René Binder

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René Binder (2012)

René Binder (born January 1, 1992 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian racing driver . He started in the GP2 series from 2012 to 2016 .

Career

Binder began his motorsport career in karting in 2002 , in which he was active until 2008. Among other things, he was third in the German Junior Kart Championship in 2007 and second in the German Challenger Kart Championship in 2008. In 2009 he joined the Formula racing and went for the Team Abt Sportsline in the ADAC Formula Masters at. While his teammate Daniel Abt , who, unlike Binder, had already completed an ADAC Formula Masters season, won half of all races and won the championship title, Binder finished seventh in the championship with three podium finishes.

In 2010 , Binder switched to the German Formula 3 Cup at Motopark Academy . With a third place as the best result, he finished the season in twelfth place in the championship, while his teammates Kevin Magnussen and Jimmy Eriksson won several races. In 2011 , Binder switched to Jo Zeller Racing and competed in his second season in German Formula 3. At the end of the season, Binder, who did not take part in an event, was eighth overall with a third place as the best result. In addition, Binder took part in a race weekend of the FIA Formula 2 Championship . In 2012 , Binder completed his third season in German Formula 3 for Van Amersfoort Racing . Among other things, he won a difficult rain race in Spa-Francorchamps . With three wins he improved to sixth place in the drivers' championship. His team-mate Lucas Auer was runner-up. In addition, Binder took part in three race weekends of the 2012 season of the GP2 series for the Lazarus team. He was left without points.

René Binder in the 2014 GP2 series at Silverstone

In 2013 , Binder completely switched to the GP2 series, in which he continued to compete for the Lazarus team. At the season opener in Sepang he qualified eighth for the top 10 for the first time. In the sprint race, Binder achieved his first top 10 position with eighth place and at the same time his first point in the GP2 series. At the event at the Circuit de Monaco , Binder finished in the top 10 in both races. He was seventh in the main race and sixth in the sprint race. These three point placements were the only ones in the season. Binder finished the season in 23rd place overall. He got 11 of his team's 12 points that season. For the 2014 season , Binder received a GP2 cockpit from Arden International . He scored points in the first two races. No further points were placed in the rest of the season. At the end of the season he was 25th overall. Internally he was defeated by André Negrão with 3 to 31 points.

In 2015 , Binder switched to Trident within the GP2 series . Before the sixth race weekend, Binder contracted a streptococcal infection. Although he started for the race weekend, the doctors advised him to skip the following for recovery purposes. Binder then left Trident, who had problems with the Pirelli tires, without scoring any points. He moved to MP Motorsport to represent the injured Daniël de Jong , with whom he scored points straight away. He finished the season in 22nd place overall. In addition, Binder contested a Formula Renault 3.5 race weekend for Pons Racing .

In 2016 , Binder switched to Formula V8 3.5 , the former Formula Renault 3.5, and was given a cockpit with the Lotus team, which is managed by Charouz Racing System . He was on the podium five times with two second places as the best results. He finished seventh in the drivers' championship. With 161 to 189 points he was internally defeated by his teammate Roy Nissany . He also competed in one event of the 2016 GP2 series for the ART Grand Prix and Carlin .

Personal

Some of the members of René Binder's family were active in motorsport. His father Franz Binder won the Austrian Formula 3 championship in 1987 and his uncle Hans Binder competed in Formula 1 , among other things .

statistics

Career stations

  • 2013 : GP2 series (23rd place)
  • 2014 : GP2 series (25th place)
  • 2015 : GP2 series (22nd place)
  • 2015 : Formula Renault 3.5 (22nd place)
  • 2016 : Formula V8 3.5 (7th place)
  • 2016 : GP2 series (23rd place)
  • 2017 : World Series Formula V8 3.5 (4th place)
  • 2017 : Formula 2 (27th place)
  • 2018 : Indy Car Series
  • 2018/19 : FIA WEC , LMP1 (43rd place)
  • 2019: ELMS , LMP2 (18th place)
  • 2019: WSCC , DPi (18th place)

