David Greco
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David Greco (born August 6, 1986 in Civitavecchia, Italy) is an aspiring Italian racecar driver with three years experience in cars preceded by three years experience racing karts. Greco began learning to drive karts in 1998 at the age of 12 and continued driving arrive-and-drive rental karts until becoming involved in organized racing in 2000. Greco is a man of the world having lived in São Paulo, Brazil for four years, then Toronto, Canada for another four; before returning to his native Civitavecchia, Italy in October, 2006.
Greco continues to pursue a real racing career, and while 2006 was a year in which a small budget was sought, the year became one of waiting and ultimately no driving. 2007 presents itself as the same kind of year. With the season starting shortly and many race seats filled, the prospects of landing a sponsor and a race seat are very limited.
His early weeks in the Skip Barber National Championship were similarly impressive. Said one Skip Barber official at Lime Rock in 2005: "We're pretty excited about David, it's not that often we have someone show up out of the blue and do as well as he has so far." Which included a podium in his first race, and a front row start for his third.
Like many aspiring racers, Greco awaits the financial support that is the sine qua non of jump-starting a career in motorsports.
Greco is an also established simulation racer who in 2006 won the Armaroli Sim Racing World Cup for Team Italy; Greco was the only driver to compete on behalf of the team. He also raced in the Formula SimRacing World Championship for the Kiwi Virtual team and earned a third place showing in the World Championship in a season that included two race wins.
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[edit] Road Racing Career
David made his debut in a car in August 2002, just days after turning 16 and having yet to drive a road-going car. So far he has impressed in each car he has driven, and looks to extend his career in the future.
[edit] 2007
Set to be another year of waiting.
[edit] 2006
David sat out all of the 2006 racing season while pursuing financial backing for future racing.
[edit] 2005
- Skip Barber Racing School - National Championship (SBNC)
- Competed in five races over three race weekends.
- Raced at: Virginia International Raceway, Lime Rock Park, and Road America
- Highlights include podium finish in first race and front row start in third race.
[edit] 2004
- Formula Renault (FR) North America
- Test driver for the Gelles Racing Team.
- Tested at: Virginia International Raceway, BeaveRun, le Circuit Mont-Tremblant, Watkins Glen, and Summit Point Raceway
- Highlights include recording the fastest time of the day on a wet track at Watkins Glen in June.
[edit] 2003
- Formula Ford Canada
- Test drove at Key Motorsports (now defunct) at St-Eustache, north of Montreal.
[edit] 2002
- Formula Ford Brazil
- First race within days of turning 16—finished sixth—on the Autódromo José Carlos Pace in Interlagos, Sao Paolo, Brazil.
[edit] Karting career
David's karting career started and ran its course in Brazil where his family was living in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He proved to be an instant talent in karts winning many races and championships. Highlights include:
[edit] 2002
[edit] 2001
- Second place in 500 Miles of Granja Viana endurance kart race (Category B)
- Champion of the Summer Super Sport and F4 Suzuki classes
- Vice-Champion entire Super Sport championship
[edit] 2000
- Debut season racing.
- Second place in 500 Miles of Granja Viana endurance kart race (Category B)
- Fifth place, category v4 championship
[edit] Sim Racing
Sim Racing, using racing video games for the PC, is becoming an increasingly valid form of racing. While it certainly does not substitute for real racing experience, sim racing offers some good training for real racing. Moreover, sim racing can offer drivers of real cars some advantage in learning circuit layouts; quite famously, Jacques Villeneuve mentioned in 1996 that he had learned the layout of the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit using a video game.
[edit] 2007
[edit] 2006
- Armaroli Sim Racing World Cup representing team Italy. On the strength of five wins and a solid season all at the hands of David Greco, Italy has won the inaugural Armaroli Sim Racing World Cup.
- Second place in race one at Zandvoort; pole and first place in race two at Zolder; pole and first place in race three at Laguna Seca; pole and third place in race four at Silverstone; pole and 11th place finish in race five at Barcelona; pole and race win in race six at Nurburgring; pole and fifth place finish in race seven at Montreal; race win at Monza; race win at Interlagos.
- SimCar Racing
- Champ2 champion in season 2006-01
- NorAm Championship series 2006-03: four race wins.
- F1-Career Racing.
- Winner of the Formula 1 division season championship, with three wins in an eight-race season.
- Formula SimRacing World Championship driver for the Kiwi Virtual team
- Race winner - Nurburgring; Race winner - Montreal; finished the season in a third place tie with 2005 champion Dennis Hirrle of Germany.
[edit] 2005
- SimCar Champ3 champion in season 2005-02
- SimCar Formula Focus Championship third place (participating in only four of ten races)
[edit] 2004 & 2003
- Raced in various online/offline leagues.
SimCar, ASRWC, FSR, and F1-Career all race with rFactor.
