Angelique Detavernier

 

Angélique Detavernier is an endurance racing specialist from Belgium.

Although she has been involved in motorsport from a young age, including as a driver manager, she only began racing in 2013 after winning a karting competition. She first raced in the VW Fun Cup in Belgium. 

For most of 2014, she raced a Porsche 997 GT3 Cup, mainly in the Dutch Supercar Challenge. Her best results were two third places in the GTB class, at Zolder and Assen. In the same car, she was fourth in the Zolder 24 Hours, with Miguel Vandereyt, Frederic Vervisch, Louis-Philippe Soenen, Francois Bouillon and Patrick van Glabeke. 

As well as the Porsche, she raced a Maserati in the Maserati Trofeo, finishing tenth at Spa and fourteenth at Abu Dhabi. She also returned to the Fun Cup and managed a pole position. 

In 2015, she had a second try at the Zolder 24 Hours in a Porsche 997. Driving as part of a four-driver team, she was 24th, and third in class. She was slated to enter the European rounds of the Maserati Trofeo this year and contested the Paul Ricard and Red Bull Ring rounds. Her best result was a twelfth place at Paul Ricard. At some point, she did some more Fun Cup racing, starting once from pole, and at least one Supercar Challenge race. 

Her third Zolder 24 Hours in 2016 gave her a debut top ten: a seventh place in a Porsche. In another two firsts, she raced an Audi R8 LMS in a couple of VdeV races and a Mercedes AMG in the Nurburgring round of the Blancpain Endurance Series. She was also third in a Fun Cup race in Dubai, 

In 2017 she did another couple of Blancpain Endurance races, driving an Audi R8 LMS. She was fourteenth in one GT Sports Club race at Spa, and did not finish the other. 

She had another guest outing in the car in 2018, again at Spa, in the 24H Series. She and her team-mates were eleventh in their class. This was in addition to a strong season in the GT Sports Club series, driving a Ferrari 488 rather than the Audi. She was eighth in the championship with a best finish of fourth, at the Hungaroring.

Having proved herself as a driver, there were more major races in different cars for her in 2019, firstly driving an AMG Mercedes GT4 in the Blancpain Endurance Series and the European GT4 Challenge. She was second in class at Zandvoort in the GT4 Series and third in class at the Nurburgring. She also did one Blancpain race in a Boutsen-Ginion BMW M6, finishing 22nd overall and fourth in class, and another in a Lamborghini Huracan. This time, she was fifth and tenth overall at Circuit de Catalunya.  

The worldwide coronavirus crisis curtailed motorsport severely in 2020 and Angelique did not race. In 2021, she added another string to her bow, doing three out of seven rounds of the Belcar championship in a Norma prototype and finishing third at Hockenheim and Zolder. 

Her focus switched from Belgium to France in 2022, racing a GT4-spec Audi R8 LMS in the FFSA GT championship. Her best result was a third place in the Am class at Magny-Cours. Her team-mate was Sebastien Rambaud.

She stuck with prototypes in France for 2023, racing in the Wolf Thunder Series and scoring at least one podium. Moving to Italy, she competed in the Italian Sport Prototype Cup in 2024, driving an Aprilia-engined Wolf. Hert best finish from four races was a fifth place at Monza. 

She is better-known as a model and was previously in a relationship with Formula E driver Stoffel Vandoorne.

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Women in Belcar

Kelly Jamers in 2009

Belgium’s premier endurance championship has attracted a good number of female drivers since the 1990s. International sportscar racer Vanina Ickx had some of her early experience in the series, and Alexandra van de Velde and Caroline Grifnee have also competed further afield.

The championship was originally for touring and GT cars together, but its focus has shifted more towards sportscars in recent years, becoming a GT championship in 2007. Its blue riband event was the Zolder 24 Hours race.

Belcar has now been superseded by the Belgian Racing Car Championship (BRCC). Until 2013, the Zolder 24 Hours was part of it, but it now runs as a stand-alone event.

The following drivers have all competed in Belcar or the BRCC. Most of them are Belgian nationals.

