Simone Tempestini

Simone Tempestini (born on 12 August 1994[1]) is a Romanian rally driver of Italian origin, son of Romanian-Italian rally driver Marco Tempestini.[2]

Short biography

Born in Italy, he made his competition debut in 2009. He won the 2015 and 2016 Romanian Rally Championship driving a Ford Fiesta R5 (and a Citroën DS3 R5, in the last round of 2016) for the Napoca Rally Academy team.

Tempestini won both the 2016 JWRC and the WRC 3 categories of the World Rally Championship, driving for the same team. As part of his prize, he competes in the 2017 World Rally Championship-2 driving a Citroen DS3 R5.

Based in Romania, Tempestini has stated that he feels "100 % Romanian".[3] Before his WRC 3 title he has competed in WRC with an Italian licence due to not having received Romanian citizenship.[1]

Results

WRC-3

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Pos. Points
2014 Simone Tempestini Citroën DS3 R3T MON SWE MEX POR
6		 ARG ITA POL
Ret		 FIN
6		 GER
5		 AUS FRA
Ret		 ESP GBR
Ret		 7th 26
2015 Simone Tempestini Citroën DS3 R3T MON
4		 SWE MEX ARG POR
7		 ITA POL
1		 FIN
10		 GER AUS FRA
1		 ESP
4		 GBR
Ret		 3rd 81
2016 Napoca Rally Academy Citroën DS3 R3T MON SWE MEX ARG POR
1		 ITA POL
1		 FIN
2		 GER
1		 CHN FRA
4		 ESP GBR
2		 AUS
 1st 123

WRC-2

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Pos. Points
2015 Napoca Rally Academy Subaru Impreza WRX STi MON SWE
9		 MEX
Ret		 ARG
7		 POR ITA
17		 POL
 FIN
 GER AUS FRA
 ESP
 GBR
 34th 8
2016 Napoca Rally Academy Ford Fiesta R5 MON
9		 SWE
9		 MEX ARG POR
 ITA POL
 FIN
 GER
 CHN FRA
 ESP GBR
 AUS
 38th 4
2017 Gekon Racing Citroën DS3 R5 MON
 SWE
 MEX
 FRA
4		 ARG POR
3		 ITA POL
10		 FIN
5		 GER
6		 ESP
5		 GBR
20		 AUS 7th 56
2018 Simone Tempestini Ford Fiesta R5 MON SWE MEX FRA ARG POR
16		 30th 3
Citroën Total Rallye Team Citroën C3 R5 ITA
Ret		 FIN
9		 GER
10		 TUR GBR ESP AUS

References

  1. 1 2 "Simone Tempestini". eWRC-results.com. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "PORTRET Simone Tempestini, cel mai tânăr pilot din campionatul de raliuri" (in Romanian). Adevărul. 25 October 2010.
  3. ↑ "FOTO Premieră în motorsportul românesc: Simone Tempestini, campion mondial la WRC Junior" (in Romanian). 3 October 2016.


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