Giuliano Alesi

Summary

Giuliano Ryu Alesi (born 20 September 1999) is a French racing driver. He is the son of Japanese former actress Kumiko Goto and former Formula One driver Jean Alesi.

Giuliano Alesi
Alesi at the 2018 Spanish Grand Prix
NationalityFrance French
Born (1999-09-20) 20 September 1999 (age 24)
Avignon, France
Related toJean Alesi (father)
Kumiko Goto (mother)
Super GT career
Debut season2022
Current teamTGR Team Deloitte TOM'S
Racing licence FIA Gold
Car number37
Former teamsarto Team Thailand
Starts25
Wins0
Podiums1
Poles0
Fastest laps0
Best finish10th in 2022
Super Formula Championship career
Debut season2021
Current teamVantelin Team TOM'S
Car number36
Starts20
Wins1
Podiums1
Poles1
Fastest laps0
Best finish11th in 2021
Previous series
2021
2021
201920
201618
2015–16
2015
Super GT GT300
Super Formula Lights
FIA Formula 2
GP3 Series
MRF Challenge
French F4 Championship

Career edit

Karting edit

Born in Avignon,[1] Alesi began karting in 2013 before competing in the KF3 category in 2013 where he finished 14th overall and the KFJ category in 2014 with Baby Race SRL, finishing 28th in the standings.[2]

French F4 Championship edit

In March 2015, it was announced that Alesi would step up from karting to cars in the 2015 season.[3] In the first race, he took pole position[4] and took victory as well as setting the fastest lap. He secured two more victories and two junior victories and finished second in the junior category and fourth in the overall standings.

GP3 Series edit

2016 edit

In December 2015, Alesi took part in GP3 post-season testing with Arden International and Jenzer Motorsport.[5] That same month, it was announced that Alesi would race in the 2016 season.[6] In February 2016, it was announced that Alesi would race with Trident. After several races at the back of the grid, he scored his first point in GP3 Series in the feature race of Spa-Francorchamps.

2017 edit

Alesi remained in GP3 for the 2017 season, once again driving with Trident. Having scored his first podium at the Red Bull Ring, the Frenchman took victory in the Sprint race at Silverstone. He followed this up by another win in Hungary, with a third win coming at the round in Spa-Francorchamps. He ended up fifth in the standings, having taken more points from two of the final three events.

2018 edit

In 2018 he scored 100 points and finished seventh in the standings, only six points behind his Trident teammate, Pedro Piquet. Alesi won one race and finished on the podium on three other occasions.

FIA Formula 2 Championship edit

2019 edit

 
Alesi at the 2019 Spielberg Formula 2 round with Trident

On December 8, 2018, Trident Racing announced that Alesi would be driving for the team in the 2019 FIA Formula 2 Championship, alongside Ralph Boschung. Alesi had a slow start to the season, scoring only one point during the first half of the season, that being at the Paul Ricard feature race. From the event at Monza however, he only failed to score points at the feature race in Sochi. He finished the season in 15th place, scoring 20 points, however, he could not prevent Trident from finishing last in the team championship.

2020 edit

For the 2020 Formula 2 season, Alesi switched to his father's former DTM team HWA Racelab, driving alongside Artem Markelov.[7] Despite a strong start to his season with a sixth place at the opening race in Austria, Alesi failed to score points with the team afterwards. As his father Jean later clarified, they had "banked on the wrong team", with the Frenchman eventually switching to MP Motorsport for the final three rounds.[8] He finished his season by scoring another sixth place at the season finale, which landed him 17th in the championship.[9]

Formula One edit

In March 2016, Alesi was inducted into the Ferrari Driver Academy (along with fellow GP3 driver Charles Leclerc), aligning him with the same team his father raced for in the early nineties.[10] He left the academy after his first F1 test, in which he drove a Ferrari SF71H.

Super Formula Lights edit

After leaving the Ferrari Driver Academy, Alesi set his sights on Formula racing in Asia,[11] and more specifically Super Formula Lights, where he was signed to TOM'S,[12] alongside Japanese pair Kazuko Kotaka and Hibiki Taira. With four wins and fourteen podiums, Alesi clinched 2nd in the championship, losing to Teppei Natori by six points.

Super Formula edit

Alesi made his debut in the Super Formula on 25 April 2021 filling in for Kazuki Nakajima in the TOM'S team;[13][14] he would finish 11th in the series, getting a win at Autopolis, having converted it from a pole position.[15][16] Alesi remained with TOM'S for 2022 and 2023 but was dropped by the team in June 2023 after a string of poor results; he was replaced by Ukyo Sasahara for the remaining rounds.[17]

Super GT edit

Alesi competed in Super GT with team Arto alongside Sean Walkinshaw in the GT300 category in 2021. He was promoted to the GT500 category, joining 2021 champions Toyota Team au TOM'S alongside Sho Tsuboi; he replaced Yuhi Sekiguchi, who moved to SARD; the highlight of their season was a second in the first Fuji race, the race being stopped midway due to a heavy crash by Mitsunori Takaboshi. Alesi swapped seats with Ritomo Miyata for 2023, now racing alongside former Honda driver Ukyo Sasahara in the Deloitte car.

