Luca Filippi (born 9 August 1985 in

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) is an Italian

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driver. He competed in

GP2 Series The GP2 Series was a form of open wheel motor racing introduced in 2005 following the discontinuation of the long-term Formula One feeder series, Formula 3000. The GP2 format was conceived by Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore, while Eccle ...

from 2006 to 2012, and the

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from 2013 to 2016. In 2008 he was the official

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test driver.

Career

Formula Renault

Filippi made the step out of

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in 2003, competing in Formula Renault 2.0 Italia, where he finished third in 2004 behind

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and

Kohei Hirate is a Japanese race car driver. Hirate has won the Super GT series twice. Career Hirate began Kart racing, karting in 1999 when he was 13. After winning the All Japan Junior Kart Championship, coming third and fifth in the All Japan Kart Champio ...

Formula 3000

Filippi stepped up to the

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series in

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, driving for

Giancarlo Fisichella Giancarlo Fisichella (; born 14 January 1973), also known as Fisico, Giano or Fisi, is an Italian professional racing driver, also captain of the official ''Nazionale Piloti'' association football team (composed of the racing drivers). He has d ...

's Fisichella Motorsport team. He also made his

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test debut in 2005 with

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in the team's last test.

GP2 Series

Fisichella joined forces with the

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team in 2006, and Filippi was selected as a driver for the team. However, he switched to the

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team mid-way through the season. In

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, he continued in GP2 with

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and emerged as one of the series' top performers, finishing the season in fourth position. On 14 November 2007 Filippi tested for

. On 6 December Filippi tested for

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, being even faster than regular race driver Takuma Sato. For the inaugural

GP2 Asia Series The GP2 Asia Series was a form of open wheel motor racing as a result of a spin-off from the GP2 series. The series was officially announced during the weekend of the 2007 Monaco Grand Prix. GP2 series organiser Bruno Michel commented that "It ...

season in early

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, Filippi raced for

Team Meritus MY QI-Meritus.Mahara is a Malaysian motor racing team, primarily competing in the GP2 Asia Series The GP2 Asia Series was a form of open wheel motor racing as a result of a spin-off from the GP2 series. The series was officially announced duri ...

, a

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n team who entered the series due to regular series team

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not competing in the winter series. He only managed to score four points in ten races, finishing in 17th place. Luca Filippi 2008 GP2 Silverstone

Filippi drove for the

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team in the first half of the

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, alongside

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. Following a disappointing first half of the season, Luca left the team in favour of

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after ten races. Filippi was confirmed as a driver at the

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team two days later, where he replaced

Yelmer Buurman Yelmer Evert Frans Buurman (born 19 February 1987) is a Dutch professional racing driver. He was 3rd in the Blancpain Endurance Series in 2013, and second in the FIA GT1 Championship in 2012. Besides achieving victories in those categories, also ...

. His results failed to improve and he finished nineteenth in the championship. Filippi returned to BCN Competición for the 2008–09 GP2 Asia Series season, but was replaced by

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as a result of the team's purchase after the first round of the season. For the

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, he returned to the Super Nova team, and took the final win of the season at the

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. His result promoted him up to fifth overall in the championship standings. Filippi returned to

for the 2009–10 GP2 Asia Series season, and finished as runner-up in the championship standings, taking Meritus' first victory in the series in

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. Filippi began the

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without a drive, but returned to Super Nova mid-season to replace the injured

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. He took five points from ten races, before Král returned for the season finale, finishing twentieth in the championship. During this period, Filippi became the most experienced GP2 driver in the series' history, beating

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's record of 82 race entries. Filippi was drafted into the

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team for the second round of the 2011 GP2 Asia Series season after regular driver

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opted to move to the United States in order to pursue a career in the

. He returned once again to Super Nova for the main series, alongside

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. After five rounds of the championship, he switched back to Coloni, replacing

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. He immediately registered an improvement in form, winning his first race for the team at the

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, which also marked his 100th race in the series. He also won the

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sprint race and the

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feature race, propelling him to a career-best second place in the drivers' championship. After almost a year away from GP2, Filippi was again called up by Coloni as a replacement for

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for his home race of the 2012 championship at

. Despite his absence from the series, he won the feature race. He also secured pole position for the following (and final) round of the championship in

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, but crashed heavily during the feature race, damaging his car beyond immediate repair and thus non-starting the sprint race. Nevertheless, he still finished 16th in the drivers' championship despite contesting only four of the series' 24 races.

Auto GP

Filippi contested in the

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, where he finished 5th in the drivers' standings with 2 victories topping and tailing the season with the 1st race at Brno and the last race at Monza. He returned to the series the following year, taking one

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, three fastest laps, one win and five further podiums, finishing as runner-up to

by only 3 points despite having missed two races.

IndyCar

On 6 March 2012, it was announced that Filippi would join

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in the IndyCar series from the

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onwards. He would have partnered ex-Formula 1 driver

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; despite this, he did not take part in the Indy 500 nor in the following races. He competed in four races in 2013 for

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, scoring a best finish of 15th.

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signed Filippi for the 2015 IndyCar season to compete at the road/street races. For the 2016 season, Filippi signed with Dale Coyne Racing to compete in the whole season, ovals included. His first race on an oval track was in Phoenix Arizona, where he finished P20. A few days before the GP of Indianapolis, Coyne excluded Filippi from both Indy events and signed Gabby Chaves in place of the Italian driver.

Formula E

2017 saw Filippi join

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in the all-electric

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alongside

Oliver Turvey Oliver Jonathan Turvey (born 1 April 1987) is a British professional racing driver, who most recently competed in Formula E, and is currently signed to McLaren as a test driver. He was a notable kart racer, with two national titles, and was the ...

, where he picked up a point in his debut race with a tenth place finish in the

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. Despite a strong debut, Filippi failed to pick up another point during the season. He missed the

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, so that

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could fulfil a contract deal. He scored just one point to Turvey's 46 and was dropped by NIO for the 2018/19 season.

Racing record

Career summary

^† As Filippi was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points. ^* Season still in progress.

Complete GP2 Series results

(

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

Complete GP2 Asia Series results

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

Complete Auto GP results

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

IndyCar Series results

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

Complete Formula E results

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

Complete TCR Europe Touring Car 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 over 90% of the race distance.

Complete World Touring Car Cup results

(

) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) ^‡ As Filippi was a Wildcard entry, he was ineligible to score points.

References

External links

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