Alexander Rullo (born 15 June 2000) is an Australian racing car driver. He currently drives in the TCR Australia Series for

Kelly Racing Kelly Grove Racing (formerly known as Kelly Racing and Nissan Motorsport) was an Australian motor racing team which competes in the Supercars Championship. The team made its debut in 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, 2009, and raced Holden ...

. He is also co-driving with Simona de Silvestro in the No. 78 Nissan Altima in the Pirtek Enduro Cup. In February 2017 it was confirmed that Rullo would race in the

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for

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and become the youngest driver in the championship's history.

Racing career

V8 Touring Car Series

Alex Rullo made his debut in the

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at the age of 14, winning a race in his second event. He managed to win four races out of the 15 contested and finished the season second overall for

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Super2 Series

Rullo made his

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debut for Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport in

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, driving a

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-backed

Holden VF Commodore The Holden Commodore (VF) is an executive car that was produced by Holden between June 2013 and October 2017. It was the second and last significantly restyled iteration of the fourth (and final) generation of the Holden Commodore to be manufa ...

for the full season. Rullo's best race finish was sixth (twice) and he finished 17th in the championship. In 2018 he will drive a

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with

Supercars Championship

In February 2017, an announcement was made that 16-year-old Rullo was to make his Supercars debut with Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport, the team which he raced with in the Development Series the year prior. Coincidentally, the previous driver to hold the record was Paul Dumbrell, the brother of Lucas, who debuted in

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. It was reported that Alex would run the number No. 62 in which he had raced since his karting days. Rullo did not qualify for the new-for-2017 CAMS Superlicense, and was given special dispensation to be reviewed on a race-by-race basis.

TCR Australia

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he raced in the inaugural

TCR Australia Touring Car Series The TCR Australia Touring Car Series is a touring car racing series based in Australia. The series is run as part of the Shannons Nationals series. Background The TCR Touring Car formula, introduced in 2014, is based on four or five door fron ...

for

in a Holden Astra TCR.https://www.speedcafe.com/2019/05/04/rullo-joins-kelly-racing-for-tcr-australia-bid/ Rullo joins Kelly Racing for TCR Australia bid. Speedcafe. 4 May 2019.

Career results

Super2 Series results

(

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) (Round results only)

Supercars Championship results

Bathurst 1000 results

References

External links

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Profile on V8 Supercars official webpage
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Alex Rullo profile on US Racing Reference
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rullo, Alex Living people Supercars Championship drivers 2000 births Australian Endurance Championship drivers Kelly Racing drivers Nismo drivers Racing drivers from Perth, Western Australia Racing drivers from Western Australia