Stefano Coletti

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Stefano Coletti

Nationality	Monegasque
Born	(1989-04-06) 6 April 1989 La Colle, Monaco
2014 GP2 Series
Debut season	2009
Current team	Rapax
Car no.	18
Former teams	Scuderia Coloni Trident Racing Durango
Starts	46
Wins	3
Poles	1
Fastest laps	4
Best finish	11th in 2011
Previous series
2011 2010 2009–2010 2008–09 2007 2006–07 2006 2005–06	GP2 Asia Series GP3 Series Formula Renault 3.5 Series Formula 3 Euro Series Italian Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula BMW USA Formula BMW ADAC

Stefano Coletti (born 6 April 1989 in La Colle, Monaco) is a professional racing driver from Monaco. His sister Alexandra Coletti is an alpine skier. He is the first Monegasque driver since Louis Chiron (1931) to have won a race in Monaco.^[1]

Career

Karting

Coletti enjoyed a successful karting career prior to moving into single-seater racing. In 2003, he finished as runner-up in the Italian Open Masters ICA–Junior category before winning the Andrea Margutti Trophy and European Championship ICA–Junior titles in 2004, beating the likes of Charles Pic, Jaime Alguersuari and Jules Bianchi along the way.

Formula BMW

In 2005, Coletti moved up to Formula racing, joining Eifelland Racing to contest the Formula BMW ADAC championship, where he finished eighteenth in the standings. He also took part in the Formula BMW World Final in Bahrain for ASL Team Mücke Motorsport, finishing in twenty-fifth place.

He continued in the championship in 2006, taking four podium places, including a single victory, to finish seventh in the standings. He also took part in four Formula BMW USA races, winning three of them to finish the season in fifth place, despite missing a large proportion of the championship. Coletti once again competed in the Formula BMW World Final, held at the Circuit de Valencia, where he finished in third place, behind Mika Mäki and race winner Christian Vietoris.^[2]

Formula Renault

In August 2006, Coletti made his debut in the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 series, driving for the Cram Competition and Motopark Academy teams, although he failed to score a point in any of the six races he entered.

In 2007, he joined the Spanish Epsilon Euskadi team to contest both the Eurocup and Italian Formula Renault 2.0 championships. He finished fourth in the Eurocup standings after taking a win at the Hungaroring and two further podium places, whilst in the Italian series he took two victories (both at Misano) to finish in tenth place.

Formula Three

Coletti competing at the opening round of the 2008 Formula 3 Euro Series season at Hockenheim.

Coletti moved up to the Formula 3 Euro Series for the 2008 season, joining the French Signature-Plus team. However, he left the team after the first four races after being dropped from the Red Bull Driver Development scheme.^[3] Coletti missed the next round of the series at Pau before joining Prema Powerteam, who he remained with for the rest of the season. He took a best race result of fourth to finish the year in twentieth position. He also took part in the Masters of Formula 3 and Macau Grand Prix non-championship races, but retired from both events.

In January 2009, Prema announced that Coletti would be staying with the team for the 2009 season.^[4] At the first round of the year in Hockenheim, Coletti qualified on the front row of the grid before going on to win the opening race of the season.^[5] The following month, Coletti took part in the Masters of Formula 3 event held at Zandvoort, qualifying in fourth position before finishing the race in third place, behind Finns Mika Mäki and race winner Valtteri Bottas.^[6]

Coletti was involved in a controversial incident after the first race at the Norisring. Having finished third to move into third in the championship, Coletti had an altercation with race winner Jules Bianchi. Coletti felt that Bianchi had said "bad words" to him, and struck the ART Grand Prix driver and championship leader. Coletti was then stripped of his third place, and was excluded from the rest of the meeting.^[7] Coletti failed to score points after the Oschersleben rounds, and finished tenth in the championship.

Formula Renault 3.5 Series

In November 2008, Coletti sampled Formula Renault 3.5 Series machinery for the first time, testing for RC Motorsport at Valencia alongside former GP2 Series driver Andy Soucek. On 15 May 2009 it was announced that Coletti would race for Prema Powerteam in the Monaco round of the Formula Renault 3.5 Series season, replacing Frankie Provenzano.^[8] He originally finished in eleventh place, but after Marco Barba received a 25-second penalty, Coletti was promoted into the final points paying position in tenth.

Coletti returned to the series for a full season in 2010, driving alongside Greg Mansell at Comtec Racing.^[9] He took five podium finishes on his way to sixth place in the championship.

