Paolo Coloni

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Paolo Coloni (born May 24, 1969 in Perugia ) is a former racing car driver and current motorsport manager from Italy . He runs the company Paolo Coloni Racing , based in Passignano sul Trasimeno , which his father Enzo founded in 1981 and was known for many years as Coloni Motorsport or Scuderia Coloni. Paolo Coloni managed the operations of his own racing team for several years and now organizes the Auto GP motorsport series .

Racing driver

Paolo Coloni took part in 52 races from 1989 to 1995. He made his debut in the Italian Formula 3 Championship in 1989 . From 1991 he drove in this series for his father's team. Coloni won a total of two races and achieved six other podium positions. Coloni achieved his greatest international success at the Formula 3 Masters in Zandvoort in 1993 when he finished second behind Jos Verstappen . In the 1991 season , Paolo Coloni was also registered as a test and reserve driver for his father's Formula 1 team, but was not used.

Motorsport management

Coloni and AutoGP (2016)

Since the mid-1990s, Paolo Coloni has been running the family business Coloni Motorsport in the second generation, which is now called Paolo Coloni Racing. Under his leadership, the company, which after initial successes in Formula 3 had failed in 1991 with an over-ambitious Formula 1 project , re- established itself in international motorsport. From 1997 Coloni Motorsport competed in the Formula 3000 European Championship and its successor, the GP2 series . Coloni's team won several races.

Under the leadership of Paolo Coloni, the company increasingly took on services for other racing teams. Coloni ran the Minardi Formula 3000 team for two years alongside his own racing team . For Formula Nissan , a forerunner of the World Series by Renault , Coloni developed the standard chassis used from 1998.

Since 2006, Paolo Coloni and his father have been organizing the Auto GP championships, which emerged from an Italian offshoot of Formula 3000. In 2016, the Auto GP was integrated into the Boss GP series due to lack of participation.

literature

  • Christian Eichberger: The wolf is 30 . Brief description of the team history since 1982 in: Motorsport Aktuell, issue 7/2012, p. 8 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Motorsport Aktuell, issue 7/2012, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Coloni, Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Perugia