Simona de Silvestro

Simona de Silvestro
Simona de Silvestro in May 2010
Nationality	Swiss Italian [lower-alpha 1]
Born	1 September 1988 (1988-09) (age 35) Thun, Switzerland
Racing licence	FIA Gold
IndyCar Series career
71 races run over 7 years
Team(s)	No. 16 (Paretta Autosport)
2022 position	32nd
Best finish	13th (2013)
First race	2010 São Paulo Indy 300 (São Paulo)
Last race	2022 Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey (Laguna Seca)
Wins Podiums Poles 0 1 0
Formula E career
Debut season	2014–15
Former teams	Andretti Autosport
Starts	12
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	18th in 2015–16
Supercars Championship career
Championships	0
Races	91
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Pole positions	0
2019 position	19th

Simona de Silvestro (born 1 September 1988) is a Swiss-Italian racing driver, who is currently employed by Porsche as a factory driver. ^[3] She has previously driven for Amlin Andretti in the 2015/16 season of the FIA Formula E Championship as well as several years competing in the IndyCar Series. Her nicknames are the "Iron Maiden" and "Swiss Miss". ^[4]

Racing career

Junior formulae

She raced for Newman Wachs Racing's Nuclear Clean Air Energy-Entergy team in the Atlantic Championship in 2008 and for Team Stargate Worlds in 2009. She won the Atlantic race at the 2008 Grand Prix of Long Beach, ^[5] making her the second woman to win in that series – after Katherine Legge  – and providing NWR with its first win. She won four times during the 2009 season and led in points for most of the season, but ultimately finished third in the standings after retiring on the first lap during the season finale at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

De Silvestro participated in an IndyCar Series test over 8–9 December 2009 at Sebring International Raceway, a joint effort between HVM Racing and Team Stargate Worlds. ^[6]

IndyCar

De Silvestro at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2010

De Silvestro at the 2012 Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix

De Silvestro at the 2015 Indianapolis 500

De Silvestro competed full-time in the IndyCar Series for HVM Racing for the 2010 season. On 22 May 2010, she qualified in the 22nd position for the 2010 Indianapolis 500. She finished the race in 14th position, and earned Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year honors. She suffered a burned right hand after a fiery crash at the Firestone 550 at Texas Motor Speedway on 5 June 2010. Her team strongly criticized IndyCar Series safety officials for their response to that accident. ^[7] For the season, de Silvestro started 17 races, finished ten, and recorded two top-10 finishes, with a best finish of eighth at Mid-Ohio. She finished 19th overall in the series standings and was runner-up to Alex Lloyd for rookie of the year honors.

The 2011 season began with fourth- and ninth-place finishes at St. Petersburg and Barber; however the next race, at Long Beach, was not as successful: she started 18th and finished 20th. At the next race, the São Paulo Indy 300, an accident between her and Hélio Castroneves put her nine laps down, after the race was postponed to the next morning due to severe rain conditions. She started 13th and finished 20th, nine laps down, but recorded the fastest lap of the race.

She received second degree burns on her right hand and superficial burns on her left hand in a crash during practice for the 2011 Indianapolis 500 on 19 May. ^[8] The crash, which sent her car sailing into the catch fence before flipping and landing on its left tires, was caused by a mechanical failure in the left rear of her No. 78 Dallara-Honda. On 21 May, using her backup car, she qualified 24th for the race with a four-lap average of 224.392 mph.

After a crash at the Milwaukee Mile during qualifying, de Silvestro was cleared to drive in the race, but withdrew after experiencing dizziness and impaired vision. At the next race, in Iowa, she was not cleared to compete, due to continuing dizziness. ^[9]

De Silvestro missed round 13 of the season at Sonoma, after being refused entry to the United States. De Silvestro said she did not know why she was turned away. ^[10] She finished 20th overall in the 2011 series standings.