GP3 Series

Coletti also contested fourteen races of the inaugural GP3 Series season for the Tech 1 Racing team, replacing Daniel Juncadella after the first round of the championship. His team-mates were variously Doru Sechelariu, Jean-Éric Vergne, Jim Pla and the returning Juncadella. Coletti finished the year ninth in the championship; the best-placed of the Tech 1 drivers.

GP2 Series

Coletti made his GP2 debut in 2009 at Valencia when he replaced Davide Valsecchi at Durango.^[10] He suffered a fraught first meeting in the series, receiving three drive-through penalties. In race one he received one for jumping the start and one for crossing the white line at the pit lane exit, before retiring from the race. In race two he stalled on the grid and was penalised for starting from the grid instead of the pitlane; he collided with Dani Clos before taking this penalty. In his third GP2 race, at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Coletti crashed heavily with two laps remaining causing the race to finish under safety car conditions.^[11] He escaped with compressed vertebrae and minor bruising, missing the following day's sprint race as his car's monocoque was written off by the impact.^[12] He also missed the Brands Hatch rounds of the F3 Euroseries due to his injury. He was due to return to GP2 at Monza having originally been passed fit, but pulled out due to recurring pain during Thursday scrutineering.^[13]

Coletti returned to GP2 in 2011, driving for Trident Racing alongside Rodolfo González. In the Asia series, he scored a victory in the sprint race at Yas Marina on his way to fourth place in the drivers' standings. He also began the main series strongly, winning the sprint race of the first round of the championship, held at Istanbul Park. After winning the sprint race in Hungary, he crashed heavily during the feature race at Spa-Francorchamps and sustained a compression fracture to two of his vertebrae, two years to the race after sustaining a similar, but more minor injury. He missed the rest of the season as a result.^[14] His seat was taken by compatriot Stéphane Richelmi.^[15]

His injury healed, Coletti returned to GP2 for the 2012 season with Scuderia Coloni, alongside Fabio Onidi, but after ten rounds of the championship, lying only 14th in the championship with one podium finish, he left the team by mutual consent.^[16] He promptly joined the Rapax team for the final rounds of the championship, replacing Daniël de Jong.^[17] He finished in the points in three of the remaining four races, moving him above Rio Haryanto into a final championship position of 13th.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2005	Formula BMW ADAC	Eifelland Racing	20	0	0	0	0	13	18th
2005	Formula BMW World Final	ASL Team Mücke Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2006	Formula BMW ADAC	ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg	16	1	0	2	4	103	7th
	Formula BMW World Final	EuroInternational	1	0	0	0	0	1	3rd
	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	Cram Competition	6	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	Motopark Academy	6	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	Formula BMW USA	EuroInternational	4	3	2	2	4	75	5th
2007	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	Epsilon Euskadi	14	1	1	0	3	71	4th
2007	Italian Formula Renault 2.0	Epsilon Euskadi	14	2	1	0	3	164	10th
2008	Formula 3 Euro Series	Signature-Plus	18	0	0	0	0	6.5	20th
2008	Formula 3 Euro Series	Prema Powerteam	18	0	0	0	0	6.5	20th
2009	Formula 3 Euro Series	Prema Powerteam	17	1	0	2	2	19	10th
	Formula Renault 3.5 Series		1	0	0	0	0	1	28th
	Macau Grand Prix		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	NC
	GP2 Series	Durango	3	0	0	0	0	0	25th
2010	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Comtec Racing	17	0	0	0	5	76	6th
	GP3 Series	Tech 1 Racing	14	0	0	0	2	18	9th
	Auto GP	Charouz–Gravity Racing	2	0	0	0	0	2	20th
2011	GP2 Series	Trident Racing	16	2	0	0	2	22	11th
	GP2 Asia Series	Trident Racing	4	1	0	0	1	11	4th
	GP2 Final	Scuderia Coloni	2	0	0	0	0	0	13th
2012	GP2 Series	Scuderia Coloni	24	0	0	2	3	50	13th
2012	GP2 Series	Rapax	24	0	0	2	3	50	13th

* Season in progress.

