Davide Rigon

Davide Rigon

Rigon driving for Olympiacos during the third round of the 2009 Superleague Formula season at Donington Park
Nationality Italian
Born 26 August 1986
Thiene, Vicenza, Italy
FIA WEC - GTE Pro career
Debut season 2013
Current team AF Corse
Car no. 71
Former teams 8 Star Motorsport
Starts 12
Wins 1
Poles 0
Fastest laps 0
Best finish 6th in 2013
Previous series
2009, 11
2008–09
2008–09
2008
2008
2008
2006–08
2005
2005
2005
2004, 06
2004–05
2004
2004
2003
2003		 GP2 Series
Superleague Formula
GP2 Asia Series
FIA GT Championship
International Formula Master
Superstars Series
Euroseries 3000
Formula One testing
World Series by Renault
Formula Azzurra
Italian F3
Formula Renault 2.0 Italia
FRenault Italia Winter Series
Formula Gloria
Formula BMW ADAC
Formula Gloria W. Trophy
Championship titles
2010
2008
2007
2007
2005		 Superleague (Anderlecht)
Superleague (B. Guoan)
Euroseries 3000
Italian Formula 3000
Formula Azzurra

Davide Rigon (born 26 August 1986 ) is an Italian professional racing driver. Rigon is currently part of the Scuderia Ferrari Formula One test driver team.[1]

Career

Starting out in Formula BMW ADAC in 2003, Thiene-born Rigon progressed to the Italian Formula Renault Championship and Italian Formula Three. He won the Formula Azzurra title in 2005, and finished second in Italian Formula Three the following year.

In 2007, Rigon won the Euroseries 3000 championship, winning three races. He also raced for Italy in the 2007–08 A1 Grand Prix season. In 2008, he competed in the GT2 class of the FIA GT Championship for BMS Scuderia Italia, and also in International Formula Master, while also racing for Beijing Guoan in the inaugural 2008 Superleague Formula season. Guoan were rated amongst the outsiders for the title, but Rigon defied that and led them to the championship, with three wins.

During the off-season, Rigon joined up with Trident Racing to compete in the fourth round of the 2008–09 GP2 Asia Series season in Qatar.[2] He scored his first points in the series, with a seventh at the penultimate race in Bahrain. He followed that up with a third in the final race, as he finished 17th in the championship.

He continued with the team into the 2009 GP2 Series season, but was replaced after four rounds by Rodolfo González despite outpacing team-mate Ricardo Teixeira all season.[3] He did however return for the Hungarian rounds of the championship, and remained with the team for the rest of the season. He returned to Superleague Formula, but with the Olympiacos CFP team instead of Beijing Guoan. He reclaimed the championship in 2010 whilst driving for the R.S.C. Anderlecht team.

Rigon returned to the GP2 Series for 2011 with the Coloni team. During the first round of the season, at Istanbul Park, he was involved in a crash with Julián Leal and suffered multiple fractures to his tibia and fibula.[4] He was replaced by compatriot Kevin Ceccon, and later Luca Filippi, and was restricted to 29th in the championship as a result of his injury.[5]

Rigon switched to sports car racing in 2012, and joined Kessel Racing for the Blancpain Endurance Series. In the 2013 season, he won at Monza and ended fourth in the Pro Cup with teammates Daniel Zampieri and César Ramos. Also in 2013, he drove in four rounds of the FIA World Endurance Championship with 8 Star Motorsports, also in a Ferrari 458 Italia. He got a win and two second place finishes, helping the team to win the GTE-Am class championship. The Italian also won two races out of four in the International GT Open partnering with Andrea Montermini in a Scuderia Villorba Ferrari.

Rigon will drive a GTE-Pro class Ferrari F458 Italia for AF Corse full-time for the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship.

Racing record

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
2005 Victory Engineering ZOL
1		 ZOL
1		 MON
1		 VAL
1		 VAL
2		 LMS
1		 LMS
2		 BIL
1		 BIL
2		 OSC
1		 OSC
2		 DON
1		 DON
2		 EST
1
16		 EST
2
10		 MNZ
1
8		 MNZ
2
14		 26th 4
2012 BVM Target ALC
1		 ALC
2		 MON
1		 SPA
1		 SPA
2		 NÜR
1		 NÜR
2		 MSC
1		 MSC
2		 SIL
1		 SIL
2		 HUN
1		 HUN
2		 LEC
1
19		 LEC
2
13		 CAT
1		 CAT
2		 33rd 0

