Simone Tempestini

Simone Tempestini (born 12 August 1994 ) 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.

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

Results

WRC results

JWRC results

WRC-3 results

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 SWE9 MEXRet ARG7 POR ITA17 POL FIN GER AUS FRA ESP GBR 34th 8 2016 Napoca Rally Academy Ford Fiesta R5 MON9 SWE9 MEX ARG POR ITA POL FIN GER CHN FRA ESP GBR AUS 38th 4 2017 Gekon Racing Citroën DS3 R5 MON SWE MEX FRA4 ARG POR3 ITA POL10 FIN5 GER6 ESP5 GBR20 AUS 7th 56 2018 Simone Tempestini Ford Fiesta R5 MON SWE MEX FRA ARG POR16 15th 28 Citroën Total Rallye Team Citroën C3 R5 ITARet FIN9 GER10 Simone Tempestini Citroën C3 R5 TUR2 GBR7 ESP10 AUS 2019 Friulmotor Rally Team Hyundai i20 R5 MON SWE MEX FRA11 ARG CHL POR10 ITA3 FIN GER4 TUR GBR ESPRet AUS 17th 28

European Rally Championship results