Davide Rigon

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NationalityItaly Italian
Born (1986-08-26) 26 August 1986 (age 39)
Thiene, Vicenza, Italy
Debut season2013
Current teamAF Corse
Davide Rigon
Rigon in 2018
NationalityItaly Italian
Born (1986-08-26) 26 August 1986 (age 39)
Thiene, Vicenza, Italy
FIA WEC - GTE Pro career
Debut season2013
Current teamAF Corse
Racing licence FIA Platinum
Car number54
Former teams8 Star Motorsport
Starts80
Wins7
Poles7
Fastest laps4
Best finish2nd in 2016
Previous series
2009, 11
200809
2008–09
2008
2008
2008
200608
2005
2005
2005
2004, 06
2004–05
2004
2004
2003
2003
GP2 Series
Superleague Formula
GP2 Asia Series
FIA GT Championship
International Formula Master
Superstars Series
Euroseries 3000
Formula One testing
World Series by Renault
Formula Azzurra
Italian F3
Formula Renault 2.0 Italia
FRenault Italia Winter Series
Formula Gloria
Formula BMW ADAC
Formula Gloria W. Trophy
Championship titles
2010
2008
2007
2007
2005
Superleague (Anderlecht)
Superleague (B. Guoan)
Euroseries 3000
Italian Formula 3000
Formula Azzurra

Davide Rigon (born 26 August 1986) is an Italian professional racing driver who is currently competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship and other selected GT races for AF Corse. He is also currently part of the Scuderia Ferrari Formula One test driver team.[1]

Starting out in Formula BMW ADAC in 2003, Thiene-born Rigon progressed to the Italian Formula Renault Championship and Italian Formula Three. He won the Formula Azzurra title in 2005, and finished second in Italian Formula Three the following year.[citation needed]

Rigon driving for Olympiacos at Donington Park in the 2009 Superleague Formula season

In 2007, Rigon won the Euroseries 3000 championship, winning three races. He also raced for Italy in the 2007–08 A1 Grand Prix season. In 2008, he competed in the GT2 class of the FIA GT Championship for BMS Scuderia Italia, and also in International Formula Master, while also racing for Beijing Guoan in the inaugural 2008 Superleague Formula season. Guoan were rated amongst the outsiders for the title, but Rigon defied that and led them to the championship, with three wins.[citation needed]

Rigon testing for Ferrari in 2013.

During the off-season, Rigon joined up with Trident Racing to compete in the fourth round of the 2008–09 GP2 Asia Series season in Qatar.[2] He scored his first points in the series, with a seventh at the penultimate race in Bahrain. He followed that up with a third in the final race, as he finished 17th in the championship.[citation needed]

He continued with the team into the 2009 GP2 Series season, but was replaced after four rounds by Rodolfo González despite outpacing team-mate Ricardo Teixeira all season.[3] He did however return for the Hungarian rounds of the championship, and remained with the team for the rest of the season. He returned to Superleague Formula, but with the Olympiacos CFP team instead of Beijing Guoan. He reclaimed the championship in 2010 whilst driving for the R.S.C. Anderlecht team.[citation needed]

Rigon returned to the GP2 Series for 2011 with the Coloni team. During the first round of the season, at Istanbul Park, he was involved in a crash with Julián Leal and suffered multiple fractures to his tibia and fibula.[4] He was replaced by compatriot Kevin Ceccon, and later Luca Filippi, and was restricted to 29th in the championship as a result of his injury.[5]

Rigon racing in the 2018 6 Hours of Silverstone.

Rigon switched to sports car racing in 2012, and joined Kessel Racing for the Blancpain Endurance Series. In the 2013 season, he won at Monza and ended fourth in the Pro Cup with teammates Daniel Zampieri and César Ramos. Also in 2013, he drove in four rounds of the FIA World Endurance Championship with 8 Star Motorsports, also in a Ferrari 458 Italia. He got a win and two second-place finishes, helping the team to win the GTE-Am class championship. Rigon also won two races out of four in the International GT Open partnering with Andrea Montermini in a Scuderia Villorba Ferrari.[citation needed]

Rigon drove a GTE-Pro class Ferrari F458 Italia for AF Corse full-time for the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship.[citation needed]

Racing record

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