Santino Ferrucci

Santino Ferrucci
Nationality United States American
Born (1998-05-31) May 31, 1998
Woodbury, Connecticut, U.S.
GP3 Series career
Debut season 2016
Current team DAMS
Car no. 26
Starts 18
Wins 0
Poles 0
Fastest laps 0
Best finish 12th in 2016
Previous series
2015
2014–15
2014
2014
2013		 Toyota Racing Series
European Formula 3
British Formula Three
German Formula 3
F2000 Championship Series

Santino Ferrucci (born May 31, 1998) is an American racing driver from Woodbury, Connecticut.

Career

2012-2013

At 14 years old, Ferrucci made his professional debut in the SBF2000 Winter Series season, winning 3 out of the 10 races in the season, with a further 3 podiums.

2013

Now 15 years old, Ferrucci made a mid-season debut in the F2000 Championship Series, finishing 5th place in the championship.

2014

When he finally turned 16 years old, and old enough to compete in Formula 3, Ferrucci competed in 5 races in German Formula Three for EuroInternational, scoring 2nd in his 4th race, 3 races in British Formula 3 for Fortec Motorsport, scoring 1 pole, 2 wins, a 3rd place and 2 fastest laps and the end of European Formula 3 season, again for EuroInternational.

Reuniting with Fortec, Ferrucci participated in the end of season Macau Grand Prix. As a rookie, tackling the Macau circuit with ease is a big task for anyone, but Ferrucci fared well by finishing the main race in 8th, a very respectable place for a rookie.

2015

At the start of the year, Ferrucci raced his first full championship series in cars, racing for Giles Motorsport in the Toyota Racing Series. Due to consistency and very good performances, Ferrucci finished 3rd overall, scoring his first and only win at Manfeild and scoring 5 other podium places at Teretonga, Hampton Downs and Taupo. Despite being the highest placed driver in his team, Ferrucci was only beaten by future Formula 3 rivals Lance Stroll and Brandon Maïsano, who both raced for M2 Competition.

After his good start to the year, Ferrucci returned to European Formula 3, this time with Mücke Motorsport, finishing 11th overall and scoring his first and only podium in Formula 3 at Spa, finishing 2nd in Race 2.

At the end of the year, Ferrucci once again raced in the prestigious Macau Grand Prix, this time for Mücke Motorsport. After finishing in 7th in the qualification race after starting 11th and finished 6th in the main race, a strong performance from the young gun as not too many drivers have managed to finish inside the top 10 two years in a row at this gruelling circuit.

2016

After last year, Ferrucci moved to the GP3 Series with newcomers DAMS.[1]

The season did not go well for Ferrucci's first weekend in the series at Spain, with a poor start in the Feature Race leaving him in 15th and an 11th-place finish in the Sprint Race.

The Austrian round wasn't the brightest weekend either. He lost control coming into turn 1 colliding into Jake Dennis and finished a lowly 15th in the Feature Race and 10th the Sprint Race.

For the British round, a mediocre 18th in the Feature Race was the best Ferrucci could manage but in the Sprint Race he finished in 4th place finally grabbing his first points in GP3.

For the next round in Hungary, it was another pointless performance. Like in Spain, Ferrucci finished 15th and 11th in the Feature and Sprint races respectively.

Arriving in Germany for the last race before the summer break, Ferrucci scored 2 points in the Feature Race by finishing 9th. while Ferrucci finished the Sprint Race in 4th.

After the summer break had finished, Ferrucci needed a fresh start to the second half of the season. Starting at Belgium, he finished 7th in the feature race after starting 9th, meaning that he started 2nd for the sprint race. Ferrucci showed great resilience by finishing 3rd despite losing the lead and second place to the fast charging Jack Aitken and Antonio Fuoco.

Italy turned out to be an unlucky weekend for Ferrucci, finishing 19th and 1 lap down in the feature race due to a car failure right at the end of the race but muscled his way up to 11th in the sprint race but no points were awarded for his efforts this time around.

