Stéphane Richelmi

Stéphane Richelmi (2011)

Richelmi at the Formula Renault 3.5 race at the Hungaroring 2011 in the Draco bolide

Stéphane Richelmi at the sprint race of the GP2 series in Spa-Francorchamps 2013

Stéphane Richelmi (born March 17, 1990 in Monte Carlo ) is a Monegasque automobile racing driver . He competed in the GP2 series from 2011 to 2014 .

Career

Richelmi began his motorsport career in karting in 2001 , in which he was active until 2005. In 2006 he made his debut in formula racing in the Belgian Formula Renault 1.6 and finished his first season in twelfth place overall. In 2007 he switched to the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup and also took part in two Italian Formula Renault races. He remained without points in both series. In 2008 he started again in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup, but left the series two race weekends before the end of the season without scoring points. He also started at the beginning of the season in the Western European Formula Renault, in which he finished 16th overall, and as a guest starter in the Formula 3 Euro Series for the last three races of the season .

In 2009 , Richelmi started eight out of ten race weekends in the British Formula 3 Championship and finished the season in 19th place overall. He was more successful in the Italian Formula 3 championship , in which he entered for the third race weekend at RC Motorsport . Richelmi finished two races in second place and was sixth overall at the end of the season. In 2010 he stayed in the Italian Formula 3 championship and moved to Lucidi Motors . Richelmi won his first race on the first race weekend. With a total of four wins he was runner- up behind César Ramos . As a reward for this achievement, he was given the opportunity to take part in Formula 1 test drives for Scuderia Ferrari at the beginning of December .

In 2011 , Richelmi competed for International Draco Racing in Formula Renault 3.5 . With a seventh place as the best result, he finished the season in 26th place in the overall standings. In addition, he took part in an event of the GP2 series for Trident Racing as a substitute for his injured compatriot Stefano Coletti . After the season he competed again for Trident Racing at the 2011 GP2 Final and finished 26th.

In 2012 , Richelmi contested the entire GP2 season for Trident. In the main race in Hockenheim , he achieved his first GP2 podium finish in third place. He finished the season in 18th place. Internally, he prevailed against Julian Leal with 25 to 9 points. In 2013 , Richelmi switched to DAMS , the championship team of the previous season, within the GP2 series . At the main race in Silverstone , he achieved his best GP2 position to date with a second place, which was also his only podium finish of the season. In the championship he improved to eighth place. Internally he was defeated by Marcus Ericsson with 103 to 121 points. In 2014 , Richelmi stayed at DAMS and got a new teammate in Jolyon Palmer . In the second main race in Barcelona, Richelmi stalled the engine while on pole position and had to start out of the pits. At his home race weekend in Monte Carlo , he won the sprint race and achieved his first GP2 victory. He stood on the podium one more time. While his teammate Palmer won the championship with 276 points, Richelmi achieved ninth place overall with 73 points.

statistics

Career stations

2001-2005: karting 2006: Belgian Formula Renault 1.6 2007: Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup 2007: Italian Formula Renault 2008: Western European Formula Renault (16th place)

2008: Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup 2009: Italian Formula 3 (6th place) 2009 : British Formula 3 (19th place) 2010: Italian Formula 3 (2nd place) 2011 : Formula Renault 3.5 (26th place)

2011 : GP2 series (31st place) 2012 : GP2 series (18th place) 2013 : GP2 series (8th place) 2014 : GP2 series (9th place) 2017/18: Asian Le Mans Series , LMP2 (champions)

Individual results in the GP2 series

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
2011	Trident Racing	DOOR		ESP		MON		ESP		GBR		GER		HUN		BEL		ITA								0	31.
																		15th	14th
2012	Trident Racing	MAS		BRN		BRN		ESP		MON		ESP		GBR		GER		HUN		BEL		ITA		SIN		25th	18th
		19th	19th	11	DNF	17th	17th	21st	19th	8th	DNF	14th	DNF	13	DNF	3	21st	17th	21st	9	6th	13	9	14th	22 *
2013	DAMS	MAS		BRN		ESP		MON		GBR		GER		HUN		BEL		ITA		SIN		UAE				103	8th.
		8th	4th	DNF	13	15th	15th	9	8th	2	19th	5	DNF	5	9	7th	4th	4th	25th	4th	4th	DNF	20th
2014	DAMS	BRN		ESP		MON		AUT		GBR		GER		HUN		BEL		ITA		RUS		UAE				73	9.
		19th	5	10	7th	8th	1	14th	10	8th	6th	10	DNF	DNF	11	21st	12	4th	3	22nd	18th	5	9

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2016	Signatech Alpine	Alpine A460	Nicolas Lapierre	Gustavo Menezes	5th place and class win
2018	Jackie Chan DC Racing	Oreca 07	Ho-Pin Tung	Gabriel Aubry	Rank 10
2019	Jackie Chan DC Racing	Oreca 07	Ho-Pin Tung	Gabriel Aubry	Rank 7

Web links

Commons : Stéphane Richelmi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Stéphane Richelmi (French)
• Career statistics from Stéphane Richelmi (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ «Portrait» ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (richelmi.com; accessed October 21, 2010) 
2. ↑ "Young talent opportunity at Ferrari: Test Formula 3 drivers" (Motorsport-Total.com on December 2, 2010)
3. ↑ “Draco signs Richelmi and Negrao” (autosport.com on January 13, 2011)
4. ↑ “Stephane Richelmi to deputise for injured Stefano Coletti in Trident GP2 line-up” (autosport.com on September 3, 2011)
5. ↑ “Trident Racing with Leal and Richelmi” (gp2series.com on October 27, 2011)
6. ↑ "GP2 - Richelmi will be a regular Trident driver in 2012" (Motorsport-Magazin.com on December 12, 2011)
7. ↑ Stefan Ziegler: "DAMS: The champions drive with Ericsson and Richelmi". Motorsport-Total.com, December 14, 2012, accessed January 1, 2013 . 
8. ↑ Philipp Schajer: "GP2 - Palmer changes to DAMS". Richelmi stays. Motorsport-Magazin.com, November 29, 2013, accessed November 29, 2013 .