Raffaele Giammaria

Raffaele Giammaria (born September 1, 1977 in Civitavecchia ) is an Italian racing driver .

Career

After Giammaria 1989-1996 in karting was active, he moved in 1997 to the single-seater racing and competed in the Italian Formula Campus . After two years in the Italian F3 Federale , in which he was runner-up in 1999, he switched to the Italian Formula Renault in 2000 . The Italian had scored the most points at the end of the season together with Felipe Massa . Since Massa had won more races, Giammaria finished second in the overall standings behind Massa. In 2001, the Italian racing driver started in the German Formula 3 championship and finished twelfth overall. In 2002 he couldn't find a cockpit for a whole season and so he only started in a few races in the Italian Formula 3 championship and the Euro Formula 3000 .

For 2003 Giammaria switched to the international Formula 3000 championship and, as a teammate from Giorgio Pantano, was given a cockpit at the Italian Durango racing team. In his debut season, Giammaria couldn't keep up with his teammate, who won two races, and achieved third place in Monaco as the best place . At the end of the season he finished tenth overall. In 2004 the Italian contested his second season in Formula 3000 and competed for AEZ Racing , the second team in the Durango racing team. In contrast to his teammate Ferdinando Monfardini, Giammaria scored points in a few races and came third once. Giammaria had to leave AEZ Racing two races before the end of the season due to financial problems. For the last race of the season he returned to Formula 3000 and started for the Belgian team Astromega .

After Giammaria had not received a cockpit in the GP2 series , the successor to Formula 3000, in 2005 he only competed in a few races of the Italian Formula 3000 and the World Series by Renault . Giammaria has been competing in various GT racing series since 2006 . In his first season he finished 16th in the GTA class of the International GT Open . He also made his debut in the FIA GT Championship . In 2007 Giammaria's main focus was on the Italian Prototype Championship , in which he was fifth overall with a race win. He also competed in some races of the International GT Open and the Spanish GT Championship. In 2008 the Italian drove again in various GT racing series. He contested most of the races in the Italian GT Championship. He also returned to formula racing for two races and competed in the Euroseries 3000, in which he finished tenth overall with two podium finishes. In 2009 Giammaria competed in the International GT Open again, in which he finished twelfth overall at the end of the season.

Career stations

• 1989–1996: karting
• 1997: Italian Formula Campus
• 1998: Italian F3 Federale
• 1999: Italian F3 Federale (2nd place)
• 2000: Italian Formula Renault (2nd place)
• 2001: German Formula 3 Championship (12th place)
• 2002: Euro Formula 3000
• 2003 : Formula 3000 (10th place)
• 2004 : Formula 3000 (8th place)
• 2005: Italian Formula 3000 (10th place)
• 2006: International GT Open GTA (16th place); FIA GT Championship (22nd place)
• 2007: Italian Prototype Championship (5th place)
• 2008: Euroseries 3000 (10th place); Italian GT Championship (20th place)
• 2009: International GT Open (12th place)

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2014	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Peter Ashley Mann	Lorenzo Casè	failure	malfunction
2015	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Peter Ashley Mann	Matteo Cressoni	Rank 31st

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2016	Spirit of Race	Ferrari 458 Italia	Matteo Cressoni	Peter Ashley Mann	Rank 29

Web links

• Official website of Raffaele Giammaria