 Montermini at the Brands Hatch round of the 2014 Blancpain Sprint Series season. | |
| Born | 30 May 1964 Sassuolo, Italy |
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| Formula One World Championship career | |
| Nationality |  Italian |
| Active years | 1994–1996 |
| Teams | Simtek, Pacific, Forti |
| Entries | 29 (19 starts) |
| Championships | 0 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Podiums | 0 |
| Career points | 0 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| First entry | 1994 Spanish Grand Prix |
| Last entry | 1996 German Grand Prix |
Andrea Montermini (born 30 May 1964 [1] ) is an Italian racing driver.
Montermini raced in Formula 3 in 1989, taking second place in the Monaco GP support race and 4th in the Italian F3 Championship. He then moved up to Formula 3000, racing for three seasons before finally taking second place in the 1992 season, winning three rounds while driving for the Il Barone Rampante team.
He participated in 29 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 29 May 1994 for Simtek, replacing Roland Ratzenberger, who had been killed during qualifying for the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. Montermini himself crashed heavily in practice for the 1994 Spanish Grand Prix, breaking his left heel and his right foot. He returned to Formula One the next season, with the Pacific Grand Prix team, and drove for Forti in 1996 alongside countryman Luca Badoer until the team folded. For the 1997 season Montermini was signed as test driver for the MasterCard Lola team, [2] but it folded after one race. He scored no points in his Formula One career. As of 2024 [update] , he holds the record for the shortest F1 driver of all time, at a height of 1.57m (5ft 1in) tall. [3]
He competed in the American Champ Car series three different seasons: 1993-1994 and 1999. He scored a 4th place at Detroit in his first season, driving for the underfunded Euromotorsport team. In 1999 he drove a few events for Dan Gurney in Gurney's last season of team ownership. When others such as Alex Barron, Gualter Salles and Raul Boesel were replaced, he filled in and scored a best finish of 11th in Vancouver.
He raced in the 2001 24 Hours of Daytona, but has primarily raced in the FIA GT Championship, mostly in Ferrari cars. He has taken two class wins and four further class podiums. In 2006 he has occasionally raced alongside Jarek Janis and Sascha Bert in a Saleen ran by the Zakspeed team. In 2007 he won the International GT Open's GTA class, driving a Ferrari 430 for Scuderia Playteam alongside co-champion Michele Maceratesi, the duo becoming overall champions the following season. He won a second overall championship title in 2013. [4]
(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 | DC | Points |
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| 1990 | Madgwick International | DON Ret | SIL 4 | PAU Ret | JER 3 | MNZ Ret | PER Ret | HOC Ret | BRH Ret | BIR 9 | BUG 2 | NOG Ret | 8th | 13 |
| 1991 | 3001 International | VAL Ret | PAU Ret | JER 3 | MUG 11 | PER 10 | HOC Ret | BRH 10 | SPA Ret | BUG 3 | NOG Ret | 10th | 8 | |
| 1992 | Il Barone Rampante | SIL Ret | PAU Ret | CAT 1 | PER 3 | HOC 9 | NÜR Ret | 2nd | 34 | |||||
| Forti Corse | SPA 1 | ALB 1 | NOG 4 | MAG Ret | ||||||||||
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| Year | Team | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Rank | Points | Ref |
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| 1993 | Euromotorsport | Lola T92/00 | Chevrolet 265A V8 t | SRF 25 | PHX | LBH | INDY | MIL | DET 4 | POR | CLE | TOR 27 | MIS | NHM | ROA | VAN 19 | MDO | NZR | LS | 18th | 12 | [7] | ||||
| 1994 | Payton/Coyne Racing | Lola T93/00 | Ford XB V8 t | SRF DNS | PHX | LBH | INDY | MIL | DET | POR | 24th | 10 | [8] | |||||||||||||
| King Racing | Lola T94/00 | Ford XB V8 t | CLE 16 | TOR 7 | MIS | MDO | NHM | VAN | ROA | NZR | ||||||||||||||||
| Project Indy | Lola T93/00 | Ford XB V8 t | LS 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1999 | All American Racers | Eagle 997 | Toyota RV8D V8 t | MIA | MOT | LBH | NZR | RIO | STL | MIL | POR | CLE | ROA | TOR | MIS | DET | MDO | CHI | VAN 11 | LS 24 | HOU 23 | SRF 15 | FON | 31st | 2 | [9] |
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| Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | WDC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | MTV Simtek Ford | Simtek S941 | Ford HBD 6 3.5 V8 | BRA | PAC | SMR | MON | ESP DNQ | CAN | FRA | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | POR | EUR | JPN | AUS | NC | 0 | |
| 1995 | Pacific Grand Prix | Pacific PR02 | Ford ED 3.0 V8 | BRA 9 | ARG Ret | SMR Ret | ESP DNS | MON DSQ | CAN Ret | FRA NC | GBR Ret | GER 8 | HUN 12 | BEL Ret | ITA DNS | POR Ret | EUR Ret | PAC Ret | JPN Ret | AUS Ret | NC | 0 |
| 1996 | Forti Grand Prix | Forti FG01B | Ford Zetec-R 3.0 V8 | AUS DNQ | BRA Ret | ARG 10 | EUR DNQ | SMR DNQ | NC | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Forti FG03 | MON DNS | ESP DNQ | CAN Ret | FRA Ret | GBR DNQ | GER DNP | HUN | BEL | ITA | POR | JPN | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 |  Nissan Motorsports  TWR |  Jan Lammers  Érik Comas | Nissan R390 GT1 | GT1 | 342 | 6th | 6th |
| 1999 | Courage Compétition | Alex Caffi Domenico Schiattarella | Courage C52-Nissan | LMP | 342 | 6th | 5th |
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