Clivio Piccione (born February 24, 1984 in

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) is a Monégasque

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driver. He raced in the

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for the Durango team and

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for

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Career

Piccione's career started in

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in 1997, where he stayed until 2001 before moving up to

British Formula Ford The British Formula Ford Championship was an entry level single seater motor racing category, designed to give racing drivers their first step into car racing after karting. Drivers from around the world were attracted to the United Kingdom to ...

. He only spent one season there, debuting in

British Formula 3 The British Formula Three Championship was an international motor racing series that took place primarily in the United Kingdom with a small number of events in mainland Europe. It was a junior-level feeder formula that used small single seate ...

's B-Class in 2002 for the T-Sport team. 2003 saw him move up to the main class with the Manor team, where he won the a race at

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. For 2004, he joined

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and won two races at Donington Park. Clivio Piccione 2007 WSBR

In 2005 the Monegasque driver drove in the inaugural

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season, driving for the Durango team, winning the sprint race at the Nürburgring round. However, results were not in his favour for the remainder of the season and for 2006 he would switch to DPR Direxiv. He would score two podiums for the team at Silverstone and Monza. After leaving GP2, he competed in the

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for 2007. In 2008 he raced in F3000 Euroseries, Italian F3000 and EuroBOSS. Piccione drove in the 2008-09 A1 Grand Prix season for the newly formed A1 Team Monaco. He was the nation's joint seat-holder, alongside

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. He competed in all races in the 2008-09 season, scoring pole for the South African feature race and finishing a best of third place in the same race. Team Monaco finished 9th overall with 35 points, however the series collapsed a year later and could not improve on this result. Piccione represented Monaco at the 2009 Race of Champions. Following the loss of his A1 Grand Prix seat, Piccione joined Hexis AMR in the

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. He competed for the team across 2010 and 2011, driving their

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. The best result was victory in 2011 at the

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. Following his racing career, Piccione designed the Kart Indoor Monaco in Fontvieille. In 2018, he drove a

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in the Monaco Historic Grand Prix. In 2022, he was behind the formation of the Monaco E-Kart Championship, with backing from Monegasque Formula 1 driver

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Racing record

Complete GP2 Series results

(

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

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

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) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) ^† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed more than 90% of the race distance.

Complete A1 Grand Prix results

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

Complete GT1 World Championship results

References

External links

Official websitedriverdb.com profile
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