Giacomo Ricci

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Giacomo Ricci
Nationality Flag of Italy.svg Italian
Born (1985-03-30) 30 March 1985 (age 39)
Baveno (Italy)
Previous series
2010, 12-13
2008–2010
2009–10
2009
2008–09
2008–09
2008
2008
2007
2004–07
2004
2003
2003
2002
2002
2001–02
2001		 Auto GP
GP2 Series
GP2 Asia Series
Le Mans Series
GP2 Asia Series
International GT Open
Italian Formula Three
International Formula Master
Champ Car Atlantic
Euro/Italian Formula 3000
World Series by Nissan
Fran-Am
Formula Junior 1600 Spain
FR2000 Germany
FR2000 Eurocup
Formula BMW ADAC
Italian Formula Renault 2000
Championship titles
2006
2006 		Euroseries 3000
Italian Formula 3000

Giacomo Ricci (born 30 March 1985 in Baveno) is a former Italian racing driver.

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Career

Formula BMW

Ricci began his car racing career by driving in the German-based Formula BMW ADAC series in 2001 and 2002, with a best finish of seventh in the drivers' championship.

Formula Renault

Ricci also competed in one race of the Italian Formula Renault Championship in 2001, and competed in rounds of the two-litre German series and the European Cup in 2002. For 2003 he made a step down to the smaller engine category of the Spanish Formula Junior 1600 series, finishing fourth in the championship. He also drove in one race of the North American-based FRenault series during the year. In 2004 he drove in eight races of the World Series by Nissan (who share the same owners as Renault, the championship being rebranded as the World Series by Renault the following year).

Formula 3000

From 2004 to 2007, Ricci drove in the F3000 series variously known as Euro Formula 3000, Italian Formula 3000 and the Euroseries 3000. After initially scoring no points from four races in 2004, he improved to third place in the standings in 2005. In 2006, driving for the Fisichella Motorsport team, he won the championship with five wins and thirteen podium finishes. For 2007 he only competed in selected rounds and finished fifth in the championship, opting to focus his intentions on North American-based motor racing that year.

Ricci (foreground) racing in the 2007 Champ Car Atlantic Houston race AtlanticCars2007.jpg
Ricci (foreground) racing in the 2007 Champ Car Atlantic Houston race

Champ Car Atlantic

Ricci duly drove in Champ Car Atlantic (the feeder series for the now-defunct Champ Car World Series) in 2007 for the Conquest Racing team. He finished in sixth place in the championship, despite not scoring any wins or podium finishes. He was the third-highest ranked rookie of 2007, behind Franck Perera and Robert Wickens.

GP2 Series

Ricci received his GP2 Series call-up in 2008 to replace the injured Michael Herck in the David Price Racing team for the first few rounds of the championship, because the Belgian-Romanian driver had broken his wrist in the preceding GP2 Asia Series. [1] His team-mate was Brazilian Diego Nunes. He was replaced by Andy Soucek after the first two rounds of the championship as Herck continued to recover. [2]

Ricci then competed in the first round of the 2008–09 GP2 Asia Series season for the Trident Racing team. He was then replaced by Alberto Valerio, so he moved back to DPR for the second round onwards, where he in turn replaced Yuhi Sekiguchi. [3]

Ricci continued with DPR into the 2009 GP2 Series season, teaming up with Herck this time, as he did in the Asia Series. Ricci struggled with reliability, finishing only three of the seven races he started and was replaced for the Nürburgring rounds by ex-IndyCar Series racer Franck Perera. [4]

Ricci returned for the 2009–10 GP2 Asia Series season [5] and after a double retirement at the first Abu Dhabi round, Ricci scored his first ever GP2 points in either the main series or the Asia Series, after finishing fifth in the second Abu Dhabi feature race. He added his first podium the following day, finishing third behind team-mate Herck and race-winner Davide Valsecchi during the sprint race. His first victory came in the final race of the season, leading from lights-to-flag in Bahrain. With this result, he sealed third place in the championship both for himself, and his team.

