Sergey Afanasyev

Sergey Andreyevich Afanasyev (; born 25 March 1988) is a Russian racing driver, holder of honour "Master of sports of Russia".

Education

School Afanasyev graduated from school (Moscow) in 2004 with the gold medal.

Higher education 2009 – Academic Law University (Russian Academy of Science) // Law (Honours degree)

2010 – Lomonosov Moscow State University // Marketing

2013 – Moscow Socio-Pedagogical Institute // Pedagogics and psychology

Career

Early career Afanasyev began his racing career 1998 in baggy-kart where immediately started to achieve high results. Since 1999, he started to take part in go-kart competition.

1999 – bronze in Russian Championship in Mini

2000 – Champion of Russia in Raket

2001 – bronze in Russian Championship in ICA-junior

2002 – Champion of Russia in ICA-junior

2002 – Champion of Russia in Oka-junior (winter track racing)

Formula RUS and Formula Renault 2000 Afanasyev began his racing career in openwheels in 2003 in the Formula RUS. That year saw him take three wins in this series. The next year he took championship title. He also took part in eight Formula Renault Monza races for BVM Minardi Junior Team, finishing the year in 13th place.

The following year, Afanasyev took part in a full Formula Renault 2.0 season, driving with Lukoil Racing team. He finished tenth overall in that year. He also contested thirteen races of the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0, hugely crashed at Bilbao and taking a best race result of fourth at Oschersleben to finish twenty-fourth in the standings.

In 2006, Afanasiev moved up to new Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup championship for Lukoil Racing team. He finished eighth overall in that year. He also contested ten races of the Formule Renault 2.0 Suisse championship and finishing as runner-up.

Formula 3 Euro Series In 2007, Afanasyev made his debut in Formula 3 Euro Series for HBR Motorsport team. He also contested in Masters of Formula 3 at Zolder, but he did not qualify and missed the race.

International Formula Master Afanasyev took part in International Formula Master for two years with JD Motorsport team. In first season he won one race and finished eighth overall. He also contested in six Formula Renault 3.5 Series races for the KTR team and failed to score a championship point.

Afanasyev remained in the series for 2009 season and improved to second place overall.

FIA Formula Two Championship In 2010, Afanasyev graduated to Formula Two, finishing third in the standings with four podium finishes which gave him the right to receive the F1 licence.

Auto GP Afanasyev switched to Auto GP for 2011, joining team champions DAMS. He was the only who scored three wins, but due to problems with British visa, he missed Donington round and finished the season just on third place.

FIA GT1 World Championship In 2012, Afanasyev and his main sponsor Lukoil decide to leave open-wheels and join FIA GT1 World Championship with Valmon Racing Team Russia in Aston Martin. His partner that year was Andreas Zuber.

GT racing In the end of 2012, Afanasyev, together with Bernd Schneider, finished fourth in the Baku City Challenge.

In 2013, Afanasyev partnered with HTP Gravity Charouz team on Mercedes SLS AMG GT3, and was joined by Andreas Simonsen. At the end of the year, they won the Championship.

The following year, Afanasyev left the championship and was joined by Stef Dusseldorp.

Touring Car Racing Together with Lukoil Sergey moved to the front wheel driving cars and in 2015–2016 took part in the new championship – TCR International Series achieving podiums and the pole-position.

Lamborghini Super Trofeo In 2017. Afanasyev and Lukoil made a mutual decision to terminate the interaction. He drove two years with ArtLine racing team in the European and Middle East championships in ProAm category achieving the best result as the runner-up.

Lamborghini Super Trofeo championship was selected by Jonnesway tools as the General sponsor of Afanasiev, due to the good price-to-performance ratio.

Afanasyev joined the Bonaldi team in 2019 joined by Danny Kroes in the car. Together they won the Chempionship. The best results were achieved in Zandvoort (hometrack of Danny), where they won both races in front of the Dutch fans.

Coming back to GT racing In November 2019, Afanasyev joined the Black Falcon racing team for the Kyalami 9 Hours race which was the part of the International GT Challenge. His partners were Patrick Assenheimer and Hubert Haupt in silver class. They were leading most part of the race, but after an accident in heavy rain they finished second.

The next race was Bathurst 12 Hours. Haupt was not able to join so he was replaced by Michele Beretta. They were leading until the last four hours of the race. Issues with the car after a small contact with the wall pushed them back; they finished third.

