Amaury Cordeel

Amaury Cordeel
Cordeel driving the Dallara F2 2024 during the 2024 Spielberg Formula 2 round.
Nationality	Belgian
Born	(2002-07-09) 9 July 2002 (age 22) Temse, Belgium
Related to	Ghislain Cordeel (brother)
FIA Formula 2 Championship career
Debut season	2022
Car number	16
Former teams	Van Amersfoort Racing, Invicta Virtuosi Racing, Hitech Pulse-Eight
Starts	76 (78 entries)
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	1
Best finish	17th in 2022 and 2024
Previous series
2022–2024 2021 2020 2019–2020 2019–2020 2018 2018 2018 2018 2017–18 2017	FIA Formula 2 Championship FIA Formula 3 Championship Toyota Racing Series Formula Renault Eurocup F3 Asian Championship SMP F4 Championship F4 Spanish Championship Italian F4 Championship ADAC Formula 4 Formula 4 UAE Championship French F4 Championship
Championship titles
2018	F4 Spanish Championship

Amaury Cordeel (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkɔrdeːl]; born 9 July 2002) is a Belgian racing driver who most recently competed in the 2024 FIA Formula 2 Championship with Hitech Pulse-Eight, having prior raced for Invicta Virtuosi Racing and Van Amersfoort Racing. He has previously raced in the FIA Formula 3 Championship, Formula Renault Eurocup, Toyota Racing Series and F3 Asian Championship, as well as French, ADAC, Italian, UAE, Spanish and SMP F4. He won the 2018 Spanish F4 champion.

Career

Lower formulae

Cordeel raced in various types on F4 and made his single seater debut in the 2017 French F4 Championship finishing 16th in the standings with 6 points. In 2018 he raced in the 2018 SMP F4 Championship finishing 8th in the standings with 2 wins and 4 podiums overall. That year he also raced in the 2018 ADAC Formula 4 Championship with ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. He finished the championship in 23rd with no points to his name but he only competed in 9 races. He then raced in the 2018 Italian F4 Championship with Mucke Motorsport and finished the season 31st in the standings with yet again 0 points finishes, although he only competed in 9 races. Before the real season got underway Cordeel raced in the 2017–18 Formula 4 UAE Championship with Dragon Motopark F4. He finished the season with a race win and 3 podiums. Cordeel's final campaign that year was in 2018 Spanish F4 Championship with MP Motorsport. Cordeel took 4 wins on the way to winning the championship with 208 points.^[1] In this extremely tight season he took the 3rd most wins but was the most consistent driver of the 3 championship contenders.

Formula Renault Eurocup

2019

Cordeel made his debut in the Formula Renault Eurocup in 2019 with MP Motorsport.^[2] He finished 15th in the standings with 27 points and a best finish of 7th at the race at Paul Ricard.

2020

In 2020 he stayed in the Eurocup and moved to FA Racing. He yet again finished 15th in the standings with a best result of 6th at Monza.^[3]

F3 Asian Championship

In 2019 Amaury raced in the 2019 F3 Asian Winter Series with Pinnacle Motorsport.^[4] He finished the winter series 10th with a best result of 4th at the Chang International Circuit. He scored a total of 22 points and didn't compete in the final round.

FIA Formula 3 Championship

Cordeel driving a Dallara F3 2019 during the 2021 Spielberg Formula 3 round.

Cordeel was announced to race in the 2021 FIA Formula 3 Championship with Campos Racing.^[5] At the penultimate round of the season the Belgian qualified in twelfth position, leading to him starting from pole in race one. Cordeel attributed his strong qualifying to him having finally gotten to grips with the tyre degradation.^[6] He was unable to use his advantage, as he was involved in a first-lap incident with Alexander Smolyar.

FIA Formula 2 Championship

2022

Cordeel driving for Van Amersfoort Racing during the 2022 Spielberg Formula 2 round.

