racing and CAAL Racing.[1]

Racing record

Complete International Formula 3000 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	DC	Pts
1994	Nordic Racing	SIL Ret	PAU Ret	CAT 6	PER 7	HOC 5	SPA Ret	EST Ret	MAG Ret					9th	6
1995	Nordic Racing	SIL 4	CAT 5	PAU 3	PER Ret	HOC 1	SPA Ret	EST 8	MAG 2					3rd	24
1996	Team Astromega	NÜR Ret	PAU Ret	PER 1	HOC Ret	SIL 16	SPA 2	MAG 1	EST 4	MUG 6	HOC Ret			3rd	28
1999	Lukoil Arden	IMO DNQ	MON DNQ	CAT Ret	MAG Ret	SIL DNQ	A1R Ret	HOC Ret	HUN DSQ	SPA Ret	NÜR DNQ			NC	0
2000	Team Astromega	IMO	SIL	CAT	NÜR	MON	MAG	A1R 10	HOC 10	HUN 19	SPA 2			12th	6
2001	Coloni F3000	INT	IMO	CAT	A1R	MON	NÜR	MAG	SIL	HOC	HUN Ret	SPA 5	MNZ 7	16th	2

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1996	Racing for Belgium Team Scandia	Eric van de Poele Éric Bachelart	Ferrari 333 SP	WSC	208	DNF	DNF
1997	Courage Compétition	Didier Cottaz Jérôme Policand	Courage C41-Porsche	LMP	336	4th	2nd
1998	Courage Compétition	Didier Cottaz Jean-Philippe Belloc	Courage C51-Nissan	LMP	232	DNF	DNF
1999	Nissan Motorsports	Didier Cottaz Fredrik Ekblom	Courage C52-Nissan	LMP	335	8th	7th
2000	Team DAMS	Christophe Tinseau Kristian Kolby	Cadillac Northstar LMP	LMP900	4	DNF	DNF
2001	DAMS	Éric Bernard Emmanuel Collard	Cadillac Northstar LMP01	LMP900	56	DNF	DNF
2002	Riley & Scott Racing	Jim Matthews Didier Theys	Riley & Scott Mk III C-Élan	LMP900	189	DNF	DNF
2003	Riley & Scott Racing	Jim Matthews Christophe Tinseau	Riley & Scott Mk III C-Ford	LMP900	214	DNF	DNF
2008	Creation Autosportif	Stuart Hall Johnny Mowlem	Creation CA07-AIM	LMP1	316	24th	11th
2010	Jaguar RSR	Paul Gentilozzi Ryan Dalziel	Jaguar XKR GT2	GT2	4	DNF	DNF
2011	Prospeed Competition	Marco Holzer Jaap van Lagen	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GTE Pro	293	23rd	8th
2013	SRT Motorsports	Ryan Dalziel Dominik Farnbacher	SRT Viper GTS-R	GTE Pro	306	24th	8th
2016	Murphy Prototypes	Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating	Oreca 03R-Nissan	LMP2	323	34th	15th

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Nextel Cup Series

NASCAR Nextel Cup Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	NNCC	Pts	Ref
2006	Yates Racing	90	Ford	DAY	CAL	LVS	ATL	BRI	MAR	TEX	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON	DAY	CHI	NHA	POC	IND	GLN 43	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	NHA	DOV	KAN	TAL	CLT	MAR	ATL	TEX	PHO	HOM	75th	34	[2]
2007	Riley-D'Hondt Motorsports	91	Toyota	DAY	CAL	LVS	ATL	BRI	MAR	TEX	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON 36	NHA	DAY	CHI	IND	POC	GLN	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	NHA	DOV	KAN	TAL	CLT	MAR	ATL	TEX	PHO	HOM	69th	55	[3]

Busch Series

NASCAR Busch Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	NBSC	Pts	Ref
2006	Yates Racing	90	Ford	DAY	CAL	MXC 9	LVS	ATL	BRI	TEX	NSH	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	DAY	CHI	NHA	MAR	GTY	IRP	GLN	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CLT	MEM	TEX	PHO	HOM	99th	143	[4]

Whelen Euro Series – EuroNASCAR PRO

(key) (Bold – Pole position. Italics – Fastest lap. * – Most laps led. ^ – Most positions gained)

NASCAR Whelen Euro Series – EuroNASCAR PRO results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	NWES	Points	Ref
2016	Brass Racing	90	Ford	VAL 9	VAL 20	VEN 13	VEN 8	BRH 4	BRH 3	TOU DNS	TOU DNS	ADR	ADR	ZOL 21	ZOL 2		17th	343	[5]
2017	Braxx Racing			VAL	VAL	BRH 4	BRH 3	VEN 13	VEN 7	HOC	HOC	FRA 3	FRA 2	ZOL 2	ZOL 1*		10th	491	[6]
2018				VAL 8	VAL 28	FRA 19	FRA 2*	BRH 17	BRH 2	TOU 19	TOU DNS	HOC 2	HOC DNS	ZOL 11	ZOL 27		19th	293	[7]
2019		78		VAL 11	VAL 13	FRA 2	FRA 21	BRH 4	BRH 19	MOS	MOS	VEN	HOC	HOC	ZOL 2	ZOL 3	20th	290	[8]
2020	CAAL Racing	98		ITA 22	ITA 11^	ZOL 2	ZOL 3	MOS 7	MOS 5	VAL 4	VAL 7	ESP 5	ESP 17				5th	352

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

(key)(Races in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Team	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Rank	Points
2016	VisitFlorida Racing	P	Coyote Corvette DP	Chevrolet 5.5L V8	DAY 3	SIR 5	LBH 6	LAG 2	DET 7	WAT 6	MSP 4	ELK 6	COA 7	PET 7	5th	273
2017	VisitFlorida Racing	P	Riley Mk. 30	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	DAY 3	SEB 6	LBH WD	COA 7	DET 9	WGL 5	MOS 10				7th	233
			Ligier JS P217									ELK 5	LGA 1	PET 7

References

1. Wiegold, André; Ercoli, Gianmarco (4 October 2020). "Alon Day grabs his first win of the season and championship lead at Circuit Zolder". EuroNASCAR. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
2. "Marc Goossens – 2006 NASCAR Nextel Cup Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
3. "Marc Goossens – 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
4. "Marc Goossens – 2006 NASCAR Busch Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
5. "Marc Goossens – 2016 Whelen Euro Elite 1 Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
6. "Marc Goossens – 2017 Whelen Euro Elite 1 Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
7. "Marc Goossens – 2018 Whelen Euro Elite 1 Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
8. "Marc Goossens – 2019 Whelen Euro Elite 1 Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 1 August 2020.

External links

• Official website
• Marc Goossens driver statistics at Racing-Reference
• Career summary on Driver Database