Danique Aelaerts – competes in drifting in Europe, but has also done some circuit racing. She began her drifting career in 2009, and had her first circuit races in 2013, in a Mazda MX-5. She raced in that year’s Zolder 24 Hours in the Mazda, as part of the “Racing Stars” women’s team, who had come together for a TV programme. Her co-drivers were Veerle Bammens, Eveline Maes and Anke de Dauw. In the Endurance section of the Belgian Racing Car Championship, she drove a Porsche 996 with Sarah Ganser and Karen Vaes. They were 17^th in the first round, at Zolder, but Danique was replaced by Charlotte Maes for the rest of the season. In 2014, she took part in the Zolder 24 Hours again, in a Porsche 996. She was eleventh, assisted by Karen Vaes, Gideon Wijnschenk, Bart van Haeren and Filip van Eename. She has also done some historic rallying in Belgium, in a 1983 Alfa Romeo GTV6. Most of 2016 was spent drifting and doing film stunt work, before a leg injury in October curtailed her activities. 

Peggy Aerts - Belcar sports class racer in 2002 and 2003. Her car was a KS Motorsport BMW M3. In 2002, her best finish was 20th, accompanied by Michael de Keersmaecker and Jacques Morlet. They were first in the TA class. Her 2003 team-mates were Werner Moonens and Jurgen Lippens. Their best result was fourteenth in the Zolder 24 Hours. Peggy does not appear to have competed since then.

Kata Bozo - raced alongside Ines Lammens in the Skylimit Yokohama BMW in 2016. She is Hungarian, but lives and works in Belgium. 2016 was her first season and included the Fun Cup 25 Hours and Zolder 24 Hours, in which she was fifth in class (32nd overall). She was one of the older drivers in the team at 20. Ines and Kata won the Belcar Ladies’ Trophy in 2017, and were third in their class. In 2018, Kata raced in the team’s other BMW E90 for the first event of the season, but switched to VGL Racing and their Saker prototype for the 24 Hours of Zolder. She and her team-mates were 19th overall and sixth in class and Kata retained her Ladies' title. She also raced in the Ford Fiesta Sprint Cup in Belgium. She raced the Saker again in 2019 but only completed half of the season due to funding issues. In 2021, she raced a Fiat 500 in Belcar with Gilles Puelings. She tested an electric ERA single-seater in 2022 at the Hungaroring, then did some racing in the Belcar Skylimit Sprint Cup. She was involved in an accident at Zolder in July and advised to take a break from racing due to blood pressure problems. In 2023, she announced her retirement.

Carla Brackx - popular touring car driver from Belgium. She competed in Belcar between 2000 and 2002, before apparently leaving the motorsport world to concentrate on business interests. For all three seasons, her car was a BMW E36 Compact, usually run by Mienwest, but in 2002, the Jim TV team. She scored some top-three finishes in the TB class. The Zolder 24 Hours was her best race, and she scored her best-ever overall finish of 20th there in 2002. Her co-driver for all three seasons was Pieter Vierpoort. She was the Ladies’ champion in 2002. In 2012, she made a comeback of sorts, and appeared at a track day at Spa.

Frederike Cassiers - winner of the Belcar Ladies’ Trophy in 2001, driving a Porsche 993. Her team-mates were Philip Daelemans and Marc Meuwissen. Her best result was a tenth place, fourth in class, in the Zolder 24 Hours. Mostly, she finished in around 23rd place. 2001 appears to have been her only year of major competition.

Joyce de Troch - raced a Porsche in Belcar, on and off, between 1998 and 2002, with consistent lower-midfield finishes. In her first year, she did two races at Zolder, driving a 911 with Walter Grootaers and Patrick Schreurs, including the Zolder 24 Hours. She was partnered by Paul Moonen in 2001. Their car was a Coast Racing 993. Joyce was fourth in the Ladies’ standings. She and Moonens stayed together for the 2002 season, driving for Coast and Ham Car Tuning. Their best finish was 28th, twelfth in class, at Spa. Away from the track, Joyce is an actress and TV presenter.

Audrey van Ham – raced a Porsche in Belgium. From about 2010, her name starts to appear in starting lists for Belgian historic events, including the 2010 Belgian Historic Cup at the Zolder 24 Hours, and the 2011 Spa Summer Classic. She has also raced more modern machinery, and was part of a Skylimit Yokohama team for the 2013 Zolder 24 Hours. Her team-mates were Karen Vaes, Jo Lammens and Charlotte Maes. They were twelfth overall, driving a Porsche 996. In 2020 and 2021 she led an all-female team in the DNRT series, driving a BMW. The team was sponsored by Christine Le Duc, a sex toy retailer of which Audrey was a director. They returned in 2022 and won a class championship, then in 2023 they were eighth in the Netherlands 24 Hours. In 2024, she raced a historic BMW 530i in the Netherlands. Audrey got into motorsport through her father, who also races historics.

