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	21
Wins	2
Poles	2
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	4th in 2015
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 drove a GTE-Pro class Ferrari F458 Italia for AF Corse full-time for the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Poles	FLaps	Wins	Podiums	Points	Position
2003	Formula BMW ADAC	Team Lauderbach Motorsport	20	0	0	0	0	14	17th
2004	Formula Renault 2000 Italia
2005	Formula Azzura	Europa Corse							1st
	Formula Renault 2.0 Italia	BVM Minardi	14	0	0	1	3	113	6th
	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Victory Engineering	4	0	0	0	0	4	26th
2006	Italian Formula Three	Corbetta Competizioni	16	2	6	4	10	111	2nd
	Euroseries 3000	Minardi by GP Racing	2	0	0	0	1	8	14th
2007	Euroseries 3000	Minardi by GP Racing	16	4	5	5	13	108	1st
2008	Superleague Formula	Beijing Guoan	12	1	2	3	5	413	1st
	Superstars Series	Racing4You / Ferlito Motors	3	0	0	0	1	32	6th
	FIA GT Championship	BMS Scuderia Italia	6			1	1	33.5	12th
	Euroseries 3000	TP Formula	1	1	0	0	1	9	15th
	International Formula Master	ADM Motorsport	2	0	0	0	0	0	29th
2009	Superleague Formula	Olympiacos CFP	6	1	0	0	1	300	6th
	GP2 Asia Series	Trident Racing	6	0	0	0	1	6	17th
	GP2 Series	Trident Racing	18	0	0	0	0	3	22nd
2010	Superleague Formula	R.S.C. Anderlecht	33	5	1	5	16	699	1st
2011	GP2 Series	Scuderia Coloni	2	0	0	0	0	0	29th
2012	Blancpain Endurance Series	Kessel Racing	4	0	0	1	2	49	4th
	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	BVM Target	2	0	0	0	0	0	33rd
2013	Blancpain Endurance Series	Kessel Racing	5			1		50	4th
	World Endurance Championship - LMGTE Am	8 Star Motorsport	4	0	0	1	3	73	6th
	International GT Open	Scuderia Villorba Corse	4			2	3	26	10th
2014	World Endurance Championship - LMGTE Pro	AF Corse	8	0	0	0	5	94	7th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGTE Pro		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
2015	World Endurance Championship - LMGTE Pro	AF Corse	8	1	0	0	5	123	4th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGTE Pro		1	0	0	0	1	N/A	2nd
2016	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMGTE Pro	AF Corse	1	1	0	1	1	26	1st*

^* Season still in progress.

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

• Super Final results in 2009 did not count for points towards the main championship.

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	9	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 7	LMS 2	NÜR 3	COA 3	FUJ 3	SHA 4	BHR 6		4th	123
2016	AF Corse	LMGTE Pro	Ferrari 488 GTE	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	SIL 1	SPA	LMS	NÜR	MEX	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	1st*	26*

^* Season still in progress.

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2014	AF Corse	Pierre Kaffer Olivier Beretta	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	GTE Pro	28	DNF	DNF
2015	AF Corse	James Calado Olivier Beretta	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	GTE Pro	332	21st	2nd

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

• Official website
• Davide Rigon career summary at DriverDB.com