Leonardo Fornaroli

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Leonardo Fornaroli
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NationalityItaly Italian
Born (2004-12-03) 3 December 2004 (age 17)
Piacenza, Italy
FR European Championship career
Debut season2022
Current teamTrident
Car number72
Starts14 (14 entries)
Wins0
Podiums0
Poles0
Fastest laps0
Best finishTBD in 2022
Previous series
20202021
20202021
Italian F4 Championship
ADAC Formula 4
Championship titles
2021FR European Rookie Championship

Leonardo Fornaroli (born 3 December 2004) is an Italian racing driver currently racing in the Formula Regional European Championship with Trident.[1][2]

Career[]

Karting[]

Fornaroli began karting competitively in his native Italy around the age of ten, first winning the Mini Academy class of the Championkart championship in 2016 before moving up to X30 Junior the following year.[3] He came runner-up in the 2017 X30 Challenge Italy, in a season that also included entry to international IAME events, but found more success in 2018, when he was third in the Italian Karting Championship and made his full-time European debut in the WSK Super Master Series.[4] Fornaroli's final year in karting would prove to be his best, as he was a front-runner in the 2019 WSK Euro Series on his OK debut and finished 3rd in the prestigious Trofeo Andrea Margutti.[5][6] At the end of the year, he was invited to participate in the 16th edition of the annual Supercorso Federale event at Vallelunga, as one of five young karting talents selected by ACI Sport and the Ferrari Driver Academy.[7][8]

Lower formulae[]

2020[]

Having tested a Formula 4 car for the first time at the Supercorso Federale, 2020 would see Fornaroli make his debut in the Italian F4 Championship, driving for sportscar racing team Iron Lynx, which extended its program to single-seaters.[9][10] He repaid the faith straightaway, taking a solid fourth-place finish on debut at Misano.[11] He would go on to score 8 top-five finishes from 20 races, including a podium at Monza, and finished 9th in the overall standings on 108 points. At the end of the year, as an award for his performances, Fornaroli was again invited to ACI Sport's Supercorso Federale, together with F4 rivals Gabriele Minì, Francesco Pizzi, Andrea Rosso and four karting drivers.[12]

2021[]

Fornaroli racing in the 2021 Italian F4 Championship.

In 2021 Fornaroli remained in the series with Iron Lynx, partnering new Ferrari Driver Academy recruit Maya Weug and Pietro Armanni. He was the highest-placed driver in the 2020 standings to return.[13] Consistency would once again prove to be his biggest asset, as he was in the points in every race he finished. Two very strong weekends at Misano, where he clinched his first F4 victory from his first pole before scoring two further podiums,[14] and Imola would initially see Fornaroli as the only real threat for eventual champion Oliver Bearman.[15] He would however lose out shortly after, despite a second pole and more podiums at the Red Bull Ring and Mugello, and reached the season finale at Monza in third position, as part of a four-way fight for second.[16] The weekend did not go to plan for him, as he faced a lowly 9th position, a retirement and a DNS that eventually dropped him to fifth in the standings, behind runner-up Tim Tramnitz and Prema's Kirill Smal and Sebastián Montoya. Fornaroli's closest teammate, Armanni, finished 23 places and 172 points behind him.[17]

Formula Regional[]

In 2022 Fornaroli made the step up to Formula Regional, first doing a partial campaign in the Asian Championship for Hitech Grand Prix, with a fourth-place qualifying result and a fifth-place finish as highlights,[18] before returning to Europe for the main season with new team Trident, alongside F4 rival Tramnitz and Roman Bilinski.[19][20]

FIA Formula 3[]

At the end of September 2022, Fornaroli partook in the FIA Formula 3 post-season test with Trident, partnering Oliver Goethe and FRECA rival Gabriel Bortoleto on all three days.[21][22][23]

Racing record[]

Racing career summary[]

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2020 Italian F4 Championship Iron Lynx 20 0 0 1 2 108 9th
ADAC Formula 4 Championship 3 0 0 0 0 0 NC†
2021 Italian F4 Championship Iron Lynx 20 1 2 3 7 180 5th
ADAC Formula 4 Championship 6 0 0 0 1 0 NC†
FIA Central European Zone Formula 4 2 1 ? ? 2 43 3rd
2022 Formula Regional Asian Championship Hitech Grand Prix 9 0 0 0 0 22 17th
Formula Regional European Championship Trident 20 0 0 0 0 83 8th

* Season still in progress.

Complete Italian F4 Championship results[]

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

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 DC Points
2020 Iron Lynx MIS
1

4
MIS
2

15
MIS
3

9
IMO1
1

17
IMO1
2

17
IMO1
3

5
RBR
1

13
RBR
2

26
RBR
3

10
MUG
1

5
MUG
2

12
MUG
3

14
MNZ
1

4
MNZ
2

4
MNZ
3

3
IMO2
1

4
IMO2
2

5
IMO2
3

6
VLL
1

8
VLL
2

C
VLL
3

16
9th 108
2021 Iron Lynx LEC
1

7
LEC
2

8
LEC
3

4
MIS
1

1
MIS
2

3
MIS
3

2
VLL
1

10
VLL
2

8
VLL
3

8
IMO
1

Ret
IMO
2

2
IMO
3

2
RBR
1

6
RBR
2

2
RBR
3

7
MUG
1

Ret
MUG
2

8
MUG
3

2
MNZ
1

9
MNZ
2

Ret
MNZ
3

DNS
5th 180

Complete Formula Regional Asian Championship results[]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate the fastest lap of top ten finishers)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 DC Points
2022 Hitech Grand Prix ABU
1

8
ABU
2

5
ABU
3

22†
DUB
1

11
DUB
2

8
DUB
3

11
DUB
1

9
DUB
2

26†
DUB
3

9
DUB
1
DUB
2
DUB
3
ABU
1
ABU
2
ABU
3
17th 22

Complete Formula Regional European Championship results[]

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

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 DC Points
2022 Trident MNZ
1

10
MNZ
2

15
IMO
1

8
IMO
2

8
MCO
1

9
MCO
2

12
LEC
1

20
LEC
2

23
ZAN
1

8
ZAN
2

5
HUN
1

4
HUN
2

5
SPA
1

6
SPA
2

8
RBR
1

19
RBR
2

10
CAT
1

9
CAT
2

8
MUG
1

5
MUG
2

8
8th 83

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