Kelly Jamers - another Belgian racer. She raced in Belcar in 2003 and 2005. Her 2003 car was a BMW M3, and she was fourth in class TA. In 2005, she drove a Porsche GT3. She has taken part in the Zolder 24 Hours twice, and her best result was sixth, in 2004, driving the GT3. She used a similar car for the 2006 Dubai 24 Hours. Aside from endurance racing, she has competed in one-make series for Renault, Toyota and the Mini Cooper. She began her career in a Clio in 1999, before campaigning a Megane in 2000, with one eleventh place. She moved to the Toyota Yaris Cup for two seasons in 2002 and 2003, with a best overall result of thirteenth. The Mini Challenge was combined with her other commitments in 2004 and 2005, which included a class win in the Belgian Touring Cup, driving a Porsche 993. In 2009, she made a comeback, driving a Porsche in the Dunlop Sport Maxx Endurance Cup.

Stéphane Kox - races saloons and single-seaters in the Benelux countries. She is the daughter of Peter Kox, and they teamed up in BMW 235I with three other drivers to win the 2015 24 Hours of Zolder. Her run in the 24 Hours was part of a season in the BMW 235 Racing Cup in Belgium, which she won outright. That year, she scored two second places in the same car, in the Assen rounds of the Supercar Challenge. In 2016, she did some races in the VdeV Endurance championship, driving a Porsche, and took part in the 24 Hours of Paul Ricard in a Mercedes. In 2017, she raced an Audi TT at the Imola 24 Hours, but did not finish. She also took part in two European GT4 races, driving a KTM X-Bow. Her best finish was fifth, at Misano. She did best in the VdeV Endurance series in a Ligier, recording two second places. In 2018, she did not do many major events but she did drive a Ligier at Shanghai for one round of the Asian Le Mans Series, as part of an all-female R24 team. She started racing in 2013, in ADAC Formel Masters, and was sixteenth in the championship, with a best finish of eighth, at the Slovakiaring. 2019 was a quiet year, beginning with the driver assessments for the all-female W Series. Stephane got through three stages of testing but pulled out after being named as a reserve driver. She did another round of the ALMS for R24 at Buriram and was seventh in the LMP3 class. In 2021, she raced a Toyota Supra in the DTM Trophy, picking up four top-ten finishes including a seventh at Hockenheim. She was 15th in the championship. Most of 2022 was spent as a TV motorsport presenter, but she also raced for the Saalocin team in a Porsche 911. She and her team-mates Peter Kox and Nico Pronk raced in the Asian Le Mans Series and in the Bahrain round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge. They reconvened in 2023 for the Dubai 24 Hours, finishing 13th in class. The team tackled two rounds of the 24H Series Middle East Trophy in 2024, driving the Porsche.

Ines Lammens - began racing in Belgium in 2016, when she was 16. In her first year of racing, she tackled the 25 Hour Fun Cup race and the 24 Hours of Zolder, driving a BMW for Skylimit Yokohama Racing. She raced in the revived Belcar series in 2017, alongside Kata Bozo and Jo Lammens, who is her father. She and Kata won the Ladies’ Trophy. They were third in their class overall. The team raced in Belcar in 2018 as AR Performance. They were ninth overall and third in class. She raced with the Kempen team in the 2022 Zolder 24 Hours, driving a Porsche.

Linsy Lanssens - raced in Belcar. She drove a Lotus Elise in the 1999 and 2000 seasons with Christophe Tuyttens. Their best result in 2000 was 33rd, at the Zolder FIA GT round. In 2001, she shared a BMW E46 with Alexandra van de Velde. Their best overall performance was 22nd in the Zolder 24 Hours, although they were third in class at Spa also. In 2002 she changed teams again, to the KS Motorsport operation. She and Michael de Keersmaecker did two races together in a BMW M3 E36, repeating Linsy’s best result of 22nd. She was then replaced by several other drivers. In 2004, she re-appeared as a guest driver in the Mini Challenge. More recently, she has competed in three-day eventing.

Charlotte Maes – races in endurance events in Belgium. In 2013, she took part in the BRCC Long Race series, after some races in the Fun Cup and in the Renault Clio Cup. She was competing as part of the Skylimit Yokohama Ladies team, with Sarah Ganser and Karen Vaes. Their car was a Porsche 996. She did not do the full season, but stepped in to replace Danique Aelaerts. Her best result was 15^th, at Spa. She also raced in the Zolder 24 Hours, as part of a mixed Skylimit team with Karen Vaes, Audrey van Ham and Jo Lammens. They were twelfth overall.

