Luca Filippi

Luca Filippi (born 9 August 1985 in Savigliano, Italy) is an Italian former auto racing driver. He competed in GP2 Series from 2006 to 2012, and the IndyCar Series from 2013 to 2016. In 2008 he was the official Honda Racing F1 test driver.

Luca Filippi
Filippi at the 2015 GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma
Nationality	Italian
Born	(1985-08-09) 9 August 1985 (age 39) Savigliano, Italy
IndyCar Series career
Debut season	2013
Racing licence	FIA Gold
Former teams	Barracuda Racing, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, CFH Racing, Dale Coyne Racing
Starts	22
Wins	0
Podiums	1
Fastest laps	1
Best finish	21st in 2015
Previous series
2008–2011 2008 2006 2005, 2007–08 2004–10 2003–04 2003–04 2003 2003	GP2 Asia Series International GT Open Renault Eurocup Formula One testing Euro/Italian F3000/Auto GP FR2000 Eurocup Formula Renault 2000 Italia
Championship titles
2005	Italian F3000

Career

Formula Renault

Filippi made the step out of karting in 2003, competing in Formula Renault 2.0 Italia, where he finished third in 2004 behind Pastor Maldonado and Kohei Hirate.

Formula 3000

Filippi stepped up to the Italian Formula 3000 series in 2005, driving for Giancarlo Fisichella's Fisichella Motorsport team. He also made his Formula One test debut in 2005 with Minardi in the team's last test.

GP2 Series

Filippi driving for ART Grand Prix at the Silverstone round of the 2008 GP2 Series season

Fisichella joined forces with the Coloni Motorsport GP2 Series team in 2006, and Filippi was selected as a driver for the team. However, he switched to the BCN Competición team mid-way through the season.

In 2007, he continued in GP2 with Super Nova Racing and emerged as one of the series' top performers, finishing the season in fourth position.

On 14 November 2007 Filippi tested for Honda Racing F1.^[1] On 6 December Filippi tested for Super Aguri F1, being even faster than regular race driver Takuma Sato.^{[citation needed]}

For the inaugural GP2 Asia Series season in early 2008, Filippi raced for Team Meritus, a Malaysian team who entered the series due to regular series team Racing Engineering not competing in the winter series. He only managed to score four points in ten races, finishing in 17th place.

Filippi driving for Arden International at the Valencia round of the 2008 GP2 Series season

Filippi driving for Super Nova at the Catalunya round of the 2009 GP2 Series season

Filippi drove for the ART Grand Prix team in the first half of the 2008 GP2 Series season, alongside Romain Grosjean.^[2] Following a disappointing first half of the season, Luca left the team in favour of Sakon Yamamoto after ten races.^[3] Filippi was confirmed as a driver at the Arden International team two days later, where he replaced Yelmer Buurman.^[4] His results failed to improve and he finished nineteenth in the championship.

Filippi returned to BCN Competición for the 2008–09 GP2 Asia Series season, but was replaced by Fabrizio Crestani as a result of the team's purchase after the first round of the season.^[5]

For the 2009 GP2 Series season, he returned to the Super Nova team, and took the final win of the season at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve. His result promoted him up to fifth overall in the championship standings.

Filippi returned to Team Meritus for the 2009–10 GP2 Asia Series season, and finished as runner-up in the championship standings, taking Meritus' first victory in the series in Bahrain.

Filippi began the 2010 GP2 Series season without a drive, but returned to Super Nova mid-season to replace the injured Josef Král. He took five points from ten races, before Král returned for the season finale, finishing twentieth in the championship. During this period, Filippi became the most experienced GP2 driver in the series' history, beating Javier Villa's record of 82 race entries.

Filippi was drafted into the Scuderia Coloni team for the second round of the 2011 GP2 Asia Series season after regular driver James Jakes opted to move to the United States in order to pursue a career in the IndyCar Series. He returned once again to Super Nova for the main series, alongside Fairuz Fauzy. After five rounds of the championship, he switched back to Coloni, replacing Kevin Ceccon.^[6] He immediately registered an improvement in form, winning his first race for the team at the Nürburgring, which also marked his 100th race in the series.^[7] He also won the Spa-Francorchamps sprint race and the Monza feature race, propelling him to a career-best second place in the drivers' championship.

Filippi driving at Monza on his return to the GP2 Series.

After almost a year away from GP2, Filippi was again called up by Coloni as a replacement for Stefano Coletti for his home race of the 2012 championship at Monza.^[8] Despite his absence from the series, he won the feature race. He also secured pole position for the following (and final) round of the championship in Singapore, but crashed heavily during the feature race, damaging his car beyond immediate repair and thus non-starting the sprint race. Nevertheless, he still finished 16th in the drivers' championship despite contesting only four of the series' 24 races.

