Alberto Fontana (born 14 June 1990 in

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) known professionally as Alberto Naska is an Italian racing driver, YouTuber and Internet personality that currently competes in the

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, driving the No. 54

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for

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in the EuroNASCAR 2 championship. He is also competing in EuroLegend Cup with car number 54, together with Heroes Valley team and in Mitjet Italian Series with team GRT Motorsport, sharing his car with Ian Rocca. He also raced as wild card in the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo at

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Racing career

Alberto Naska debuted in 2006 as a virtual racer and won a championship in 2007 year. As a reward he received the possibility of driving a Formula Renault 2000 Lite on track. In 2012 Naska took part at the Swiss racing reality show '' Make it Your Race'', organized by

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and won the Abarth Benelux Trophy in 2013. In 2018 Alberto Naska began his amateur motorcycle racing career in the Trofeo Motoestate in the Race Attack 1000 division where he ended up 5th, he won the title in 2019 but in 2020 an ankle injury terminated his motorcycle career. Also in 2018 he started his formula racing career in the FormulaX Italian Series championship Formula Predator where he raced until 2021. From 2021 he also raced in the Legend Cars Italia series where he ended 2nd in both the 2021 and 2022 season. In 2022 he announced he would race in the

with the

's number 88 car for that season in the Euronascar 2 division. Naska finished his debut season with five wins and a 2nd place overall both in the rookie and in the general standings. For the 2023 season Naska switched to the number 54, still with CAAL Racing. He is also racing in the Mitjet Italian Series , sharing car number 54 from GRT Motorsport with Ian Rocca and in EuroLegend Cup, also with car number 54, together with Heroes Valley team. At the first round at Circuit Valencia he finished 2nd in both Euro Series races behind Vladimiros Tziorzis, while at the second round at

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he finished Race 1 P2 behind Vladimiros Tziortzis and a rainy Race 2 P3 behind Vladimiros Tziortzis and

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. At the third round at

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he won Race 1 in front of

and Gil Linster. Championship leader Vladimiros Tziortzis ended up P4. He ended up P2 in Race 2 behind Paul Jouffreau. At the fourth round at

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he ended up P14 in Race 1 and P1 in Race 2, while at the fifth round at

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he ended up P2 in Race 1 and P15 in Race 2. The two worst results have already been discarded and he is now P2 in the championship 3 points behind ladimiros Tziortzis, with only the final races at

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still to be raced. Those races will award double points. After two unfortunate races at

(in Race 1 he collided with Paul Jouffreau, while in Race 2 he had problems), he ended the season in P6 57 points away from the lead, while his EuroNascar Pro teammate

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won the championship with the #54 car. He ended up P15 in Mitjet Italian Series championship, sharing car number 54 from GRT Motorsport with Ian Rocca (who ended up P31) after a tormented by problems season. Naska has also won the 2023 EuroLegend Cup championship.

Personal life

Naska graduated in 2012 at the

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as computer engineer and moved to

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the next year where he opened a racing social network and worked as videomaker. In 2016 Naska opened his

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channel that today counts over 900'000 followers. In his channel he makes blogs about his racing career and other experiences outside motorsport. In 2020 Naska published his autobiographical book "Fino all'ultima curva".

Racing record

Career summary

NASCAR

Whelen Euro Series - EuroNASCAR 2

(

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) Bold - Pole position awarded by fastest qualifying time (in Race 1) or by previous race's fastest lap (in Race 2). ''Italics'' - Fastest lap. * – Most laps led. ^ – Most positions gained.)

Awards

*2012 Abarth Make It Your Race Champion *2013 Abarth Benelux Trophy ''Runner-up'' *2019 Race Attack 1000 Champion *2021 Legend Cars Italia ''Runner-up'' *2021 Formula Predator ''Runner-up'' *2022 Legend Cars Italia ''Runner-up'' * 2022 Euronascar 2 ''Runner-up''

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References

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