Fabrizio Crestani

Fabrizio Crestani
Nationality	Italian
Born	(1987-12-17) 17 December 1987
GP2 Series career
Debut season	2010
Current team	Venezuela GP Lazarus
Car no.	18
Former teams	David Price Racing
Starts	29
Wins	0
Poles	11
Fastest laps	21
Best finish	24th in 2013
Previous series
2008–10, 13 2008–09 2008 2005–07 2006 2005	Auto GP GP2 Asia Series International Formula Master Italian F3 British F3 National Class Formula 1600 Junior Italia

Fabrizio Crestani (born 17 December 1987) is an Italian racing driver.

Career

Having competed in karts until 2005, Crestani moved up to the Formula Junior 1600 Italia championship, finishing in 4th place in the championship, driving for PSR Motorsport. Crestani had one win and finished behind Pasquale Di Sabatino, Mihai Marinescu and Jaime Alguersuari in the championship. He also made his debut in the Italian Formula Three Championship for Corbetta Competizioni at the final round at the Misano World Circuit. Having qualified 7th for both races, Fabrizio recorded a sixth and a seventh from the two races, allowing him to finish 13th in the championship.

Crestani moved up full-time to Italian F3 for 2006, continuing with Corbetta Competizioni. Over the course of the season, he recorded one pole position at Vallelunga, and five podiums (four of which being second places) on his way to fifth in the championship. He also made an appearance in the British Formula 3 Championship when the series visited Mugello. Driving in the Invitational Class, he finished both races outside of the points recording a 15th and a 14th with lap times matching the National Class runners.

A third season of Italian F3 followed, again with Corbetta. Having recorded two more pole positions at Misano, Crestani finally recorded his first wins in the championship at Mugello, leading home 2008 champion Mirko Bortolotti in both races. A third win would follow later in the year at Vallelunga, but Crestani could not improve on his championship position from 2006 by again finishing fifth, 41 points behind champion Paolo Maria Nocera.

Crestani would not return to the series for 2008, instead moving to the Euroseries 3000 championship for GP Racing. Again, a fifth place championship position was the net result of the season including wins at Mugello, and a double at the Magione season finale. He finished 8th in the counterpart Italian series, which ran at the same time as the Euro series, at four of the first five rounds. He also forayed into the International Formula Master series, racing at Valencia, Pau and Brno for Euronova Racing. His best finish was first in the race at Pau – holding off champion Chris van der Drift by 0.058 seconds, giving him a total of 0.5 points in the championship.

After Tiago Monteiro acquired the former BCN Competición team and renamed it as Ocean Racing Technology, Monteiro replaced both drivers from round one (Hiroki Yoshimoto and Luca Filippi), hiring Yelmer Buurman and Crestani to be the drivers to replace them from round two of the 2008–09 GP2 Asia Series season onwards. He scored no points and finished 28th in the championship. He resumed his Euroseries career with the TP Formula team, although he then switched to the Emmebi Motorsport outfit for the final round of the championship. He took six podium finishes, a pole position and a fastest lap from the 13 races to finish fourth in the championship and fifth in the concurrent Italian F3000 championship.

Crestani had a fragmented 2010, competing four races in Auto GP for the DAMS and Trident teams, and six races for David Price Racing in the main GP2 Series after replacing Giacomo Ricci in the team. Due to lack of sponsorship, Fabrizio Crestani then undertook a full 2011 season in Auto GP with the Lazarus team alongside compatriot Fabio Onidi; he finished fourth in the championship.

