Arie Luyendyk Jr Net Worth

What Is Arie Luyendyk Jr.'s Net Worth?

Arie Luyendyk Jr. is a Dutch-American auto racing driver and reality television personality who has a net worth of $4 million. Arie Luyendyk Jr. grew up in a racing family. His father is the famed Dutch auto racing driver Arie Luyendyk. The younger Arie began racing go-karts in the early '90s and then graduated to Formula Ford competition in the late '90s. He won a number of Junior division races and had 24 top-five finishes while racing in the Firestone Indy Lights series. Luyendyk first tried to qualify for the Indy 500 in 2005 but was unsuccessful due to a combination of a faulty vehicle and lack of practice. The following year, he tried again, this time in a car owned by his father. The car experienced technical problems during the first race, however, and Arie had a disappointing finish. In 2008, he started racing on the Indy Lights circuit again, and he won his first Indy Lights Championship that year. He represented the U.S. at the 2015 Summer X Games and won a bronze medal in the Stadium Super Trucks event.

Luyendyk was the runner-up on the eighth season of the ABC reality series "The Bachelorette" with Emily Maynard. In 2017, it was announced that Arie would be starring on the 22nd season of "The Bachelor." He also appeared in the first season of the Peacock reality competition "The Traitors," finishing in fourth place. When Luyendyk isn't appearing on reality TV or racing cars, he primarily works as a real estate broker in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Early Life

Arie Luyendyk Jr. was born on September 18, 1981, in Den Bosch, Netherlands. He is the son of Mieke Luyendyk and auto racing driver Arie Luyendyk. Arie Sr. won the Indianapolis 500 twice and has been inducted into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame and the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. Arie Jr. has a sister named Maida and twin brothers named Luca and Alec. When he was three years old, the family moved to the United States, settling in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Luyendyk attended Desert Mountain High School, graduating in 2000.

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Racing Career

In 1992, Luyendyk started racing karts, and six years later, the 16-year-old started racing in the Sports Car Club of America's Formula Ford competition. He competed in American junior formulae, winning in the Skip Barber Formula Dodge series and finishing in the top five in the U.S. Formula Ford 2000 Championship. Arie came in third in the Formula Continental class at the 2001 SCCA National Championship Runoffs, and he won the SCCA Southern Pacific divisional title that year. In 2002, he began competing full-time in the Indy Racing League's Indy Pro Series (which is now called the Firestone Indy Lights), and he had one win and two dozen top-five finishes. In 2002, Luyendyk was the runner-up in the Firestone Indy Lights Championship; he finished in third place in 2004 and fourth place in 2008. He tried to qualify for the 2005 Indianapolis 500 in order to make his IndyCar Series debut, but his qualifying speed of 215.039 mph was a little slower than the next slowest qualifier. Arie tried again the following year and qualified for the 2006 Indianapolis 500 while driving a car owned by his father and sponsored by Blue Star Jets and cheapcaribbean.com. His first race ended prematurely because of handling issues, and he finished in 28th place.

During the 2007–08 A1 Grand Prix season, Luyendyk competed in the A1 Grand Prix World Cup of Motorsport as the A1 Team Netherlands' "rookie driver." He later returned to the Firestone Indy Lights Series, racing as Raphael Matos' teammate for AGR-AFS Racing, and he had his first win in the series in 2008's final race at Chicagoland Speedway. He ended the 2008 season with five podium finishes and was fourth in the Championship. In 2010, Arie returned to Indy Lights part-time and competed for Andersen Racing in the Freedom 100 and for Alliance Motorsports in three other oval races. In 2013, he switched to off-road racing and started competing in the Stadium Super Trucks series. In 2015, Luyendyk won a bronze medal at the Summer X Games in the Stadium Super Trucks event. He also competed in the Traxxas TORC Series, driving for Aero Motorsports. In 2018, Arie won his first Stadium Super Trucks competition at Barbagallo Raceway in Perth, Australia, followed by his second win in Detroit, Michigan, a few months later. His third win took place at Road America in 2020.

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TV Career

In 2009, Luyendyk was hired to be a driver analyst for Indy Lights races airing on Versus (later renamed NBC Sports Network), and he returned to the network in 2012 as a commentator. Arie appeared in a 2011 episode of the Fox reality series "Hell's Kitchen" in which the show's chefs went to the Grand Prix of Long Beach. He was the runner-up on the eighth season of the ABC reality series "The Bachelorette" in 2012, then he starred on season 22 of "The Bachelor" in 2018. Luyendyk competed on the "Bachelors vs. Bachelorettes" episode of the  ABC game show "Wipeout" in 2014. In 2023, he was a contestant on the Peacock reality competition "The Traitors" and finished in fourth place. Arie has also appeared on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," "The Chew," "Rachael Ray," "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," "Live with Kelly and Mark," "Good Morning America," and "The View."

Personal Life

Arie proposed to Rebecca "Becca" Kufrin on the season finale of "The Bachelor," but they had already ended their engagement by the time the episode aired. Luyendyk later proposed to the runner-up, Lauren Burnham, and she moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, to be with him. The couple married on January 12, 2019, and they have welcomed daughter Alessi (born 2019) and twins Senna and Lux (born 2021) together. Arie works for RE/MAX as a real estate broker, and he appeared on a 2019 episode of the HGTV series "House Hunters International" that took place in Amsterdam.

Real Estate

In 2022, Arie and Lauren announced that they had purchased a four-bedroom, two-bathroom home in Maui, Hawaii. Lauren revealed that they would continue living in Arizona for part of the year, stating, "We just wanted to have a good escape, and I've always wanted to be near the beach." Arie said of the family's new home, "We're going to make all these memories here, we're going to have the best life, it'll be, like, the perfect spot to raise those little babies."

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