Franck Perera

Franck Perera
Nationality	French
Born	(1984-03-21) March 21, 1984 Montpellier (France)
2013 GP2 Series
Debut season	2006
Current team	David Price Racing
Car no.	27
Former teams	DAMS
Starts	26
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	16th in 2006
Previous series
2008–09 2008 2008 2007 2006 2004–05 2004–05 2003 2003 2002–03 2002–03	Superleague Formula IndyCar Series Firestone Indy Lights Atlantic Championship World Series by Renault Formula One testing Formula Three Euroseries FR2000 Germany FR2000 Netherlands FR2000 Masters Formula Renault 2000 Italia
Championship titles
2003	Formula Renault 2000 Italia

Franck Perera (born March 21, 1984 in Montpellier, France) is a race car driver who has competed in a number of international open wheel racing championships.

Career

In 2006, Perera drove in the GP2 Series for the DAMS team, after four years of racing for the Prema team in junior championships. In 2007 he drove for Condor Motorsports in the Atlantic Championship, scoring three wins and finishing second in the championship behind Raphael Matos. On February 6, 2008 Perera announced that he had signed with Conquest Racing to compete in the Champ Car World Series in 2008 after a successful test with the team. However, shortly thereafter Champ Car and the Indy Racing League unified, canceling the Champ Car season. It was announced on February 25 that Perera had modified his deal in order to continue with the team in the IRL IndyCar Series. He lost the ride after three races due to funding issues stemming from the bankruptcy of his sponsor Opes Prime, causing the team to hire Brazilian driver Jaime Camara.

Perera driving for David Price Racing at the Nürburgring round of the 2009 GP2 Series season.

In order to continue racing in the US, Perera signed to drive in Firestone Indy Lights with Guthrie Racing for the remainder of the 2008 season and made his debut in the seventh race of the season at the Iowa Speedway. He captured his first series victory from the pole at Infineon Raceway, his eighth start. He returned to the IndyCar Series for the points-scoring finale at Chicagoland Speedway, driving the #41 car of A. J. Foyt Enterprises. He was also signed to drive the car of A.S. Roma in the brand new Superleague Formula championship in 2008.

Perera returned to the GP2 Series in 2009, replacing Giacomo Ricci at David Price Racing. Perera was not allowed to start the feature race of the Hungarian round, due to causing an avoidable accident in qualifying, with Romain Grosjean. As his lap time was outside 107% of Lucas di Grassi's pole time, the stewards refused to let him race due to the accident. Grosjean however, was allowed to start. Perera also failed to qualify for both races of the championship held at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit. He left the GP2 Series for the second time after the Spa round. Perera returned to A.S. Roma in the Superleague Formula in 2009 for the Estoril round taking over from Jonathan Kennard. He was replaced at the next round by Julien Jousse.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums	Points	Final Placing
2002	Formula Renault 2000 Italia	Prema Powerteam	9	0	0	2	76	8th
	Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup		7	0	0	0	24	13th
2003	Formula Renault 2000 Italia	Prema Powerteam	12	7	5	8	242	1st
	Formula Renault 2000 Masters		8	1	0	0	40	10th
	Formula Renault 2000 Germany		4	0	0	0	19	30th
	Formula Renault 2000 Netherlands		?	?	?	?	20	18th
2004	Formula Three Euroseries	Prema Powerteam	20	0	0	4	48	8th
	Bahrain F3 Superprix		1	1	0	0	N/A	20th
	Masters of Formula 3		1	0	0	0	N/A	11th
	Macau Grand Prix		1	0	0	0	N/A	5th
	Formula One	Toyota	Test driver
2005	Formula Three Euroseries	Prema Powerteam	20	0	0	3	63	4th
	Masters of Formula 3		1	0	0	0	N/A	8th
	Macau Grand Prix		1	0	0	0	N/A	10th
	Formula One	Toyota	Test driver
2006	GP2 Series	DAMS	21	0	0	1	8	17th
	World Series by Renault	Interwetten.com	2	0	0	0	13	22nd
2007	Atlantic Championship	Condor Motorsports	12	2	3	8	310	2nd
2008	Superleague Formula	A.S. Roma	6	1	0	2	307	6th
	Indy Lights	Guthrie Racing	9	2	1	2	220	17th
	IndyCar Series	Conquest Racing	4	0	0	0	71	29th
2009	GP2 Series	David Price Racing	5	0	0	0	0	28th
	Superleague Formula	A.S. Roma	0	0	0	0	110	14th
2010	Superleague Formula	CR Flamengo	0	0	0	0	540*	6th*

• * Season in progress.

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	DC	Points
2006	DAMS	VAL FEA 11	VAL SPR 14	SMR FEA Ret	SMR SPR 14	EUR FEA Ret	EUR SPR 15	ESP FEA 13	ESP SPR Ret	MON FEA 2	GBR FEA Ret	GBR SPR 10	FRA FEA Ret	FRA SPR 12	GER FEA 14	GER SPR 11	HUN FEA 9	HUN SPR Ret	TUR FEA 12	TUR SPR 8	ITA FEA 15	ITA SPR 15	16th	8
2009	David Price Racing	ESP FEA	ESP SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	TUR FEA	TUR SPR	GBR FEA	GBR SPR	GER FEA Ret	GER SPR 16	HUN FEA DNQ	HUN SPR 18	VAL FEA 15	VAL SPR 16	BEL FEA DNQ	BEL SPR DNQ	ITA FEA	ITA SPR	POR FEA	POR SPR		28th	0

American open–wheel racing results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Atlantic Championship

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Rank	Points
2007	Condor Motorsports	LVG 5	LBH 5	HOU 5	POR1 5	POR2 3	CLE 3	MTT' 1	TOR 1	EDM1 2	EDM2 3	SJO 2	ROA 1	2nd	310

IndyCar Series

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Rank	Points
2008	Conquest Racing	HMS 14	STP Ret	MOT1 DNP	LBH1 6	KAN	IND	MIL	TXS	IOW	RIR	WGL	NSH	MDO	EDM	KTY	SNM	DET		29th	71
	A.J. Foyt Racing																		CHI 15

¹ Run on same day.

Years	Teams	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums (Non-win)	Top 10s (Non-podium)	Indianapolis 500 Wins	Championships
1	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0

Superleague Formula

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

Year	Team	Operator	1		2		3		4		5		6		Position	Points
2008	A.S. Roma	FMS International	DON		NÜR		ZOL		EST		VAL		JER		5th	307
									3	16	15	2	5	5
2009	A.S. Roma	Alan Docking Racing	MAG		ZOL		DON		EST		MOZ		JAR		13th	211
									7	12

2009 Super Final Results

• Super Final results in 2009 did not count for points towards the main championship.

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6
2009	A.S. Roma Alan Docking Racing	MAG	ZOL	DON	EST DNQ	MOZ	JAR

References

Sporting positions
Preceded by José María López	Italian Formula Renault champion 2003	Succeeded by Pastor Maldonado