De Silvestro returned to HVM Racing for the 2012 IndyCar Series season, piloting the No. 78 Nuclear Clean Air Energy sponsored Dallara-Lotus. The entry was one of five cars to start the season powered by the new Lotus engine. The Lotus proved to be significantly underpowered compared to the Chevrolet and Honda engines used by the rest of the field. By the end of May, all entrants other than de Silvestro's No. 78 had abandoned the Lotus powerplant and switched to either Chevy or Honda. De Silvestro was saddled for the entire season with the inferior Lotus. The underpowered engine made it impossible for de Silvestro to be competitive, resulting in consistently poor qualifying and race results. On several occasions the car was black flagged for failing to maintain the minimum safe speed, including the 2012 Indianapolis 500. For the season, de Silvestro qualified for all 15 races on the schedule, started 14, and finished 6. Her best finish was 14th at Detroit and Iowa. She finished 24th overall in the series standings.

On 30 October 2012, de Silvestro signed on with KV Racing Technology for the 2013 IndyCar Series season, driving the No. 78 Dallara-Chevrolet with sponsorship from Nuclear Clean Air Energy. De Silvestro joined veteran driver Tony Kanaan to make KV Racing Technology a two-car team for the 2013 season. ^[11] On 5 October 2013 at the Grand Prix of Houston, de Silvestro finished second in the first race for her first podium finish, joining Danica Patrick and Sarah Fisher as the only women in IndyCar history to record a podium finish. ^[12]

On 2 April 2015, de Silvestro announced she would drive the Andretti Autosport No. 29 Honda in the 2015 IndyCar Series season in an attempt to make the Indianapolis 500. ^[13] De Silvestro finished fourth in the second race of the season, the Indy Grand Prix of Louisiana.

On 19 January 2021, Paretta Autosport announced they would make their Indycar debut at the 2021 Indianapolis 500 with de Silvestro as the driver in the no. 16 Rocket Pro Chevrolet. ^[14]

Formula One

In February 2014, Formula One team Sauber announced that de Silvestro would join the team as an "affiliated driver" and would undergo a year-long training programme with the team, with the ultimate objective of racing in 2015. ^[15] De Silvestro began testing with the team at the end of April 2014 at Fiorano Circuit. ^[16] She had her first drive in the 2012 Sauber on 26 April, and completed 112 laps during the test. ^[17] However, in October 2014, Sauber team principal Monisha Kaltenborn stated that the team had suspended de Silvestro's driving chances due to contractual troubles. ^[18]

Formula E

De Silvestro at the 2016 Paris ePrix

On 15 June 2015, it was announced de Silvestro would drive for Andretti's Formula E team at the championship's double-header finale in London. ^[19] She was confirmed with the team full-time for the 2015-16 season opposite Formula Renault 3.5 champion Robin Frijns.

In 2016, de Silvestro became the first female driver to score points in Formula E with a 9th place in the 2016 Long Beach ePrix. ^[20] She finished the championship in 18th place with 4 points.

V8 Supercars

It was announced on 19 August 2015 that she would partner Renee Gracie at Prodrive Racing Australia in the Bathurst 1000 for V8 Supercars. ^[21] Following an impact with the wall at Forrest's Elbow on lap 15 for Gracie, the car underwent extensive repairs before being sent back out to finish 21st and 40 laps down – one more lap lost and the car would not have been classified.

On 5 September 2016 it was announced that she had signed a three-year contract as a full-time driver for Nissan Motorsport in the Australian Supercars Championship, beginning from the 2017 Series. ^{[22] [23] [24]} This followed another appearance at Bathurst alongside Gracie, this time with the Nissan squad, where the pair managed to stay out of trouble amid the chaotic final laps and finish in 14th place and two laps down. De Silvestro will compete in the 2023 Repco Bathurst 1000 as a wildcard entry for team Dick Johnson Racing.