Superleague Formula results

2008–2009

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

Year Team Operator 1 2 3 4 5 6 Position Points
2008 Beijing Guoan Zakspeed DON NÜR ZOL EST VAL JER 1st 413
1 6 5 3 17 1 5 5 1 5 9 3
2009 Olympiacos CFP GU-Racing International MAG ZOL DON EST MOZ JAR 6th 300
18 2 10 4 17 15

2009 Super Final results

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6
2009 Olympiacos CFP
GU-Racing International		 MAG
6		 ZOL
N/A		 DON
DNQ		 EST MOZ JAR

2010

Year Team Operator 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NC 11 Position Points
2010 R.S.C. Anderlecht Azerti Motorsport SIL ASS MAG JAR NÜR ZOL BRH ADR POR ORD BEI † NAV 1st 699
9 10 X 1 10 1 7 3 2 10 6 X 2 12 2 2 9 1 13 2 2 1 8 1 2 9 2 5 8 3 13 15 C 2 11 4
† Non-championship event.

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 DC Points
2009 Trident Racing ESP
FEA
17		 ESP
SPR
21		 MON
FEA
9		 MON
SPR
7		 TUR
FEA
10		 TUR
SPR
8		 GBR
FEA
16		 GBR
SPR
20		 GER
FEA		 GER
SPR		 HUN
FEA
8		 HUN
SPR
Ret		 VAL
FEA
12		 VAL
SPR
7		 BEL
FEA
Ret		 BEL
SPR
5		 ITA
FEA
9		 ITA
SPR
8		 POR
FEA
14		 POR
SPR
9		 22nd 3
2011 Scuderia Coloni TUR
FEA
10		 TUR
SPR
Ret		 ESP
FEA		 ESP
SPR		 MON
FEA		 MON
SPR		 VAL
FEA		 VAL
SPR		 GBR
FEA		 GBR
SPR		 GER
FEA		 GER
SPR		 HUN
FEA		 HUN
SPR		 BEL
FEA		 BEL
SPR		 ITA
FEA		 ITA
SPR		 29th 0

Complete GP2 Asia 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 DC Points
2008–09 Trident Racing CHN
FEA		 CHN
SPR		 DUB
FEA		 DUB
SPR		 BHR1
FEA		 BHR1
SPR		 QAT
FEA
14		 QAT
SPR
15		 MYS
FEA
Ret		 MYS
SPR
13		 BHR2
FEA
7		 BHR2
SPR
3		 17th 6

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

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

Year Entrant Class Car Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Rank Points
2013 8 Star Motorsport LMGTE Am Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 Ferrari 4.5L V8 SIL SPA LMS SÃO
2		 COA FUJ
4		 SHA
1		 BHR
2		 6th 73
2014 AF Corse LMGTE Pro Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 Ferrari 4.5 L V8 SIL
5		 SPA
3		 LMS
Ret		 COA
7		 FUJ
2		 SHA
3		 BHR
3		 SÃO
3		 7th 94
2015 AF Corse LMGTE Pro Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 Ferrari 4.5 L V8 SIL
3		 SPA LMS NÜR COA FUJ SHA BHR 3rd* 15*

* Season in progress.

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
2014 Italy AF Corse Germany Pierre Kaffer
Monaco Olivier Beretta		 Ferrari 458 Italia GTC GTE
Pro		 28 DNF DNF

References

  1. ↑ "Davide Rigon". Ferrari. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Rigon replaces Valles at Trident". autosport.com. 2009-02-10. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
  3. ↑ "2009 GP2 Series – Round 5". GP2 Series. 2009-07-07. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
  4. ↑ Freeman, Glenn (2011-05-08). "Rigon injured in Istanbul collision". autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved 2011-05-09.
  5. ↑ Van De Burgt, Andrew (2011-05-17). "Ceccon replaces Rigon at Coloni". autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). Retrieved 2011-05-21.

External links

Sporting positions
Preceded by
New Championship		 Formula Azzurra
2005 		Succeeded by
Giuseppe Termine
Preceded by
Giacomo Ricci		 Euroseries 3000 champion
2007 		Succeeded by
Nicolas Prost
Preceded by
Giacomo Ricci		 Italian F3000 champion
2007 		Succeeded by
Omar Leal
Preceded by
New Championship		 Superleague Formula champion
(Beijing Guoan)
2008 		Succeeded by
Adrián Vallés
(Liverpool F.C.)
Preceded by
Adrián Vallés
(Liverpool F.C.)		 Superleague Formula champion
(R.S.C. Anderlecht)
2010 		Succeeded by
John Martin
(Australia)