Raffaele Marciello

Raffaele Marciello

Marciello (center) after winning the 2012 Pau Grand Prix
Nationality Italy Italian
Born (1994-12-17) 17 December 1994
Zürich, Switzerland
GP2 Series career
Debut season 2014
Current team Russian Time
Car no. 9
Former teams Racing Engineering
Trident
Starts 43
Wins 1
Poles 1
Fastest laps 1
Best finish 7th in 2015
Previous series
2012–13
2012
2012
2011
2010		 FIA European F3 Championship
Formula 3 Euro Series
Toyota Racing Series
Italian Formula Three
Formula Abarth
Championship titles
2013 FIA European F3 Championship

Raffaele "Lello" Marciello (Italian pronunciation: [raffaˈɛle marˈtʃɛllo];[1] born 17 December 1994) is a professional Italian racing driver and former member of the Ferrari Driver Academy. He was the 2013 European Formula Three Champion. He was a reserve and test driver for the Sauber Formula One team in 2015, as well as racing for Trident Racing in the GP2 Series.

Career

Karting

Marciello debuted in karting in 2005 and raced in various European championships, working his way up from the junior ranks to progress through to the KF2 category by 2010.

Formula Abarth

In 2010, Marciello graduated to single-seaters, racing in the newly launched Formula Abarth series in Italy for JD Motorsport. He won opening race at Misano and race at Varano and amassed another two podiums it brought him third place in standings.[2] Also he and fellow Formula Abarth champion Brandon Maïsano became members of the Ferrari Driver Academy.[3]

Formula Three

Marciello stepped up to Italian Formula Three Championship in 2011 and joined Prema Powerteam. He claimed wins at Misano and Adria and another four podiums, finishing third and losing rookie title to Michael Lewis, but overcoming Maïsano by seven points.[4]

In 2012 Marciello continued his collaboration with Prema Powerteam into Formula 3 Euro Series.[5] and the revived FIA European Formula Three Championship. In FIA F3 he finished 2nd in the championship, with nine podiums including seven wins. In Euro Series he finished 3rd with ten podiums and six wins. In both championships he scored more wins than anybody else.

He remained in F3 for 2013, and emerged as a pre-season favourite following his impressive results in the previous year and dominant performances in pre-season testing.[6]

Toyota Racing Series

During the 2012 off-season Marciello competed in New Zealand-based Toyota Racing Series, taking ninth place in the championship with a win at Hampton Downs.[7]

GP2 Series

Marciello had been looking to be driving in the GP2 Series or World Series by Renault for 2014 after testing both cars in Catalunya in October 2013.[8]

On 20 January 2014, the Ferrari Driver Academy announced Marciello will be racing in GP2 in 2014. However. they did not confirm the team he will be competing with.[9] On 18 February, it was announced he would be driving for the Racing Engineering team.[10]

Marciello achieved his first GP2 victory in the feature race at Spa-Francorchamps after an intense fight with McLaren junior driver Stoffel Vandoorne in the closing stages.

He joined Trident Racing for 2015,[11] but struggled to capitalize on his 2015 debut, finishing seventh overall.

Marciello will race with Russian Time, replacing the Campos-bound Mitch Evans, in the 2016 season.

Formula One

Marciello during free practice for the 2015 Malaysian Grand Prix

On 26 November 2014, Marciello made his Formula One debut behind the wheel of the Ferrari F14 T, during that day's post-season test at the Yas Marina Circuit. He set the second fastest time of the session, half a second adrift of Pascal Wehrlein in the Mercedes F1 W05 Hybrid.[12] On 31 December 2014 it was announced that Marciello had signed as test and reserve driver for the Sauber Formula One team for 2015.[13][14] In January 2016, it was announced that Marciello had been dropped by Sauber[15] and had split with the Ferrari Driver Academy for personal reasons.[16]

