Andrea Piccini

Andrea Piccini (born 12 December 1978 in Sansepolcro) is an Italian racing driver who is the part-owner and team principal and founder of the Iron Lynx Motorsport Lab team.

Single Seaters Piccini began his single seater career in 1994, when he began competing in go-kart races. In 1997, he started competing in Formula Opel Europe. He finished third in the 1998 standings. He went on to race in International Formula 3000 in 1999 up until 2001, picking up only six points in the three seasons. In 2001, he was signed as a test driver for the European Minardi Formula One.

Sports Cars After a disappointing single-seater career, Piccini went on to race in sports car racing. In 2002, he was signed by BMS Scuderia Italia to compete in the FIA GT Championship in a Ferrari 550 Maranello. Competing alongside Swiss co-driver Jean-Denis Delétraz, Piccini won four races and finished in fourth place in the championship. For the 2003 season he moved to Lister Racing, picking up three podiums alongside Delétraz and later Belgian driver David Sterckx.

In 2004 Piccini competed in four rounds for DAMS in their Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT, but failed to score points following a best finish of 12th at Imola. He would return to full-time competition in 2005, driving a Ferrari 575 GTC Evo 2005 for GPC Sport. As was the case in the previous three seasons, including the part-time 2004 campaign, Piccini would share duties with Jean-Denis Delétraz, and the Italian-Swiss driver pairing would finish in tenth place in the GT class with a best result of fourth place at Istanbul Park.

He was signed by Aston Martin Racing in 2006 who wanted to race their new GT1-spec DBR9. He raced two rounds of the American Le Mans Series, scoring in one of those events, being round five. He then went on to compete at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and finished second in the GT1 class with teammates Tomáš Enge and Darren Turner. He reunited with Delétraz again for the 2006 season. They raced for Phoenix Racing who ran a DBR9. Piccini finished third in the championship, taking a win at the final round of the season.

2007 was a slightly quieter year for Piccini, he did not race at Le Mans or in ALMS but did contest the FIA GT, this time for Scuderia Playteam who ran a Maserati MC12 GT1. His teammate was reigning FIA GT co-champion Andrea Bertolini. The pair finished fifth place with only one win during the season. In 2008, Piccini raced six of the ten rounds of the FIA GT Championship, four races in the GT1 class for RBlmmo Racing and two in the GT2 class for CR Scuderia Racing. He did not earn a point for RBlmmo Racing but finished in good points scoring places for CR Scuderia, finishing fourth at the Spa 24 Hours and second place in round eight at Nogaro. He was called upon again by Aston Martin Racing to compete at the years 24 Hours of Le Mans. He managed to finish the #007 car fourth place in class with veteran teammates Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Karl Wendlinger.

Piccini moved on from FIA GT and in 2009, he raced for Italian team Racing Box in the Le Mans Series, who ran a LMP2-spec Lola B08/80-Judd. He was joined by fellow Italian compatriots and former FIA GT champions Matteo Bobbi and Thomas Biagi for the season. They picked up a class win in the opening round at Catalunya but the success was short-lived. Piccini finished fifth in the standings. Racing Box then entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans with the same car but retired after 203 laps. 2010 saw Piccini contest only the first two rounds of the Le Mans Series season for Racing Box, before returning to GT racing in the form of the FIA GT1 World Championship. He was reunited with Phoenix Racing who he raced with in FIA GT in 2006, but raced a Chevrolet Corvette C6.R rather than the DBR9. He contested three of the ten rounds, earning an impressive podium finish at the opening round in Abu Dhabi alongside Mike Hezemans. He is now back behind the wheel of an Aston DBR9 for Hexis AMR for the 2011 FIA GT1 World Championship season.

Racing record

Complete International Formula 3000 results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps 2006 Aston Martin Racing Tomáš Enge Darren Turner Aston Martin DBR9 GT1 350 6th 2nd 2008 Aston Martin Racing Heinz-Harald Frentzen Karl Wendlinger Aston Martin DBR9 GT1 339 16th 4th 2009 Racing Box Thomas Biagi Matteo Bobbi Lola B08/80-Judd LMP2 203 DNF DNF 2019 Kessel Racing Claudio Schiavoni Sergio Pianezzolla Ferrari 488 GTE GTEAm 324 46th 13th 2020 Iron Lynx Rino Mastronardi Matteo Cressoni Ferrari 488 GTE Evo GTEAm 211 DNF DNF

Complete GT1 World Championship results Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pos Points 2010 Phoenix Racing / Carsport Corvette ABUQR16 ABUCR3 SILQR SILCR BRNQR BRNCR PRIQR6 PRICR5 SPAQRRet SPACRRet NÜRQR NÜRCR ALGQR ALGCR NAVQR NAVCR INTQR NTCR SANQR SANCR 25th 25 2011 Hexis AMR Aston Martin ABUQR9 ABUCR4 ZOLQR10 ZOLCR2 ALGQR11 ALGCR8 SACQR5 SACCR1 SILQR10 SILCRRet NAVQR5 NAVCR5 PRIQR6 PRICR5 ORDQR8 ORDCR4 BEIQR3 BEICR10 SANQR14 SANCR5 3rd 111