Auto GP

Filippi contested in the 2010 Auto GP season, where he finished 5th in the drivers' standings with 2 victories topping and tailing the season with the 1st race at Brno and the last race at Monza. He returned to the series the following year, taking one pole position, three fastest laps, one win and five further podiums, finishing as runner-up to Kevin Ceccon by only 3 points despite having missed two races.

IndyCar

Filippi driving at the 2015 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.

On 6 March 2012, it was announced that Filippi would join Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing in the IndyCar series from the Indy 500 onwards. He would have partnered ex-Formula 1 driver Takuma Sato;^[9] despite this, he did not take part in the Indy 500 nor in the following races. He competed in four races in 2013 for Bryan Herta Autosport, scoring a best finish of 15th.

CFH Racing signed Filippi for the 2015 IndyCar season to compete at the road/street races.^[10]

For the 2016 season, Filippi signed with Dale Coyne Racing to compete in the whole season, ovals included. His first race on an oval track was in Phoenix Arizona, where he finished P20. A few days before the GP of Indianapolis, Coyne excluded Filippi from both Indy events and signed Gabby Chaves in place of the Italian driver.

Formula E

2017 saw Filippi join Nio in the all-electric FIA Formula E Championship alongside Oliver Turvey,^[11] where he picked up a point in his debut race with a tenth place finish in the 2017 Hong Kong ePrix.^[12] Despite a strong debut, Filippi failed to pick up another point during the season. He missed the Paris ePrix, so that Ma Qinghua could fulfil a contract deal. He scored just one point to Turvey's 46 and was dropped by NIO for the 2018/19 season.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums	Points	Position
2005	Italian Formula 3000	Fisichella Motor Sport	8	4	4	6	65	1st
2006	GP2 Series	Petrol Ofisi FMS International	6	0	0	0	2	19th
		BCN Competición	12	0	0	0	5
2007	GP2 Series	Super Nova International	21	2	1	6	59	4th
2008	GP2 Asia Series	Qi-Meritus Mahara	10	0	0	0	4	17th
	GP2 Series	ART Grand Prix	10	0	0	1	5	19th
		Arden International	10	0	0	0	1
	Formula One	Honda Racing F1 Team	Test driver
2008-09	GP2 Asia Series	BCN Competición	2	0	0	0	0	NC
2009	GP2 Series	Super Nova Racing	21	0	1	4	40	5th
2009-10	GP2 Asia Series	MalaysiaQi-Meritus.com	8	1	1	3	39	2nd
2010	GP2 Series	Super Nova Racing	10	1	0	0	5	20th
	Auto GP	Euronova Racing	10	2	1	3	34	5th
2011	GP2 Series	Super Nova Racing	10	0	0	1	9	2nd
		Scuderia Coloni	8	0	3	4	45
	GP2 Asia Series		2	0	0	0	0	20th
	Auto GP	Super Nova Racing	12	1	1	6	127	2nd
2012	GP2 Series	Scuderia Coloni	4	1	1	1	29	16th
2013	IndyCar Series	Barracuda Racing	4	0	0	0	53	30th
2014	IndyCar Series	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	4	0	0	0	46	28th
2015	IndyCar Series	Carpenter Fisher Hartman Racing	10	0	0	1	182	21st
2016	IndyCar Series	Dale Coyne Racing	5	0	0	0	61	26th
2017	Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup	Attempto Racing	0	0	0	0	0	NC
		Orange 1 Team Lazarus	2	0	0	0
	Intercontinental GT Challenge	Orange 1 Team Lazarus	1	0	0	0	0	NC
2017–18	Formula E	Nio Formula E Team	11	0	0	0	1	21st
2019	TCR Europe Touring Car Series	BRC Racing Team	14	1	0	1	99	16th
2020	World Touring Car Cup	Team Mulsanne	11	0	0	0	0	NC†
2020–21	Formula E	Nio 333 FE Team	Reserve driver
2021	Pure ETCR Championship	Romeo Ferraris/M1RA	5	0	0	1	218	7th
2022	FIA ETCR – eTouring Car World Cup	Romeo Ferraris	6	0	0	0	181	12th

^† As Filippi was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points. ^* Season still in progress.

