Luís Felipe Derani

The Ford GT of Andy Priaulx , Harry Tincknell and Pipo Derani the 6-hour race at Silverstone 2017

Luís Felipe "Pipo" Derani (born October 12, 1993 in São Paulo ) is a Brazilian racing car driver . In 2015 he started in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC).

Career

Derani began his motorsport career in karting in 2003 and was active in this sport until 2008. Among other things, he was Brazilian junior runner-up in 2007. In 2009 he joined the Formula racing and went for Motopark Academy in the Northern European Formula Renault at. With two second places as the best results, he finished the season in seventh place overall. He also competed for the team in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup for six races and was 27th in the overall standings. In 2010 Derani switched to the German Formula 3 Cup within the team . With two fourth places as the best results, he finished tenth in the drivers' standings. He also took part in six GT races of the Brazilian GT3 championship in the two years .

In 2011 Derani moved to Double R Racing in the British Formula 3 Championship . With a second place as the only place on the podium, he ended the season in 15th place in the overall standings. In 2012 Derani competed in British Formula 3 for Fortec Motorsport . He achieved his first British Formula 3 victory at the start of the season. With a total of two victories, Derani was eighth in the drivers' championship. He also made three guest starts in the Formula 3 Euro Series .

In early 2013 Derani took part in the Toyota Racing Series for Giles Motorsport . With a win he finished the overall ranking in seventh place. He then received a cockpit for the European Formula 3 championship in 2013 at Fortec . Two second places were his best results. As the best driver of his team, he was eighth overall at the end of the season. In addition, Derani came third at the Macau Grand Prix .

In 2014 Derani moved to the North American Pro Mazda Championship for Team Pelfrey . First he was fifth in the winter series. Derani left the main series after the sixth race. Third place was his best result. Derani then returned to Europe. In formula racing , he made three guest starts in the German Formula 3 Cup . In addition, he made his first experiences in endurance racing and competed for Murphy Prototypes in two races in the European Le Mans Series (ELMS). With a third place as the best result, he finished the season in twelfth place in the LMP2 drivers' standings. In 2015 Derani received a cockpit for the G-Drive Racing team, which is supported by OAK Racing , in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). At the 6-hour race in Spa-Francorchamps , he and his team-mates Ricardo González and Gustavo Yacamán achieved a class win in the LMP2 world championship. The three drivers reached 13th place overall.

statistics

Career stations

2003-2008: karting 2009: Northern European Formula Renault (7th place) 2009: Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup (27th place) 2009: Brazilian GT3 Championship (28th place) 2010 : German Formula 3 (10th place)

2010: Brazilian GT3 Championship (35th place) 2011 : British Formula 3 (15th place) 2012 : British Formula 3 (8th place) 2013 : Toyota Racing Series (7th place) 2013 : European Formula 3 (8th place)

2014: Pro Mazda Championship , winter series (5th place) 2014: Pro Mazda Championship (14th place) 2014: ELMS , LMP2 (12th place) 2015 : WEC (13th place)

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2015	G-Drive Racing	Ligier JS P2	Ricardo González	Gustavo Yacamán	Rank 12
2016	Extreme speed motorsports	Ligier JS P2	Ryan Dalziel	Chris Cumming	Rank 42
2017	Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK	Ford GT	Andy Priaulx	Harry Tincknell	Rank 18
2018	AF Corse	Ferrari 488 GTE	Toni Vilander	Antonio Giovinazzi	Rank 20
2019	Risi Competizione	Ferrari 488 GTE	Oliver Jarvis	Jules Gounon	Rank 40

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2016	Tequila Patron ESM	Ligier JS P2	Johannes van Overbeek	Scott Sharp	Ed Brown	Overall victory
2017	Tequila Patron ESM	OnRoak Nissan DPi	Ryan Dalziel	Scott Sharp		failure	malfunction
2018	Tequila Patron ESM	OnRoak Nissan DPi	Johannes van Overbeek	Nicolas Lapierre		Overall victory
2019	Whelen Engineering Racing	Cadillac DPi-VR	Eric Curran	Felipe Nasr		Overall victory

Individual results in the FIA ​​World Endurance Championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
2015	G-Drive Racing	Ligier JS P2	SIL	SPA	LEM	ONLY	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
			7th	10	12	9	7th	11	DNF	11
2016	Extreme speed motorsports	Ligier JS P2	SIL	SPA	LEM	ONLY	MEX	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
			6th	8th	42	10	8th	13	11	12	12
2017	Chip Ganassi Racing Rebellion Racing	Ford GT Oreca 07	SIL	SPA	LEM	ONLY	MEX	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
			13	20th	18th	8th
2018/19	AF Corse Risi Competizione	Ferrari 488 GTE	SPA	LEM	SIL	FUJ	SHA	SEB	SPA	LEM
				20th						40

Web links

Commons : Luís Felipe Derani  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Luís Felipe Derani (English and Portuguese)
• Career statistics from Luís Felipe Derani (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “Derani moves to Fortec for 2012 season” (gpupdate.net on October 18, 2011)
2. ↑ Michael Höller: "Formula 3 EM - Damon Hills son Josh moves up to the F3". Signature at Fortec Motorsport. Motorsport-Magazin.com, February 28, 2013, accessed March 3, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Valentin Khorounzhiy: “Derani to make Pro Mazda switch in 2014”. paddockscout.com, November 20, 2013, accessed January 17, 2013 .