John Filippi

John Filippi

Nationality France French
Born (1995-02-27) February 27, 1995
Bastia, France
World Touring Car Championship career
Debut season 2014
Current team Campos Racing
Car no. 27
Starts 53
Wins 0
Poles 1
Fastest laps 0
Best finish 18th in 2014, 2015
Previous series
2013
2012-2013
2007-2012		 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0
Single-seater V de V Challenge
Karting
Championship titles
2013 Single-seater V de V Challenge

John Filippi (born 27 February 1995) is a French auto racing driver who competes in the World Touring Car Championship for Campos Racing.

Racing career

Karting

Filippi started his karting career in 2007 in the Cadet class. He made his first international appearance in 2009. In 2009 Filippi competed in the European KF3 championship where he finished 40th in a Vortex powered Tony Kart. He also competed in the French Grand Prix Open Karting. The following two years the driver from Corsica competed in the KF2 class. He ended the 2011 season with two top ten classifications in the French and Grand Prix Open championships.

Single-seaters

After six years of karting John Filippi made is autoracing debut in 2007 at Circuit Paul Armagnac. The Frenchman was entered by Equipe Palmyr in the amateur Single-seater V de V Challenge driving a Tatuus FR2000. Driving against other old Formula Renault and Formula Master cars he finished twelfth in his first race.[1] He raced six races in his inaugural racing season and finished 25th in the standings.[2]

The following season Filippi switched to the Bossy Racing team racing a Tatuus N.T07 Formula Master chassis. This decision made the young driver highly successful. He won the first three races of the season at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. He went on to win eleven of the eighteen races in the season. Beside the three races he won in Barcelona Filippi won two races in Motorland Aragón, three races at Lédenon and three races at Magny-Cours.[3] Towards the end of the racing season he made his debut in the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 with RC Formula. At Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya he finished 22nd in the first and 27th in the second race.

Filippi competing in the 2014 World Touring Car Championship.

World Touring Car Championship

2014

On March 19, 2014 it was announced that John Filippi would race in the World Touring Car Championship. Filippi joinedCampos Racing driving one of their TC2 SEAT León's.[4]

Filippi became the youngest ever points scorer in a WTCC race at the Race of Morocco in Marrakech. This was followed by consistent pace in the TC2 class all season before clinching a class win at the Race of Japan

2015

For 2015 with the departure of Dušan Borković from Campos Racing, Filippi was promoted to the TC1 Chevrolet Cruze for the 2015 season.

Again Filippi scored a points finish in Marrakech and at the Nordschleife. At the Race of China Filippi set a new career best qualifying position with P7, before suffering from an accident in Race 1 which forced him to retire. In Thailand it was much the same story with a strong qualifying but a Race 1 incident with Tiago Monteiro forced him to retire once again.

At the Race of Qatar qualified 10th and therefore lined up on pole position for Race 2. Filippi is currently the youngest driver ever to have started from pole position in a WTCC race at 20 years and 331 days old.[5]

2016

On February 9, 2016, Filippi's main sponsor Oscaro announced that Filippi would be continuing with Campos Racing in the TC1 Chevrolet for the 2016 World Touring Car Championship season. It was also announced that 4-time world champion Yvan Muller would be accompanying Filippi as driver coach for the season.[6][7]

Racing record

Complete World Touring Car Championship results

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

Year Team Car 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
2014 Campos Racing SEAT León WTCC MAR
1
14		 MAR
2
8		 FRA
1
18		 FRA
2
Ret		 HUN
1
17		 HUN
2
17		 SVK
1
19		 SVK
2
C		 AUT
1
16		 AUT
2
13		 RUS
1
18		 RUS
2
15		 BEL
1
19		 BEL
2
19		 ARG
1
16		 ARG
2
16†		 BEI
1
13		 BEI
2
15		 CHN
1
14		 CHN
2
15		 JPN
1
16		 JPN
2
14		 MAC
1
16		 MAC
2
12		 18th 4
2015 Campos Racing Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 ARG
1
Ret		 ARG
2
12		 MAR
1
13		 MAR
2
8		 HUN
1
13		 HUN
2
11		 GER
1
12		 GER
2
10		 RUS
1
NC		 RUS
2
15		 SVK
1
12		 SVK
2
14		 FRA
1
15		 FRA
2
13		 POR
1
15		 POR
2
14		 JPN
1
13		 JPN
2
11		 CHN
1
NC		 CHN
2
10		 THA
1
Ret		 THA
2
11		 QAT
1
14		 QAT
2
15		 18th 6
2016 Campos Racing Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 FRA
1
12		 FRA
2
12		 SVK
1
14		 SVK
2
10		 HUN
1
8		 HUN
2
12		 MAR
1
 MAR
2
 GER
1
 GER
2
 RUS
1
 RUS
2
 POR
1
 POR
2
 ARG
1
 ARG
2
 JPN
1
 JPN
2
 CHN
1
 CHN
2
 THA
1
 THA
2
 QAT
1
 QAT
2
 15th* 5*

†Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. * Season still in progress.

References

  1. ↑ "Nogaro 2012". V de V Sports. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "Single-seater V de V Challenge 2012". DriverDB.com. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  3. ↑ "John Filippi race results". DriverDB.com. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  4. ↑ "FILIPPI IN CAMPOS RACING’S SEAT LEÓN". World Touring Car Championship. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  5. ↑ "Remembering when… Filippi made WTCC history". World Touring Car Championship. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  6. ↑ "@J_Filippi sera présent avec Oscaro sur la grille du @FIA_WTCC". Oscaro.com. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  7. ↑ "Filippi confirms WTCC future… with a little help from Oscaro and Yvan Muller". World Touring Car Championship. Retrieved 10 February 2016.

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