Fabio Babini

Matteo Malucelli's, Jamie Davies and Fabio Babini's Aston Martin DBR9 at the 2007 Le Mans 24-hour race

Fabio Babini (born November 3, 1969 in Faenza ) is an Italian racing driver .

Career

Babini gained his first experience in racing in the early 1990s in the Italian Formula 3 championship , before he switched to GT and sports car racing in 1995.

He has been a regular driver in the FIA GT Championship and the American Le Mans Series since the early 2000s . In 2000 he won the GT2 class in a Porsche 996 GT3 R at the Daytona 24-hour race and has since achieved a wealth of class victories in both racing series. In 2001, at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, he and his teammates Gabrio Rosa and Luca Drudi drove a Porsche 911 GT3 to sixth place overall, the best overall ranking for a GT2 racing car since this class was introduced at Le Mans. As remarkable as this racing appearance by Babini at the Sarthe in 2001 was, it was short in 2006. On the first lap he lost control of his Aston Martin DBR9 at the second Porsche corner and crashed into the crash barriers on the left. Since the Aston Martin could no longer be started, the team had to give up the race after almost ten kilometers.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2000	Haberthur Racing	Porsche 996 GT3 R.	Gabrio Rosa	Michel Ligonnet	failure	accident
2001	Seikel Motorsport	Porsche 996 GT3 RS	Gabrio Rosa	Luca Drudi	Rank 6 and class win
2003	JMB Racing	Ferrari 360 Modena GT	David Terrien	Fabrizio De Simone	Rank 25
2006	BMS Scuderia Italia	Aston Martin DBR9	Christian Pescatori	Fabrizio Gollin	failure	accident
2007	Aston Martin Racing BMS	Aston Martin DBR9	Jamie Davies	Matteo Malucelli	Rank 11
2008	BMS Scuderia Italia	Ferrari F430 GT	Paolo Ruberti	Matteo Malucelli	Rank 22
2009	BMS Scuderia Italia	Ferrari F430 GT	Paolo Ruberti	Matteo Malucelli	Rank 19
2018	Ebimotors	Porsche 911 RSR	Christina Nielsen	Érik Maris	Rank 32

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2001	Seikel Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Alex Caffi	Gabrio Rosa		Rank 14
2002	PK Sport Ltd.	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Giovanni Anapoli	Robin Liddell		Rank 15
2003	JMB Racing USA	Ferrari 360 Modena N-GT	Stéphan Grégoire	Christian Pescatori		Rank 15
2005	Maserati Corse	Maserati MC12 GT1	Andrea Bertolini	Fabrizio De Simone		Rank 8
2006	Konrad Motorsports	Saleen S7-R	Jamie Davies	Paolo Ruberti		failure	Gearbox damage
2016	Dream Racing Competition	Lamborghini Huracán GT3	Cédric Sbirrazzuoli	Paolo Ruperti	Luca Persiani	failure	accident
2017	Ebimotors	Lamborghini Huracán GT3	Emanuele Busnelli	Michele Beretta	Emmanuel Collard	Rank 27

Web links

• Fabio Babini at Racing Sports Cars