Alex Peroni

Alex Peroni
Peroni in Red Bull Ring FIA Formula 3 Championship
Nationality	Australian
Born	(1999-11-27) 27 November 1999 (age 24) Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
European Le Mans Series - LMP2 Pro-Am career
Debut season	2022
Current team	Algarve Pro Racing
Racing licence	FIA Gold
Car number	47
Starts	6
Wins	0
Podiums	3
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	6th in 2022
Previous series
2021 2019-20 2017-18 2016-18 2016 2015	Indy Lights FIA Formula 3 Championship Formula Renault NEC Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Challenge Monoplace Italian F4 Championship
Championship titles
2016	Challenge Monoplace

Alexander James Peroni ^[1] (born 27 November 1999) is an Australian racing driver, currently competing in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup. He has previously competed in the 2022 European Le Mans Series for Algarve Pro Racing, ^[2] the 2021 Indy Lights Series for Carlin Motorsport, and in the 2020 FIA Formula 3 Championship for Campos Racing team. Peroni is the 2016 Challenge Monoplace champion. ^[3]

Career

Formula 4

In 2015, Peroni graduated from kart racing to single-seaters, participating in the Italian F4 Championship with Torino Squadra Corse, finishing fourteenth overall and securing two second place podium finishes at Imola and Misano.

Formula Renault

In 2016, Peroni continued his collaboration with TS Corse, competing in Formula Renault 2.0 machinery in the V de V Challenge Monoplace. He dominated the season and won 14 from 21 races to clinch the championship title. ^[4]

For 2017, Peroni switched to Formula Renault Eurocup but decided to move to the Fortec Motorsport team. ^[5] He won race 2 at Pau and finished the season 10th in the drivers' standings ahead of his teammates Aleksey Korneev, Najiy Razak and Frank Bird. ^[6]

In 2018 he moved to MP Motorsport to again compete in the Formula Renault Eurocup, where he finished 9th in the championship, with the highlights being a 1st and 2nd place in the two Monaco events. He also won both races of the first round of the NEC series on the streets of Pau, which was his only NEC event of the year.

FIA Formula 3

2019

For 2019, he moved to the FIA Formula 3 Championship with Campos Racing. ^[7]

In the 2019 Italian feature race at Monza, a week after the crash which took Anthoine Hubert’s life and put Juan Manuel Correa in a coma, Peroni had a serious crash after hitting a "sausage kerb" at the Parabolica which sent him into a somersault into the tyre barriers, finally coming to a stop at the catch fence. He walked away from the crash, but was later diagnosed with a broken vertebra. ^[8] On medical advice Peroni missed the remainder of the season, along with the Macau Grand Prix. ^[9] He finished the 2019 season in 20th place in the driver standings with five points - the only points scored by Campos that season.

2020

After recovering from the injuries sustained in his crash at Monza, Peroni returned to compete in FIA Formula 3 with Campos Racing at the delayed start of the 2020 season. ^[10] At pre-season testing in Bahrain, in April 2020, he scored the fastest overall time. ^[11] In the first race of the 2020 season at the Red Bull Ring in Austria, he secured his first FIA F3 podium, with a third place finish. ^[12] Peroni went on to secure a further two podiums in the season: third place in Race 2 at Silverstone, ^[13] and second place in Race 2 in Barcelona. ^[14]

At the end of the 2020 FIA Formula 3 Championship, Peroni took 10th place in the final driver standings, with a total of 64 points. As in 2019, his points were the only ones scored by Campos that season. ^[15]

In recognition of his success in the 2020 FIA Formula 3 Championship, Peroni was awarded the 2020 Peter Brock Medal. ^[16] Previous winners of the medal, named after Australian motorsport icon Peter Brock, include Mark Webber and Craig Lowndes. Peroni departed Formula 3 at the end of the season.

Indy Lights

At the end of 2020, Peroni announced a move from FIA Formula 3 to the North American based series Indy Lights. ^[17] UK-based team Carlin signed Peroni in a one-year deal for the 2021 season, marking their own return to the Indy Lights series after a two-year break. ^[18]

Peroni scored his only Indy Lights podium with a third-place finish in the second race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May 2021. ^[19]

In September 2021, Peroni announced that he would be ending his Indy Lights season early, and would not be competing in the final three rounds, instead returning to Europe to focus on opportunities there. ^[20]

Euroformula Open

Peroni signed with Drivex School to compete in the 2022 Euroformula Open Championship. ^[21] However after the first round, Peroni unexpectedly stopped his campaign.