Formula 1

After confirmation of Ferrucci's entry into the GP3 Series, he became a pay driver for the Haas F1 Team below Ferrari Driver Academy member and GP3 frontrunner, Charles Leclerc.[2]

Ferrucci got his first taste of F1 machinery when he tested for Haas at Silverstone after the F1 British GP.[3] He admitted to being frightened during his testing of the car in wet conditions[4] and finished the day a lowly 4th from last.[5]

Racing record

Career summary

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2012–13 SBF2000 Winter Series 10 3 3 4 6 - n/a
2013 F2000 Championship 8 0 1 4 0 288 5th
2014 German Formula Three EuroInternational 5 0 0 0 1 33 10th
European Formula 3 Championship 20 0 0 0 0 24 19th
British Formula Three Championship Fortec Motorsport 3 2 1 2 3 - NC†
Macau Grand Prix 1 0 0 0 0 N/A 8th
2015 Toyota Racing Series Giles Motorsport 16 1 0 2 6 765 3rd
European Formula 3 Championship Mücke Motorsport 33 0 0 1 1 91 11th
Macau Grand Prix 1 0 0 0 0 N/A 6th
2016 Formula One Haas F1 Team Test and Development driver
GP3 Series DAMS 18 0 0 0 1 36 12th

† As Ferrucci was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score championship points.

Complete European Formula 3 Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Entrant Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 DC Points
2014 EuroInternational Mercedes SIL
1		 SIL
2		 SIL
3		 HOC
1		 HOC
2		 HOC
3		 PAU
1		 PAU
2		 PAU
3		 HUN
1		 HUN
2		 HUN
3		 SPA
1
Ret		 SPA
2
DNS		 SPA
3
15		 NOR
1
12		 NOR
2
5		 NOR
3
4		 MSC
1
16		 MSC
2
13		 MSC
3
14		 RBR
1
Ret		 RBR
2
12		 RBR
3
20		 NÜR
1
9		 NÜR
2
17		 NÜR
3
14		 IMO
1
Ret		 IMO
2
Ret		 IMO
3
16		 HOC
1
19		 HOC
2
17		 HOC
3
15		 19th 24
2015 kfzteile24 Mücke Motorsport Mercedes SIL
1
18		 SIL
2
9		 SIL
3
13		 HOC
1
10		 HOC
2
6		 HOC
3
28		 PAU
1
Ret		 PAU
2
11		 PAU
3
10		 MNZ
1
Ret		 MNZ
2
4		 MNZ
3
8		 SPA
1
4		 SPA
2
2		 SPA
3
12		 NOR
1
Ret		 NOR
2
Ret		 NOR
3
6		 ZAN
1
28		 ZAN
2
8		 ZAN
3
9		 RBR
1
12		 RBR
2
13		 RBR
3
11		 ALG
1
7		 ALG
2
10		 ALG
3
Ret		 NÜR
1
7		 NÜR
2
7		 NÜR
3
7		 HOC
1
10		 HOC
2
17		 HOC
3
Ret		 11th 91

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 17 18 Pos Points
2016 DAMS CAT
FEA
15		 CAT
SPR
11		 RBR
FEA
15		 RBR
SPR
10		 SIL
FEA
18		 SIL
SPR
4		 HUN
FEA
15		 HUN
SPR
11		 HOC
FEA
9		 HOC
SPR
4		 SPA
FEA
7		 SPA
SPR
3		 MNZ
FEA
19†		 MNZ
SPR
11		 SEP
FEA
Ret		 SEP
SPR
Ret		 YMC
FEA
9		 YMC
SPR
15		 12th 36

† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

References

  1. ↑ "DAMS puts faith in impressive all-rookie line-up for maiden GP3 Series campaign". GP3 Series. GP2 Series Limited. 28 January 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  2. ↑ Larson, Mike (March 10, 2016). "Haas F1 signs American development driver". Autoweek. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
  3. ↑ Collantine, Keith (July 6, 2016). "Haas to run American driver at Silverstone test". F1 Fanatic. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
  4. ↑ Medland, Chris (July 12, 2016). "Ferrucci 'a little bit frightened' by wet test". en.f1i.com. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
  5. ↑ Collantine, Keith (July 12, 2016). "Alonso leads first day of Silverstone test". F1 Fanatic. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
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