Stefano Coletti

Stefano Coletti (born 6 April 1989) is a Monégasque former professional racing driver who notably raced in the IndyCar Series, European Le Mans Series and GP2 Series, winning seven races in the latter. His sister Alexandra Coletti is an alpine skier. He is the first Monégasque driver since Louis Chiron to have won a race in Monaco.

Career

Karting Born in La Colle, Monaco, Coletti enjoyed a successful karting career prior to moving into single-seater racing. In 2003, he finished as runner-up in the Italian Open Masters ICA–Junior category before winning the Andrea Margutti Trophy and European Championship ICA–Junior titles in 2004.

Formula BMW In 2005, Coletti moved up to Formula racing, joining Eifelland Racing to contest the Formula BMW ADAC championship, where he finished eighteenth in the standings. He also took part in the Formula BMW World Final in Bahrain for ASL Team Mücke Motorsport, finishing in twenty-fifth place.

Coletti continued in the championship in 2006, taking four podium places, including a single victory, to finish seventh in the standings. He also took part in four Formula BMW USA races, winning three of them to finish the season in fifth place, despite missing a large proportion of the championship. Coletti once again competed in the Formula BMW World Final, held at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo, where he finished in third place, behind Mika Mäki and race winner Christian Vietoris.

Formula Renault In August 2006, Coletti made his debut in the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 series, driving for the Cram Competition and Motopark Academy teams, although he failed to score a point in any of the six races he entered.

In 2007, Coletti joined the Spanish Epsilon Euskadi team to contest both the Eurocup and Italian Formula Renault 2.0 championships. He finished fourth in the Eurocup standings after taking a win at the Hungaroring and two further podium places, whilst in the Italian series he took two victories – both at Misano – to finish in tenth place.

Formula Three Coletti competing at the opening round of the 2008 Formula 3 Euro Series at Hockenheim. Coletti moved up to the Formula 3 Euro Series for the 2008 season, joining the French Signature-Plus team. However, he left the team after the first four races after being dropped from the Red Bull Driver Development scheme. Coletti missed the next round of the series at Pau before joining Prema Powerteam, who he remained with for the rest of the season. He took a best race result of fourth to finish the year in twentieth position. He also took part in the Masters of Formula 3 and Macau Grand Prix non-championship races, but retired from both events.

In January 2009, Prema announced that Coletti would be staying with the team for the 2009 season. At the first round of the year in Hockenheim, Coletti qualified on the front row of the grid before going on to win the opening race of the season. The following month, Coletti took part in the Masters of Formula 3 event held at Zandvoort, qualifying in fourth position before finishing the race in third place, behind Finns Mika Mäki and race winner Valtteri Bottas.

Coletti was involved in a controversial incident after the first race at the Norisring. Having finished third to move into third in the championship, Coletti had an altercation with race winner Jules Bianchi. Coletti felt that Bianchi had said "bad words" to him, and struck the ART Grand Prix driver and championship leader. Coletti was then stripped of his third place, and was excluded from the rest of the meeting. Coletti failed to score points after the Oschersleben rounds, and finished tenth in the championship.

Formula Renault 3.5 Series In November 2008, Coletti sampled Formula Renault 3.5 Series machinery for the first time, testing for RC Motorsport at Valencia alongside former GP2 Series driver Andy Soucek. On 15 May 2009 it was announced that Coletti would race for Prema Powerteam in the Monaco round of the 2009 Formula Renault 3.5 Series, replacing Frankie Provenzano. He originally finished in eleventh place, but after Marco Barba received a 25-second penalty, Coletti was promoted into the final points paying position in tenth.

Coletti returned to the series for a full season in 2010, driving alongside Greg Mansell at Comtec Racing. He took five podium finishes on his way to sixth place in the championship.

GP3 Series Coletti also contested fourteen races of the inaugural GP3 Series season for the Tech 1 Racing team, replacing Daniel Juncadella after the first round of the championship. His team-mates were variously Doru Sechelariu, Jean-Éric Vergne, Jim Pla and the returning Juncadella. Coletti finished the year ninth in the championship; the best-placed of the Tech 1 drivers.

GP2 Series

Coletti made his GP2 debut in 2009 at Valencia when he replaced Davide Valsecchi at Durango. He suffered a fraught first meeting in the series, receiving three drive-through penalties. In race one he received one for jumping the start and one for crossing the white line at the pit lane exit, before retiring from the race. In race two he stalled on the grid and was penalised for starting from the grid instead of the pitlane; he collided with Dani Clos before taking this penalty. In his third GP2 race, at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Coletti crashed heavily with two laps remaining causing the race to finish under safety car conditions. He escaped with compressed vertebrae and minor bruising, missing the following day's sprint race as his car's monocoque was written off by the impact. He also missed the Brands Hatch rounds of the F3 Euroseries due to his injury. He was due to return to GP2 at Monza having originally been passed fit, but pulled out due to recurring pain during Thursday scrutineering.

Coletti returned to GP2 in 2011, driving for Trident Racing alongside Rodolfo González. In the Asia series, he scored a victory in the sprint race at Yas Marina on his way to fourth place in the drivers' standings. He also began the main series strongly, winning the sprint race of the first round of the championship, held at Istanbul Park. After winning the sprint race in Hungary, he crashed heavily during the feature race at Spa-Francorchamps and sustained two vertebral compression fractures, two years after sustaining a similar, but more minor injury. He missed the rest of the season as a result. His seat was taken by compatriot Stéphane Richelmi.

Coletti's injury healed, and he returned to GP2 for the 2012 season with Scuderia Coloni, alongside Fabio Onidi, but after ten rounds of the championship, lying only fourteenth in the championship with one podium finish, he left the team by mutual consent. He promptly joined the Rapax team for the final rounds of the championship, replacing Daniël de Jong. He finished in the points in three of the remaining four races, moving him above Rio Haryanto into a final championship position of thirteenth.

