Olivier Beretta

Olivier Beretta

Nation:	Monaco
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	1994 Brazilian Grand Prix
Last start:	1994 Hungarian Grand Prix
Constructors
1994  Larrousse
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 9 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Olivier Beretta (born November 23, 1969 in Monte Carlo ) is a Monegasque automobile racing driver .

Career

Olivier Beretta began his career like many well-known racing drivers in karting in 1983. In 1989 he switched to the French Formula 3 championship and a year later drove the European championship in this class. In a Dallara Alfa Romeo he finished third in the most important race of the year in Monaco and at the end of the year achieved his first victory in the race in Pau, which brought him third place in the overall standings.

A broken forearm at the Formula 3 race in Monaco in 1991 (Beretta drove in this formula for another year) hindered him for the whole year. Countable successes were therefore largely absent. Even switching to national championships in England and France could not change that.

However, in 1992 Beretta switched to Formula 3000 . He signed a contract with Nelson Piquet's new team, but this year did not bring the results he had hoped for. Beretta was particularly prone to individual mistakes under pressure and had to write off the season as a year of learning. It wasn't until the move to Forti Corse in 1993 that the turning point was brought about. The very first race in Donington ended with a win after pole position in practice. It was supposed to remain the only podium of the year, but at least it was enough to finish sixth in the championship thanks to constant rides in the points.

With a lot of sponsorship money, Beretta entered Formula 1 in 1994. Gérard Larrousse's constantly underfunded team signed him as a partner of Érik Comas . With the Larrousse LH94 Ford-Cosworth, however, he was unable to match his teammate's performance. At the German Grand Prix in Hockenheim he came closest to the points. Seventh place should remain his best result in this racing series. After the Hungarian Grand Prix he ran out of sponsorship money and his Grand Prix career ended after just nine races without any countable success.

It was only when Beretta switched to sports cars that he achieved success in motorsport, as these cars corresponded to his style and stamina. For the Team ORECA he won in 1998 the championship in the GT2 class of the FIA GT Championship and two class victories in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1999 and 2000. In the duo with Karl Wendlinger on the Chrysler Viper GTS-R he was in the GTS class 1999 and 2000 American Le Mans Series champion . Since 2004 Beretta Corvette works driver and piloted the C5-R , or C6.R . For Corvette Racing , the official name of the works team, he won the GTS or GT1 class three times at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, twice at the 12 Hours of Sebring , three times at the Petit Le Mans and two more times the overall classification in this class in the American Le Mans Series.

statistics

Statistics in Formula 1

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1994	Tourtel Larrousse F1	Larrousse LH94	Ford HB 3.5 V8	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	27.
total				9	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16
1994
	DNF	DNF	DNF	8th	DNS	DNF	DNF	14th	7th	9

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1996	Societé Viper Team ORECA	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Philippe Gache	Eric Helary	Rank 21
1997	Societé Viper Team ORECA	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Philippe Gache	Dominique Dupuy	failure	accident
1998	Societé Viper Team ORECA	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Tommy Archer	Pedro Lamy	Rank 13
1999	Viper Team ORECA	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Karl Wendlinger	Dominique Dupuy	Rank 10 and class win
2000	Viper Team ORECA	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Karl Wendlinger	Dominique Dupuy	Rank 7 and class win
2001	Playstation Team ORECA	Chrysler LMP 2001	Karl Wendlinger	Pedro Lamy	Rank 4
2002	Playstation Team ORECA	Dallara SP1	Érik Comas	Pedro Lamy	Rank 5
2003	Team Panoz	Panoz LMP-1	Gunnar Jeannette	Massimiliano Papis	Rank 5
2004	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	Oliver Gavin	Jan Magnussen	Rank 6 and class win
2005	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Oliver Gavin	Jan Magnussen	5th place and class win
2006	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Oliver Gavin	Jan Magnussen	4th place and class win
2007	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Oliver Gavin	Massimiliano Papis	failure	malfunction
2008	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Oliver Gavin	Massimiliano Papis	Rank 15
2009	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Oliver Gavin	Marcel Fässler	failure	malfunction
2010	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1	Oliver Gavin	Emmanuel Collard	failure	accident
2011	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Tommy Milner	Antonio García	11th place and class win
2012	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GTC	Andrea Bertolini	Marco Cioci	Rank 22
2013	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Kamui Kobayashi	Toni Vilander	Rank 21
2014	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Davide Rigon	Pierre Kaffer	failure	Engine failure
2015	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Davide Rigon	James Calado	Rank 21
2017	Spirit of Race	Ferrari 488 GTE	Thomas Flohr	Francesco Castellacci	Rank 41
2018	MR Racing	Ferrari 488 GTE	Motoaki Ishikawa	Eddie Cheever III	Rank 38
2019	MR Racing	Ferrari 488 GTE	Motoaki Ishikawa	Eddie Cheever III	Rank 41

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2000	Viper Team Oreca	Dodge Viper GTS-R	Karl Wendlinger	Dominique Dupuy	Rank 7 and class win
2003	JML	Panoz LMP01	Gunnar Jeannette	Massimiliano Papis	Rank 5
2004	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	Oliver Gavin	Jan Magnussen	failure	Clutch damage
2005	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Oliver Gavin	Jan Magnussen	Rank 6
2006	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Oliver Gavin	Jan Magnussen	3rd place and class win
2007	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Oliver Gavin	Massimiliano Papis	Rank 7 and class win
2008	Chevrolet Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Oliver Gavin	Massimiliano Papis	Rank 10
2009	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Oliver Gavin	Marcel Fässler	Rank 6
2010	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Oliver Gavin	Emmanuel Collard	Rank 16
2011	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1	Antonio García	Tommy Milner	Rank 13
2012	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia	Andrea Bertolini	Marco Cioci	Rank 19
2013	Risi Competizione	Ferrari 458 Italia	Gianmaria Bruni	Matteo Malucelli	Rank 16

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