Franck Perera

Franck Perera
Franck Perera
Nationality	French
Born	21 March 1984 (age 37); Montpellier (France)
GP2 Series career
Debut season	2006
Current team	David Price Racing
Car number	27
Former teams	DAMS
Starts	26
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	16th in 2006
Previous series
2008–09; 2008; 2008; 2007; 2006; 2004–05; 2004–05; 2003; 2003; 2002–03; 2002–03	Superleague Formula; IndyCar Series; Firestone Indy Lights; Atlantic Championship; World Series by Renault; Formula One testing; Formula Three Euroseries; FR2000 Germany; FR2000 Netherlands; FR2000 Masters; Formula Renault 2000 Italia
Championship titles
2003	Formula Renault 2000 Italia

Franck Perera (born 21 March 1984 in Montpellier, France) is a race car driver who has competed in a number of international open-wheel racing championships.

Career[]

In 2006, Perera drove in the GP2 Series for the DAMS team, after four years of racing for the Prema team in junior championships. In 2007 he drove for Condor Motorsports in the Atlantic Championship, scoring three wins and finishing second in the championship behind Raphael Matos.^[1] On 6 February 2008 Perera announced that he had signed with Conquest Racing to compete in the Champ Car World Series in 2008 after a successful test with the team.^[2] However, shortly thereafter Champ Car and the Indy Racing League unified, canceling the Champ Car season. It was announced on 25 February that Perera had modified his deal in order to continue with the team in the IRL IndyCar Series.^[3] He lost the ride after three races due to funding issues stemming from the bankruptcy of his sponsor Opes Prime, causing the team to hire Brazilian driver Jaime Camara.

Perera driving for David Price Racing at the Nürburgring round of the 2009 GP2 Series season

In order to continue racing in the US, Perera signed to drive in Firestone Indy Lights with Guthrie Racing for the remainder of the 2008 season and made his debut in the seventh race of the season at the Iowa Speedway. He captured his first series victory from the pole at Infineon Raceway, his eighth start. He returned to the IndyCar Series for the points-scoring finale at Chicagoland Speedway, driving the #41 car of A. J. Foyt Enterprises. He was also signed to drive the car of A.S. Roma in the brand new Superleague Formula championship in 2008.

Perera returned to the GP2 Series in 2009, replacing Giacomo Ricci at David Price Racing.^[4] Perera was not allowed to start the feature race of the Hungarian round, due to causing an avoidable accident in qualifying, with Romain Grosjean. As his lap time was outside 107% of Lucas di Grassi's pole time, the stewards refused to let him race due to the accident. Grosjean however, was allowed to start.^[5] Perera also failed to qualify for both races of the championship held at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit.^[6] He left the GP2 Series for the second time after the Spa round. Perera returned to A.S. Roma in the Superleague Formula in 2009 for the Estoril round taking over from Jonathan Kennard. He was replaced at the next round by Julien Jousse.

In 2013, Perera returned full-time, driving a Porsche 911 in the Blancpain Endurance Series for Pro GT by Almeras in the Pro-Am class.

Racing record[]

Career summary[]

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums	Points	Final Placing
2002	Formula Renault 2000 Italia	Prema Powerteam	9	0	0	2	76	8th
2002	Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup	Prema Powerteam	7	0	0	0	24	13th
2003	Formula Renault 2000 Italia	Prema Powerteam	12	7	5	8	242	1st
	Formula Renault 2000 Masters		8	1	0	0	40	10th
	Formula Renault 2000 Germany		4	0	0	0	19	30th
	Formula Renault 2000 Netherlands		?	?	?	?	20	18th
2004	Formula Three Euroseries	Prema Powerteam	20	0	0	4	48	8th
	Bahrain F3 Superprix		1	1	0	0	N/A	20th
	Masters of Formula 3		1	0	0	0	N/A	11th
	Macau Grand Prix		1	0	0	0	N/A	5th
	Formula One	Toyota	Test driver
2005	Formula Three Euroseries	Prema Powerteam	20	0	0	3	63	4th
	Masters of Formula 3		1	0	0	0	N/A	8th
	Macau Grand Prix		1	0	0	0	N/A	10th
	Formula One	Toyota	Test driver
2006	GP2 Series	DAMS	21	0	0	1	8	17th
2006	World Series by Renault	Interwetten.com	2	0	0	0	13	22nd
2007	Atlantic Championship	Condor Motorsports	12	2	3	8	310	2nd
2008	Superleague Formula	A.S. Roma	6	1	0	2	307	6th
	Indy Lights	Guthrie Racing	9	2	1	2	220	17th
	IndyCar Series	Conquest Racing	4	0	0	0	71	29th
2009	GP2 Series	DPR	5	0	0	0	0	28th
2009	Superleague Formula	A.S. Roma	0	0	0	0	110	14th
2010	Superleague Formula	CR Flamengo	0	0	0	0	540*	6th*

* Season still in progress.