GT3

In 2020, De Silvestro returned to Europe as a factory Porsche GT driver; contesting the 2020 ADAC GT Masters for Timo Bernhard's Team75 with Klaus Bachler. ^[25] She finished 23rd in the championship with 41 points. The duo switched to Herberth Motorsport for the 2021 ADAC GT Masters. ^[26]

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2005	Formula Renault 2.0 Italy	Cram Competition	17	0	0	0	0	16	20th
2006	Formula BMW USA	EuroInternational	14	1	0	2	5	113	4th
2007	Champ Car Atlantic	Walker Racing	12	0	0	0	0	69	19th
2008	Atlantic Championship	Newman Wachs Racing	11	1	0	0	1	167	8th
2009	Atlantic Championship	Team Stargate Worlds	12	4	4	1	9	176	3rd
2010	IndyCar Series	HVM Racing	17	0	0	0	0	242	19th
2011	IndyCar Series	HVM Racing	15	0	0	1	0	225	20th
2012	IndyCar Series	HVM Racing	14	0	0	0	0	182	24th
2013	IndyCar Series	KV Racing Technology	19	0	0	0	1	362	13th
2014	Formula One	Sauber F1 Team	Affiliated driver
2014–15	Formula E	Andretti Autosport	2	0	0	0	0	0	27th
2015	IndyCar Series	Andretti Autosport	3	0	0	0	0	66	30th
	International V8 Supercars Championship	Prodrive Racing Australia	1	0	0	0	0	84	54th
2015–16	Formula E	Amlin Andretti	10	0	0	0	0	4	18th
2016	International V8 Supercars Championship	Nissan Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	126	50th
2017	Supercars Championship	Nissan Motorsport	26	0	0	0	0	1131	24th
2018	Supercars Championship	Nissan Motorsport	31	0	0	0	0	1323	23rd
2018–19	Formula E	Venturi Formula E Team	Test driver
2019	Supercars Championship	Kelly Racing	31	0	0	0	0	1564	19th
	WeatherTech SportsCar Championship - GTD	Heinricher Racing with Meyer Shank Racing	1	0	0	0	0	19	58th
2019–20	Formula E	TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team	Test/development driver
2020	ADAC GT Masters	KÜS Team75 Bernhard	10	0	0	0	0	41	23rd
	GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup	Rowe Racing	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
2020–21	Formula E	TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team	Reserve driver
2021	ADAC GT Masters	Precote Herberth Motorsport	13	0	0	0	0	34	23rd
	IndyCar Series	Paretta Autosport	1	0	0	0	0	10	40th
	Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia	Porsche Experience Racing	3	0	0	1	0	35	16th
2021–22	Formula E	TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team	Reserve driver
2022	IndyCar Series	Paretta Autosport	4	0	0	0	0	34	32nd
2022–23	Formula E	TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team	Reserve driver
2023	Supercars Championship	Dick Johnson Racing	1	0	0	0	0	90	55th

^† As de Silvestro was a guest driver, she was ineligible to score points.

American open-wheel racing results

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

Atlantic Championship/Champ Car Atlantic

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Rank	Points
2007	Walker Racing	LVG 17	LBH 28	HOU 15	POR1 16	POR2 16	CLE 11	MTT 7	TOR 18	EDM1 13	EDM2 22	SJO 10	ROA 22	19th	69
2008	Newman Wachs Racing	LBH 1	LS 10	MTT 9	EDM1 8	EDM2 19	ROA1 9	ROA2 18	TRR 4	NJ 11	UTA 5	ATL 4		8th	167
2009	Team Stargate Worlds	SEB 5	UTA 1	NJ1 2	NJ2 1	LIM 1	ACC1 3	ACC2 2	MDO 2	TRR 1	MOS 10	ATL 2	LS 10	3rd	176

Years	Teams	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums (non-win)*	Top 10s (non-podium)**	Championships
3	3	35	4	5	5	10	0

