Fabrizio De Simone

Fabrizio De Simone (born March 30, 1971 in Rome ) is an Italian racing driver .

Career

Fabrizio De Simone began his career in karting , where he finished second overall in the Formula K World Championship in 1988, 1989 and 1990. Although he did not win the Italian Formula 3 championship for three years, he was promoted to Formula 3000 in 1994 .

Here, too, there were no countable results in two seasons. In 1994 the Roman reached seven and a year later only two points in the final championship. All the more surprising was his engagement as a test driver with the Jordan Formula 1 Team in 1996 . The team of Eddie Jordan was this year with Rubens Barrichello and Martin Brundle occupied prominent and De Simone came almost never to drive stakes. After Eddie Jordan did not renew his contract after a year, he switched to the Italian touring car championship for BMW Italia in 1997, where he finished fourth overall in 1997 and 1998.

At the European Touring Car Championship , he joined Maserati as a works driver in 2005 , with the MC12 in the American Le Mans Series . He made his debut at the Le Mans 24-hour race back in 2003 - his only appearance at the endurance race on the Sarthe to date . His last active season so far was 2007, which he contested in a Ferrari F430 GT in the GT2 class of the Le Mans Series .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2003	JMB Racing	Ferrari 360 Modena GT	David Terrien	Fabio Babini	Rank 25

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2005	Maserati Corse	Maserati MC12 GT1	Andrea Bertolini	Fabio Babini	Rank 8

Web links

• Fabrizio De Simone at Racing Sports Cars