Simone Tempestini

Simone Tempestini
	Tempestini at the 2022 Rally Poland
Personal information
Nationality	Romanian
Born	August 12, 1994 (age 28); Treviso, Italy
World Rally Championship record
Active years	2013–present
Co-driver	Sergiu Itu
Rallies	49
Championships	2 (JWRC 2016 & WRC3 2016)
Rally wins	0
Podiums	0
Stage wins	0
Total points	4
First rally	2013 Rally Finland
Last rally	2019 Rally Catalunya
	Last updated on: 27.10.2019.

Last updated June 10, 2023

Simone Tempestini (born 12 August 1994^[1]) is a Romanian rally driver. He won the 2016 Junior World Rally Championship with the Romanian team Napoca Rally Academy and the Romanian Rally Championship in 2015, 2016, and 2018.

Short biography

Tempestini made his competition debut in 2009. He won the 2015 and 2016 Romanian Rally Championship driving a Ford Fiesta R5 (and a Citroën DS3 R3T Max, in the last round of 2016) for the Napoca Rally Academy team, followed by another two champion titles, in 2018 and 2019.

Tempestini won both the 2016 JWRC and the WRC 3 categories of the World Rally Championship, driving for the same team. As part of his prize, he competes in the 2017 World Rally Championship-2 driving a Citroën DS3 R5.

He stated that he feels "100% Romanian" although he is the son of the Romanian-Italian driver Marco Tempestini.^[2]^[3] He has also competed in WRC with an Italian licence.^[1]

Results

WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos.	Points
2013	Napoca Rally Academy	Škoda Fabia R2	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	ITA	FIN Ret	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP			NC	0
2013	Napoca Rally Academy	Subaru Impreza STi R4													GBR 39		NC	0
2014	Napoca Rally Academy	Citroën DS3 R3T	MON	SWE	MEX	POR 35	ARG	ITA	POL Ret	FIN 38	GER 26	AUS	FRA Ret	ESP 31	GBR Ret		NC	0
2015	Napoca Rally Academy	Citroën DS3 R3T Max	MON 27				POR 44		POL 26	FIN 50	GER	AUS	FRA 25	ESP 21	GBR Ret		NC	0
		Subaru Impreza STi N14		SWE 25	MEX Ret	ARG 19
		Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX						ITA 39
2016	Napoca Rally Academy	Ford Fiesta R5	MON 39	SWE 20	MEX	ARG											NC	0
2016	Napoca Rally Academy	Citroën DS3 R3T Max					POR 23	ITA	POL 23	FIN 20	GER 17	CHN C	FRA 23	ESP	GBR 30	AUS	NC	0
2017	Gekon Racing	Citroën DS3 R5	MON Ret	SWE Ret	MEX	FRA 13	ARG	POR 15	ITA	POL 36	FIN 19	GER 15	ESP 14	GBR 50	AUS		NC	0
2018	Simone Tempestini	Ford Fiesta R5	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	POR 36									18th	4
	Citroën Total Rallye Team	Citroën C3 R5							ITA Ret	FIN 36	GER 20
	Simone Tempestini	Citroën C3 R5										TUR 8	GBR 15	ESP 22	AUS
2019	Friulmotor Rally Team	Hyundai i20 R5	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA 47	ARG	CHL	POR 18	ITA 13	FIN	GER 19	TUR	GBR	ESP Ret	AUS C	NC	0

JWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Pos.	Points
2014	Simone Tempestini	Citroën DS3 R3T	POR 6	POL Ret	FIN 5	GER 5	FRA Ret	GBR Ret		8th	28
2015	Simone Tempestini	Citroën DS3 R3T	MON 4	POR 6	POL 1	FIN 9	FRA	ESP 3	GBR Ret	4th	62
2016	Napoca Rally Academy	Citroën DS3 R3T	POR 1	POL 1	FIN 2	GER 1	FRA 4	GBR 2		1st	123

WRC-3 results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos.	Points
2014	Simone Tempestini	Citroën DS3 R3T	MON	SWE	MEX	POR 6	ARG	ITA	POL Ret	FIN 6	GER 5	AUS	FRA Ret	ESP	GBR Ret		7th	26
2015	Simone Tempestini	Citroën DS3 R3T	MON 4	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR 7	ITA	POL 1	FIN 10	GER	AUS	FRA 1	ESP 4	GBR Ret		3rd	81
2016	Napoca Rally Academy	Citroën DS3 R3T	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR 1	ITA	POL 1	FIN 2	GER 1	CHN	FRA 4	ESP	GBR 2	AUS	1st	123

WRC-2 results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos.	Points
2015	Napoca Rally Academy	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	MON	SWE 9	MEX Ret	ARG 7	POR	ITA 17	POL	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR		34th	8
2016	Napoca Rally Academy	Ford Fiesta R5	MON 9	SWE 9	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL	FIN	GER	CHN	FRA	ESP	GBR	AUS	38th	4
2017	Gekon Racing	Citroën DS3 R5	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA 4	ARG	POR 3	ITA	POL 10	FIN 5	GER 6	ESP 5	GBR 20	AUS		7th	56
2018	Simone Tempestini	Ford Fiesta R5	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA	ARG	POR 16									15th	28
	Citroën Total Rallye Team	Citroën C3 R5							ITA Ret	FIN 9	GER 10
	Simone Tempestini	Citroën C3 R5										TUR 2	GBR 7	ESP 10	AUS
2019	Friulmotor Rally Team	Hyundai i20 R5	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA 11	ARG	CHL	POR 10	ITA 3	FIN	GER 4	TUR	GBR	ESP Ret	AUS C	17th	28

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References

1 2 "Simone Tempestini". eWRC-results.com. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
↑ "PORTRET Simone Tempestini, cel mai tânăr pilot din campionatul de raliuri" (in Romanian). Adevărul. 25 October 2010.
↑ "FOTO Premieră în motorsportul românesc: Simone Tempestini, campion mondial la WRC Junior" (in Romanian). 3 October 2016.

External links

Official website (in Romanian)
ewrc-results.com - Simone Tempestini

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[eWRC-results.com-1] 1 2 "Simone Tempestini". eWRC-results.com. Retrieved 5 August 2018.

[2] "PORTRET Simone Tempestini, cel mai tânăr pilot din campionatul de raliuri" (in Romanian). Adevărul. 25 October 2010.

[3] "FOTO Premieră în motorsportul românesc: Simone Tempestini, campion mondial la WRC Junior" (in Romanian). 3 October 2016.

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