Crestani remained with Lazarus as the team made its GP2 Series début in 2012, and was partnered by Giancarlo Serenelli. He has since scored his best series points with a second-place finish in the season-opening feature race in 2013. Reputed by racing insiders to be one of the fastest drivers who is already ready to compete in the Formula One category, Fabrizio Crestani who is presently racing with Team Lazarus is nonetheless very busy looking for a potential sponsor given that his dream is to compete for a Formula One team.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2005	Formula Junior 1600 Italy	PSR Motorsport	12	1	?	?	4	141	4th
	Italian Formula Three	Corbetta	2	0	0	0	0	10	13th
2006	Italian Formula Three	Corbetta Competizioni	16	0	1	2	5	76	5th
	British Formula 3 National Class		2	0	0	0	1	20	17th
2007	Italian Formula Three	Corbetta Competizioni	16	3	2	3	7	73	5th
2008	Euroseries 3000	GP Racing	10	3	0	1	5	49	5th
	Italian Formula 3000		4	1	0	1	1	15	9th
	International Formula Master	Euronova Racing	6	0	0	0	0	0.5	27th
2008–09	GP2 Asia Series	Ocean Racing Technology	9	0	0	0	0	0	28th
2009	Euroseries 3000	TP Formula	12	0	1	2	6	54	4th
	Italian Formula 3000		6	0	0	1	2	26	5th
2010	Auto GP	DAMS	4	0	0	0	0	0	22nd
		Trident Racing
	GP2 Series	David Price Racing	6	0	0	0	0	0	30th
2011	Auto GP	Lazarus	14	1	0	0	4	92	6th
2012	GP2 Series	Venezuela GP Lazarus	14	0	0	0	0	1	24th
2013	GP2 Series	Venezuela GP Lazarus	4	0	0	0	0	0	33rd
	Auto GP	Ibiza Racing Team	2	0	0	0	0	11	17th

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	22	23	24	DC	Points
2010	David Price Racing	ESP FEA	ESP SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	TUR FEA	TUR SPR	VAL FEA	VAL SPR	GBR FEA	GBR SPR	GER FEA	GER SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	BEL FEA Ret	BEL SPR 14	ITA FEA 10	ITA SPR 15	ABU FEA 13	ABU SPR 14					30th	0
2012	Venezuela GP Lazarus	MYS FEA 10	MYS SPR 21	BHR1 FEA 14	BHR1 SPR 19	BHR2 FEA Ret	BHR2 SPR 23	ESP FEA 17	ESP SPR 10	MON FEA 19	MON SPR Ret	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR DNS	GBR FEA 11	GBR SPR 22	GER FEA	GER SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	BEL FEA	BEL SPR	ITA FEA	ITA SPR	SGP FEA	SGP SPR	24th	1
2013	Venezuela GP Lazarus	MYS FEA	MYS SPR	BHR FEA	BHR SPR	ESP FEA	ESP SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	GBR FEA 18	GBR SPR 17	GER FEA 19	GER SPR 21	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	BEL FEA	BEL SPR	ITA FEA	ITA SPR	SGP FEA	SGP SPR	ABU FEA	ABU SPR			33rd	0

Complete GP2 Asia Series results

(key) (Bold indicates pole position, * indicates fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	DC	Points
2008–09	Ocean Racing Technology	CHN FEA	CHN SPR	UAE FEA 14	UAE SPR C	BHR FEA Ret	BHR SPR 17	QAT FEA 10	QAT SPR 21	MAL FEA 15	MAL SPR 16	BHR FEA 18	BHR SPR 15	28th	0

Complete Auto GP 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	Pos	Points
2010	DAMS	BRN 1	BRN 2	IMO 1 Ret	IMO 2 7													22nd	0
	Trident Racing					SPA 1 11	SPA 2 8	MAG 1 DNS	MAG 2 DNS	NAV 1	NAV 2	MNZ 1	MNZ 2
2011	Lazarus	MNZ 1 Ret	MNZ 2 9	HUN 1 7	HUN 2 14	BRN 1 2	BRN 2 4	DON 1 3	DON 2 3	OSC 1 Ret	OSC 2 9	VAL 1 4	VAL 2 5	MUG 1 7	MUG 2 3			6th	92
2013	Ibiza Racing Team	MNZ 1	MNZ 2	MAR 1	MAR 2	HUN 1	HUN 2	SIL 1 5	SIL 2 10	MUG 1	MUG 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	DON 1	DON 2	BRN 1	BRN 2	17th	11

External links

• Official website
• Fabrizio Crestani career summary at DriverDB.com