Récardo Bruins Choi

Récardo Bruins Choi (born Choi Myung-gil; 3 December 1985, in Seoul, South Korea), later known as Roelof Bruins, is a South Korean-born Dutch professional racecar driver.

Récardo Bruins Choi
Full name	Roelof Bruins
Born	(1985-12-03) 3 December 1985 Seoul, South Korea
24H GT Series career

Youth

Choi was adopted by a Dutch family and arrived in the Netherlands at 4 months of age. He grew up as Récardo Bruins in the village of Zwartemeer near Emmen, where he started to drive mini go-karts at the age of 5. After his first learning years, practicing the basics of racing, he made the step to the karting competition races and drove his first races in the mini class for children from 8 to 12 years of age. This ended very well and in his first seasons of racing Bruins earned numerous of titles and prizes.

Korean name
Hangul	최명길
Hanja	崔明吉
Revised Romanization	Choe Myeonggil
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'oe Myŏngkil

Career

After this he made the step to the junior class in which he also raced on international circuits. In his second year he received the title of national champion and later that year he stepped up to Intercontinental A class, the highest karting class in the Netherlands at the time. Proving to be quick, Bruins in his first year was already a competitor for the national title but due to a mechanic failure he eventually finished second in the championship and had to wait a year to win the title of national champion. After his major successes in his karting career, Bruins made the switch to formula racing in 2004. At the most important race of the season, the Marlboro masters, Bruins proved his worth by scoring a pole position, the official track record and a podium finish. After this success more podium finishes followed and at the end of the season Bruins managed a third place in the overall ranking of the Dutch Formula Renault 2.0 series. In 2006 Récardo stepped up to Formula Three racing, in the much faster and highly competitive German Formula Three Championship. Proving to be a quick learner, the Korean driver showed his speed by achieving podium finishes and promising results in his Formula Three debut season. In 2007, Choi continued his career in another season of German Formula Three Championship, getting 2 pole positions, 2 wins and several podium finishes. He finished 4th in the overall standings.

In 2008 he was going to focus on getting a seat in the GP2 Series.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2004	Formula Renault 2000 Netherlands	Orange Motorsports	?	0	0	0	0	63	10th
2005	Formula Renault 2.0 Netherlands	Van Amersfoort Racing	12	0	1	0	5	133	3rd
	Formula Renault 2.0 Germany		10	1	1	3	2	146	11th
	Formula Renault 2.0 Nordic		2	0	0	0	1	20	10th
2006	German Formula 3 Championship	Van Amersfoort Racing	17	0	0	1	2	38	7th
	Formula 3 Euro Series		2	0	0	0	0	0	27th
	Masters of Formula 3		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	31st
2007	German Formula 3 Championship	Van Amersfoort Racing	18	2	2	2	6	95	4th
2008	Formula V6 Asia Championship	Team E-Rain	4	0	0	0	0	14	10th
2013	Porsche Carrera Cup Asia	Team Carrera Cup Asia	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
2015	Porsche Carrera Cup Asia	Team Porsche Korea	2	0	0	1	2	32	15th
2016	TCR Asia Series	Viper Niza Racing	2	1	0	0	2	41	6th
2017	China GT Championship - GT4		?	?	?	?	?	?	1st
2018	Blancpain GT Series Asia - GT3	Indigo Racing	12	0	0	0	2	30	20th
2019	Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia - GT3	Solite Indigo Racing	12	3	1	0	4	159	1st
	FIA GT World Cup		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	11th
2021	Superrace Championship - Super 6000	AtlasBX Motorsports	8	0	0	0	2	91	2nd
2022	24H GT Series - GT4	AtlasBX Motorsports	1	0	0	0	0	?	?
	Superrace Championship - Super 6000		8	1	1	0	1	72	7th
2023	24H GT Series - GT4	AtlasBX Motorsports	5	4			4	200	1st
2024	24H Series - 992	Hankook Competition
	Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie - SP-X
	24 Hours of Nürburgring - SPX

External links

• Official web page
• Récardo Bruins Choi career summary at DriverDB.com