Raffaele Marciello
Raffaele " Lello " Marciello ( born December 17, 1994 in Zurich, Switzerland ) is an Italian race car driver. He started in 2012 and 2013 in the European Formula 3 Championship and won this in 2013. 2014 he moves to the GP2 series.
Career
Marciello began his motorsport career in karting and was until 2009 mainly in this sport actively. In 2010, he took still at a Kart event part, but its main focus was in Formula racing, in which he departed in the Formula Abarth. For starting JD Motorsport, he won his debut race. In the further course of the season was followed by two more victories, one was made in a non- scoring race to the championship. He was third in the championship. 2011 moved Marciello for Prema Powerteam in the Italian Formula 3 Championship. He finished the season with two wins on the third place overall. With 13 points behind his teammate Michael Lewis, who took second place, he was the second best pilot of his team. In addition, he participated in a meeting of the FIA Formula 3 Trophy 2011 for the Prema Powerteam.
Beginning of 2012 went Marciello for M2 Competition in the Toyota Racing Series, the highest single-seater series in New Zealand, at the start. He won a race and closed the standings to ninth place from. He then moved into the Formula 3 Euro Series, where he received a cockpit at Prema Power Team for the 2012 season. He was also in the 2012 European Formula 3 Championship, to the included, among other things, some Formula 3 Euro Series race, valuation justified. While his team-mate Daniel Juncadella won both championships, Marciello with seven victories overall third in the Formula 3 Euro Series. In the European Formula 3 Championship, he finished second with 228.5 points to 252 behind Juncadella. 2013 remained Marciello the Prema Powerteam in the European Formula 3 Championship. Marciello chose 13 of the 30 races for themselves and scored a total of 21 podium finishes. At the Nürburgring he won all three races from pole position starting and drove just not in a race the fastest lap of the race. Marciello decided the championship in a duel with Felix Rosenqvist with 489.5 points to 457 for themselves.
2014 moved to Marciello Racing Engineering in GP2 series. After the first race, he finished 22nd overall.
Others
Since 2010 Marciello is promoted as a member of the "Driver Academy" of Ferrari.
Statistics
Career stations
- 2010: Formula Abarth ( 3rd place)
- 2011: Italian Formula 3 ( 3rd place)
- 2012: Toyota Racing Series (No. 9)
- 2012: Formula 3 Euro Series ( 3rd place)
- 2012: European Formula 3 (2nd place)
- 2013: European Formula 3 (Master)
- 2014: GP2 Series