Johnny Amadeus Cecotto, more commonly known as Johnny Cecotto Jr. (born 9 September 1989 in

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) is a former racing driver. He races with a

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n license but holds both German and Venezuelan nationality. He is the son of former racing driver and motorcycle world champion Johnny Cecotto.

Career

Early career

He began his racing career in

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, then progressing to open wheel single seater racing. He competed in Formula BMW ADAC in 2005. In 2006 he raced in the

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, taking one victory, and also in the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup. In 2007, he raced in the International Formula Master series, finishing eighth with three podiums. He returned to the German F3 Championship, finishing in third with two victories. In 2009 he raced in the Formula Three Euroseries for the HBR Motorsport team, before the team missed races at

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. He then signed a deal to compete in the

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, partnering Michael Herck at David Price Racing.

GP2

He joined up with Trident Racing for the 2009–10 GP2 Asia Series season, but was replaced by

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after the first round. He returned to Trident for the 2010 Main Series and scored his first championship points at

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, but was replaced by Edoardo Piscopo after sixteen races. Cecotto moved to

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for the 2011 GP2 Asia Series season alongside Fairuz Fauzy, and finished fifteenth in the drivers' championship. For the main series season, he switched to the

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team and was partnered with Kevin Mirocha and later

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, finishing 24th in the championship. He switched to the

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team for the 2012 season, alongside Josef Král. After a difficult start to the season, he suddenly hit form at

, taking his first pole position and race victory in the category. He also won the feature race at

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after his decision to start with dry tyres on a wet but drying track paid off. Despite also posting seven retirements, the season was comfortably Cecotto's best in the series, finishing ninth in the championship as a result. In

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lacked the pace he had shown in the previous year and struggled with no podiums. However he was once again quick in

taking pole for the feature race, but he caused a first corner multi-car pile-up leaving him out of the race and banned from the following day's sprint race for causing the collision. Despite this he had his most consistent GP2 season with 10 points finishes ending with 41 points. He returned to

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for

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, he scored two victories and three further podium finishes but struggled in the latter stages, he would go on to finish a career-best 5th in the championship.

Formula One

Cecotto was confirmed as one of the Force India team drivers to participate in the young driver test held in Yas Marina Circuit, after the 2011 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. In 2012, Cecotto took part in the young driver test again, this time with Toro Rosso.

Formula V8 3.5 Series

In 2016 Cecotto moved to the Formula V8 3.5 Series with RP Motorsport. He won his first race of the season at the

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. However, after the round at Spa-Francorchamps he split with his team and was left without a ride.

Racing record

Career summary

† As Cecotto was a guest driver at

and was thus ineligible for points, but he did not start in both races.
‡ Position when season was cancelled.
* Season still in progress.

Complete Formula Renault 2.0 NEC results

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

Complete Formula 3 Euro Series results

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

Complete GP2 Series/FIA Formula 2 Championship results

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

Complete GP2 Asia Series results

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

Complete Auto GP results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) ^‡ Position when season was cancelled.

Complete Formula V8 3.5 results

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

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cecotto, Johnny Jr. 1989 births Living people Sportspeople from Augsburg Racing drivers from Swabia (Bavaria) German people of Venezuelan descent German sportspeople of Italian descent Venezuelan people of Italian descent Venezuelan expatriate sportspeople in Germany Venezuelan racing drivers Italian Formula Renault 2.0 drivers Formula BMW ADAC drivers Formula Renault 2.0 NEC drivers Formula 3 Euro Series drivers British Formula Three Championship drivers International Formula Master drivers Auto GP drivers GP2 Asia Series drivers GP2 Series drivers World Series Formula V8 3.5 drivers FIA Formula 2 Championship drivers Ombra Racing drivers Target Racing drivers Scuderia Coloni drivers Koiranen GP drivers David Price Racing drivers Trident Racing drivers Ocean Racing Technology drivers Super Nova Racing drivers Campos Racing drivers Arden International drivers Virtuosi Racing drivers Hilmer Motorsport drivers Carlin racing drivers RP Motorsport drivers Rapax Team drivers Italian Formula Renault 1.6 drivers German racing drivers Double R Racing drivers