Raffaele to drive for Racing Engineering
Racing Engineering is pleased to announce that the Italian driver Raffaele Marciello will be joining the team for the 2014 season.
Raffaele, who is the current FIA Formula 3 European champion with Prema Powerteam, is only 19 years old. The young Italian is already a very experienced driver, having competed in karting for five years before moving into single-seaters in the Formula Abarth series and for the last three years he has been winning regularly in F3.
Raffaele is a member of The Ferrari Driver Academy Driver (FDA), which is an initiative aimed at helping develop young talent taken from motor sport worldwide with the aim of training them for a future in F1, and he has stood out in at all the categories in which he has competed. He debut in the FIA Formula 3 European championship was in 2012 where he was second overall at the end of the season taking seven wins and the following year he has been even more impressive, scoring 13 wins and standing on the podium 18 times during his championship winning year.
Raffaele Marciello: I’m really happy to be a part of Racing Engineering. It is one of the strongest teams and I feel best placed and very proud to be with them. GP2 is a fantastic platform because you can start learning more about tire management and because you are also in the paddock close to the Formula 1 environment. I am really thankful for the continued support of Ferrari Driver Academy and for the opportunity to race with my new team, I’m sure that we’ll do a really good job together.
Alfonso de Orléans- Borbón, President of Racing Engineering: I am proud of the choice to race with Raffaele this year and confident that his past experience and support of the Ferrari Driver Academy will be a benefit for Racing Engineering in our targets for the season. This confidence is also a result of the efforts and great amount of work that this team has been producing during these last years. With this, we are very happy to have among our ranks the current European F3 champion for the 2014 season, something that will motivate us even more to equal, if not improve, the results in GP2 that Racing Engineering had last season.
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Raffaele correrà per la Racing Engineering
Raffaele Marciello sarà pilota titolare del team Racing Engineering nella stagione 2014 di GP2 Series. L’italiano prenderà parte al campionato con i colori della scuderia di Alfonso de Orelans Borbone.
Il pilota ferrarista, reduce da un 2013 letteralmente strepitoso che lo ha visto laurearsi campione nel FIA Formula 3 European Championship, è quindi pronto a questo ulteriore grande ed importante salto di categoria nella scalata verso la Formula 1.
Punta di diamante della Ferrari Driver Academy, Lello è pronto a farsi valere anche in questo importantissimo campionato di livello internazionale come ha già fatto notare nei test svolti a novembre presso il tracciato di Abu Dhabi, dove ha dato subito prova di grande adattabilità alla nuova vettura piazzandosi subito ai vertici della graduatoria.
Raffaele Marciello: “Sono davvero felice di far parte di questo team. E’ una delle squadre più forti e sono orgoglioso di essere con loro. La GP2 è un campionato fantastico perchè si impara molto soprattutto sulla gestione degli pneumatici, in un paddock molto vicino all’ambiente della Formula 1. Voglio ringraziare la Ferrari Driver Academy per tutto il supporto dato. Faremo un buon lavoro”.
Alfonso de Orleans Borbone: “Sono contento della scelta di correre con Raffaele quest’anno, oltre che fiducioso visti i suoi risultati passati ed il supporto che ha dalla Ferrari Driver Academy. Averlo con noi sarà sicuramente un vantaggio rispetto alla concorrenza e siamo pronti a migliorare gli ottimi risultati ottenuti nella scorsa stagione”.