Kevin Ceccon
Kevin Ceccon (born 24 September 1993 Clusone ) is an Italian race car driver. In 2011 he won the championship title of the Auto GP.
Career
Ceccon began his motorsport career in 2001 in karting, where he was active until 2009. Among other things, he won the 2008 Italian Open Masters KF3. 2009 saw Ceccon addition to Formula racing and entered for RP Motorsport at every race of the European F3 Open. With two fourth places for the best results he finished his debut season in twelfth place overall, while his teammate Stefano Bizzarri finished the season in third place. In addition Ceccon participated in six races of the Italian Formula 3 Championship and finished 14th in the driver standings. 2010 remained at Ceccon RP Motorsport in the European F3 Open. After several podium finishes, he scored in the second to last race of the season at the Circuit de Catalunya his first victory. In the Drivers' Championship, he was again of Fumanelli, who had become 112 points third, beaten and finished with 92 points in fourth place. He also took part in a race weekend of the Italian Formula 3 Championship and was 28th in the championship.
After Ceccon had participated in November 2010 for various teams in GP2 test drives, he moved in 2011 to the Auto GP to Ombra Racing. At the Hungaroring, he scored his first victory. He benefited from a mistake of the race organizers who sent the safety car onto the track falsely before the second pilot. Ceccon therefore had the opportunity to catch up as the leader on the field and win the race safely. With a total of five podium finishes Ceccon decided the championship. He sat down with 130 to 127 points against Luca Filippi, who did not participate in a race weekend through. In addition Ceccon was winner of the Auto GP for the U21 championship. In addition Ceccon 2011 for Coloni took part in four GP2 race weekends, as the representative for the injured Davide Rigon. He was characterized by an age of 17 years and 243 days until then recent GP2 pilot. He finished in 30th place in the drivers' standings. At the end of the season he also took for Coloni GP2 Final at 2011, where he finished seventh, in part. In addition, he made his debut in test drives for Toro Rosso in Formula 1 vehicle.
2012 Ceccon entered for Ocean Racing Technology in the GP3 Series. Ceccon scored a podium with a third place ranking and was the only pilot of his racing team, the import points. By season's end he was in ninth place in the driver standings. 2013 Ceccon received a GP2 cockpit with Trident Racing. In Monte Carlo, he scored with a second place in the feature race his first podium placement in the GP2 series. After the sixth event, he lost his cockpit to Ricardo Teixeira, although he was the only rider of his team was at this time, who scored points. Ceccons each contract was closed on a race weekend, because he had no personal sponsors. Ceccon was 17th in the drivers' standings and had scored more points than his team-mate and his successors during the season together.
Statistics
Career stations
- 2001-2009: Karting
- 2009: European F3 Open ( 12th place)
- 2009: Italian Formula 3 ( 14th)
- 2010: European F3 Open ( 4th place)
- 2010: Italian Formula 3 ( 28th place )
- 2011: Auto GP (Master)
- 2011: GP2 Series (No. 30)
- 2012: GP3 Series ( course 9 )
- 2013: GP2 Series (No. 17)