Personal life edit

Alesi can speak English, French, Italian and Japanese fluently.[18]

Racing record edit

Karting career summary edit

Season Series Team Position
2013 Trofeo delle Industrie — KF3 14th
2014 Italian Championship — KF3 16th
Trofeo Andrea Margutti — KFJ Baby Race Srl 28th

Racing career summary edit

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2015 French F4 Championship Auto Sport Academy 21 3 2 2 4 168.5 4th
2015–16 MRF Challenge Formula 2000 MRF Racing 4 0 0 0 0 3 23rd
2016 GP3 Series Trident 15 0 0 0 0 1 22nd
2017 GP3 Series Trident 15 3 0 1 4 99 5th
2018 GP3 Series Trident 18 1 0 1 4 100 7th
2019 FIA Formula 2 Championship Trident 22 0 0 0 0 20 15th
2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship BWT HWA Racelab 18 0 0 1 0 12 17th
MP Motorsport 6 0 0 0 0
2021 Super Formula Lights TOM'S 17 4 2 5 14 103 2nd
Super GT - GT300 arto Team Thailand 8 0 0 0 0 0 NC
Super Formula Kuo Vantelin Team TOM'S 5 1 1 0 1 20 11th
Super Taikyu - ST-Z Porsche Team EBI Waimarama 1 0 0 0 0 52.5‡ 7th‡
2022 Super Formula Kuo Vantelin Team TOM'S 10 0 0 0 0 3 20th
Super GT TGR Team au TOM'S 8 0 0 0 1 29.5 10th
Super Taikyu - ST-Z Porsche Team EBI Waimarama 1 0 0 1 0 80‡ 5th‡
2023 Super Formula Vantelin Team TOM'S 5 0 0 0 0 3 20th
Super GT TGR Team Deloitte TOM'S 8 0 0 0 0 15 15th
Super Taikyu - ST-Z Porsche Team EBI Waimarama 1 0 0 0 0 50‡ 8th‡
2024 Super GT TGR Team Deloitte TOM'S 1 0 0 0 0 4 7th*
Super Taikyu - ST-X Zhongsheng ROOKIE Racing

* Season still in progress.

‡ Team standings

Complete French F4 Championship results edit

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Pos Points
2015 LÉD
1

1
LÉD
2

Ret
LÉD
3

1
LMS
1

7
LMS
2

5
LMS
3

12
PAU
1

5
PAU
2

2
PAU
3

4
HUN
1

8
HUN
2

Ret
HUN
3

6
MAG
1

12
MAG
2

5
MAG
3

Ret
NAV
1

1
NAV
2

8
NAV
3

5
LEC
1

6
LEC
2

10
LEC
3

Ret
4th 168.5

Complete GP3 Series results edit

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Pos Points
2016 Trident CAT
FEA

22
CAT
SPR

16
RBR
FEA

DNS
RBR
SPR

DNS
SIL
FEA

16
SIL
SPR

Ret
HUN
FEA

19
HUN
SPR

16
HOC
FEA

Ret
HOC
SPR

14
SPA
FEA

10
SPA
SPR

12
MNZ
FEA

DNS
MNZ
FEA

19
SEP
FEA

16
SEP
SPR

13
YMC
FEA

11
YMC
SPR

10
22nd 1
2017 Trident CAT
FEA

17
CAT
SPR

11
RBR
FEA

6
RBR
SPR

2
SIL
FEA

7
SIL
SPR

1
HUN
FEA

6
HUN
SPR

1
SPA
FEA

7
SPA
SPR

1
MNZ
FEA

6
MNZ
SPR

C
JER
FEA

9
JER
SPR

7
YMC
FEA

Ret
YMC
SPR

10
5th 99
2018 Trident CAT
FEA

7
CAT
SPR

1
LEC
FEA

3
LEC
SPR

6
RBR
FEA

6
RBR
SPR

Ret
SIL
FEA

8
SIL
SPR

2
HUN
FEA

17†
HUN
SPR

16
SPA
FEA

9
SPA
SPR

6
MNZ
FEA

6
MNZ
SPR

2
SOC
FEA

14
SOC
SPR

17
YMC
FEA

6
YMC
SPR

10
7th 100

Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Complete FIA Formula 2 Championship results edit

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 DC Points
2019 Trident BHR
FEA