Ricci remained with DPR for the 2010 main series, and scored his first points finish with second place in the first race of the season. He then endured an eleven-race, non-scoring streak, but a stronger weekend in Hungary culminated in his maiden main series win in the sprint race. [6] However, he was replaced by compatriot Fabrizio Crestani thereafter. [7] He still finished in thirteenth place in the drivers' championship despite missing the final six races on the calendar.

After spending most of 2011 without a drive, Ricci returned to the GP2 Series for the non-championship races in Abu Dhabi that concluded the season. Driving for Super Nova Racing alongside compatriot Fabio Onidi, he finished 11th and 23rd in the two races.

International GT Open

Ricci also competed in the GTA and GTS classes of the International GT Open championship in 2008.

Auto GP

The withdrawal of the Super Nova team from the GP2 Series hampered Ricci's hopes to remain in the category, so for 2012 he returned to the Euroseries 3000 (now rebranded as the Auto GP) to compete in selected events for the Austrian Zele Racing team.

He is currently the team manager of Trident Racing.

Racing record

Career summary

SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPolesF/LapsPodiumsPointsPosition
2001Formula BMW ADACCTS-Motorsport2010?3947th
Formula Renault 2.0 ItaliaToby Fortec Racing100000NC
2002 Formula Renault 2000 Germany SL Formula Racing800002628th
Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup KUG Motorsport600000NC
Formula BMW ADAC KUG/Dewalt Racing600001518th
2003Formula Junior 1600 Spain ? ? ? ???1064th
Fran-Am 2000 Winter World ChampionshipTeam Italia100003029th
2004 World Series by Nissan Vergani Formula60000419th
GD Racing20000
Euro Formula 3000 Series Power Tech40000014th
2005 Italian Formula 3000 Championship Team Astromega 80014333rd
2006 Euroseries 3000 FMS International 18517131061st
2007 Euroseries 3000 G-Tec21001375th
ELK Motorsport41024
Champ Car Atlantic Conquest Racing 1200001886th
2008 GP2 Series DPR 40000031st
International GT Open - GTA GPC Sport600021912th
International GT Open - GTS Villois Racing410032610th
Italian Formula 3 Championship BVM - Target Racing 20000516th
International Formula Master Euronova Racing 20000034th
2008–09 GP2 Asia Series Trident Racing 20000027th
DPR 90000
2009 GP2 Series DPR 70000027th
International GT Open - Super GT Advanced Engineering 121006505th
Le Mans Series - GT2 FBR10000320th
2009–10 GP2 Asia Series DPR 81013293rd
2010 GP2 Series DPR 1410021613th
Auto GP Series RP Motorsport 20001812th
Superleague Formula Galatasaray S.K. 30000358‡13th‡
2011 GP2 Final Super Nova Racing 20000015th
2012 Auto GP World Series Zele Racing 400014011th
Team MLR7120000
2013 Auto GP Series Team MLR7120000024th
2014 MW-V6 Pickup Series Team Italy30033517th

‡ Team standings.

Complete Euroseries 3000/Auto GP results

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

YearEntrant123456789101112131415161718DCPoints
2004 Power Tech BRN
10		 EST
7		 JER
Ret		 MNZ
8		 SPA DON DIJ ZOL NÜR1 NÜR2 14th0
2005 Team Astromega ADR
Ret		 VAL
3		 BRN
2		 IMO
9		 MUG
3		 MAG
7		 MNZ
5		 MIS
3		3rd33
2006 FMS International ADR
1
5		 ADR
2
1		 IMO
1
1		 IMO
2
1		 SPA
1
2		 SPA
2
1		 HUN
1
2		 HUN
2
4		 MUG
1
3		 MUG
2
3		 SIL
1
3		 SIL
2
11		 CAT
1
2		 CAT
2
Ret		 VAL
1
5		 VAL
2
3		 MIS
1
1		 MIS
2
2		1st106
2007 ELK Motorsport VAL
1 		VAL
2 		HUN
1 		HUN
2 		SIL
1 		SIL
2 		MUG
1 		MUG
2 		NÜR
1 		NÜR
2 		SPA
1
1		 SPA
2
Ret		 MNZ
1
2		 MNZ
2
2		 CAT
1
3		 CAT
2
1		5th37
2010 RP Motorsport BRN
1 		BRN
2 		IMO
1 		IMO
2 		SPA
1 		SPA
2 		MAG
1 		MAG
2 		NAV
1
6		 NAV
2
2		 MNZ
1 		MNZ
2 		12th8
2012 Zele Racing MNZ
1
6		 MNZ
2
14		 VAL
1 		VAL
2 		MAR
1
5		 MAR
2
3		 HUN
1 		HUN
2 		ALG
1 		ALG
2 		CUR
1 		CUR
2 		11th40
Team MLR71 SON
1
5		 SON
2
11†
2013 Team MLR71 MNZ
1
Ret		 MNZ
2
12		 MAR
1 		MAR
2 		HUN
1 		HUN
2 		SIL
1 		SIL
2 		MUG
1 		MUG
2 		NÜR
1 		NÜR
2 		DON
1 		DON
2 		BRN
1 		BRN
2 		24th0

