Luca Filippi | |
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Filippi competing in the 2011 Italian GP2 Round for Coloni. |
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Nationality | Italian |
Born | August 9, 1985 Savigliano (Italy) |
2012 GP2 Series | |
Debut season | 2006 |
Current team | Scuderia Coloni |
Car no. | 19 |
Former teams | FMS International BCN Competición ART Grand Prix Arden International Super Nova Racing |
Starts | 107 |
Wins | 5 |
Poles | 2 |
Fastest laps | 9 |
Best finish | 2nd in 2011 |
Previous series | |
2008–2011 2008 2006 2005, 2007–08 2004–10 2003–04 2003–04 2003 2003 |
GP2 Asia Series International GT Open Renault Eurocup Formula One testing Euro/Italian F3000/Auto GP FR2000 Eurocup Formula Renault 2000 Italia Formula Renault 2000 UK FR2000 UK Winter Series |
Championship titles | |
2005 | Italian F3000 |
Luca Filippi (born August 9, 1985 in Savigliano, Italy) is a racing driver who competes in single seaters in Europe.
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Filippi made the step out of karting in 2003, competing in Formula Renault 2.0 Italia, where he finished third in 2004 behind Pastor Maldonado and Kohei Hirate.
Filippi stepped up to the Italian Formula 3000 series in 2005, driving for Giancarlo Fisichella's Fisichella Motorsport team. He also made his Formula One test debut in 2005 with Minardi in the team's last ever test.
Fisichella joined forces with the Coloni Motorsport GP2 Series team in 2006, and Filippi was selected as a driver for the team. However, he switched to the BCN Competición team mid-way through the season.
In 2007, he continued in GP2 with Super Nova Racing and emerged as one of the series' top performers, finishing the season in fourth position.
On November 14, 2007 Filippi tested for Honda Racing F1.[1] On December 6, Filippi tested for Super Aguri F1, being even faster than regular race driver Takuma Sato.
For the inaugural GP2 Asia Series season in early 2008, Filippi raced for Team Meritus, a Malaysian team who entered the series due to regular series team Racing Engineering not competing in the winter series. He only managed to score four points in ten races, finishing in 17th place.
Filippi drove for the ART Grand Prix team in the first half of the 2008 GP2 Series season, alongside Romain Grosjean.[2] Following a disappointing first half of the season, Luca left the team in favour of Sakon Yamamoto after ten races.[3] Filippi was confirmed as a driver at the Arden International team two days later, where he replaced Yelmer Buurman.[4] His results failed to improve and he finished nineteenth in the championship.
Filippi returned to BCN Competición for the 2008–09 GP2 Asia Series season, but was replaced by Fabrizio Crestani as a result of the team's purchase after the first round of the season.[5]
For the 2009 GP2 Series season, he returned to the Super Nova team, and took the final win of the season at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve. His result promoted him up to fifth overall in the championship standings.
Filippi returned to Team Meritus for the 2009–10 GP2 Asia Series season, and finished as runner-up in the championship standings, taking Meritus' first victory in the series in Bahrain.
Filippi began the 2010 GP2 Series season without a drive, but returned to Super Nova mid-season to replace the injured Josef Král. He took five points from ten races, before Král returned for the season finale, finishing twentieth in the championship. During this period, Filippi became the most experienced GP2 driver in the series' history, beating Javier Villa's record of 82 race entries.
Filippi was drafted into the Scuderia Coloni team for the second round of the 2011 GP2 Asia Series season after regular driver James Jakes opted to move to the United States in order to pursue a career in the IndyCar Series. He returned once again to Super Nova for the main series, alongside Fairuz Fauzy. After five rounds of the championship, he switched back to Coloni, replacing Kevin Ceccon.[6] He immediately registered an improvement in form, winning his first race for the team at the Nürburgring, which also marked his 100th race in the series.[7] He also won the Spa-Francorchamps sprint race and the Monza feature race, propelling him to a career-best second place in the drivers' championship.
Filippi contested in the 2010 Auto GP season, where he finished 5th in the drivers' standings with 2 victories topping and tailing the season with the 1st race at Brno and the last race at Monza. He returned to the series the next year and after eight rounds is currently leading the championship by 18 points over countryman Ceccon.
Season | Series | Team Name | Races | Poles | Wins | Podiums | Points | Position |
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2005 | Italian Formula 3000 | Fisichella Motor Sport | 8 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 65 | 1st |
2006 | GP2 Series | Fisichella Motor Sport/BCN Competición | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 19th |
2007 | GP2 Series | Super Nova Racing | 21 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 59 | 4th |
2008 | Formula One | Honda | Test driver | |||||
GP2 Asia Series | Qi-Meritus Mahara | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 17th | |
GP2 Series | ART Grand Prix | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 19th | |
Arden International | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
2009 | GP2 Asia Series | BCN Competición | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC |
GP2 Series | Super Nova Racing | 21 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 40 | 5th | |
2010 | GP2 Asia Series | MalaysiaQi-Meritus.com | 8 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 39 | 2nd |
GP2 Series | Super Nova Racing | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 20th | |
Auto GP | Euronova Racing | 10 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 34 | 5th | |
2011 | GP2 Asia Series | Scuderia Coloni | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20th |
GP2 Series | Super Nova Racing | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 2nd | |
Scuderia Coloni | 8 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 45 | |||
Auto GP | Super Nova Racing | 12 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 127 | 2nd |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | DC | Points |
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2008 | Qi-Meritus Mahara | DUB1 FEA 5 |
DUB1 SPR Ret |
IDN FEA DSQ |
IDN SPR 21 |
MYS FEA Ret |
MYS SPR Ret |
BHR FEA Ret |
BHR SPR 11 |
DUB2 FEA 12 |
DUB2 SPR Ret |
17th | 4 | ||
2008–09 | BCN Competición | CHN FEA Ret |
CHN SPR Ret |
DUB FEA |
DUB SPR |
BHR1 FEA |
BHR1 SPR |
QAT FEA |
QAT SPR |
MYS FEA |
MYS SPR |
BHR2 FEA |
BHR2 SPR |
NC | 0 |
2009–10 | MalaysiaQi-Meritus.com | ABU1 FEA 2 |
ABU1 SPR 8 |
ABU2 FEA 14 |
ABU2 SPR 17 |
BHR1 FEA 2 |
BHR1 SPR 18 |
BHR2 FEA 1 |
BHR2 SPR 8 |
2nd | 29 | ||||
2011 | Scuderia Coloni | ABU FEA |
ABU SPR |
ITA FEA 20 |
ITA SPR 10 |
20th | 0 |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Pos | Points |
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2010 | Super Nova Racing | BRN 1 1 |
BRN 2 13 |
IMO 1 12 |
IMO 2 Ret |
SPA 1 2 |
SPA 2 5 |
MAG 1 |
MAG 2 |
NAV 1 7 |
NAV 2 Ret |
MNZ 1 7 |
MNZ 2 1 |
5th | 34 | ||
2011 | Super Nova Racing | MNZ 1 2 |
MNZ 2 6 |
HUN 1 11 |
HUN 2 2 |
BRN 1 1 |
BRN 2 3 |
DON 1 2 |
DON 2 5 |
OSC 1 |
OSC 2 |
VAL 1 12 |
VAL 2 7 |
MUG 1 2 |
MUG 2 4 |
2nd | 127 |
Sporting positions | ||
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Preceded by Nicky Pastorelli |
Italian Formula 3000 champion 2005 |
Succeeded by Giacomo Ricci |