Davide Rigon

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Davide Rigon
Rigon driving for Olympiacos during the third round of the 2009 Superleague Formula season at Donington Park
Nationality	Italian
Born	(1986-08-26) 26 August 1986 (age 35) Thiene, Vicenza, Italy
FIA WEC - GTE Pro career
Debut season	2013
Current team	AF Corse
Car number	71
Former teams	8 Star Motorsport
Starts	54
Wins	5
Poles	7
Fastest laps	4
Best finish	2nd in 2016
Previous series
2009, 11 2008–09 2008–09 2008 2008 2008 2006–08 2005 2005 2005 2004, 06 2004–05 2004 2004 2003 2003	GP2 Series Superleague Formula GP2 Asia Series FIA GT Championship International Formula Master Superstars Series Euroseries 3000 Formula One testing World Series by Renault Formula Azzurra Italian F3 Formula Renault 2.0 Italia FRenault Italia Winter Series Formula Gloria Formula BMW ADAC Formula Gloria W. Trophy
Championship titles
2010 2008 2007 2007 2005	Superleague (Anderlecht) Superleague (B. Guoan) Euroseries 3000 Italian Formula 3000 Formula Azzurra

Davide Rigon (born 26 August 1986) is an Italian professional racing driver who is currently competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship and other selected GT races for AF Corse. Also Rigon is currently part of the Scuderia Ferrari Formula One test driver team.^[1]

Career[]

Starting out in Formula BMW ADAC in 2003, Thiene-born Rigon progressed to the Italian Formula Renault Championship and Italian Formula Three. He won the Formula Azzurra title in 2005, and finished second in Italian Formula Three the following year.

In 2007, Rigon won the Euroseries 3000 championship, winning three races. He also raced for Italy in the 2007–08 A1 Grand Prix season. In 2008, he competed in the GT2 class of the FIA GT Championship for BMS Scuderia Italia, and also in International Formula Master, while also racing for Beijing Guoan in the inaugural 2008 Superleague Formula season. Guoan were rated amongst the outsiders for the title, but Rigon defied that and led them to the championship, with three wins.

Rigon testing for Ferrari in 2013.

Rigon racing in the 2018 6 Hours of Silverstone.

During the off-season, Rigon joined up with Trident Racing to compete in the fourth round of the 2008–09 GP2 Asia Series season in Qatar.^[2] He scored his first points in the series, with a seventh at the penultimate race in Bahrain. He followed that up with a third in the final race, as he finished 17th in the championship.

He continued with the team into the 2009 GP2 Series season, but was replaced after four rounds by Rodolfo González despite outpacing team-mate Ricardo Teixeira all season.^[3] He did however return for the Hungarian rounds of the championship, and remained with the team for the rest of the season. He returned to Superleague Formula, but with the Olympiacos CFP team instead of Beijing Guoan. He reclaimed the championship in 2010 whilst driving for the R.S.C. Anderlecht team.

Rigon returned to the GP2 Series for 2011 with the Coloni team. During the first round of the season, at Istanbul Park, he was involved in a crash with Julián Leal and suffered multiple fractures to his tibia and fibula.^[4] He was replaced by compatriot Kevin Ceccon, and later Luca Filippi, and was restricted to 29th in the championship as a result of his injury.^[5]

Rigon switched to sports car racing in 2012, and joined Kessel Racing for the Blancpain Endurance Series. In the 2013 season, he won at Monza and ended fourth in the Pro Cup with teammates Daniel Zampieri and César Ramos. Also in 2013, he drove in four rounds of the FIA World Endurance Championship with 8 Star Motorsports, also in a Ferrari 458 Italia. He got a win and two second-place finishes, helping the team to win the GTE-Am class championship. The Italian also won two races out of four in the International GT Open partnering with Andrea Montermini in a Scuderia Villorba Ferrari.

Rigon drove a GTE-Pro class Ferrari F458 Italia for AF Corse full-time for the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship.

Racing record[]

Career summary[]

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results[]

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

Superleague Formula results[]

2008–2009[]

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

2009 Super Final results[]

• Super Final results in 2009 did not count for points towards the main championship.

2010[]

† Non-championship event.

Complete GP2 Series results[]

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

Complete GP2 Asia Series results[]

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

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results[]

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

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results[]

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2014	AF Corse	Pierre Kaffer Olivier Beretta	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	GTE Pro	28	DNF	DNF
2015	AF Corse	James Calado Olivier Beretta	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	GTE Pro	332	21st	2nd
2016	AF Corse	Andrea Bertolini Sam Bird	Ferrari 488 GTE	GTE Pro	143	DNF	DNF
2017	AF Corse	Sam Bird Miguel Molina	Ferrari 488 GTE	GTE Pro	339	21st	5th
2018	AF Corse	Sam Bird Miguel Molina	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	GTE Pro	338	24th	9th
2019	AF Corse	Sam Bird Miguel Molina	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	GTE Pro	140	DNF	DNF
2020	AF Corse	Sam Bird Miguel Molina	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	GTE Pro	340	NC	NC

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results[]

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

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Davide Rigon career summary at DriverDB.com