Cordeel took part in 2021 Formula 2 post-season testing with Van Amersfoort Racing. He was later announced as one of the team's drivers for the 2022 season, initially partnering Jake Hughes and later driving alongside David Beckmann and Juan Manuel Correa.^[7]

Cordeel finished ninth in his first feature race in Bahrain but was demoted to fifteenth for speeding in the pit lane twice. He then received a ten-place grid penalty and four penalty points for failing to slow for red flags during qualifying in Jeddah.^[8] He crashed during the sprint race and was forced to withdraw from the feature race as his car could not be repaired in time.^[9] At the Imola round, he crashed on his way to the sprint race grid and failed to start.^[10] During the feature race, he was penalised twice for speeding in the pit lane and committed six track limits violations,^[11] collecting five more penalty points.^[12] At the next race in Barcelona, he received another two penalty points for being out of position on the formation lap, leaving him one point away from a race ban.^[13] His Monaco feature race ended after hitting the wall at the final corner.^[14] He then received a twelfth penalty point at the Baku feature race for causing a collision with Olli Caldwell,^[15] meaning he received a ban from the Silverstone round.^[16]

On his return to the series at the Austrian round, he achieved his highest qualifying result of the year with seventh place. He was classified eighteenth in the sprint race having been handed penalties for track limits violations and overtaking under yellow flag conditions, receiving four more penalty points. Cordeel's form improved after the summer break; he received no further penalty points during the season and scored his first championship points at the Zandvoort feature race, finishing sixth. He followed this with a seventh-place finish at the Monza feature race and points in both races in Abu Dhabi, leaving him 17th in the Drivers' Championship at the conclusion of his debut season.

2023

Cordeel driving for Invicta Virtuosi Racing during the 2023 Spielberg Formula 2 round.

After the end of the 2022 season, Cordeel took part in the post-season test with Virtuosi Racing, having been signed to the Infinity Sports Management programme on the previous day.^[17] Shortly afterwards, he was announced as a Virtuosi driver, partnering Jack Doohan for the 2023 season.^[18] The season brought few returns: despite cleaner on-track behaviour, Cordeel only managed to finish in the points twice, with eighth places at Zandvoort and Monza putting him 20th in the championship, a long way down from teammate Doohan who finished third.^[19]

2024

Cordeel switched to Hitech Pulse-Eight for the 2024 season, becoming teammates with Paul Aron.^[20] On the opening round of the season, he abandons due to an accident.^[21] In Jeddah, he qualifies last and give up the sprint race.^[22][23] On the main race, he finished fifth behind Jak Crawford.^[24]

Personal life

Cordeel was born on 9 July 2002 in Temse, near Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. His family runs Belgian construction company Cordeel Group NV since 1934.^[25][26] His older brother Ghislain is also a racing driver who competed in the Formula Renault Eurocup and the Porsche Supercup.^[27]

Cordeel has been charged with speeding twice. In March 2021 he posted a video speeding on a Flemish motorway to his TikTok account, and later apologised claiming it was not him driving the car.^[28] In November 2022 he fronted a Belgian court over an incident in 2020 where he was alleged to have been doing 179kph in a 50kph zone, and was given a 6-month road licence suspension and a €3,600 fine.^[29]

Racing record

Racing career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2017	French F4 Championship	FFSA Academy	21	0	0	0	0	6	16th
2017–18	Formula 4 UAE Championship	Dragon Motopark F4	17	1	0	1	3	120	8th
2018	Italian F4 Championship	BWT Mücke Motorsport	6	0	0	0	0	0	31st
		Alma Racing	3	0	0	0	0
	ADAC Formula 4 Championship	ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg	9	0	0	0	0	0	23rd
	SMP F4 Championship	MP Motorsport	12	2	1	2	4	107	8th
	F4 Spanish Championship		17	4	4	6	12	208	1st
2019	Formula Renault Eurocup	MP Motorsport	20	0	0	0	0	27	15th
	F3 Asian Winter Series	Pinnacle Motorsport	5	0	0	0	0	22	10th
2019–20	F3 Asian Championship	MP Motorsport	3	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
2020	Formula Renault Eurocup	FA Racing	19	0	0	0	0	33	15th
	Toyota Racing Series	Kiwi Motorsport	0	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2021	FIA Formula 3 Championship	Campos Racing	20	0	0	0	0	0	23rd
2022	FIA Formula 2 Championship	Van Amersfoort Racing	24	0	0	1	0	26	17th
	Porsche Carrera Cup Benelux	Team GP Elite	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2023	FIA Formula 2 Championship	Invicta Virtuosi Racing	26	0	0	0	0	8	20th
2024	FIA Formula 2 Championship	Hitech Pulse-Eight	28	0	0	0	0	39	17th

^† As Cordeel was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.
* Season still in progress.

