Английская Википедия:Francesco Pizzi

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Francesco Raffaele Pizzi (Шаблон:IPA-it; born 12 November 2004) is an Italian racing driver currently racing in the 2023 Indy NXT with Abel Motorsports. He has previously also competed in the 2022 FIA Formula 3 Championship for Charouz Racing System. He was the runner-up of the 2020 Italian F4 Championship behind Gabriele Mini and drove for Van Amersfoort Racing in the 2021 Formula Regional European Championship. In January 2023, he won the Rolex 2023 24 Hours of Daytona on his debut, in the LMP2 class with team Proton Competition, and became the 3rd youngest ever class winner in the history of the race.

Career

Karting

In 2013 aged 8 Francesco claimed his maiden win under the rain in the race 2 in Lonato of formula 60 Italian championship. Pizzi made his international karting debut in the Mini ROK International Final in 2014, where he finished ninth. He raced in the 60 Mini class for three years, winning the South Garda Winter Cup in 2016 and becoming vice-champion in the WSK Super Master Series and WSK Champions Cup respectively that same year. The Italian then moved up to drive in the OKJ-category, placing third in the Italian Championship in 2017. He competed in karts until 2019.

Lower formulae

In January 2020 Pizzi made his single-seater debut with Xcel Motorsport in the Formula 4 UAE Championship. He had a perfect opening round, winning all three races at the first weekend in Dubai. He scored five more victories and won the championship, 26 points ahead of his nearest competitor Lorenzo Fluxá.

The Italian then signed with Van Amersfoort Racing to compete in the Italian F4 Championship, as the team's sole full-time entrant. He started the campaign strongly, taking three podiums, including a win, at the first round in Misano, however, his next win would only come at the fifth round in Monza. Despite two wins at that weekend Pizzi had already lost too much ground to his title rival Gabriele Minì, and in the end finished second, with seven podiums and 208 points to his name.

Formula Regional European Championship

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Pizzi racing in the 2021 Formula Regional European Championship at the Red Bull Ring

In December 2020 Pizzi took part in the post-season rookie test for the Formula Regional European Championship for ART Grand Prix alongside his F4 title rival Gabriele Minì and Grégoire Saucy. After a second test later that month, where Pizzi returned to Van Amersfoort Racing and set the third-fastest laptime of the day, the Dutch team confirmed Pizzi to be one of their drivers for the 2021 season. The Italian scored his first points of the season at the Zandvoort Circuit, finishing fifth in the second race. Another points finish at the Red Bull Ring helped Pizzi to finish 20th in the standings. Following the conclusion to the season Pizzi announced his departure from VAR and took part in winter testing with Arden in Barcelona , R-ace GP in Paul Ricard and Monza, MP Motorsport in the second Barcelona test and FA Racing in Mugello.

FIA Formula 3 Championship

For 2022 Pizzi progressed to the FIA Formula 3 Championship, partnering László Tóth and Ayrton Simmons at Charouz Racing System. Talking about his sudden move to F3 after just two years of car racing, Pizzi stated that "it's going to be tough, but that's why we race". Pizzi scored his first and only points of the year, having finished in tenth place during the Imola sprint race. In Spa-Francorchamps, Pizzi qualified an astonishing third. During the feature race, Pizzi was pushed wide at the side, and later Kush Maini spun him round which dropped him to the back and left Pizzi to finish 21st. Overall, Pizzi was the only driver in Charouz to score a point for the team that year, having scored his only top-10 finish at Imola, having finished 27th in the standings, the last placed driver to have scored points.

At the end of the 2022 season, Pizzi partook in the post-season testing with Campos Racing during the first and last day respectively.

USF Pro Championship

At the end of October 2022, Pizzi took part in a USF Pro 2000 Championship test at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with Jay Howard Driver Development. At the start of January the following year, Pizzi confirmed that he would leave Formula 3 and join the 2023 USF Pro 2000 Championship with TJ Speed Motorsports. He debuted in St. Petersburg claiming two front row starts, a pole position and a fastest lap on his first time driving the tricky street circuit, he couldn't finish on the podium in any of the races claiming a 4th and a 5th place. He went on to qualify in the top 3 again in Sebring earning is first podium in race 1 and after a chaotic race 2 he managed to scramble to a 7th place finish. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway weekend was led by controversy after race direction called out a red flag in race 1 for track conditions when the Italian and championship contender Myles Rowe were setting the fastest lap of the race. This forced everyone to put rain tyres on a dry track and the Italian dropped back to 11th. More controversy would lead into race 2 after Pizzi took the lead on lap 1 and led until lap 5, at the end of a FCY procedure he waited to pick the pace back up and the race direction in a for sure debatable situation threw the green causing him and the current top-5 to drop back to around 10th place, he still managed to recover to 7th before the checkered. He later went on to finish in 4th on his debut oval race and grabbed another top 5 finish in road america at the half way mark of the championship earning him 2nd place in the standings despite an underachieving start.

