Andrea Barlesi

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Andrea Barlesi (2011)

Andrea Barlesi (born June 15, 1991 in Paris , France ) is an Italian - Belgian racing driver . He competed in the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) in 2012 .

Career in motorsport

Barlesi began his motorsport career in karting in 2005 , in which he was active until 2008. In 2009 he switched to touring car racing and took part in the French Renault Clio Cup . In 2010 Barlesi switched to endurance racing and competed for DAMS in the FLM class of the Le Mans Series . He won a race and together with Gary Chalandon was the overall winner of this class. In 2011 he took part in five races of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup . He started for OAK Racing in the LMP2 class. His best result was a third place in the LMP2 class. He also took part in a race in the Blancpain Endurance Series .

In 2012 Barlesi returned to touring car racing. At SUNRED Engineering he received a cockpit in the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC). Since there were not enough current engines for the SEAT León , it started with an older SEAT diesel engine at the season opener. At the second event, he received the more up -to- date SUNRED 1.6T engine, which, however, had originally been rejected. After the second race weekend, a 15th place is his best result.

The last active season of Barlesi was 2014. After the end of the season he did not contest any more races.

nationality

Barlesi has both Italian and Belgian citizenship. In motorsport, he competes with a Belgian license.

statistics

Career stations

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2011 FranceFrance OAK Racing Pescarolo 01 FranceFrance Frédéric Da Rocha FranceFrance Patrice Lafargue Rank 25

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2011 FranceFrance OAK Racing Pescarolo 01 FranceFrance Frédéric Da Rocha FranceFrance Patrice Lafargue Rank 31st

Web links

Commons : Andrea Barlesi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “About Me”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (andreabarlesi.com; accessed on March 6, 2012)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.andreabarlesi.com
  2. ↑ “Andrea Barlesi confirmed for SUNRED” (touringcartimes.com on March 5, 2012)
  3. ↑ "SEAT: Why the diesel engine is back" (Motorsport-Total.com on March 27, 2012)
  4. ↑ "The Sunred engines are returning" (Motorsport-Total.com on March 30, 2012)
  5. ↑ "Barlesi changes from long distance to WTCC" (Motorsport-Total.com on March 6, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Barlesi, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France