* Podium (non-win) indicates second and third place finishes

** Top 10s (non-podium) indicates 4th through 10th place finishes

IndyCar Series

IndyCar Series results
Year	Team	Chassis	No.	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Rank	Points	Ref
2010	HVM Racing	Dallara	78	Honda	SAO 16	STP 16	ALA 21	LBH 17	KAN 21	INDY 14	TXS 24	IOW 21	WGL 24	TOR 9	EDM 22	MDO 8	SNM 13	CHI 23	KTY 25	MOT 23	HMS 23			19th	242	[27]
2011					STP 4	ALA 9	LBH 20	SAO 20	INDY 31	TXS 26	TXS 27	MIL 25	IOW DNS	TOR 10	EDM 24	MDO 12	NHM 16	SNM	BAL 12	MOT 14	KTY 25	LVS1 C		20th	225	[28]
2012	Lotus-HVM Racing	Dallara DW12		Lotus	STP 24	ALA 20	LBH 20	SAO 24	INDY 32	DET 14	TXS DNS	MIL 24	IOW 14	TOR 24	EDM 23	MDO 23	SNM 17	BAL 22	FON 26					24th	182	[29]
2013	KV Racing Technology			Chevrolet	STP 6	ALA 18	LBH 9	SAO 8	INDY 17	DET 16	DET 24	TXS 16	MIL 24	IOW 21	POC 11	TOR 10	TOR 14	MDO 11	SNM 9	BAL 5	HOU 2	HOU 10	FON 8	13th	362	[30]
2015	Andretti Autosport		25	Honda	STP 18	NLA 4	LBH	ALA	IMS															30th	66	[31]
			29							INDY 19	DET	DET	TXS	TOR	FON	MIL	IOW	MDO	POC	SNM
2021	Paretta Autosport		16	Chevrolet	ALA	STP	TXS	TXS	IMS	INDY 31	DET	DET	ROA	MDO	NSH	IMS	GTW	POR	LAG	LBH				40th	10	[32]
2022					STP	TXS	LBH	ALA	IMS	INDY	DET	ROA 21	MDO 18	TOR	IOW	IOW	IMS	NSH 26	GTW	POR	LAG 22			32nd	34	[33]

¹ The Las Vegas Indy 300 was abandoned after Dan Wheldon died from injuries sustained in a 15-car crash on lap 11.

Years	Teams	Races	Poles	Wins	Top 5s	Top 10s	Indianapolis 500 wins	Championships
7	5	71	0	0	4	15	0	0

Indianapolis 500

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish	Team
2010	Dallara	Honda	22	14	HVM Racing
2011	Dallara	Honda	24	31	HVM Racing
2012	Dallara	Lotus	32	32	Lotus-HVM Racing
2013	Dallara	Chevrolet	24	17	KV Racing Technology
2015	Dallara	Honda	19	19	Andretti Autosport
2021	Dallara	Chevrolet	33	31	Paretta Autosport

Complete Formula E results

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

Year	Team	Chassis	Powertrain	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pos	Points
2014–15	Andretti Autosport	Spark SRT01-e	SRT01-e	BEI	PUT	PDE	BUE	MIA	LBH	MCO	BER	MSC	LDN 11	LDN 12	27th	0
2015–16	Amlin Andretti	Spark SRT01-e	SRT01-e	BEI Ret	PUT 13	PDE 11	BUE 14	MEX 14	LBH 9	PAR 15	BER 9	LDN 14	LDN Ret		18th	4

