Max Defourny

Max Defourny
Max Defourny
Nationality	Belgian
Born	9 October 1998 (age 26); Liège, Belgium
Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 career
Debut season	2015
Current team	MP Motorsport
Racing licence	FIA Silver
Car number	33
Former teams	R-ace GP
Starts	55
Wins	2
Poles	5
Fastest laps	10
Best finish	3rd in 2016
Previous series
2015-17 ; 2015 ; 2014 ; 2014	Formula Renault 2.0 NEC ; Formula Renault 2.0 Alps ; Italian F4 Championship ; French F4 Championship

Last updated February 08, 2025

Max Defourny (born 9 October 1998) is a Belgian-born professional racing driver based in Luxembourg, currently competing in Formula Renault 2.0.

Career

Karting

Born in Liège, Defourny began karting in 2009 at the age of eleven and took his first karting title the following year.

Formula 4 Championships

Defourny graduated to single-seaters in 2014, partaking in nine races of the French F4 Championship as a guest driver and three rounds of the Italian F4 Championship with Cram Motorsport, finishing 20th in the overall standings.

Formula Renault 2.0

In 2015, Defourny graduated to the Formula Renault 2.0 series with the ART Junior Team, taking three victories and fourth place in Formula Renault 2.0 NEC.

Defourny remained with his previous outfit in 2016, following its rebadging as R-ace GP, and finished as vice-champion to Lando Norris in the Formula Renault 2.0 NEC and third in Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0.

Defourny stayed in R-ace GP in 2017. But he wasn't able to improve his championship position, finishing fourth behind his teammates Will Palmer and Robert Shwartzman. He took only one win at Circuit Paul Ricard at Le Castellet after disqualification of Shwartzman.^[1] He collected eleven podiums in 2017, three more than in 2016.

Formula V8 3.5

In November 2016, Defourny partook in post-season testing with Fortec Motorsports and AVF.^[2]

GP3 Series

Defourny drove at the post-season test at Yas Marina with ART Grand Prix and Arden International.^[3]^[4]

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2014	French F4 Championship	Auto Sport Academy	9	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
	Italian F4 Championship	Cram Motorsport	3	0	0	0	0	9	20th
	Formula Renault 1.6 NEC	Provily Racing	2	0	0	0	0	207	5th
	Formula Renault 1.6 NEC	Lechner Racing School	11	0	0	0	2	207	5th
2015	Formula Renault 2.0 NEC	Strakka Racing	2	0	0	0	1	218	4th
	Formula Renault 2.0 NEC	ART Junior Team	14	2	1	2	3	218	4th
	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	ART Junior Team	7	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
	Formula Renault 2.0 Alps Series	Koiranen GP	4	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
2016	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	R-ace GP	15	1	3	5	8	188.5	3rd
2016	Formula Renault 2.0 NEC	R-ace GP	15	3	2	5	9	285	2nd
2017	Formula Renault Eurocup	R-ace GP	23	1	2	5	11	255	4th
	Formula Renault NEC	R-ace GP	3	0	0	1	2	0	NC†
	FIA Formula 3 European Championship	Van Amersfoort Racing	3	0	0	1	0	2	18th
2018	Formula Renault Eurocup	MP Motorsport	8	0	0	0	1	28	14th
2018	BRDC British Formula 3 Championship	Douglas Motorsport	4	0	0	0	0	32	23rd
2018–19	MRF Challenge Formula 2000 Championship	MRF Racing	15	3	3	6	9	243	2nd

^† As Defourny was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.

Complete Formula Renault 2.0 Alps 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	16	Pos	Points
2015	Koiranen GP	IMO 1 15	IMO 2 10	PAU 1	PAU 2	RBR 1	RBR 2	RBR 3	SPA 1	SPA 2	MNZ 1	MNZ 2	MNZ 3	MIS 1	MIS 2	JER 1 10	JER 2 5	NC†	0

† As Defourny was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points

Complete Formula Renault 2.0 NEC 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	13	14	15	16	DC	Points
2015	Strakka Racing	MNZ 1 3	MNZ 2 8															4th	218
2015	ART Junior Team			SIL 1 Ret	SIL 2 8	RBR 1 8	RBR 2 8	RBR 3 Ret	SPA 1 1	SPA 2 2	ASS 1 18	ASS 2 8	NÜR 1 6	NÜR 2 1	HOC 1 7	HOC 2 9	HOC 3 4	4th	218
2016	R-ace GP	MNZ 1 19	MNZ 2 1	SIL 1 1	SIL 2 5	HUN 1 10	HUN 2 7	SPA 1 Ret	SPA 2 2	ASS 1 5	ASS 2 1	NÜR 1 3	NÜR 2 2	HOC 1 3	HOC 2 2	HOC 3 2		2nd	285
2017	R-ace GP	MNZ 1	MNZ 2	ASS 1	ASS 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	SPA 1 4	SPA 2 2	SPA 3 3	HOC 1	HOC 2						NC†	0