Johnny Cecotto Jr.

Johnny Cecotto Jr.
Nationality	Venezuelan German
Born	(1989-09-09) 9 September 1989 (age 33) Augsburg, West Germany
FIA Formula 2 Championship career
Debut season	2017
Car number	19
Former teams	Rapax
Starts	8
Wins	0
Podiums	1
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	16th in 2017
Previous series
2009-16 2009–10–2011 2009 2007 2007 2006, 2008 2006 2006 2006–07 2006–07 2005 2005 2005	GP2 Series GP2 Asia Series Formula 3 Euro Series International Formula Master British Formula 3 German Formula Three Formula Renault NEC Formula Renault 2.0 Italia Euroseries 3000 Italian Formula 3000 Formula BMW ADAC Formula Junior 1600 Italy FR2.0 Italia Winter Series

Johnny Amadeus Cecotto, ^[1] more commonly known as Johnny Cecotto Jr. (born 9 September 1989 in Augsburg, West Germany) is a racing driver. He races with a Venezuelan license but holds both German and Venezuelan nationality. He is the son of former racing driver and motorcycle world champion Johnny Cecotto.

Career

Cecotto driving for Ocean Racing Technology at the Monza round of the 2011 GP2 Series season.

Early career

He began his racing career in kart racing, then progressing to open wheel single seater racing. He competed in Formula BMW ADAC in 2005. In 2006 he raced in the German Formula Three Championship, taking one victory, and also in the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup. In 2007, he raced in the International Formula Master series, finishing eighth with three podiums. He returned to the German F3 Championship, finishing in third with two victories. ^[2]

In 2009 he raced in the Formula Three Euroseries for the HBR Motorsport team, ^[3] before the team missed races at Brands Hatch. He then signed a deal to compete in the GP2 Series, partnering Michael Herck at David Price Racing. ^[1]

GP2

He joined up with Trident Racing for the 2009–10 GP2 Asia Series season, ^[4] but was replaced by Dani Clos after the first round. He returned to Trident for the 2010 Main Series and scored his first championship points at Monaco, but was replaced by Edoardo Piscopo after sixteen races. ^[5]

Cecotto moved to Super Nova Racing for the 2011 GP2 Asia Series season alongside Fairuz Fauzy, and finished fifteenth in the drivers' championship. For the main series season, he switched to the Ocean Racing Technology team and was partnered with Kevin Mirocha and later Brendon Hartley, finishing 24th in the championship.

He switched to the Addax team for the 2012 season, alongside Josef Král. After a difficult start to the season, he suddenly hit form at Monaco, taking his first pole position and race victory in the category. ^[6] He also won the feature race at Hockenheim after his decision to start with dry tyres on a wet but drying track paid off. Despite also posting seven retirements, the season was comfortably Cecotto's best in the series, finishing ninth in the championship as a result.

In 2013 lacked the pace he had shown in the previous year and struggled with no podiums. However he was once again quick in Monaco taking pole for the feature race, but he caused a first corner multi-car pile-up leaving him out of the race and banned from the following day's sprint race for causing the collision. Despite this he had his most consistent GP2 season with 10 points finishes ending with 41 points. He returned to Trident for 2014, he scored two victories and three further podium finishes but struggled in the latter stages, he would go on to finish a career-best 5th in the championship.

Formula One

Cecotto was confirmed as one of the Force India team drivers to participate in the young driver test held in Yas Marina Circuit, after the 2011 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

In 2012, Cecotto took part in the young driver test again, this time with Toro Rosso.

Formula V8 3.5 Series

In 2016 Cecotto moved to the Formula V8 3.5 Series with RP Motorsport. He won his first race of the season at the Hungaroring. However, after the round at Spa-Francorchamps he split with his team and was left without a ride. ^[7]

