Mario Klabin Xavier Romancini (born December 15, 1987 in

Telêmaco Borba Telêmaco Borba is a municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil. Telêmaco Borba is known as the "capital of paper" (Capital do Papel) and "capital of wood" (Capital da Madeira) due to the importance of paper and wood ...

) is a professional

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from

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. Romancini started his racing career in 2006 in the

ian Formula Renault 2.0 series. Driving for the Full Time Racing Team, he took two podium finishes, including one race win, to finish the season in fifth place. After his impressive debut season, Romancini moved up to the South American Formula Three championship in 2007 with leading team Cesário F3. During the season he took ten podium places in fourteen races, including two wins, to finish runner-up in the championship behind team-mate

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In November 2007, Romancini took part in

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testing at both

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and

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, driving for

Epsilon Euskadi EPIC Racing (Euskadi Phil Imanol Claudio Racing) was a racing team from Spain. The team's headquarters were located in Vitoria ( Alava). It was the second major motorsport team from the Basque Country, (Euskadi). Epsilon Euskadi was the bigg ...

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and the reigning champions

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. In January 2008 he was signed by Epsilon Euskadi to partner

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and fellow rookie

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. During the season, he scored two points finishes and was lying 28th in the standings when he left the team due to sponsorship problems with two rounds of the championship remaining. He was replaced by former Epsilon driver

Filipe Albuquerque Filipe Miguel Delgadinho Albuquerque (born 13 June 1985) is a Portuguese professional racing driver, currently driving a Acura ARX-05 in the IMSA SportsCar Championship for Wayne Taylor Racing, and an Oreca 07 in the FIA World Endurance Cham ...

. He has signed to race for

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to race in the

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in 2009. He captured his first win in the series in his fifth start from the pole at the

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. He ended the season with a victory in

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in the 6th place. Romancini competed full–time in the IZOD INDYCAR Series for the 2010 season for

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. He started his first Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, where he finished 13th as the highest finishing rookie. Romancini also received sponsorship from Armando Montelongo, TV celebrity from

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Motorsports career results

Career summary

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

(

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) ^† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed more than 90% of the race distance.

American open–wheel racing results

(

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

Indy Lights

IndyCar Series

Reference:

Indianapolis 500

References

External links

Mario Romancini official siteIndyCar Driver PageMario Romancini career details
{{DEFAULTSORT:Romancini, Mario 1987 births People from Telêmaco Borba Living people Brazilian people of Italian descent Brazilian racing drivers Brazilian IndyCar Series drivers Stock Car Brasil drivers Formula 3 Sudamericana drivers Brazilian Formula Renault 2.0 drivers Indy Lights drivers IndyCar Series drivers Indianapolis 500 drivers Racing drivers from São Paulo World Series Formula V8 3.5 drivers Lafer-Klabin family Sportspeople from Paraná (state) Conquest Racing drivers Epsilon Euskadi drivers Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing drivers