Racing record

Career summary SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPolesF/LapsPodiumsPointsPosition 2003 Formula RUS Lukoil-Serebryaniy dojd'-Junior 14 0 1 1 5 39 4th 2004 Formula RUS Lukoil Racing Team Junior 14 10 11 12 14 63 1st Formula Renault Monza BVM Minardi Junior Team 8 0 0 0 0 32 13th 2005 Formula Renault 2.0 Germany Lukoil Racing Team 16 0 0 0 0 155 10th Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 13 0 0 0 0 0 24th Formula RUS Lukoil Racing Team-Formula Rus 1 1 1 1 1 22 16th 2006 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup Lukoil Racing 14 1 2 1 2 167 8th Formule Renault 2.0 Suisse 10 6 8 8 9 230 2nd Formula RUS Formula Rus 2 2 2 1 2 43 10th 2007 Formula 3 Euro Series HBR Motorsport 18 0 0 0 0 0 21st Masters of Formula 3 1 0 0 0 0 N/A NC 2008 International Formula Master JD Motorsport 16 1 1 0 2 28 8th Formula Renault 3.5 Series KTR 6 0 0 0 0 0 34th 2009 International Formula Master JD Motorsport 16 1 0 1 9 68 2nd 2010 FIA Formula Two Championship MotorSport Vision 18 0 1 1 4 157 3rd 2011 Auto GP DAMS 12 1 3 1 4 117 3rd 2012 FIA GT1 World Championship Valmon Racing Team Russia 6 0 0 0 0 0 31st

Complete Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 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 DC Points 2005 Lukoil Racing Team ZOL1 ZOL2 VAL1 VAL2 LMS1 LMS2 BIL1 BIL2 OSC1 OSC2 DON1 DON2 EST1 EST2 MNZ1 MNZ2 24th 9

Complete Formula Renault 2.0 NEC results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

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 2007 HBR Motorsport Dallara F305/045 Mercedes HOC1 HOC2 BRH1 BRH2 NOR1 NOR2 MAG1 MAG2 MUG1 MUG2 ZAN1 ZAN2 NÜR1 NÜR2 CAT1 CAT2 NOG1 NOG2 HOC1 HOC221st0

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series 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 Pos Points 2008 KTR MNZ1 MNZ2 SPA1 SPA2 MON1 SIL1 SIL2 HUN1 HUN2 NÜR1 NÜR2 LMS1 LMS2 EST1 EST2 CAT1 CAT2 34th 0

Complete FIA Formula Two Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 DC Points 2010 SIL1 SIL2 MAR1 MAR2 MNZ1 MNZ2 ZOL1 ZOL2 ALG1 ALG2 BRH1 BRH2 BRN1 BRN2 OSC1 OSC2 VAL1 VAL2 3rd 157

Complete Auto GP 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 Pos Points 2011 DAMS MNZ1 MNZ2 HUN1 HUN2 BRN1 BRN2 DON1 DON2 OSC1 OSC2 VAL1 VAL2 MUG1 MUG2 3rd 117

FIA GT competition results

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 Pos Points 2012 Valmon Racing Team Russia Aston Martin NOGQR13 NOGCR13 ZOLQRRet ZOLCR15 NAVQR15 NAVQR13 SVKQR SVKCR ALGQR ALGCR SVKQR SVKCR MOSQR MOSCR NURQR NURCR DONQR DONCR 31st 0

FIA GT Series results Year Class Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pos. Points 2013 Pro-Am HTP Gravity Charouz Mercedes-Benz NOGQR12 NOGCR16 ZOLQR6 ZOLCR7 ZANQR7 ZANQR12 SVKQR6 SVKCR1 NAVQR4 NAVCR4 BAKQR6 BAKCRRet 1st 136

Complete TCR International Series results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) 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 DC Points 2015 Team Craft-Bamboo Lukoil SEAT León Cup Racer MYS1 MYS2 CHN1 CHN2 ESP1 ESP2 POR1 POR2 ITA1 ITA2 AUT1 AUT2 RUS1 RUS2 RBR1 RBR2 SIN1 SIN2 THA1 THA2 MAC1 MAC2 7th 134 2016 Team Craft-Bamboo Lukoil SEAT León TCR BHR1 BHR2 POR1 POR2 BEL1 BEL2 ITA1 ITA2 AUT1 AUT2 GER1 GER2 RUS1 RUS2 THA1 THA2 SIN1 SIN2 MYS1 MYS2 MAC1 MAC2 9th 141 † Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 75% of the race distance.