Sigrid Maes - races in Belcar for JuSi Racing. Her car for 2018 was a BMW 120D, which she raced as part of a three-driver team in the Endurance championship. She and Jurgen Vermeulen are the “Ju” and “Si” in the team name. The team was formed by the pair at the end of 2016, and their first race was that year’s Zolder 24 Hours. She was with the team for the 2023 Zolder 24 Hours. Sigrid had done track days before starting her career with Vermeulen. The team also occasionally competes in the Fun Cup.

Hanne Terium - Dutch driver racing in the 2018 Ford Fiesta Sprint Cup. She recorded a top-ten finish in its first race at Zolder. Previously, she raced a BMW E90 in both Belcar and the Dutch Supercar Challenge. She was part of the AR Performance team for that year’s Zolder 24 Hours, as team-mate (but not sharing cars) to Ines Lammens and Kata Bozo. She raced for EMG Motorsport in Dutch Supercars and was ninth in Supersport Division 2, driving solo. This was her first season of racing, although she comes from a motorsport background and raced karts from the age of 12. Her second season was something of a let-down, with six non-finishes from twelve races. She was third in the Junior standings. 

Lieve Thiron - raced in the sports class in Belcar between 2000 and 2003, finishing as runner-up in the Ladies’ standings in 2001 and 2002. She normally finished mid-field. As part of Belcar, she has also competed in some bigger sports races, such as the Spa and Zolder 24 Hours. In 2000, she was fourteenth in the Zolder 24 Hours, thirteenth in 2001 and tenth in 2002, although she did not finish in 2003. All the time, her class results improved as well. She was usually part of a family team with her husband Dirk Geerinckx and later, their son Matthieu. Their car was either a Porsche 996 or 993 GT3.

Karen Vaes – races in the BRCC and the Zolder 24 Hours, in a Porsche 996. She participated in the Long Race championship of the BRCC in 2013, for the Skylimit team, and was 23^rd overall, with Sarah Ganser. Her best finish was fifteenth, at Spa. In August, she also raced in the Zolder 24 Hours for the first time, and was twelfth, with Audrey van Ham, Charlotte Maes and Jo Lammens. In 2014, she raced at Zolder again, and was eleventh, second in class. Her team-mates were Danique Aelerts, Filip van Eename, Bart van Haeren and Gideon Wijnschenk. She is also very active in the drift scene, in a BMW M3 E36.

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Stephanie Boden

Stephanie is a multi-talented sports and single-seater racer from Belgium. She has raced in Formula Ford, Formula Renault and Belcar. Her single-seater exploits took her to Holland and the UK, between 2001 and 2003.

2001 was her first full year of senior competition, after six years of karting. Aged seventeen, Stephanie drove in the Benelux Formula Ford 1800 championship, with a best finish of fifth, and made the trip to the UK for the season-ending Formula Ford Festival. This arrangement continued in 2002, and she continued to gain experience. In addition to this, she also took part in her first Zolder 24 Hours, driving a Porsche 993 for Rally Team Titanic, with Jean-Pierre Verhoeven and Andre van Hoof. Both were Formula Ford contemporaries of hers. They were fourteenth, and second in the Guest class.

In 2003, she shifted her single-seater attentions to Formula Renault, competing in the Netherlands mainly. She also did two rounds of the Formula Renault Eurocup, and visited the UK once more for the Winter Series there. Although she did not make it into the top five, she performed well in an end-of-season consolation race. Her best results came in the Dutch championship, where she was ninth.

Belcar had not been forgotten either. Stephanie joined forces with Alexandra van de Velde in the Daikin team, driving a BMW E46. They were 26th at Spa and 45th at Zolder.

She stuck with Belcar for 2004, moving back to her previous Speed Lover team with Jean-Pierre Verhoeven and Frank Doring. The car was a similar Porsche 993 to the one she drove in 2002. They were 16th at Spa, but did not finish the Zolder 24 Hours. 2004 was also her last year of single-seater competition. She drove in the Benelux Formula Renault championship and was ninth, after establishing herself as a regular in the top ten.

2005 was taken up with Belcar. She returned to Speed Lover for the Zolder 24 Hours and drove a Porsche 996, but did not finish. She also joined up with Daikin again for the Spa 1000km in their Mini Cooper, but did not get to drive.

