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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Giles Richards

Dutch teenage driver Dilano van ’t Hoff killed in Spa-Francorchamps crash

Dilano van ’t Hoff at the Formula Regional European Championship race in Barcelona on 20 May
Dilano van ’t Hoff at the Formula Regional European Championship race in Barcelona on 20 May. Photograph: Pablo Guillen/Action Plus/Shutterstock

The 18-year-old Dutch driver Dilano van ’t Hoff has died as a result of a crash at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium. He was competing for MP Motorsport in a race of the Formula Regional European Championship and was caught in a multiple car accident during a restart in wet conditions. In very poor visibility due to spray it appears he spun and was hit at high speed by at the start of the Kemmel straight by the RP Motorsport car driven by Adam Fitzgerald.

The incident occurred four years after Anthoine Hubert was killed in a multiple-car crash in an F2 race on the same section of the track. Van ’t Hoff’s MP team issued a statement. “We are devastated at the loss of one of our brightest Dutch talents, who brought so much energy to our team during the years he raced with us,” it read.

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