12
BHR
SPR

DSQ
BAK
FEA

Ret
BAK
SPR

Ret
CAT
FEA

Ret
CAT
SPR

16
MON
FEA

11
MON
SPR

Ret
LEC
FEA

10
LEC
SPR

14
RBR
FEA

13
RBR
SPR

Ret
SIL
FEA

17
SIL
SPR

Ret
HUN
FEA

13
HUN
SPR

12
SPA
FEA

C
SPA
SPR

C
MNZ
FEA

7
MNZ
SPR

7
SOC
FEA

13
SOC
SPR

8
YMC
FEA

8
YMC
SPR

5
15th 20
2020 BWT HWA Racelab RBR
FEA

6
RBR
SPR

Ret
RBR
FEA

21
RBR
SPR

15
HUN
FEA

11
HUN
SPR

10
SIL
FEA

19
SIL
SPR

18
SIL
FEA

16
SIL
SPR

20
CAT
FEA

Ret
CAT
SPR

19
SPA
FEA

18
SPA
SPR

14
MNZ
FEA

18
MNZ
SPR

12
MUG
FEA

Ret
MUG
SPR

Ret
17th 12
MP Motorsport SOC
FEA

14
SOC
SPR

16
BHR
FEA

17
BHR
SPR

13
BHR
FEA

15
BHR
SPR

6

Complete Super GT results edit

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Car Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 DC Points
2021 arto Team Thailand Lexus RC F GT3 GT300 OKA
24
FUJ
22
MOT
Ret
SUZ
20
SUG
17
AUT
Ret
MOT
17
FUJ
20
NC 0
2022 TGR Team au TOM'S Toyota GR Supra GT500 GT500 OKA
6
FUJ
2‡
SUZ
10
FUJ
4
SUZ
9
SUG
10
AUT
8
MOT
9
10th 29.5
2023 TGR Team Deloitte TOM'S OKA
13
FUJ
6
SUZ
11
FUJ
8
SUZ
11
SUG
10
AUT
7
MOT
9
15th 15
2024 OKA
7
FUJ
SUZ
FUJ
SUZ
SUG
AUT
MOT
7th* 4*

Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.
* Season still in progress.

Complete Super Formula Lights results edit

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 DC Points
2021 TOM'S FUJ
1

3
FUJ
2

6
FUJ
3

3
SUZ
1

2
SUZ
2

3
SUZ
3

2
AUT
1

2
AUT
2

2
AUT
3

C
SUG
1

1
SUG
2

4
SUG
3

1
MOT
1

3
MOT
2

2
MOT
3

2
MOT
1

1
MOT
2

12
MOT
3

1
2nd 103

Complete Super Formula results edit

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 DC Points
2021 Kuo Vantelin Team TOM'S FUJ SUZ
9
AUT
1‡
SUG
9
MOT
16
MOT SUZ
8
11th 20
2022 FUJ
17
FUJ
8
SUZ
15
AUT
Ret
SUG
13
FUJ
Ret
MOT
13
MOT
Ret
SUZ
21
SUZ
16
20th 3
2023 Vantelin Team TOM'S FUJ
Ret
FUJ
Ret
SUZ
8
AUT
13
SUG
Ret
FUJ MOT SUZ SUZ 20th 3

Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.

References edit

  1. ^ "Giuliano Alesi - Vrooam Lubricants". Archived from the original on February 3, 2016. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  2. ^ "Giuliano Alesi - Driver Database". Retrieved January 7, 2015.
  3. ^ "Jean Alesi's son, Giuliano Alesi to race Formula 4". March 5, 2015. Retrieved January 7, 2015.
  4. ^ "Giuliano Alesi on pole for single-seater debut". April 17, 2015. Retrieved January 7, 2015.
  5. ^ "Ex-F1 racer Jean Alesi's son Giuliano to drive in GP3 testing". Autosport. December 1, 2015. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  6. ^ "Giuliano Alesi to step up to GP3 in 2016". December 18, 2015. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  7. ^ "HWA RACELAB SIGNS GIULIANO ALESI FOR ITS FORMULA 2 TEAM". www.hwaag.com. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  8. ^ "Vater Jean und Ferrari drehen Geldhahn zu: Giuliano Alesi vor dem Aus". Motorsport-Total.com (in German). Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  9. ^ "Driver Standings for the FIA Formula 2 2020 Championship". FIA_F2® - The Official F2® Website. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  10. ^ "Leclerc gets Ferrari and Haas development role". March 1, 2016. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
  11. ^ "Giuliano Alesi leaves the Ferrari Driver Academy and F2". formulascout.com. 2021-01-25.
  12. ^ "Alesi named in three-car TOM'S Super Formula Lights squad". motorsport.com. 2021-05-04.
  13. ^ "Alesi named as Nakajima's Suzuka Super Formula replacement". www.autosport.com. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  14. ^ "Super Formula: Giuliano Alesi reviews 'long and tough day'". www.motorsport.com. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  15. ^ "Autopolis Super Formula: Giuliano Alesi takes shock pole". www.motorsport.com. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  16. ^ "Autopolis Super Formula: Giuliano Alesi claims maiden victory". www.autosport.com. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  17. ^ Klein, Jamie (20 June 2023). "Alesi loses TOM'S Super Formula drive, Sasahara returns". motorsport.com. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  18. ^ "Long Interview with Super Formula Rd. 3 Winner Giuliano Alesi". superformula.net. 7 June 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2023.

External links edit

  • Giuliano Alesi career summary at DriverDB.com