Racing record

Karting career summary

Season Series Team Position
2005 Swiss Championship — Super Mini 1st
Bridgestone Cup Switzerland — Super Mini 2nd
2006 Swiss Championship — Super Mini KC Ticino 2nd
Champions Cup — Super Mini 1st
2007 Swiss Championship — KF3 KC Ticino 2nd
Bridgestone Cup Europe — KF3 2nd
Bridgestone Cup Switzerland — KF3 4th
2008 South Garda Winter Cup — KF3 Spirit 11th
WSK International Series — KF3 Tony Kart Junior RT 14th
Italian Open Masters — KF3 Spirit 7th
Torneo Industrie — KF3 Claudio Marciello 3rd
Spanish Championship — KF3 31st
CIK-FIA European Championship — KF3 Tony Kart Junior RT 17th
Bridgestone Cup Europe — KF3 33rd
Copa Campeones Trophy — KF3 Claudio Marciello 1st
2009 South Garda Winter Cup — KF3 Intrepid Junior Team 2nd
Trofeo Andrea Margutti — KF3 Intrepid Junior Team 3rd
WSK International Series — KF3 Intrepid Junior Team 4th
CIK-FIA Monaco Kart Cup — KF3 Morsicani 14th
CIK-FIA European Championship — KF3 Intrepid Junior Team 4th
CIK-FIA World Cup — KF3 Intrepid Junior Team 19th[17]
2010 Trofeo Andrea Margutti — KF2 24th

Auto racing career summary

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2010 Formula Abarth JD Motorsport 13 2 0 2 4 91 3rd
2011 Italian Formula Three Championship Prema Powerteam 14 2 1 2 6 123 3rd
FIA International Formula 3 Trophy 2 0 0 0 0 N/P NC†
2012 Toyota Racing Series M2 Competition 15 1 0 1 2 535 9th
FIA European Formula 3 Championship Prema Powerteam 20 7 4 6 9 228.5 2nd
Formula 3 Euro Series 24 6 2 6 4 219.5 3rd
Masters of Formula 3 1 0 0 0 1 N/P 2nd
Macau Grand Prix Formula Three 2 0 0 0 0 N/P 8th
2013 FIA European Formula 3 Championship Prema Powerteam 30 13 12 8 19 489.5 1st
Macau Grand Prix Formula Three 1 0 1 0 0 N/P NC
2014 GP2 Series Racing Engineering 22 1 1 1 4 74 8th
2015 Formula One Sauber F1 Team Test driver
GP2 Series Trident 22 0 0 0 4 110 7th
2016 GP2 Series Russian Time
Icon Notes
† Guest driver ineligible to score points
(*) Season still in progress
N/P No points
NC Not classified

Note: Some races counted for various series.

Complete Formula 3 Euro Series results

(key)

Year Entrant Engine 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
2012 Prema Powerteam Mercedes HOC
1
6		 HOC
2
1		 HOC
3
17		 BRH
1
1		 BRH
2
7		 BRH
3
1		 RBR
1
1		 RBR
2
9		 RBR
3
8		 NOR
1
22†		 NOR
2
17		 NOR
3
1		 NÜR
1
6		 NÜR
2
2		 NÜR
3
Ret		 ZAN
1
4		 ZAN
2
13		 ZAN
3
Ret		 VAL
1
1		 VAL
2
Ret		 VAL
3
3		 HOC
1
3		 HOC
2
2		 HOC
3
8		 3rd 219.5

† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Complete FIA European Formula 3 Championship results

(key)

Year Entrant Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 DC Points
2012 Prema Powerteam Mercedes HOC
1
6		 HOC
2
17		 PAU
1
1		 PAU
2
1		 BRH
1
1		 BRH
2
1		 RBR
1
1		 RBR
2
8		 NOR
1
22†		 NOR
2
1		 SPA
1
11		 SPA
2
14		 NÜR
1
6		 NÜR
2
Ret		 ZAN
1
4		 ZAN
2
Ret		 VAL
1
1		 VAL
2
3		 HOC
1
3		 HOC
2
8		 2nd 228.5
2013 Prema Powerteam Mercedes MNZ
1
1		 MNZ
2
2		 MNZ
3
1		 SIL
1
6		 SIL
2
2		 SIL
3
1		 HOC
1
1		 HOC
2
1		 HOC
3
4		 BRH
1
2		 BRH
2
1		 BRH
3
DSQ		 RBR
1
4		 RBR
2
13		 RBR
3
6		 NOR
1
1		 NOR
2
3		 NOR
3
2		 NÜR
1
1		 NÜR
2
1		 NÜR
3
1		 ZAN
1
5		 ZAN
2
16		 ZAN
3
Ret		 VAL
1
1		 VAL
2
Ret		 VAL
3
1		 HOC
1
2		 HOC
2
4		 HOC
3
1		 1st 489.5

† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

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 DC Points
2014 Racing Engineering BHR
FEA
18		 BHR
SPR
24		 ESP
FEA
Ret		 ESP
SPR
16		 MON
FEA
12		 MON
SPR
19		 AUT
FEA
3		 AUT
SPR
3		 GBR
FEA
Ret		 GBR
SPR
Ret		 GER
FEA
17		 GER
SPR
Ret		 HUN
FEA
19		 HUN
SPR
8		 BEL
FEA
1		 BEL
SPR
14		 ITA
FEA
Ret		 ITA
SPR
18		 RUS
FEA
3		 RUS
SPR
Ret		 ABU
FEA
11		 ABU
SPR
7		 8th 74
2015 Trident BHR
FEA
Ret		 BHR
SPR
20		 ESP
FEA
6		 ESP
SPR
17		 MON
FEA
8		 MON
SPR
2		 AUT
FEA
15		 AUT
SPR
10		 GBR
FEA
6		 GBR
SPR
2		 HUN
FEA
7		 HUN
SPR
4		 BEL
FEA
14		 BEL
SPR
12		 ITA
FEA
15		 ITA
SPR
7		 RUS
FEA
6		 RUS
SPR
3		 BHR
FEA
4		 BHR
SPR
5		 ABU
FEA
2		 ABU
SPR
C		 7th 110

Complete Formula One participations

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

Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 WDC Points
2015 Sauber F1 Team Sauber C34 Ferrari 059/4 1.6 V6 t AUS MAL
TD		 CHN BHR ESP
TD		 MON CAN AUT GBR
TD		 HUN BEL ITA SIN JPN RUS USA
TD		 MEX BRA ABU  –  –

References

  1. ↑ http://www.dizionario.rai.it/poplemma.aspx?lid=37771&r=132280
  2. ↑ "Campionato Italiano Formula ACICSAI Abarth 2010". Driver Database. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  3. ↑ [http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81893 – Ferrari expands young driver academy]
  4. ↑ "Sergio Campana is the new Italian Formula 3 Champion". Italian Formula Three Championship. 16 October 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  5. ↑ "Prema Powerteam and Raffaele Marciello together in the 2012 Formula 3 Euro Series". premapowerteam.com (Prema Powerteam). 17 February 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  6. ↑ "FIA F3 European Championship 2013 driver-by-driver preview". www.paddockscout.com. 19 March 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  7. ↑ "Toyota Racing Series New Zealand 2012". Driver Database. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  8. ↑ "Marciello gets a taste of 2014". Ferrari.com. 24 October 2013.
  9. ↑ "A new "academic" year". Scuderia Ferrari (Ferrari.com). 20 January 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  10. ↑ "Ferrari protege Raffaele Marciello joins Racing Engineering for GP2". Autosport.com. 18 February 2014.
  11. ↑ "TRIDENT AND MARCIELLO TOGETHER IN 2015". GP2Series.com. 23 January 2015.
  12. ↑ "Abu Dhabi F1 test: Mercedes reserve Pascal Wehrlein fastest". Autosport.com. 26 November 2014.
  13. ↑ =31 December 2014 "FDA – Marciello appointed test and reserve driver for the Sauber F1 Team -" Check |url= value (help). Ferrari.com. Scuderia Ferrari. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  14. ↑ "Ferrari protege Raffaele Marciello gets 2015 Sauber F1 reserve deal". autosport.com. 31 December 2014. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  15. ↑ Barretto, Lawrence; Beer, Matt (January 18, 2016). "Raffaele Marciello gets Russian Time GP2 seat, loses Sauber F1 role". Autosport. Retrieved January 23, 2016.
  16. ↑ "Marciello on Ferrari split: "Arrivabene just didn't like me"". January 22, 2016. Retrieved January 23, 2016.
  17. ↑ "2009 CIK-FIA World Cup for KF3" (PDF). FIA. Retrieved 16 December 2013.

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Sporting positions
Preceded by
Daniel Juncadella		 FIA European Formula 3
Champion
2013 		Succeeded by
Esteban Ocon
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