Ronnie Quintarelli

Ronnie Quintarelli
Quintarelli in 2015 SUPER GT Motegi
Nationality	Italian
Born	9 August 1979 Negrar, Italy
Super GT career
Debut season	2005
Current team	NISMO
Car no.	1
Former teams	SARD
Starts	85
Wins	16

Ronnie Quintarelli (9 August 1979) is an Italian racecar driver.

Biography

Quintarelli first encountered motorsports at age 6 when his father gave him a small go-kart. He raced go-karts for 9 years, winning many national and international championships. In 2000, Quintarelli made his formula racing debut in Italian Formula Renault 2000 and competed in many races based in Europe until 2002. Then he moved to Japan to compete in the Japanese Formula Three Championship in 2003, and in 2004, he became the series champion. In 2011, Quintarelli won the Super GT series and the following year, won the championship for the second year in a row, driving a Nissan. After moving to the NISMO works team in the 2013 season, driving the prestigious car number #23, Quintarelli won his third Super GT title in 2014,and again in 2015 for yet again second year in a row becoming the most titled foreign driver of the Super GT series.

Racing record

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Poles	Wins	Points	Final Placing
2000	Formula Renault 2000 Italia	Prema Powerteam	*	2	1	*	3rd
2001	Formula Renault Eurocup	Cram Coompetition	5	1	1	66	7th
2002	Formula Volkswagen	Team Penker Racing	*	4	2	*	2nd
	GC-21	Inging Motorsport	1	0	1	-	-
2003	All-Japan F3	Inging Motorsport	20	0	0	200	4th
	Macau Grand Prix	JB Motorsport with Inging	1	0	0	0	4th
	Korea Super Prix	JB Motorsport with Inging	1	0	0	0	16th
2004	All-Japan F3	Inging Motorsport	20	8	4	251	1st
	Macau Grand Prix	Inging Motorsport	1	0	0	0	8th
	Bahrain Super Prix	Inging Motorsport	1	0	0	0	22nd
2005	Formula Nippon	Kondo Racing Team	6	0	0	12	9th
	Super GT (GT500)	SARD	8	0	1	21	16th
	1000 km Suzuka (Pokka 1000 km)	SARD	1	0	0	-	1st
2006	Formula Nippon	Team Boss Inging	9	0	0	6	10th
	Super GT (GT500)	Cerumo	1	0	0	9	24th
	Formula One	Midland F1	Test driver
2007	Formula Nippon	Team Boss Inging	9	1	0	27	7th
	Super GT (GT500)	Bandai Toyota Team Kraft	3	0	0	2	24th
2008	Formula Nippon	Cerumo / Inging	8	0	0	21.5	9th
	Super GT (GT500)	Hasemi Motorsport	9	1	1	39	12th
2009	Super GT (GT500)	Hasemi Motorsport	9	1	1	49	7th
2010	Super GT (GT500)	Team Impul	7	1	1	47	5th
2011	Super GT (GT500)	Mola	8	1	4	90	1st
2012	Super GT (GT500)	Mola	8	2	2	93	1st
2013	Super GT (GT500)	Nismo	8	0	1	50	6th
2014	Super GT (GT500)	Nismo	8	2	1	81	1st
2015	Super GT (GT500)	Nismo	8	2	2	79	1st
2016	Super GT (GT500)	Nismo	8	0	2	62	3rd

Complete Super GT results

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Pts
2005	SARD	Toyota Supra	GT500	OKA 8	FUJ Ret	SEP 9	SUG 2	MOT 14	FUJ 12	AUT 11	SUZ 11		16th	21
2006	Lexus Team Cerumo	Lexus SC430	GT500	SUZ	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	SUZ 7	MOT	AUT	FUJ	24th	9
2007	Lexus Team Kraft	Lexus SC430	GT500	SUZ	OKA	FUJ	SEP 11	SUG 9	SUZ Ret	MOT	AUT	FUJ	24th	2
2008	Hasemi Motorsport	Nissan GT-R	GT500	SUZ 15	OKA 10	FUJ 15	SEP 9	SUG 11	SUZ 5	MOT 1	AUT 6	FUJ 13	12th	39
2009	Hasemi Motorsport	Nissan GT-R	GT500	OKA 12	SUZ 13	FUJ 7	SEP 1	SUG 9	SUZ 2	FUJ 6	AUT 8	MOT 12	7th	49
2010	Impul	Nissan GT-R	GT500	SUZ Ret	OKA 4	FUJ 6	SEP 1	SUG 4	SUZ 12	FUJ C	MOT 5		5th	47
2011	MOLA	Nissan GT-R	GT500	OKA 6	FUJ 10	SEP 2	SUG 1	SUZ 2	FUJ 7	AUT 2	MOT 2		1st	90
2012	MOLA	Nissan GT-R	GT500	OKA 7	FUJ 8	SEP 14	SUG 3	SUZ 1	FUJ 2	AUT 1	MOT 2		1st	93
2013	NISMO	Nissan GT-R	GT500	OKA 3	FUJ Ret	SEP 9	SUG 3	SUZ 2	FUJ 9	AUT 8	MOT 8		6th	50
2014	NISMO	Nissan GT-R	GT500	OKA 7	FUJ 8	AUT 1	SUG 14	FUJ 2	SUZ 2	BUR 10	MOT 1		1st	81
2015	NISMO	Nissan GT-R	GT500	OKA 13	FUJ 1	CHA 5	FUJ 4	SUZ 7	SUG 6	AUT 1	MOT 2		1st	79
2016	NISMO	Nissan GT-R	GT500	OKA 1	FUJ 1	SUG 9	FUJ 4	SUZ 6	CHA 14	MOT 9	MOT 7		3rd	62

External links

• Ronnie Quintarelli career summary at DriverDB.com