Complete GP2 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	19	20	21	22	23	24	DC	Points
2006	Petrol Ofisi FMS International	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR Ret	IMO FEA 11	IMO SPR 5	NÜR FEA Ret	NÜR SPR Ret	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA																19th	7
	BCN Competición										SIL FEA Ret	SIL SPR 9	MAG FEA Ret	MAG SPR Ret	HOC FEA 21	HOC SPR 16	HUN FEA 12	HUN SPR Ret	IST FEA 10	IST SPR Ret	MNZ FEA 4	MNZ SPR 7
2007	Super Nova International	BHR FEA 1	BHR SPR 3	CAT FEA Ret	CAT SPR 11	MON FEA 4	MAG FEA 4	MAG SPR 2	SIL FEA 5	SIL SPR 7	NÜR FEA Ret	NÜR SPR Ret	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR 16	IST FEA Ret	IST SPR 7	MNZ FEA 2	MNZ SPR 2	SPA FEA 2	SPA SPR 7	VAL FEA 18	VAL SPR 6				4th	59
2008	ART Grand Prix	CAT FEA 11	CAT SPR Ret	IST FEA 16	IST SPR 14	MON FEA Ret	MON SPR 12	MAG FEA 10	MAG SPR 3	SIL FEA 8	SIL SPR Ret															19th	6
	Arden International											HOC FEA Ret	HOC SPR Ret	HUN FEA 15	HUN SPR NC	VAL FEA 8	VAL SPR 13	SPA FEA 19	SPA SPR Ret	MNZ FEA Ret	MNZ SPR Ret
2009	Super Nova Racing	CAT FEA 4	CAT SPR 7	MON FEA Ret	MON SPR NC	IST FEA 2	IST SPR Ret	SIL FEA 14	SIL SPR 16	NÜR FEA Ret	NÜR SPR 18	HUN FEA 6	HUN SPR 2	VAL FEA 7	VAL SPR Ret	SPA FEA Ret	SPA SPR Ret	MNZ FEA Ret	MNZ SPR Ret	POR FEA 2	POR SPR 1					5th	40
2010	Super Nova Racing	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	IST FEA	IST SPR	VAL FEA	VAL SPR	SIL FEA 20	SIL SPR 9	HOC FEA 10	HOC SPR 7	HUN FEA 14	HUN SPR 6	SPA FEA 5	SPA SPR Ret	MNZ FEA Ret	MNZ SPR 14	YMC FEA	YMC SPR					20th	5
2011	Super Nova Racing	IST FEA Ret	IST SPR 14	CAT FEA Ret	CAT SPR Ret	MON FEA 3	MON SPR 4	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR 15	SIL FEA 13	SIL SPR 12															2nd	54
	Scuderia Coloni											NÜR FEA 1	NÜR SPR 3	HUN FEA 6	HUN SPR Ret	SPA FEA 4	SPA SPR 1	MNZ FEA 1	MNZ SPR 5
2012	Scuderia Coloni	SEP FEA	SEP SPR	BHR1 FEA	BHR1 SPR	BHR2 FEA	BHR2 SPR	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	VAL FEA	VAL SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HOC FEA	HOC SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA 1	MNZ SPR 22	MRN FEA Ret	MRN SPR DNS	16th	29

Complete GP2 Asia 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	DC	Points
2008	Qi-Meritus Mahara	DUB1 FEA 5	DUB1 SPR Ret	IDN FEA DSQ	SEN SPR 21	SEP FEA Ret	SEP SPR Ret	BHR FEA Ret	BHR SPR 11	DUB2 FEA 12	DUB2 SPR Ret			17th	4
2008–09	BCN Competición	SHI FEA Ret	SHI SPR Ret	DUB FEA	DUB SPR	BHR1 FEA	BHR1 SPR	LSL FEA	LSL SPR	SEP FEA	SEP SPR	BHR2 FEA	BHR2 SPR	NC	0
2009–10	MalaysiaQi-Meritus.com	YMC1 FEA 2	YMC1 SPR 8	YMC2 FEA 14	YMC2 SPR 17	BHR1 FEA 2	BHR1 SPR 18	BHR2 FEA 1	BHR2 SPR 8					2nd	29
2011	Scuderia Coloni	YMC FEA	YMC SPR	IMO FEA 20	IMO SPR 10									20th	0

Complete Auto GP 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	Pos	Points
2010	Euronova Racing	BRN 1 1	BRN 2 13	IMO 1 12	IMO 2 Ret	SPA 1 2	SPA 2 5	MAG 1	MAG 2							5th	34
	Super Nova Racing									NAV 1 7	NAV 2 Ret	MNZ 1 7	MNZ 2 1
2011	Super Nova Racing	MNZ 1 2	MNZ 2 6	HUN 1 11	HUN 2 2	BRN 1 1	BRN 2 3	DON 1 2	DON 2 5	OSC 1	OSC 2	VAL 1 12	VAL 2 7	MUG 1 2	MUG 2 4	2nd	127