Driving for Flandria Rent Racing with Chris Mattheus, she tackled the whole Belcar season in 2006. Their car was a Porsche 996. They started strongly with a sixth and a class win in the first Spa race, but did not finish the next round at Zolder. Another top-ten beckoned in the Zolder Midsummer meeting; Stephanie and Chris were eighth and second in class. The Lausitz round was a disappointment, yielding a 20th place, but the Zolder 24 Hours gave them a battling 17th, supported by Laurent Nef and Arjan van der Zwaan. Driving as a pair again, they were eleventh at the Spa Racing Festival. Only in the last round, at Zolder, did they fail to finish. This season gave Stephanie the Belcar Ladies’ award.

In 2007, back with the Daikin team, she and Alexandra van der Velde contested the some rounds of the ADAC GT Masters and the Belcar championship in a Dodge Viper. They were 9th in the Spa 12 Hours, their best result. As well as this, they were 20th in the first Belcar race at Spa, and eleventh in a GT race at Donington.

It is unclear whether Stephanie has raced at all after 2007. The Daikin team appears to have disbanded at about this time.

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Alexandra van de Velde

Alexandra in 2004

Gent-born Alexandra decided that she wanted to race cars at the age of fifteen. Her father is Christian van de Velde, team owner and driver in Belgium. Most of the family have worked within Van de Velde Racing at one time or another.

Alexandra was eighteen when she made her first actual steps in the world of motorsport, entering the Starters Cup novice championship at her home circuit of Zolder. She continued in this series in 1998 and steered her BMW Compact to seventh in the up to 2000cc class.

Staying around Zolder for the time being, Alexandra enrolled in the circuit's Touring Cup in 1999. She was driving one of her father's cars, a BMW 323. Having learnt the track well in the Starters Cup, she won the class for cars up to 2500cc, with three individual class wins. Overall, she came fifth. That year, she also took part in her first Zolder 24 Hours. Partnered by Vanina Ickx, she was 16th overall and third in class.

The winning did not stop in 2000, either. Now in a BMW M3, Alexandra won her class again, this time the up to 3000cc group. On her second attempt at the Zolder 24 Hours, she was 21st, fourth in class. At this point, she was still combining racing with her legal studies at university.

After a couple of guest drives with Christian in Belgium's big race series, it was time to move up to Belcar full-time in 2001. Still with her family team, Alexandra teamed up with Linsy Lanssens, who had been a Belcar regular for the last couple of seasons. Their car was another BMW, an E46 GTR.

The season got off to a very slow start and the pair recorded DNFs in the first three races. Alexandra sat out one of the Spa rounds, leaving Christian and Linsy to finish 34th. Christian replaced Linsy for the last round, and the father-daughter duo were 45th.

Alexandra continued to race with her father in 2002. They were still in the E46, which was running much more reliably by then. The first race of the season was a welcome success: a class win at the New Race Festival, 24th overall. They were 32nd at the Spa Belpro meeting and 34th at the Nürburgring, before teaming up with Andy Jaenen for the Spa Euro meeting, and coming 22nd, third in class.

An accident put Alexandra out of the Zolder 24 Hours for the first time, but she bounced back at the Spa Racing Festival. Driving a Porsche 993 for a change, she was 30th. In a reversal of fortunes from her early career, Zolder was something of a bogey track for her that year. She and Andy Jaenen failed to finish the last round of the season there, in Andy's last race as a professional. Despite a couple of upsets, Alexandra was twelfth in the overall Touring standings, seventh in class TB, fourth in the Junior class and third in the Ladies rankings.

Although she remained in the same car, Alexandra got a new team-mate in 2003, in the shape of Kelly Jamers. The engine size of the BMW had been increased, and the duo were contesting class TA, for touring cars over 3000cc. They were 24th at the New Race Festival, 27th at the Nissan World Series meeting at Zolder and 28th at Spa Belpro. For the Spa Euro race, they were joined by Christian and finished 28th again. The van de Velde/Jamers partnership had been scoring steady fifths or thereabouts in class TA, showing much more consistency.

The van de Velde team for that year's Zolder 24 Hours consisted of Alexandra, Kelly, Christian and another young Belgian, Stephanie Boden. Unfortunately, they failed to finish again. Stephanie Boden took the place of Kelly Jamers for the last two rounds of the season. She and Alexandra were 26th at Spa Belpro, but did not finish the Zolder Masters.