Racing record

Career summary SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPolesF/LapsPodiumsPointsPosition 2005 Formula BMW ADAC Eifelland Racing 20 0 0 0 0 13 18th Formula BMW World Final ASL Team Mücke Motorsport 1 0 0 0 0 0 NC 2006 Formula BMW ADAC ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg 16 1 0 2 4 103 7th Formula BMW World Final EuroInternational 1 0 0 0 0 1 3rd Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Cram Competition 2 0 0 0 0 0 NC Motopark Academy 4 0 0 0 0 Formula BMW USA EuroInternational 4 3 2 2 4 75 5th 2007 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Epsilon Euskadi 14 1 1 0 3 71 4th Italian Formula Renault 2.0 14 2 1 0 3 164 10th 2008 Formula 3 Euro Series Signature-Plus 4 0 0 0 0 6.5 20th Prema Powerteam 14 0 0 0 0 Macau Grand Prix 1 0 0 0 0 N/A DNF 2009 Formula 3 Euro Series Prema Powerteam 17 1 0 2 2 19 10th Formula Renault 3.5 Series 1 0 0 0 0 1 28th Macau Grand Prix 1 0 0 0 0 N/A DNF GP2 Series Durango 3 0 0 0 0 0 25th 2010 Formula Renault 3.5 Series Comtec Racing 17 0 0 0 5 76 6th GP3 Series Tech 1 Racing 14 0 0 0 2 18 9th Auto GP Charouz–Gravity Racing 2 0 0 0 0 2 20th 2011 GP2 Series Trident Racing 16 2 0 0 2 22 11th GP2 Asia Series 4 1 0 0 1 11 4th GP2 Final Scuderia Coloni 2 0 0 0 0 0 13th 2012 GP2 Series Scuderia Coloni 20 0 0 2 1 50 13th Rapax 4 0 0 1 0 2013 GP2 Series Rapax 22 3 1 4 7 135 5th FIA Formula 3 European Championship Ma-con 2 0 0 0 0 0 36th Macau Grand Prix EuroInternational 1 0 0 0 0 N/A DNF 2014 GP2 Series Racing Engineering 22 2 0 5 5 136 6th Macau Grand Prix EuroInternational 1 0 0 0 0 N/A 6th 2015 IndyCar Series KV Racing Technology 16 0 0 1 0 203 19th 2015-16 Formula E Team AguriTest driver 2016 European Le Mans Series - LMP2 SMP Racing 6 0 0 0 3 83 3rd WeatherTech SportsCar Championship - PC Starworks Motorsport 1 0 0 0 0 1 31st 2017 FIA Formula 2 Championship Campos Racing 2 0 0 0 0 0 27th 2020 International GT Open Team Lazarus 4 0 0 0 0 0 NC Season still in progress.

Complete Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 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 2008 Signature-Plus Dallara F308/011 Volkswagen HOC1 HOC2 MUG1 MUG2 PAU1 PAU2 20th 6.5 Prema Powerteam Dallara F308/047 Mercedes NOR1 NOR2 ZAN1 ZAN2 NÜR1 NÜR2 BRH1 BRH2 CAT1 CAT2 LMS1 LMS2 HOC1 HOC2 2009 Prema Powerteam Dallara F309/014 Mercedes HOC1 HOC2 LAU1 LAU2 NOR1 NOR2 ZAN1 ZAN2 OSC1 OSC2 NÜR1 NÜR2 BRH1 BRH2 CAT1 CAT2 DIJ1 DIJ2 HOC1 HOC2 10th 19

Complete Macau Grand Prix results Year Team Car Qualifying Quali Race Main race 2008 Prema Powerteam Dallara F308 12th 7th DNF 2009 Prema Powerteam Dallara F308 9th 22nd DNF 2013 EuroInternational Dallara F312 17th 11th DNF 2014 EuroInternational Dallara F312 12th 10th 6th

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 2009 Prema Powerteam CAT1 CAT2 SPA1 SPA2 MON1 HUN1 HUN2 SIL1 SIL2 BUG1 BUG2 ALG1 ALG2 NÜR1 NÜR2 ALC1 ALC2 28th 1 2010 Comtec Racing ALC1 ALC2 SPA1 SPA2 MON1 BRN1 BRN2 MAG1 MAG2 HUN1 HUN2 HOC1 HOC2 SIL1 SIL2 CAT1 CAT2 6th 76

Complete GP2 Series/FIA Formula 2 Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Complete GP2 Asia Series results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 DC Points 2011 Trident Racing YMCFEA YMCSPR IMOFEA IMOSPR 4th 11

Complete GP2 Final results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Entrant 1 2 DC Points 2011 Scuderia Coloni YMCFEA YMCSPR 13th 0

Complete GP3 Series 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 2010 Tech 1 Racing CATFEA CATSPR ISTFEA ISTSPR VALFEA VALSPR SILFEA SILSPR HOCFEA HOCSPR HUNFEA HUNSPR SPAFEA SPASPR MNZFEA MNZSPR 9th 18

Complete IndyCar Series results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Team No. Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Rank Points Ref 2015 KV Racing Technology 4 Dallara DW12 Chevrolet STP NLA LBH ALA IMS INDY DET DET TXS TOR FON MIL IOW MDO POC SNM 19th 203

Indianapolis 500 Year Chassis Engine Start Finish Team2015 Dallara Chevrolet 29 25 KV Racing Technology

Complete European Le Mans Series results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Entrant Class Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 Rank Points 2016 SMP Racing LMP2 BR Engineering BR01 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 SIL IMO RBR LEC SPA EST 3rd 83