Individual results in the GP2 series / FIA Formula 2 championship

year team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23 24 Points rank
2012 Venezuela GP Lazarus MalaysiaMalaysia MAS BahrainBahrain BRN BahrainBahrain BRN SpainSpain ESP MonacoMonaco MON SpainSpain ESP United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR GermanyGermany GER HungaryHungary HUN BelgiumBelgium BEL ItalyItaly ITA SingaporeSingapore SIN 0 31.
                                    19th 17th 17th 13 DNF DNF
2013 Venezuela GP Lazarus MalaysiaMalaysia MAS BahrainBahrain BRN SpainSpain ESP MonacoMonaco MON United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR GermanyGermany GER HungaryHungary HUN BelgiumBelgium BEL ItalyItaly ITA SingaporeSingapore SIN United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates UAE     11 23.
11 8th 18th 25th 20th 19th 7th 6th 16 13 20th 10 22nd 13 DNF 20th 16 14th 18th 9 15th 16    
2014 Arden International BahrainBahrain BRN SpainSpain ESP MonacoMonaco MON AustriaAustria AUT United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR GermanyGermany GER HungaryHungary HUN BelgiumBelgium BEL ItalyItaly ITA RussiaRussia RUS United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates UAE     3 25th
9 8th 15th DNF DNF 20th 12 12 24 19th 11 22nd 20th 14th DNF 23 20th DNF 23 DNF DNF 23    
2015 Trident BahrainBahrain BRN SpainSpain ESP MonacoMonaco MON AustriaAustria AUT United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR HungaryHungary HUN BelgiumBelgium BEL ItalyItaly ITA RussiaRussia RUS BahrainBahrain BRN United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates UAE     2 22nd
17th DNF 22nd DNF 11 16 17th 14th 17th 18th 23 24 INJ INJ                    
MP Motorsport                         10 8th 16 DNF 20th DNF 14th C.
2016 ART Grand Prix SpainSpain ESP MonacoMonaco MON AzerbaijanAzerbaijan AZE AustriaAustria AUT United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR HungaryHungary HUN GermanyGermany GER BelgiumBelgium BEL ItalyItaly ITA MalaysiaMalaysia MAS United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates UAE     0 23.
            16 15th                                
Carlin     13 15th
2017 Rapax BahrainBahrain BRN SpainSpain ESP MonacoMonaco MON AzerbaijanAzerbaijan AZE AustriaAustria AUT United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR HungaryHungary HUN BelgiumBelgium BEL ItalyItaly ITA SpainSpain ESP United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates UAE     2 27.
                                    15th 17th        

Individual results in Formula Renault 3.5 / Formula V8 3.5 / World Series Formula V8 3.5

year team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 17th 18th Points rank
2015 Pons Racing SpainSpain ALC MonacoMonaco MON BelgiumBelgium SPA HungaryHungary HUN AustriaAustria SPI United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LMS SpainSpain JRZ   4th 22nd
                      13 8th          
2016 lotus SpainSpain ALC HungaryHungary HUN BelgiumBelgium SPA FranceFrance LEC United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL AustriaAustria SPI ItalyItaly MNZ SpainSpain JER SpainSpain CAT 161 7th
4th 3 11 7th 5 6th 3 5 3 2 DNF 12 5 2 5 7th DNF 6th
2017 lotus United KingdomUnited Kingdom SIL BelgiumBelgium SPA ItalyItaly MNZ SpainSpain JER SpainSpain ALC GermanyGermany ONLY MexicoMexico MEX United StatesUnited States COA BahrainBahrain BRN 201 4th
5 4th 6th 2 1 1 4th 5 5 DNF 6th 9 6th DNF 1 10 9 1

Individual results in the IndyCar Series

year team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 17th Points rank
2018 Juncos Racing STP PHO LBH ALA IMS INDY DET TXS ROA IOW GOAL MDO POC STL POR SNM 61 28.
22nd 16 21st 22nd 17th 21st

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Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2019 FranceFrance Panis-Barthez Competition Ligier JS P217 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Will Stevens FranceFrance Julien Canal Rank 13

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2019 United StatesUnited States Juncos Racing Cadillac DPi-VR United StatesUnited States Will Owen ArgentinaArgentina Agustin Canapino Rank 32

Web links

Commons : René Binder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Rene Binder" (formel3.de; accessed on April 25, 2011)
  2. ^ "Desired candidate at Zeller Racing" (Motorsport-xl.de on March 26, 2011)
  3. ^ "Formula 2 in Spielberg with an Austrian driver" (Motorsport-Total.com on August 19, 2011)
  4. ^ "Formula 3 Cup - Rene Binder starts for Van Amersfoort" (Motorsport-Total.com on December 7, 2011)
  5. ^ "Formula 3 Cup: Binder swims to victory in Spa". Motorsport-Total.com, July 15, 2012, accessed April 16, 2013 .
  6. ↑ “Rene Binder keeps Lazarus GP2 seat for 2013”. autosport.com, January 17, 2013, accessed January 17, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Norman Fischer: "Fix: Binder signs with Arden". Motorsport-Total.com, December 19, 2013, accessed December 19, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Norman Fischer: New Opportunity: Trident signs Rene Binder. Motorsport-Total.com, February 11, 2015, accessed on February 11, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Gerald Dirnbeck: Rene Binder pauses at the GP2 race in Spa-Francorchamps. Motorsport-Total.com, August 19, 2015, accessed October 3, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Robert Seiwert: GP2 - Binder to MP Motorsport: New chapter. Friendly separation. Motorsport-Magazin.com, September 3, 2015, accessed October 3, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Peter Allen: Merhi halts FR3.5 programs, Binder joins new Pons line-up. paddockscout.com, September 10, 2015, accessed October 10, 2015 .
  12. ^ Peter Allen: Lotus team to run Binder and Nissany in Formula V8 3.5. paddockscout.com, March 21, 2016, accessed November 5, 2016 .
  13. ↑ "About". rene-binder.com, accessed December 6, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Binder, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian automobile racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Innsbruck , Austria