Matteo Bobbi

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Matteo Bobbi (born in Milan, July 2, 1978) is an Italian racing driver with experience in several motor sport categories,

During a brief time with F1's Minardi as their test driver, he also began racing in sports cars, winning the 2003 FIA GT Championship with Thomas Biagi in a BMS Scuderia Italia Ferrari^[1], and finishing as runner-up in 2004. In 2006, he won the GT2 class with Jaime Melo.

including three years as a Minardi test driver in Formula One.^[2]

Bobbi began racing karts in 1995 and progressed to Formula Renault in 1998, where he finished on the podium several times. He tested a Formula One car for Minardi in 2000, and became their official test driver the following year. Also that year, he competed in the Spanish Formula Nissan Championship, in which he won at Valencia. He won six races in 2002, finishing as runner-up in the championship standings.

Bobbi continued to work with Minardi until mid-2003, including a Grand Prix weekend test session at the 2003 San Marino Grand Prix. Giovanni Minardi was his manager at the time.^[3]

He currently competes full-time in the Rolex Sports Car Series for Cheever Racing.

[edit] Complete Formula One participations

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
2003	European Minardi Cosworth	Minardi PS03	Cosworth V10	AUS	MAL	BRA	SMR TD	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	ITA	USA	JPN	-	-

Sporting positions
Preceded by Christophe Bouchut	FIA GT Champion 2003 with: Thomas Biagi	Succeeded by Fabrizio Gollin Luca Cappellari

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