Fabio Onidi (born 9 March 1988 in

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) is a professional racing driver from

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Career

Karting

Prior to starting his racing career, Onidi raced in karting for a number of years, finishing sixth in the European Championship ICA Junior category and winning the Italian Championship ICA Junior title in 2003.

Formula BMW

Onidi began his single–seater career in 2004 in the Formula BMW ADAC series, as one of current

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driver Sebastian Vettel's team–mates at ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. He finished his debut season in eighth place with the highlight being a Pole position at Brno. He continued in the championship in 2005, switching to the Eifelland Racing team. He finished the season in 11th place despite missing three races during the year. Onidi also took part in the end–of–season Formula BMW World Final, held at the

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, but he retired from the event.

Formula Renault 2.0

At the end of 2005, Onidi joined

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to contest the British Formula Renault 2.0 Winter Series. He scored 20 points in the four races to finish 17th in the standings. He continued with the team into the main championship in 2006, finishing the season as the best rookie driver in 11th place. In 2007, Onidi joined the Motorsport Arena team to contest both the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 and

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. He took a best finish of eighth place to finish 20th in the Eurocup standings, whilst in the Northern European Cup, he took podium places at both

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and Nürburgring to finish ninth in the championship, despite missing the last six races of the season. In November 2007, Onidi took part in the four race Italian Formula Renault 2.0 Winter Series with

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, taking two podiums to finish third in the standings. He finished level on points with the Cram Competition entry of

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, but lost out on countback.

Euroseries 3000/Auto GP

For 2008, Onidi moved up to the Euroseries 3000 championship with the

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team. He won his debut race at Vallelunga and took a second victory at

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later in the season to finish runner–up in the championship behind

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. In the accompanying Italian

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series, he also ended the year as runner–up, finishing a single point behind Durango's Colombian driver Omar Leal. Onidi remained in the championship in 2009, moving to fellow Italian team

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to partner

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. He again took two victories during the season, at

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and Vallelunga, but despite leading the championship heading into the final round at Monza, he finished third in the standings, behind

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and eventual champion

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. Onidi continued in the series for a third season in 2010, when the championship was re–branded as

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. He raced for Team Lazarus in a single–car team. After taking a podium at the first event in Brno, Onidi added a further three podium positions to finish the season in eighth place, level on points with

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, who took seventh place due to his three race wins. He remained with Lazarus for the 2011 and was joined by compatriot Fabrizio Crestani; the two proved evenly matched, finishing fifth and sixth in the championship with Onidi seven points ahead.

A1 Grand Prix

Onidi made his

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debut in October 2008, racing for

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at the first round of the 2008–09 season at Zandvoort in the

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. Despite treacherous weather conditions, he finished seventh in the sprint race, although he retired from the feature race after a collision with the A1 Team South Africa car of Adrian Zaugg.

GP2 Series

In the autumn of 2008, Onidi took part in

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testing at

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, testing for

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and

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, and a year later he tested for

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. He made his GP2 racing début in the non-championship 2011 season finale with the

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team alongside

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, and switched to the category full-time for the 2012 season with the Coloni team, where he was paired with Stefano Coletti. He finished 20th in the final championship standings.

Other series

In April 2010, he drove for

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in the final

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pre–season test held at the

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, and in October 2010 he sampled a Formula Renault 3.5 Series car for the first time, testing for Fortec Motorsport and

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Racing record

Career summary

† – Team standings. ‡ – The team were known as FMS International until the second round of the season.

Complete GP2 Series results

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

Complete GP2 Final results

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

FIA GT Series results

References

External links

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