Complete Formula 3 Euro Series results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	DC	Points
2008	Signature-Plus	Dallara F308/011	Volkswagen	HOC1 1 18	HOC1 2 21	MUG 1 21	MUG 2 11	PAU 1	PAU 2															20th	6.5
2008	Prema Powerteam	Dallara F308/047	Mercedes							NOR 1 11	NOR 2 6	ZAN 1 19	ZAN 2 Ret	NÜR 1 9	NÜR 2 Ret	BRH 1 19	BRH 2 25	CAT 1 15	CAT 2 Ret	LMS 1 19	LMS 2 9	HOC2 1 4	HOC2 2 Ret	20th	6.5
2009	Prema Powerteam	Dallara F309/014	Mercedes	HOC1 1 1	HOC1 2 5	LAU 1 15	LAU 2 23	NOR 1 DSQ	NOR 2 EX	ZAN 1 Ret	ZAN 2 12	OSC 1 7	OSC 2 2	NÜR 1 9	NÜR 2 10	BRH 1	BRH 2	CAT 1 Ret	CAT 2 15	DIJ 1 21	DIJ 2 Ret	HOC2 1 10	HOC2 2 9	10th	19

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Pos	Points
2009	Prema Powerteam	CAT 1	CAT 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	MON 1 10	HUN 1	HUN 2	SIL 1	SIL 2	BUG 1	BUG 2	ALG 1	ALG 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	ALC 1	ALC 2	28th	1
2010	Comtec Racing	ALC 1 Ret	ALC 2 13	SPA 1 3	SPA 2 3	MON 1 5	BRN 1 9	BRN 2 12	MAG 1 3	MAG 2 7	HUN 1 Ret	HUN 2 10	HOC 1 7	HOC 2 2	SIL 1 3	SIL 2 12	CAT 1 10	CAT 2 5	6th	76

Complete GP2 Series results

(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	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	DC	Points
2009	Durango	ESP FEA	ESP SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	TUR FEA	TUR SPR	GBR FEA	GBR SPR	GER FEA	GER SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR Ret	BEL FEA 12	BEL SPR DNS	ITA FEA	ITA SPR	POR FEA	POR SPR					25th	0
2011	Trident Racing	TUR FEA 5	TUR SPR 1	ESP FEA 10	ESP SPR 20	MON FEA 5	MON SPR Ret	VAL FEA 17	VAL SPR 19	GBR FEA 7	GBR SPR 22	GER FEA Ret	GER SPR Ret	HUN FEA 21	HUN SPR 1	BEL FEA Ret	BEL SPR DNS	ITA FEA	ITA SPR							11th	22
2012	Scuderia Coloni	MYS FEA 5	MYS SPR 23	BHR1 FEA Ret	BHR1 SPR 23	BHR2 FEA 21	BHR2 SPR 18	ESP FEA 3	ESP SPR 8	MON FEA 10	MON SPR Ret	VAL FEA 9	VAL SPR Ret	GBR FEA Ret	GBR SPR Ret	GER FEA 20	GER SPR 19	HUN FEA 10	HUN SPR 9	BEL FEA 20†	BEL SPR 8					13th	50
2012	Rapax																					ITA FEA 8	ITA SPR 4	SGP FEA 13	SGP SPR 8	13th	50
2013	Rapax	MYS FEA 3	MYS SPR 1	BHR FEA 2	BHR SPR 3	ESP FEA 4	ESP SPR 1	MON FEA 6	MON SPR 1	GBR FEA 21†	GBR SPR 10	GER FEA 3	GER SPR 19	HUN FEA 16	HUN SPR 20†	BEL FEA 13	BEL SPR 23	ITA FEA Ret	ITA SPR 13	SGP FEA 12	SGP SPR 24	ABU FEA 20†	ABU SPR 9			5th	135

Complete GP2 Asia Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	DC	Points
2011	Trident Racing	ABU FEA 8	ABU SPR 1	ITA FEA 5	ITA SPR Ret	4th	11

Complete GP3 Series results

(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	15	16	DC	Points
2010	Tech 1 Racing	ESP FEA	ESP SPR	TUR FEA 24	TUR SPR 14	VAL FEA 10	VAL SPR 6	GBR FEA 10	GBR SPR Ret	GER FEA 5	GER SPR 3	HUN FEA 3	HUN SPR 4	BEL FEA Ret	BEL SPR 24	ITA FEA 16	ITA SPR 20	9th	18