Complete Supercars Championship results

Supercars results
Year	Team	Car	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	31	32	33	34	35	36	Position	Points
2015	Prodrive Racing Australia	Ford FG X Falcon	ADE R1	ADE R2	ADE R3	SYM R4	SYM R5	SYM R6	BAR R7	BAR R8	BAR R9	WIN R10	WIN R11	WIN R12	HID R13	HID R14	HID R15	TOW R16	TOW R17	QLD R18	QLD R19	QLD R20	SMP R21	SMP R22	SMP R23	SAN R24	BAT R25 21	SUR R26	SUR R27	PUK R28	PUK R29	PUK R30	PHI R31	PHI R32	PHI R33	SYD R34	SYD R35	SYD R36	54th	84
2016	Nissan Motorsport	Nissan Altima L33	ADE R1	ADE R2	ADE R3	SYM R4	SYM R5	PHI R6	PHI R7	BAR R8	BAR R9	WIN R10	WIN R11	HID R12	HID R13	HID R14	TOW R15	QLD R16	QLD R17	SMP R18	SMP R19	SAN R20	BAT R21 14	SUR R22	SUR R23	PUK R24	PUK R25	PUK R26	PUK R27	SYD R28	SYD R29								50th	126
2017	Nissan Motorsport	Nissan Altima L33	ADE R1 20	ADE R2 23	SYM R3 15	SYM R4 15	PHI R5 13	PHI R6 13	BAR R7 23	BAR R8 25	WIN R9 23	WIN R10 20	HID R11 20	HID R12 28	TOW R13 18	TOW R14 23	QLD R15 27	QLD R16 19	SMP R17 19	SMP R18 23	SAN Q 22	SAN R19 18	BAT R20 Ret	SUR R21 16	SUR R22 23	PUK R23 18	PUK R24 17	NEW R25 20	NEW R26 17										24th	1131
2018	Nissan Motorsport	Nissan Altima L33	ADE R1 18	ADE R2 18	MEL R3 Ret	MEL R4 23	MEL R5 23	MEL R6 16	SYM R7 23	SYM R8 21	PHI R9 24	PHI R10 22	BAR R11 15	BAR R12 12	WIN R13 22	WIN R14 23	HID R15 22	HID R16 17	TOW R17 25	TOW R18 22	QLD R19 19	QLD R20 20	SMP R21 14	BEN R22 23	BEN R23 23	SAN QR 22	SAN R24 Ret	BAT R25 14	SUR R26 18	SUR R27 C	PUK R28 21	PUK R29 18	NEW R30 10	NEW R31 24					23rd	1323
2019	Kelly Racing	Nissan Altima L33	ADE R1 15	ADE R2 16	MEL R3 18	MEL R4 19	MEL R5 17	MEL R6 21	SYM R7 21	SYM R8 21	PHI R9 15	PHI R10 18	BAR R11 12	BAR R12 12	WIN R13 23	WIN R14 23	HID R15 19	HID R16 20	TOW R17 19	TOW R18 10	QLD R19 18	QLD R20 19	BEN R21 Ret	BEN R22 22	PUK R23 16	PUK R24 7	BAT R25 13	SUR R26 21	SUR R27 22	SAN QR 12	SAN R28 15	NEW R29 19	NEW R30 18						19th	1564
2023	Dick Johnson Racing	Ford Mustang GT	NEW R1	NEW R2	MEL R3	MEL R4	MEL R5	MEL R6	BAR R7	BAR R8	BAR R9	SYM R10	SYM R11	SYM R12	HID R13	HID R14	HID R15	TOW R16	TOW R17	SMP R18	SMP R19	BEN R20	BEN R21	BEN R22	SAN R23	BAT R24 20	SUR R25	SUR R26	ADE R27	ADE R28									55th	90

De Silvestro at the 2018 Newcastle 500

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

Year	Team	Car	Co-driver	Position	Laps
2015	Prodrive Racing Australia	Ford Falcon FG X	Renee Gracie	21st	121
2016	Nissan Motorsport	Nissan Altima L33	Renee Gracie	14th	159
2017	Nissan Motorsport	Nissan Altima L33	David Russell	DNF	152
2018	Nissan Motorsport	Nissan Altima L33	Alex Rullo	14th	161
2019	Kelly Racing	Nissan Altima L33	Alex Rullo	13th	160
2023	Dick Johnson Racing	Ford Mustang S650	Kai Allen	20th	160

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

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

Year	Entrant	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Rank	Points
2019	Heinricher Racing with Meyer Shank Racing	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	Acura 3.5 L Turbo V6	DAY 12	SEB	MDO	DET	WGL	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	LGA	PET	58th	42

Bobsleigh

In early 2022, de Silvestro announced that she had started training in the winter sport of monobob, with a goal to compete for Switzerland at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Her first competitive event was the 2022 Swiss championships where she placed fifth. ^[34]

Notes

1. De Silvestro competed under an Italian racing licence earlier in her career. She currently represents Switzerland. ^{[1] [2]}

References

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External links

• Official website
• Simona de Silvestro career summary at DriverDB.com
• Profile on Racing Reference
• IndyCar Driver Page
• IndyCar 11 in '11 video

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Alex Tagliani	Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year 2010	Succeeded by J. R. Hildebrand