Marc van der Straten, singular president of Marc VDS Racing

Four years ago, Count Marc-Oswald van der Straten-Ponthoz left Belgium to settle in Switzerland, near Geneva. Descendant of the creators of Stella Artois beer, at the origin of what has become the world's largest brewer AB InBev, the owner of the Marc VDS Racing team, whose fortune is estimated at nearly two billion euros, wanted to get a change of scenery. In 2016, Marc van der Straten had already taken a major turn in turning his back on a decade of adventures in motorsport. A carefully considered decision after the moral failings of certain managers of its structure had led it, a few months earlier, to ease up on its commitment to the competition. Because it is obviously with the car that the history of the Marc VDS Racing team began. “ Thanks to my father who created his team, I have always been interested in motor sports, explains the founder of the eponymous team. He’s the one who gave me the racing bug. » A long-time patron of Tony Gillet and the Vertigo team, Marc van der Straten in turn founded his own team in 1997. Suffice it to say that he