Complete GP2 Series results

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

YearEntrant1234567891011121314151617181920DCPoints
2008 DPR CAT
FEA
16		 CAT
SPR
Ret		 IST
FEA
Ret		 IST
SPR
11		 MON
FEA 		MON
SPR 		MAG
FEA 		MAG
SPR 		SIL
FEA 		SIL
SPR 		HOC
FEA 		HOC
SPR 		HUN
FEA 		HUN
SPR 		VAL
FEA 		VAL
SPR 		SPA
FEA 		SPA
SPR 		MNZ
FEA 		MNZ
SPR 		31st0
2009 DPR CAT
FEA
Ret		 CAT
SPR
15		 MON
FEA
14		 MON
SPR
Ret		 IST
FEA
Ret		 IST
SPR
Ret		 SIL
FEA
17		 SIL
SPR
DNS		 NÜR
FEA 		NÜR
SPR 		HUN
FEA 		HUN
SPR 		VAL
FEA 		VAL
SPR 		SPA
FEA 		SPA
SPR 		MNZ
FEA 		MNZ
SPR 		ALG
FEA 		ALG
SPR 		27th0
2010 DPR CAT
FEA
2		 CAT
SPR
8		 MON
FEA
17		 MON
SPR
Ret		 IST
FEA
Ret		 IST
SPR
17		 VAL
FEA
Ret		 VAL
SPR
Ret		 SIL
FEA
13		 SIL
SPR
12		 HOC
FEA
16†		 HOC
SPR
11		 HUN
FEA
8		 HUN
SPR
1		 SPA
FEA 		SPA
SPR 		MNZ
FEA 		MNZ
SPR 		YMC
FEA 		YMC
SPR 		13th16

Complete GP2 Asia Series results

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

YearEntrant123456789101112DCPoints
2008–09 Trident Racing SHI
FEA
13		 SHI
SPR
Ret		27th0
David Price Racing DUB
FEA
13		 DUB
SPR
C		 BHR1
FEA
Ret		 BHR1
SPR
16		 LSL
FEA
Ret		 LSL
SPR
13		 SEP
FEA
16		 SEP
SPR
15		 BHR2
FEA
11		 BHR2
SPR
10
2009–10 David Price Racing YMC1
FEA
Ret		 YMC1
SPR
Ret		 YMC2
FEA
5		 YMC2
SPR
3		 BHR1
FEA
4		 BHR1
SPR
2		 BHR2
FEA
5		 BHR2
SPR
1		3rd29

Complete GP2 Final results

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

YearEntrant12DCPoints
2011 Super Nova Racing YMC
FEA
11		 YMC
SPR
23		15th0

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References

  1. ↑ "Ricci to replace Herck at DPR". autosport.com. 2008-04-22. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
  2. ↑ "Soucek to stand in for Herck at DPR". autosport.com. 2008-05-19. Retrieved 2008-05-23.
  3. ↑ "Driver changes aplenty in Dubai". crash.net. 2008-12-04. Retrieved 2008-12-04.
  4. ↑ Glendenning, Mark (2009-07-07). "Perera to replace Ricci at DPR". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications . Retrieved 2009-07-07.
  5. ↑ "La lista dei piloti che saranno ad Abu Dhabi per la GP2 Asia". ItaliaRacing.net (in Italian). Inpagina. 2009-10-22. Archived from the original on 2011-08-18. Retrieved 2009-10-22.
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