Indy Nxt by Firestone

In the coverage from Peacock on the 8th round of the 2023 Indy NXT at Iowa Speedway it was rumoured that Pizzi would join Abel Motorsports at Nashville but neither team neither the driver had confirmed it by then.

Endurance racing

Pizzi made his endurance racing debut at the 2023 24 Hours of Daytona, teaming up with Proton Competition in the LMP2 category. He ended up winning the race by 16 thousands of a second on his debut becoming the 3rd youngest ever class winner in the race. The win came after an impressive comeback from him and his team mates after qualifying in last following a wreck, they were able to claim the race lead after a quarter of the race had been gone but found themselves 3 laps down with 4 hours to go, thanks to FCY procedures they made it back to the lead lap with the Italian on the car who then left the car in the hand of his team mate James Allen for the last hour.

Karting record

Karting career summary

Season	Series	Team	Position
2014	Mini ROK International Final — Bridgestone Final		9th
	Trofeo Andrea Margutti — 60 Mini		19th
	WSK Final Cup — 60 Mini	Lenzokart	31st
2015	WSK Champions Cup — 60 Mini	Lenzokart	15th
	Trofeo Andrea Margutti — 60 Mini		13th
	Italian Championship — 60 Mini		15th
	Trofeo delle Industrie — 60 Mini		12th
	WSK Night Edition — 60 Mini	Noviello Engine	25th
	ROK Cup International Final — Mini ROK		7th
	WSK Super Master Series — 60 Mini	Novalux Srl	14th
	WSK Final Cup — 60 Mini	Giugliano Kart	9th
2016	South Garda Winter Cup — Mini ROK	Energy Corse	1st
	WSK Champions Cup — 60 Mini	Giugliano Kart	2nd
	WSK Super Master Series — 60 Mini		2nd
	Trofeo Andrea Margutti — 60 Mini		16th
	Italian Championship — 60 Mini		19th
	Trofeo delle Industrie — 60 Mini		10th
	WSK Night Edition — 60 Mini	AB Motorsport	11th
	ROK Cup International Final — Mini ROK	Baby Race Srl	17th
	WSK Final Cup — 60 Mini	Birel ART Racing	33rd
2017	WSK Champions Cup — OKJ	Novalux Srl	10th
	Italian Championship — OKJ	Lenzokart	3rd
	South Garda Winter Cup — OKJ		21st
	CIK-FIA European Championship — OKJ	Novalux Srl	29th
	ROK Cup International Final — Junior ROK	Fusion Motorsport	4th
	CIK-FIA World Championship — OKJ		26th
	WSK Final Cup — OKJ		10th
2018	WSK Champions Cup — OKJ	Birel ART Racing	5th
	South Garda Winter Cup — OKJ		5th
	WSK Super Master Series — OKJ		28th
	German Karting Championship — OKJ		26th
	CIK-FIA European Championship — OKJ	Lennox Racing Team	62nd
	WSK Final Cup — OK		42nd
2019	South Garda Winter Cup — KZ2	Manetti Motorsport	DNF
	Trofeo Andrea Margutti — KZ2		DNF
	WSK Euro Series — OK		33rd
	WSK Euro Series — KZ2		NC
	WSK Super Master Series — KZ2		37th

Complete Karting World Championship results

Year	Team	Car	Quali Heats	Main race
2017	Шаблон:Flagicon Fusion Motorsport	OKJ	24th	26th

Racing record

Racing career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2020	Formula 4 UAE Championship	Xcel Motorsport	19	8	3	5	10	300	1st
	Italian F4 Championship	Van Amersfoort Racing	20	3	1	2	7	208	2nd
	ADAC Formula 4 Championship		9	0	0	0	0	54	11th
2021	Formula Regional European Championship	Van Amersfoort Racing	20	0	0	0	0	12	20th
2022	FIA Formula 3 Championship	Charouz Racing System	18	0	0	0	0	1	27th
2023	USF Pro 2000 Championship	TJ Speed Motorsports	18	0	1	2	1	259	5th
	IMSA SportsCar Championship - LMP2	Proton Competition	1	1	0	0	1	0	32nd
	Indy NXT	Abel Motorsports	4	0	0	0	0	55	24th