European Le Mans

In 2022, Peroni signed with Algave Pro Racing to compete in the 2022 European Le Mans Series with fellow Australian James Allen and American John Falb as teammates. The trio competed in the LMP2 Pro-Am class.

GT World Challenge Europe

In 2023, Peroni shifted focus from prototypes to GT3 racing, competing for GetSpeed Performance in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup. Peroni's co-drivers were Patrick Assenheimer and Florian Scholze, and the team competed in the Bronze Cup class. ^[22]

Karting record

Karting career summary

Season	Series	Team	Position
2010	Italian Open Masters — 60 Mini	S.T.K.C.	41st
2011	WSK Final Cup — 60 Mini		22nd

Racing record

Racing career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2015	Italian F4 Championship	Torino Squadra Corse	21	0	0	0	2	43	14th
2016	V de V Challenge Monoplace	TS Corse	21	14	11	12	19	947	1st
	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0		2	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
2017	Formula Renault Eurocup	Fortec Motorsports	23	1	1	0	1	72	10th
	Formula Renault NEC		3	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
2018	Formula Renault Eurocup	MP Motorsport	20	1	1	1	2	89	9th
	Formula Renault NEC		2	2	1	1	2	60	7th‡
2019	FIA Formula 3 Championship	Campos Racing	13	0	0	0	0	5	20th
2020	FIA Formula 3 Championship	Campos Racing	18	0	0	2	3	64	10th
2021	Indy Lights	Carlin	14	0	0	0	1	228	10th
2022	European Le Mans Series - LMP2	Algarve Pro Racing	6	0	0	0	0	7	21st
	Euroformula Open Championship	Drivex School	3	0	0	0	0	23	13th
2023	GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup	GetSpeed	4	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2024	GT World Challenge Australia	Team BRM ACM Finance	6	1	0	0	1	49*	7th*

^† As Peroni was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.
^‡ Peroni was ineligible for points from the second round onwards.
^* Season still in progress.

Complete Italian F4 Championship 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	18	19	20	21	DC	Points
2015	Torino Squadra Corse	VLL 1 20	VLL 2 9	VLL 3 23†	MNZ 1 19	MNZ 2 16	MNZ 3 Ret	IMO1 1 14	IMO1 2 7	IMO1 3 Ret	MUG 1 22	MUG 2 19	MUG 3 12	ADR 1 12	ADR 2 Ret	ADR 3 11	IMO2 1 8	IMO2 2 2	IMO2 3 6	MIS 1 2	MIS 2 18	MIS 3 15	14th	43

Complete V de V Challenge Monoplace 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	18	19	20	21	DC	Points
2016	TS Corse	CAT 1 1	CAT 2 1	CAT 3 2	BUG 1 2	BUG 2 10	BUG 3 1	LEC 1 1	LEC 2 5	LEC 3 3	ALC 1 1	ALC 2 2	ALC 3 1	MUG 1 1	MUG 2 1	MUG 3 2	MAG 1 1	MAG 2 1	MAG 3 1	EST 1 1	EST 2 1	EST 3 1	1st	947

Complete Formula Renault Eurocup 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	18	19	20	21	22	23	Pos	Points
2016	TS Corse	ALC 1	ALC 2	ALC 3	MON 1	MNZ 1	MNZ 2	MNZ 1	RBR 1	RBR 2	LEC 1	LEC 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	EST 1 4	EST 2 18									NC†	0
2017	Fortec Motorsports	MNZ 1 6	MNZ 2 Ret	SIL 1 6	SIL 2 21	PAU 1 5	PAU 2 1	MON 1 6	MON 2 6	HUN 1 Ret	HUN 2 12	HUN 3 19	NÜR 1 13	NÜR 2 15	RBR 1 14	RBR 2 12	LEC 1 24	LEC 2 Ret	SPA 1 15	SPA 2 16	SPA 3 15	CAT 1 18	CAT 2 11	CAT 3 8	10th	72
2018	MP Motorsport	LEC 1 Ret	LEC 2 7	MNZ 1 5	MNZ 2 Ret	SIL 1 Ret	SIL 2 15	MON 1 1	MON 2 2	RBR 1 12	RBR 2 7	SPA 1 Ret	SPA 2 25	HUN 1 13	HUN 2 5	NÜR 1 9	NÜR 2 9	HOC 1 6	HOC 2 Ret	CAT 1 9	CAT 2 14				9th	89

^† As Peroni was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.

