- Luca Filippi
Infobox racing driver
name = Luca Filippi
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nationality = flagicon|Italy Italian
date of birth = Birth date and age|1985|08|09
place of birth =
current series =GP2 Series
first year = 2006
current team =ART Grand Prix
car number = 3
former teams = FMS InternationalBCN Competicion
starts = 59
wins = 1
poles = 2
fastest laps = 1
best finish = 4th
year = 2007
prev series = Italian Formula Three Championship
prev series years = 2005
titles = Italian Formula Three Champion
title years = 2005
awards =
award years =Luca Filippi (born
August 9 ,1985 inItaly ) is a racing driver who competes in single seaters inEurope .Career
In 2006, Filippi participated in the
GP2 Series withFMS International , with which he won the Italian Formula Three Championship in the previous season. He switched to theBCN Competicion team mid-way through the season. In 2007, he continued in GP2 withSuper Nova Racing and emerged as one of the series' top performers.On
November 14 2007 , Filippi tested forHonda Racing F1 . [cite news| title=Schumi still on top| publisher =ITV-F1.com| url =http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?PO_ID=41293| date=2007-11-14 ] OnDecember 6 , Filippi tested forSuper Aguri F1 , being even faster than regular race driver Takuma Sato.Filippi drove for the
ART Grand Prix team in the first half of the2008 GP2 Series season , alongsideRomain Grosjean , [cite news| title =Filippi confirmed at ART for 2008| publisher =autosport.com| url =http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/64420| date =2007-12-17 | accessdate =2007-12-17] having previously driven for the débutanteQi-Meritus Mahana team in the preceding 2008GP2 Asia Series . Following a disappointing first half of the season, ART elected to drop him in favour ofSakon Yamamoto after ten races. [cite news| title =ART replace Filippi with Yamamoto| publisher =autosport.com| url =http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/69174| date =2008-07-15 | accessdate =2008-07-16] Filippi was confirmed as a driver at theArden International team two days later, where he replacedYelmer Buurman . [cite news| title =Filippi replaces Buurman at Arden| publisher =autosport.com| url =http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/69186| date =2008-07-17 | accessdate =2008-07-17] His results failed to improve and he finished nineteenth in the championship.Career history
References
External links
* [http://www.lucafilippi.com/Eng/Home.asp Official website]
* [http://www.driverdb.com/racingdriver703.html Luca Filippi career statistics] at Driver Database
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