References

↑ "Coletti reigns in Monaco". gp2series.com. 2013-05-25. Retrieved 2013-05-25.
↑ "DELL Formula BMW World Final 2006 – Race". press.bmw-motorsport.com. 2006-11-26. Retrieved 2009-05-20.
↑ "Wickens to replace Coletti". GPUpdate.net. 2008-05-23. Retrieved 2011-02-01.
↑ "Prema sign Stefano Coletti for F.3 Euro Series 2009". italiaracing.net. 2009-01-07. Retrieved 2009-05-20.
↑ Freeman, Glenn (2009-05-16). "Coletti scores maiden Euro Series win". autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved 2009-05-20.
↑ Anderson, Ben (2009-06-14). "Bottas takes F3 Masters victory". autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved 2009-06-23.
↑ Freeman, Glenn (2009-06-27). "Coletti excluded after altercation". autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved 2009-06-27.
↑ Mills, Peter (2009-05-16). "Coletti gets FR3.5 chance for Monaco". autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved 2009-05-20.
↑ Beer, Matt (2010-02-09). "Coletti completes Comtec line-up". autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved 2010-02-09.
↑ Glendenning, Mark (2009-08-18). "Coletti joins Durango for Valencia". autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved 2009-08-18.
↑ Glendenning, Mark (2009-08-29). "Parente scores Ocean's first win". autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved 2009-08-29.
↑ "Gran rimonta finita nelle barriere". durango.it (in Italian) (Durango). 2009-08-29. Retrieved 2009-08-29.
↑ Glendenning, Mark (2009-09-11). "Durango to miss Monza races". autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved 2009-09-12.
↑ Glenn, Freeman (2011-08-27). "Stefano Coletti to miss rest of GP2 season after injuring back in Spa crash". autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved 2011-08-27.
↑ Glendenning, Mark (2011-09-03). "Stephane Richelmi to deputise for injured Stefano Coletti in Trident GP2 line-up". autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved 2011-09-03.
↑ Freeman, Glenn (2012-09-04). "Stefano Coletti leaves Scuderia Coloni on eve of GP2 Monza round". autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved 2012-09-04.
↑ Freeman, Glenn (2012-09-06). "Jake Rosenzweig replaces Josef Kral at Addax for Monza". autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved 2012-09-10.

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Teams and drivers competing in the 2014 GP2 Series season

Russian Time	Carlin	Racing Engineering	DAMS	ART Grand Prix	Hilmer Motorsport	Rapax

1. TBA 2. TBA	3. Julián Leal 4. TBA	5. TBA 6. TBA	7. Jolyon Palmer 8. Stéphane Richelmi	9. Stoffel Vandoorne 10. Takuya Izawa	11. Daniel Abt 12. Facu Regalia	14. Simon Trummer 15. TBA

Arden International	EQ8 Caterham Racing	MP Motorsport	Trident Racing	Venezuela GP Lazarus	Campos Racing

16. René Binder 17. André Negrão	18. Rio Haryanto 19. Alexander Rossi	20. Daniël de Jong 21. TBA	22. TBA 23. TBA	24. TBA 25. TBA	26. Arthur Pic 27. TBA

Teams and drivers competing in the 2013 FIA European Formula 3 Championship season

Prema Powerteam		Carlin		Mücke Motorsport		ma-con	URD Rennsport

1 Marciello 2 Lynn	24 Auer 25 Cheever III	3 Ticknell 4 King	26 Latifi 27 Mardenborough 51 Cassidy	5 Lewis 6 Rosenqvist	28 Gilbert 29 Nissany	7 Coletti 8 Rudersdorf	9 Wolf

Jo Zeller Racing	Fortec Motorsports		ThreeBond with T-Sport	Double R Racing		Van Amersfoort Racing	EuroInternational

10 Zeller	11 Serrallés 12 Derani	30 Bryant-Meisner	14 Korjus 15 Goddard	16 Calderón 17 Giovinazzi	32 Gelael	18 van de Laar 19 Müller	20 Blomqvist

Other drivers: Buller (ThreeBond with T-Sport, Fortec Motorsports); Cassidy (EuroInternational); Celis (Fortec Motorsports); Cerruti (Romeo Ferraris); Grenhagen (Van Amersfoort Racing); Hill (Fortec Motorsports); Jones (Fortec Motorsports); Kvyat (Carlin); Sims (ThreeBond with T-Sport); Suranovich (Fortec Motorsports); Müller (ma-con); Thompson (Romeo Ferraris); Wehrlein (Mücke Motorsport)

Persondata
Name	Coletti, Stefano
Alternative names
Short description	Monegasque racing driver
Date of birth	6 April 1989
Place of birth	Monte Carlo (Monaco)
Date of death
Place of death

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