IndyCar Series results

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

Year	Team	Chassis	No.	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Rank	Points	Ref
2013	Barracuda Racing	Dallara DW12	98	Honda	STP	ALA	LBH	SAO	INDY	DET	DET	TXS	MIL	IOW	POC	TOR	TOR	MDO 16	SNM	BAL 22	HOU 10	HOU 19	FON	30th	53	[13]
2014	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing		16		STP	LBH	ALA	IMS	INDY	DET	DET	TXS	HOU 21	HOU 15	POC	IOW	TOR 22	TOR 16	MDO	MIL	SNM	FON		28th	46	[14]
2015	CFH Racing		20	Chevrolet	STP 9	NLA 10	LBH 22	ALA 11	IMS 14	INDY	DET 9	DET 17	TXS	TOR 2	FON	MIL	IOW	MDO 21	POC	SNM 24				21st	182	[15]
2016	Dale Coyne Racing		19	Honda	STP 20	PHX 20	LBH 17	ALA 18	IMS	INDY	DET	DET	RDA	IOW	TOR 14	MDO	POC	TXS	WGL	SNM				26th	61	[16]

Complete Formula E results

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

Year	Team	Chassis	Powertrain	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos	Points
2017–18	Nio Formula E Team	Spark SRT01-e	NextEV Nio Sport 003	HKG 10	HKG Ret	MRK 16	SCL 12	MEX 14	PDE 13	RME 13	PAR	BER 17	ZUR Ret	NYC 15	NYC Ret	21st	1

Complete TCR Europe Touring Car Series results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	DC	Points
2019	BRC Racing Team	Hyundai i30 N TCR	HUN 1 11	HUN 2 Ret	HOC 1 Ret	HOC 2 12	SPA 1 15	SPA 2 8	RBR 1 2	RBR 2 21†	OSC 1 7	OSC 2 11	CAT 1 28†	CAT 2 25	MNZ 1 Ret	MNZ 2 11	16th	99

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

Complete World Touring Car Cup results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	DC	Points
2020	Team Mulsanne	Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce TCR	BEL 1 18	BEL 2 16	GER 1	GER 2	SVK 1 12	SVK 2 Ret	SVK 3 Ret	HUN 1 13	HUN 2 13	HUN 3 15	ESP 1	ESP 2	ESP 3	ARA 1 Ret	ARA 2 9	ARA 3 12	NC‡	0‡

^‡ As Filippi was a Wildcard entry, he was ineligible to score points.

References

1. "Schumi still on top". ITV-F1.com. 2007-11-14. Archived from the original on 2007-11-16.
2. "Filippi confirmed at ART for 2008". autosport.com. 2007-12-17. Retrieved 2007-12-17.
3. "ART replace Filippi with Yamamoto". autosport.com. 2008-07-15. Retrieved 2008-07-16.
4. "Filippi replaces Buurman at Arden". autosport.com. 2008-07-17. Retrieved 2008-07-17.
5. "Ocean sign Crestani as second driver". autosport.com. 2008-12-02. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
6. O'Leary, Jamie (2011-07-20). "Luca Filippi switches from Super Nova to Coloni for Nurburgring GP2 round". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 2011-08-02.
7. Freeman, Glenn (2011-07-23). "Luca Filippi celebrated his 100th GP2 Series start with a win at the Nurburgring". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 2011-08-02.
8. Strang, Simon (2012-09-05). "Luca Filippi rejoins Coloni for Monza GP2 round". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 2012-09-10.
9. "Luca Filippi joins Bobby Rahal's team". ESPN. March 6, 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-08.
10. DiZinno, Tony (January 30, 2015). "IndyCar: CFH confirms Luca Filippi as road/street race driver of No. 20 car". MotorSportsTalk. NBC Sports. Retrieved January 30, 2015.
11. Smith, Topher (2 October 2017). "Filippi joins Turvey at NIO". e-racing.net. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
12. Smith, Sam (20 February 2018). "Unlucky Filippi Vows to Be "More Aggressive"". eRacing365. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
13. "Luca Filippi – 2013 IZOD IndyCar Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 1, 2023.
14. "Luca Filippi – 2015 Verizon IndyCar Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 1, 2023.
15. "Luca Filippi – 2015 Verizon IndyCar Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 1, 2023.
16. "Luca Filippi – 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 1, 2023.

External links

• Official website
• Luca Filippi career summary at DriverDB.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Nicky Pastorelli	Italian Formula 3000 Champion 2005	Succeeded by Giacomo Ricci