Raffaele Giammaria
Raffaele Giammaria ( born September 1, 1977 in Civitavecchia ) is an Italian racing driver.
After Giammaria from 1989 to 1996 was active in karting, he moved in 1997 to Formula racing and competed in the Italian Formula Campus. After two years in the Italian F3 Federale, in 1999 he was runner-up, he moved in 2000 in the Italian Formula Renault. The Italian had scored the most points at the end of the season along with Felipe Massa. Since Massa had won more races, Giammaria was behind Massa second in the overall standings. 2001 was the Italian racing in the German Formula 3 Championship at the start, finishing in twelfth place overall. In 2002, he was no cockpit for an entire season, and that started with only a few races in the Italian Formula 3 Championship and the Euro Formula 3,000.
For 2003, Giammaria joined the international Formula 3000 Championship and was the teammate of Giorgio Pantano, a Cockpit with the Italian Durango team. In his debut season Giammaria could not with his teammates, who won two races, keep up, reaching as best finish a third place in Monaco. At the end of the season, he finished tenth overall. 2004 denied the Italians his second season in Formula 3000 and went for AEZ Racing, the second team of the Durango - racing team at the start. Giammaria took unlike his teammates Ferdinando Monfardini at some points race and was third once. With two races left in the season had to leave Giammaria Racing AEZ due to financial problems. For the last race of the season, he returned to Formula 3000 and launched for the Belgian Team Astro Mega.
After Giammaria had not received a cockpit in the GP2 Series, the successor series Formula 3000, he started in 2005 with only a few races in the Italian Formula 3000 and the World Series by Renault. Since 2006 Giammaria starts in various GT racing series. In his first season he was 16th in the GTA class of the International GT Open. He also made his debut in the FIA GT Championship. 2007 was Giammarias focus on the Italian Prototype Championship, where he finished fifth in the overall standings with one race win. He also competed in several races of the International GT Open and the Spanish GT Championship. 2008, the Italians drove again in various GT racing series. Most races he competed in the Italian GT Championship. He also returned for two races in Formula racing and competed in the Euro Series 3000, where he finished tenth overall with two podium finishes. 2009 Giammaria went back to the International GT Open at the start, in which he finished in twelfth place overall at the end of the season.