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results[]

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	DC	Points
2006	Interwetten.com	ZOL 1	ZOL 2	MON 1	IST 1	IST 2	MIS 1	MIS 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	DON 1	DON 2	LMS 1	LMS 2	CAT 1 4	CAT 2 6	22nd	13

Complete GP2 Series results[]

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	DC	Points
2006	DAMS	VAL FEA 11	VAL SPR 14	IMO FEA Ret	IMO SPR 14	NÜR FEA Ret	NÜR SPR 15	CAT FEA 13	CAT SPR Ret	MON FEA 2	SIL FEA Ret	SIL SPR 10	MAG FEA Ret	MAG SPR 12	HOC FEA 14	HOC SPR 11	HUN FEA 9	HUN SPR Ret	IST FEA 12	IST SPR 8	MNZ FEA 15†	MNZ SPR 15†	16th	8
2009	DPR	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	IST FEA	IST SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	NÜR FEA Ret	NÜR SPR 16	HUN FEA EX	HUN SPR 18	VAL FEA 15	VAL SPR 16†	SPA FEA DNQ	SPA SPR DNQ	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	ALG FEA	ALG SPR		28th	0

American open–wheel racing results[]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Atlantic Championship[]

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Rank	Points
2007		LVG 5	LBH 5	HOU 5	POR1 5	POR2 3	CLE 3	MTT' 1	TOR 1	EDM1 2	EDM2 3	SJO 2	ROA 1	2nd	310

IndyCar Series[]

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Rank	Points
2008	Conquest Racing	HMS 14	STP 20	MOT¹ DNP	LBH¹ 6	KAN	INDY	MIL	TXS	IOW	RIR	WGL	NSH	MDO	EDM	KTY	SNM	DET		29th	71
2008	A.J. Foyt Racing																		CHI 15	29th	71

¹ Run on same day.

Years	Teams	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums (Non-win)	Top 10s (Non-podium)	Indianapolis 500 Wins	Championships
1	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0

Superleague Formula[]

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

Year	Team	Operator	1	2	3	4		5		6		Position	Points
2008	A.S. Roma	FMS International	DON	NÜR	ZOL	EST		VAL		JER		5th	307
2008	A.S. Roma	FMS International				3	16	15	2	5	5	5th	307
2009	A.S. Roma	Alan Docking Racing	MAG	ZOL	DON	EST		MOZ		JAR		13th	211
2009	A.S. Roma	Alan Docking Racing				7	12					13th	211

2009 Super Final Results[]

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

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6
2009	A.S. Roma Alan Docking Racing	MAG	ZOL	DON	EST DNQ	MOZ	JAR

Complete Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup results[]

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Pos.	Points
2016	ISR	Audi R8 LMS	Pro	MIS QR 31	MIS CR 35	BRH QR 2	BRH CR 5	NÜR QR 4	NÜR CR 25	HUN QR 27	HUN CR 24	CAT QR 26	CAT CR 17	12th	21
2017	Mercedes-AMG Team HTP Motorsport	Mercedes-AMG GT3	Pro	MIS QR 1	MIS CR 1	BRH QR 23	BRH CR 6	ZOL QR 16	ZOL CR 6	HUN QR 4	HUN CR 6	NÜR QR 1	NÜR CR Ret	3rd	68
2018	GRT Grasser Racing Team	Lamborghini Huracán GT3	Pro	ZOL 1 20	ZOL 2 Ret	BRH 1 13	BRH 2 7	MIS 1 17	MIS 2 7	HUN 1 13	HUN 2 5	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	17th	12

24 Hours of Daytona results[]

Year	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2018	GRT Grasser Racing Team	Rolf Ineichen Mirko Bortolotti Rik Breukers	Lamborghini Huracán GT3	GTD	752	21st	1st

References[]

^ Champ Car Atlantic Standings
^ Perera Inks Conquest Deal Archived 2008-02-12 at the Wayback Machine, SpeedTV.com, February 6, 2008
^ Lewandowski, Dave. Conquest Racing the first to make move; Perera named Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine, IndyCar.com, February 25, 2008
^ Glendenning, Mark (2009-07-07). "Perera to replace Ricci at DPR". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
^ "Franck Perera handed penalty". gp2series.com. GP2 Motorsport Limited. 2009-07-24. Archived from the original on August 2, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
^ "Di Grassi penalised". crash.net. Crash Media Group. 2009-08-28. Retrieved 2009-08-29.

External links[]

Official website
Franck Perera career summary at DriverDB.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by José María López	Italian Formula Renault champion 2003	Succeeded by Pastor Maldonado

[1] Champ Car Atlantic Standings

[2] Perera Inks Conquest Deal Archived 2008-02-12 at the Wayback Machine, SpeedTV.com, February 6, 2008

[3] Lewandowski, Dave. Conquest Racing the first to make move; Perera named Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine, IndyCar.com, February 25, 2008

[4] Glendenning, Mark (2009-07-07). "Perera to replace Ricci at DPR". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 2009-07-07.

[5] "Franck Perera handed penalty". gp2series.com. GP2 Motorsport Limited. 2009-07-24. Archived from the original on August 2, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-24.

[6] "Di Grassi penalised". crash.net. Crash Media Group. 2009-08-28. Retrieved 2009-08-29.

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show v t A.S. Roma in Superleague Formula
Seasons competed	2008 2009 2010
Drivers	Enrico Toccacelo (2008) Franck Perera (2008, 2009) Jonathan Kennard (2009) Julien Jousse (2009, 2010)
Operating teams	FMS International (2008) Azerti Motorsport (2009) Alan Docking Racing (2009) DeVillota.com Motorsport (2010)

show v t CR Flamengo in Superleague Formula
Seasons competed	2008 2009 2010
Drivers	Tuka Rocha (2008) Enrique Bernoldi (2009) Jonathan Kennard (2009) Duncan Tappy (2010) Franck Perera (2010)
Operating teams	Team Astromega (2008) Delta Motorsport/ADR (2009) Azerti Motorsport (2009) Alpha Team (2010)