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2005	Formula BMW ADAC	Lauderbach Motorsport	12	0	0	0	0	3	22nd
		Mamerow Racing	6	0	0	0	0
	Formula Junior 1600 Italia	Kiwi ESP	4	0	0	0	1	40	12th
	Formula Renault 2.0 Italia Winter Series		4	0	0	1	1	18	7th
2006	German Formula 3 Championship	Ombra Racing	4	1	0	0	1	20	11th
		Target Racing	4	0	0	0	0
	Euroseries 3000	Coloni Rookies Team	2	0	0	0	0	2	17th
	Italian Formula 3000								16th
	Formula Renault 2.0 Italia	Kiwi ESP	4	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	Formula Renault 2.0 NEC	Koiranen bros. Motorsport	8	0	0	0	1	92	17th
2007	International Formula Master	Ombra Racing	16	0	0	0	3	30	8th
	Euroseries 3000	ELK Motorsport	2	0	0	0	0	4	20th
	Italian Formula 3000								13th
	British Formula 3 Championship	Räikkönen Robertson Racing	0†	0	0	0	0	0†	NC†
2008	German Formula 3 Championship	HS Technik	16	2	3	4	10	99	3rd
2009	Formula 3 Euro Series	HBR Motorsport	12	0	0	0	0	0	26th
	GP2 Series	DPR	3	0	0	0	0	0	30th
2009–10	GP2 Asia Series	Trident Racing	2	0	0	0	0	3	17th
2010	GP2 Series	Trident Racing	16	0	0	0	0	3	23rd
2011	GP2 Series	Ocean Racing Technology	18	0	0	0	0	0	24th
	GP2 Asia Series	Super Nova Racing	4	0	0	0	0	0	15th
2012	GP2 Series	Barwa Addax Team	24	2	1	1	4	104	9th
2013	GP2 Series	Arden International	21	0	1	1	0	41	16th
2014	GP2 Series	Trident	22	2	1	0	5	140	5th
2015	Auto GP	Virtuosi UK	2	0	0	0	1	22	8th‡
	GP2 Series	Hilmer Motorsport	4	0	0	0	0	0	28th
		Carlin	2	0	0	0	0
		Trident	4	0	0	0	0
2016	Formula V8 3.5 Series	RP Motorsport	6	1	0	0	1	43	14th
	GP2 Series	Rapax	4	0	0	0	1	18	18th
2017	FIA Formula 2 Championship	Rapax	8	0	0	0	1	16	16th

† As Cecotto was a guest driver at Brands Hatch and was thus ineligible for points, but he did not start in both races.
‡ Position when season was cancelled.
* Season still in progress.

Complete Formula 3 Euro Series results

(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	20	DC	Points
2009	HBR Motorsport	Dallara F308/052	Mercedes	HOC 1 21	HOC 2 Ret	LAU 1 16	LAU 2 Ret	NOR 1 17	NOR 2 Ret	ZAN 1 15	ZAN 2 20	OSC 1 17	OSC 2 19	NÜR 1 16	NÜR 2 11	BRH 1	BRH 2	CAT 1	CAT 2	DIJ 1	DIJ 2	HOC 1	HOC 2	26th	0