Complete French F4 Championship results

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

Year	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	Pos	Points
2017	NOG 1 Ret	NOG 2 16	NOG 3 Ret	MNZ 1 12	MNZ 2 Ret	MNZ 3 9	PAU 1 Ret	PAU 2 Ret	PAU 3 13	SPA 1 15	SPA 2 11	SPA 3 13	MAG 1 14	MAG 2 15	MAG 3 15	CAT 1 16	CAT 2 13	CAT 3 14	LEC 1 15	LEC 2 Ret	LEC 3 13	16th	6

Complete Formula 4 UAE Championship results

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

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	DC	Points
2017–18	Dragon Motopark F4	YMC1 1	YMC1 2	YMC1 3	YMC1 4	YMC2 1 Ret	YMC2 2 6	YMC2 3 Ret	YMC2 4 DNS	DUB1 1 DSQ	DUB1 2 4	DUB1 3 3	DUB1 4 C	YMC3 1 10	YMC3 2 7	YMC3 3 Ret	YMC3 4 5	YMC4 1 3	YMC4 2 1	YMC4 3 7	YMC4 4 5	DUB2 1 4	DUB2 2 DNS	DUB2 3 Ret	DUB2 4 DNS	8th	120

Complete F4 Spanish Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	DC	Points
2018	MP Motorsport	ARA 1 DSQ	ARA 2 3	ARA 3 6	CRT 1 3	CRT 2 11†	CRT 3 3	ALG 1 1	ALG 2 2	ALG 3 3	CAT 1 C	CAT 2 2	JER 1 2	JER 2 2	JER 3 1	NAV 1 2	NAV 2 1	NAV 3 11	NAV 4 7	1st	208

Complete Italian F4 Championship results

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

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	Pos	Points
2018	BWT Mücke Motorsport	ADR 1	ADR 2	ADR 3	LEC 1	LEC 2	LEC 3	MNZ 1 14	MNZ 2 13	MNZ 3 14	MIS 1 15	MIS 2 Ret	MIS 3 16	IMO 1	IMO 2	IMO 3	VLL 1	VLL 2	VLL 3				31st	0
	Alma Racing																			MUG 1 23	MUG 2 12	MUG 3 13

Complete ADAC Formula 4 Championship results

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

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pos	Points
2018	ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg	OSC 1	OSC 2	OSC 3	HOC1 1	HOC1 2	HOC1 3	LAU 1	LAU 2	LAU 3	RBR 1 Ret	RBR 2 Ret	RBR 3 15	HOC2 1 21	HOC2 2 17	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	NÜR 3	HOC3 1	HOC3 2	HOC3 3	23rd	0

Complete SMP F4 Championship results

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

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	Pos	Points
2018	SMP Racing	SMO 1	SMO 2	SMO 3	NRG 1	NRG 2	NRG 3	MSC 1 6	MSC 2 9	MSC 3 6	ADM 1 4	ADM 2 6	ADM 3 1	AHV 1 Ret	AHV 2 9	AHV 3 9	ALA 1	ALA 2	ALA 3	ASS 1 2	ASS 2 1	ASS 3 3	8th	107

Complete Formula Renault Eurocup results

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

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pos	Points
2019	MP Motorsport	MNZ 1 17	MNZ 2 9	SIL 1 13	SIL 2 13	MON 1 Ret	MON 2 13	LEC 1 Ret	LEC 2 7	SPA 1 14	SPA 2 21	NÜR 1 8	NÜR 2 11	HUN 1 5	HUN 2 Ret	CAT 1 12	CAT 2 13	HOC 1 15	HOC 2 8	YMC 1 9	YMC 2 9	15th	27
2020	FA Racing	MNZ 1 6	MNZ 2 Ret	IMO 1 11	IMO 2 10	NÜR 1 9	NÜR 2 10	MAG 1 Ret	MAG 2 9	ZAN 1 5	ZAN 2 DNS	CAT 1 13	CAT 2 13	SPA 1 6‡	SPA 2 10	IMO 1 14	IMO 2 13	HOC 1 12	HOC 2 11	LEC 1 13	LEC 2 10	15th	33

^‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.