Complete FIA Formula 3 Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	DC	Points
2019	Campos Racing	CAT FEA 12	CAT SPR 24	LEC FEA 8	LEC SPR 14	RBR FEA 21	RBR SPR Ret	SIL FEA 10	SIL SPR Ret	HUN FEA 26 1	HUN SPR 16	SPA FEA Ret	SPA SPR 15	MNZ FEA Ret	MNZ SPR DNS	SOC FEA	SOC SPR			20th	5
2020	Campos Racing	RBR FEA 3	RBR SPR Ret	RBR FEA 11	RBR SPR 11	HUN FEA 7	HUN SPR 10	SIL FEA 6	SIL SPR 3	SIL FEA 14	SIL SPR 24	CAT FEA 8	CAT SPR 2	SPA FEA 14	SPA SPR 21	MNZ FEA 16	MNZ SPR 5	MUG FEA 20	MUG SPR 13	10th	64

^* ^1 - 10 second time penalty for avoidable contact dropping Peroni from 13th to 26th.

American open-wheel racing results

(key)

Indy Lights

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Rank	Points
2021	Carlin	ALA 5	ALA 6	STP 5	STP 8	IMS 5	IMS 3	DET 4	DET 13	RDA 13	RDA 4	MDO 9	MDO 9	GTW 5	GTW 6	POR	POR	LAG	LAG	MDO	MDO	10th	228

Complete Euroformula Open Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)

Year	Entrant	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	DC	Points
2022	Drivex School	POR 1 6	POR 2 4	POR 3 10	PAU 1	PAU 2	LEC 1	LEC 2	LEC 3	SPA 1	SPA 2	SPA 3	HUN 1	HUN 2	HUN 3	IMO 1	IMO 2	IMO 3	RBR 1	RBR 2	RBR 3	MNZ 1	MNZ 2	MNZ 3	CAT 1	CAT 2	CAT 3	13th	23

Complete European Le Mans Series results

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

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	Rank	Points
2022	Algarve Pro Racing	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	LEC 17	IMO 15	MNZ 9	CAT 8	SPA 10	ALG Ret	21st	7
		Pro-Am Cup			7	6	3	3	3	Ret	6th	59

Complete GT World Challenge Europe results

GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup

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

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Pos.	Points
2023	GetSpeed Performance	Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo	Bronze	MNZ Ret	LEC Ret	SPA 6H 54	SPA 12H 40	SPA 24H 32	NÜR 50	CAT	35th	2

References

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2. "Alex Peroni secures ELMS seat with G-Drive Racing". 9 January 2022.
3. "Hobart's Alex Peroni wins Formula Renault Monoplace Challenge title". 6 November 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
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6. Allen, Peter (21 May 2017). "Peroni holds off Fenestraz to win Formula Renault Eurocup race two in Pau". Formula Scout. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
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13. "Positive event at Silverstone". Alex Peroni. 3 August 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
14. "Third podium for the year at Barcelona". Alex Peroni. 17 August 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
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21. Wood, Ida (27 April 2022). "Alex Peroni joins Euroformula grid with Drivex". Formula Scout. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
22. Plümer, Jonas (10 March 2023). "GetSpeed komplettiert GTWC-Aufgebot" [GetSpeed completes GTWC line-up]. GT-Place.com (in German).

External links

• Official website
• Alex Peroni career summary at DriverDB.com
• Alex Peroni driver statistics at Racing-Reference

Sporting positions
Preceded by David Droux	V de V Challenge Monoplace Champion 2016	Succeeded by Gilles Heriau
Awards and achievements
Preceded by Harry Bates	Peter Brock Medal 2020	Succeeded by Brodie Kostecki (2023)