Complete Formula 4 UAE 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
2020	Xcel Motorsport	DUB1 1 Шаблон:Small	DUB1 2 Шаблон:Small	DUB1 3 Шаблон:Small	DUB1 4 Шаблон:Small	YMC1 1 Шаблон:Small	YMC1 2 Шаблон:Small	YMC1 3 Шаблон:Small	YMC1 4 Шаблон:Small	YMC2 1 Шаблон:Small	YMC2 2 Шаблон:Small	YMC2 3 Шаблон:Small	YMC2 4 Шаблон:Small	DUB2 1 Шаблон:Small	DUB2 2 Шаблон:Small	DUB2 3 Шаблон:Small	DUB2 4 Шаблон:Small	DUB3 1 Шаблон:Small	DUB3 2 Шаблон:Small	DUB3 3 Шаблон:Small	DUB3 4 Шаблон:Small	1st	300

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	Pos	Points
2020	Van Amersfoort Racing	MIS 1 Шаблон:Small	MIS 2 Шаблон:Small	MIS 3 Шаблон:Small	IMO1 1 Шаблон:Small	IMO1 2 Шаблон:Small	IMO1 3 Шаблон:Small	RBR 1 Шаблон:Small	RBR 2 Шаблон:Small	RBR 3 Шаблон:Small	MUG 1 Шаблон:Small	MUG 2 Шаблон:Small	MUG 3 Шаблон:Small	MNZ 1 Шаблон:Small	MNZ 2 Шаблон:Small	MNZ 3 Шаблон:Small	IMO2 1 Шаблон:Small	IMO2 2 Шаблон:Small	IMO2 3 Шаблон:Small	VLL 1 Шаблон:Small	VLL 2 Шаблон:Small	VLL 3 Шаблон:Small	2nd	Шаблон:Tooltip

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
2021	Van Amersfoort Racing	IMO 1 Шаблон:Small	IMO 2 Шаблон:Small	CAT 1 Шаблон:Small	CAT 2 Шаблон:Small	MCO 1 Шаблон:Small	MCO 2 Шаблон:Small	LEC 1 Шаблон:Small	LEC 2 Шаблон:Small	ZAN 1 Шаблон:Small	ZAN 2 Шаблон:Small	SPA 1 Шаблон:Small	SPA 2 Шаблон:Small	RBR 1 Шаблон:Small	RBR 2 Шаблон:Small	VAL 1 Шаблон:Small	VAL 2 Шаблон:Small	MUG 1 Шаблон:Small	MUG 2 Шаблон:Small	MNZ 1 Шаблон:Small	MNZ 2 Шаблон:Small	20th	12

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

Complete FIA Formula 3 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	DC	Points
2022	Charouz Racing System	BHR SPR Шаблон:Small	BHR FEA Шаблон:Small	IMO SPR Шаблон:Small	IMO FEA Шаблон:Small	CAT SPR Шаблон:Small	CAT FEA Шаблон:Small	SIL SPR Шаблон:Small	SIL FEA Шаблон:Small	RBR SPR Шаблон:Small	RBR FEA Шаблон:Small	HUN SPR Шаблон:Small	HUN FEA Шаблон:Small	SPA SPR Шаблон:Small	SPA FEA Шаблон:Small	ZAN SPR Шаблон:Small	ZAN FEA Шаблон:Small	MNZ SPR Шаблон:Small	MNZ FEA Шаблон:Small	27th	1

Complete IMSA SportsCar Championship results

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

Year	Team	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Шаблон:Tooltip	Points
2023	Proton Competition	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 V8	DAY Шаблон:Small	SEB	LGS	WGL	ELK	IMS	PET	NC†	0†

^† Points only counted towards the Michelin Endurance Cup, and not the overall LMP2 Championship.

American open-wheel racing results

USF Pro 2000 Championship

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) (Races with * indicate most race laps led)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Rank	Points
2023	TJ Speed Motorsports	STP 1 Шаблон:Small	STP 2 Шаблон:Small	SEB 1 Шаблон:Small	SEB 2 Шаблон:Small	IMS 1 Шаблон:Small	IMS 2 Шаблон:Small	IRP Шаблон:Small	ROA 1 Шаблон:Small	ROA 2 Шаблон:Small	MOH 1 Шаблон:Small	MOH 2 Шаблон:Small	TOR 1 Шаблон:Small	TOR 2 Шаблон:Small	COTA 1 Шаблон:Small	COTA 1 Шаблон:Small	POR 1 Шаблон:Small	POR 2 Шаблон:Small	POR 3 Шаблон:Small	5th	259

Indy NXT

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Rank	Points
2023	Abel Motorsports	STP	BAR	IMS	DET	DET	RDA	MDO	IOW	NSH Шаблон:Small	IMS Шаблон:Small	GMP	POR	LAG Шаблон:Small	LAG Шаблон:Small	24th	55

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