As well as her Belcar achievements - fifteenth in Touring, seventh in class TA, fifth Junior and second Lady - Alexandra found time for the Mini Challenge, in which she was tenth. It proved useful experience, as the team, now sponsored by Daikin air conditioning, had acquired a BMW Mini S3 for use during the 2004 season. She was reunited with her old team-mate, Vanina Ickx.

From the beginning, when the car went out of the New Race Festival, there were reliability issues with the Mini. It was untested at this level of competition and Alexandra and Vanina could not finish four of their events. However, when the car was running well, it was quick, and its class positions showed it. The pair were third in class TB at the Nürburgring (29th overall) and class runners-up at the Nissan World Series meeting (two 28th places). At the Zolder 24 Hours, they just made the finish, but scooped the Ladies' award anyway. They were assisted on this occasion by Sylvie Delcour and Britain's Fiona Leggate. Alexandra made a return visit to the UK with Fiona, where they raced in a Britcar event at Donington together. They were second in Class Four in Fiona's works MG ZR 190.

The team ended the year fourteenth in Touring, ninth in class TB and first in the Ladies' standings. Alexandra scored her third Ladies' Trophy of the season in the Mini Challenge, despite only coming 18th overall.

The "Daikin Racing Girls" stayed together in 2005, along with their Mini. Their season began with a bang, in the form of a maiden class win for the Mini at the New Racing Festival. They were 20th overall. This was followed up with a second in class (42nd and 29th at the LMES meeting at Spa), and two thirds (25th at the Belcar Masters and 22nd in the Zolder 24 Hours). Extra championship points were accrued for the two pole positions they achieved at the Racing Festival and the Belcar Masters. The only real downer was a DNF at the Brands Hatch round, and a return of last year's mechanical gremlins, resulting in a non-start at the Spa Euro race. The Ladies' Trophy was awarded to Alexandra and Vanina for the second year running and Alexandra was a career-best sixth in Touring, fourth in class TB.

2006 meant a number of changes. Vanina Ickx left the team after being signed up to contest the DTM, which left Alexandra with Caroline Grifnée and Gaby Uljee as team-mates. Both had shared the Mini with her for the Zolder 24 Hours, and Gaby had filled in for Vanina at the Belcar Masters. The Mini was put up for sale and replaced by a Ferrari 360. This was the team's first attempt at the Belcar sports class.

Sadly, the Ferrari was a short-lived investment. Caroline Grifnée crashed heavily in it during the New Race Festival and wrote it off, causing an abrupt change of plan. Thankfully, Caroline was not hurt.

Daikin Racing reappeared at the Zolder 24 Hours with a new car, a diesel-powered BMW 120d. This was the same car that Claudia Hürtgen was using to good effect in Procar races. The team was Alexandra, Caroline, Gaby and German Steffi Halm. It was Steffi's turn to crash out this time, although the car was not seriously damaged.

Alexandra and Caroline returned to the fray a little later, at the Spa Racing Festival. They were entered in the Dutch Supercar event, rather than Belcar, and the change suited them; they won the Sports class convincingly. A return to Belcar for the last race of the season gave them a 29th place.

After the let-down of 2006, Alexandra received a well-earned change in fortunes at the start of 2007. She contested the 24 Hours of Dubai in January, and finished second in class A6 and a brilliant third overall, her first big podium place. She was driving a Porsche 996 RSR for Prospeed with Rudi Penders, Franz Lamot and Stephan Schrauwen. The team had had to battle with electrical problems in qualifying and then fight their way to the front.

Her fortunes in Belcar were also improving. This year, the team invested in a Dodge Viper SRT10, in an attempt on the series' premier class. Alexandra, along with her returning team-mate Stephanie Boden, was 20th in her first race and eleventh in the next, at Donington. At the Spa 12-Hour event, she started on pole and ended in ninth place. She was unable to compete in the next round, and although the Daikin Viper finished the Zolder 24 Hours in 15th, Alexandra is listed as "did not drive". She returned for the Francorchampagne event at Spa, finishing 21st. Unfortunately, the last round of the year ended in a DNF.

In 2008, she remained in Belcar, but broke the habit of a lifetime and joined a different team. Alongside Vanina Ickx, she joined forces with Frederic Bouvy and Damien Coens of Francorchamps Motors, driving a Ferrari F430 GT3. The foursome were fourth in the Zolder 24 Hours. Although this was her only Belcar outing, it was the most successful of her career.

Alexandra does not appear to have raced seriously since then, for reasons unknown.

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