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	23	24	DC	Points
2009	DPR	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	IST FEA	IST SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	NÜR FEA	NÜR SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	VAL FEA	VAL SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA 18†	MNZ SPR 16†	ALG FEA DNS	ALG SPR 18					30th	0
2010	Trident Racing	CAT FEA Ret	CAT SPR 17	MON FEA 9	MON SPR 4	IST FEA 12	IST SPR 12	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR 14	SIL FEA 18	SIL SPR 23	HOC FEA 13	HOC SPR Ret	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR 13	SPA FEA 10	SPA SPR Ret	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	YMC FEA	YMC SPR					23rd	3
2011	Ocean Racing Technology	IST FEA Ret	IST SPR 13	CAT FEA 14	CAT SPR 13	MON FEA Ret	MON SPR 17	VAL FEA 14	VAL SPR 17	SIL FEA 12	SIL SPR Ret	NÜR FEA 10	NÜR SPR Ret	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR Ret	SPA FEA 11	SPA SPR 8	MNZ FEA 17	MNZ SPR 15							24th	0
2012	Barwa Addax Team	SEP FEA Ret	SEP SPR 22	BHR1 FEA Ret	BHR1 SPR 22†	BHR2 FEA 9	BHR2 SPR Ret	CAT FEA 18	CAT SPR 13	MON FEA 1	MON SPR Ret	VAL FEA DSQ	VAL SPR Ret	SIL FEA 2	SIL SPR 18†	HOC FEA 1	HOC SPR 6	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR Ret	SPA FEA 17	SPA SPR Ret	MNZ FEA 2	MNZ SPR 5	MRN FEA Ret	MRN SPR 9	9th	104
2013	Arden International	SEP FEA 12	SEP SPR 5	BHR FEA 10	BHR SPR 12	CAT FEA 8	CAT SPR 5	MON FEA Ret	MON SPR EX	SIL FEA 17	SIL SPR Ret	NÜR FEA 10	NÜR SPR 5	HUN FEA 21	HUN SPR Ret	SPA FEA 14	SPA SPR 7	MNZ FEA 12	MNZ SPR 8	MRN FEA 14	MRN SPR 6	YMC FEA 8	YMC SPR Ret			16th	41
2014	Trident	BHR FEA 21	BHR SPR 14	CAT FEA 1	CAT SPR 6	MON FEA 4	MON SPR 4	RBR FEA 6	RBR SPR 1	SIL FEA 6	SIL SPR 3	HOC FEA 7	HOC SPR Ret	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR Ret	SPA FEA 3	SPA SPR 2	MNZ FEA 10	MNZ SPR Ret	SOC FEA 19	SOC SPR 23†	YMC FEA 6	YMC SPR 6			5th	140
2015	Hilmer Motorsport	BHR FEA	BHR SPR	CAT FEA 21	CAT SPR Ret	MON FEA 20	MON SPR Ret	RBR FEA	RBR SPR																	28th	0
	Carlin									SIL FEA 13	SIL SPR 25	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR
	Trident															MNZ FEA 18	MNZ SPR 13	SOC FEA 13	SOC SPR 22†	BHR FEA	BHR SPR	YMC FEA	YMC SPR
2016	Rapax	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	BAK FEA	BAK SPR	RBR FEA	RBR SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	HOC FEA	HOC SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	SEP FEA 13	SEP SPR 9	YMC FEA 7	YMC SPR 2			18th	18

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

Complete GP2 Asia 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	DC	Points
2009–10	Trident Racing	YMC1 FEA 7	YMC1 SPR 6	YMC2 FEA	YMC2 SPR	BHR1 FEA	BHR1 SPR	BHR2 FEA	BHR2 SPR	17th	3
2011	Super Nova Racing	YMC FEA 15	YMC SPR 7	IMO FEA 16	IMO SPR 19					15th	0

Complete Auto GP results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	Pos	Points
2015	Virtuosi UK	HUN 1 5	HUN 2 3	SIL 1	SIL 2	8th‡	22‡

^‡ Position when season was cancelled.

Complete Formula V8 3.5 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	Pos.	Points
2016	RP Motorsport	ALC 1 9	ALC 2 6	HUN 1 1	HUN 2 6	SPA 1 12†	SPA 2 Ret	LEC 1	LEC 2	SIL 1	SIL 2	RBR 1	RBR 2	MNZ 1	MNZ 2	JER 1	JER 2	CAT 1	CAT 2	14th	42

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

Complete FIA Formula 2 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	DC	Points
2017	Rapax	BHR FEA 15	BHR SPR 9	CAT FEA 17	CAT SPR 10	MON FEA 8	MON SPR 2	BAK FEA Ret	BAK SPR 14	RBR FEA	RBR SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	JER FEA	JER SPR	YMC FEA	YMC SPR	16th	16

References

1. "Cecotto to debut with DPR". crash.net. Crash Media Group. 8 September 2009. Retrieved 8 September 2009.
2. Allen, Peter (26 July 2012). "Here's Johnny: Johnny Cecotto Jr". Formula Scout. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
3. "The HBR pairing: Mirocha and Cecotto". gpupdate.net. 24 February 2009. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
4. "Trident signs Kralev and Cecotto". gpupdate.net. GPUpdate. 21 October 2009. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
5. Beer, Matt (8 September 2010). "Piscopo joins Trident for Monza". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications . Retrieved 9 September 2010.
6. "Johnny Cecotto grabs maiden GP2 win in Monaco". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. 25 May 2012. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
7. "Cecotto splits with Formula V8 3.5 outfit RP Motorsport". autosport.com. Retrieved 11 August 2016.

External links

• Official website
• Johnny Cecotto Jr. on Twitter
• Johnny Cecotto Jr. career summary at DriverDB.com