Complete F3 Asian Championship results

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

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	DC	Points
2019–20	MP Motorsport	SEP 1	SEP 2	SEP 3	DUB 1 10	DUB 2 7	DUB 3 10	ABU 1	ABU 2	ABU 3	SEP 1	SEP 2	SEP 3	CHA 1	CHA 2	CHA 3	NC†	0

^† As Cordeel was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.

Complete Toyota Racing Series results

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

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	DC	Points
2020	Kiwi Motorsport	HIG 1 WD	HIG 2 WD	HIG 3 WD	TER 1	TER 2	TER 3	HMP 1	HMP 2	HMP 3	PUK 1	PUK 2	PUK 3	MAN 1	MAN 2	MAN 3	NC	0

Complete FIA Formula 3 Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	DC	Points
2021	Campos Racing	CAT 1 26	CAT 2 16	CAT 3 25	LEC 1 27	LEC 2 24	LEC 3 25	RBR 1 22	RBR 2 11	RBR 3 18	HUN 1 19	HUN 2 Ret	HUN 3 26	SPA 1 17	SPA 2 Ret	SPA 3 Ret	ZAN 1 23	ZAN 2 Ret	ZAN 3 12	SOC 1 21	SOC 2 C	SOC 3 16	23rd	0

Complete FIA Formula 2 Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)

Year	Entrant	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	DC	Points
2022	Van Amersfoort Racing	BHR SPR 17	BHR FEA 15	JED SPR Ret	JED FEA WD	IMO SPR DNS	IMO FEA 17	CAT SPR 19	CAT FEA 15	MCO SPR 17	MCO FEA Ret	BAK SPR 13	BAK FEA Ret	SIL SPR	SIL FEA	RBR SPR 18	RBR FEA 18	LEC SPR Ret	LEC FEA 15	HUN SPR 13	HUN FEA 17	SPA SPR 18	SPA FEA 17	ZAN SPR 12	ZAN FEA 6	MNZ SPR 15	MNZ FEA 7	YMC SPR 5	YMC FEA 6	17th	26
2023	Invicta Virtuosi Racing	BHR SPR 21	BHR SPR 15	JED SPR 19	JED FEA 20	MEL SPR 12	MEL FEA 13	BAK SPR 9	BAK FEA 19	MCO SPR Ret	MCO FEA NC	CAT SPR 17	CAT FEA 19	RBR SPR 15	RBR FEA 17	SIL SPR 16	SIL FEA Ret	HUN SPR 19	HUN FEA 21	SPA SPR Ret	SPA FEA 15	ZAN SPR 16	ZAN FEA 8	MNZ SPR Ret	MNZ FEA 8	YMC SPR 17	YMC FEA 16			20th	8
2024	Hitech Pulse-Eight	BHR SPR Ret	BHR FEA Ret	JED SPR Ret	JED FEA 5	MEL SPR 16	MEL FEA 11	IMO SPR 4	IMO FEA Ret	MON SPR 14	MON FEA Ret	CAT SPR 14	CAT FEA 8	RBR SPR 18	RBR FEA 7	SIL SPR 15	SIL FEA 15	HUN SPR 20	HUN FEA Ret	SPA SPR 11	SPA FEA 8	MNZ SPR 12	MNZ FEA 18	BAK SPR 18	BAK FEA 12	LSL SPR 16	LSL FEA 7	YMC SPR 13	YMC FEA 8	17th	39

* Season still in progress.

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External links

• Amaury Cordeel career summary at DriverDB.com