Luca Filippi

Luca Filippi
Nationality	Italian
Born	(1985-08-09) 9 August 1985 Savigliano, Italy
IndyCar Series career
Debut season	2013
Current team	CFH Racing
Car no.	20
Former teams	Barracuda Racing, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
Starts	16
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	28th in 2014
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 Formula Renault 2000 UK FR2000 UK Winter Series
Championship titles
2005	Italian F3000

Luca Filippi (born 9 August 1985 in Savigliano, Italy) is an Italian racing driver who competes in the IndyCar Series.

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 ever test.

GP2 Series

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. On 6 December Filippi tested for Super Aguri F1, being even faster than regular race driver Takuma Sato.

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 ART Grand Prix at the Silverstone round of the 2008 GP2 Series season.

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. Following a disappointing first half of the season, Luca left the team in favour of Sakon Yamamoto after ten races. Filippi was confirmed as a driver at the Arden International team two days later, where he replaced Yelmer Buurman. 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.

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. 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. 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.

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. 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

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; despite this, he didn't 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.

Career history

Racing record

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	Fisichella Motor Sport	6	0	0	0	2	19th
		BCN Competición	12	0	0	0	5
2007	GP2 Series	Super Nova Racing	21	2	1	6	59	4th
2008	Formula One	Honda	Test driver
	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
2009	GP2 Asia Series	BCN Competición	2	0	0	0	0	NC
	GP2 Series	Super Nova Racing	21	1	0	4	40	5th
2010	GP2 Asia Series	MalaysiaQi-Meritus.com	8	1	1	3	39	2nd
	GP2 Series	Super Nova Racing	10	1	0	0	5	20th
	Auto GP	Euronova Racing	10	2	1	3	34	5th
2011	GP2 Asia Series	Scuderia Coloni	2	0	0	0	0	20th
	GP2 Series	Super Nova Racing	10	0	0	1	9	2nd
		Scuderia Coloni	8	0	3	4	45
	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	9	0	0	1	170*	20th*

* 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	FMS International	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR Ret	SMR FEA 11	SMR SPR 5	EUR FEA Ret	EUR SPR Ret	ESP FEA	ESP SPR	MON FEA																19th	7
	BCN Competición										GBR FEA Ret	GBR SPR 9	FRA FEA Ret	FRA SPR Ret	GER FEA 21	GER SPR 16	HUN FEA 12	HUN SPR Ret	TUR FEA 10	TUR SPR Ret	ITA FEA 4	ITA SPR 7
2007	Super Nova Racing	BHR FEA 1	BHR SPR 3	ESP FEA Ret	ESP SPR 11	MON FEA 4	FRA FEA 4	FRA SPR 2	GBR FEA 5	GBR SPR 7	GER FEA Ret	GER SPR Ret	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR 16	TUR FEA Ret	TUR SPR 7	ITA FEA 2	ITA SPR 2	BEL FEA 2	BEL SPR 7	VAL FEA 18	VAL SPR 6				4th	59
2008	ART Grand Prix	ESP FEA 11	ESP SPR Ret	TUR FEA 16	TUR SPR 14	MON FEA Ret	MON SPR 12	FRA FEA 10	FRA SPR 3	GBR FEA 8	GBR SPR Ret															19th	6
	Arden International											GER FEA Ret	GER SPR Ret	HUN FEA 15	HUN SPR NC	EUR FEA 8	EUR SPR 13	BEL FEA 19	BEL SPR Ret	ITA FEA Ret	ITA SPR Ret
2009	Super Nova Racing	ESP FEA 4	ESP SPR 7	MON FEA Ret	MON SPR NC	TUR FEA 2	TUR SPR Ret	GBR FEA 14	GBR SPR 16	GER FEA Ret	GER SPR 18	HUN FEA 6	HUN SPR 2	VAL FEA 7	VAL SPR Ret	BEL FEA Ret	BEL SPR Ret	ITA FEA Ret	ITA SPR Ret	POR FEA 2	POR SPR 1					5th	40
2010	Super Nova Racing	ESP FEA	ESP SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	TUR FEA	TUR SPR	VAL FEA	VAL SPR	GBR FEA 20	GBR SPR 9	GER FEA 10	GER SPR 7	HUN FEA 14	HUN SPR 6	BEL FEA 5	BEL SPR Ret	ITA FEA Ret	ITA SPR 14	ABU FEA	ABU SPR					20th	5
2011	Super Nova Racing	TUR FEA Ret	TUR SPR 14	ESP FEA Ret	ESP SPR Ret	MON FEA 3	MON SPR 4	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR 15	GBR FEA 13	GBR SPR 12															2nd	54
	Scuderia Coloni											GER FEA 1	GER SPR 3	HUN FEA 6	HUN SPR Ret	BEL FEA 4	BEL SPR 1	ITA FEA 1	ITA SPR 5
2012	Scuderia Coloni	MYS FEA	MYS SPR	BHR1 FEA	BHR1 SPR	BHR2 FEA	BHR2 SPR	ESP FEA	ESP SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	VAL FEA	VAL SPR	GBR FEA	GBR SPR	GER FEA	GER SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	BEL FEA	BEL SPR	ITA FEA 1	ITA SPR 22	SGP FEA Ret	SGP 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	IDN SPR 21	MYS FEA Ret	MYS SPR Ret	BHR FEA Ret	BHR SPR 11	DUB2 FEA 12	DUB2 SPR Ret			17th	4
2008–09	BCN Competición	CHN FEA Ret	CHN SPR Ret	DUB FEA	DUB SPR	BHR1 FEA	BHR1 SPR	QAT FEA	QAT SPR	MYS FEA	MYS SPR	BHR2 FEA	BHR2 SPR	NC	0
2009–10	MalaysiaQi-Meritus.com	ABU1 FEA 2	ABU1 SPR 8	ABU2 FEA 14	ABU2 SPR 17	BHR1 FEA 2	BHR1 SPR 18	BHR2 FEA 1	BHR2 SPR 8					2nd	29
2011	Scuderia Coloni	ABU FEA	ABU SPR	ITA FEA 20	ITA 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	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Rank	Points
2013	Barracuda Racing	Dallara DW12	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
2014	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Dallara DW12	Honda	STP	LBH	ALA	IMS	INDY	DET	DET	TXS	HOU 21	HOU 15	POC	IOW	TOR 22	TOR 16	MDO	MIL	SNM	FON		28th	46
2015	CFH Racing	Dallara DW12	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

* Season still in progress.

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