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Tamara Molinaro
NationalityItaly Italian
Born (1997-10-10) 10 October 1997 (age 27)
Como, Italy
Extreme E career
Debut season2022
Current teamXite Energy Racing
Car number42
Co-driverOliver Bennett
Starts1
Wins0
Podiums0
Poles0
Best finishTBD in 2022
Championship titles
2017FIA European Rally Championship Ladies' Trophy

Tamara Molinaro (born 10 October 1997) is an Italian rally driver who currently serves as the official championship reserve driver for the Extreme E. She won the FIA European Rally Championship Ladies' Trophy in 2017 before moving on to World Rally Championship-2, TitansRX and the Italian Gravel Championship, where she is a double ladies' champion.[1] She has also occasionally competed as a co-driver, most notably partnering Craig Breen in selected Italian and Sammarinese rounds.[2][3]

Biography

Molinaro began rallying in 2008 at the age of 11 under the mentorship of long-time family friend Gigi Galli, and started her career as a co-driver for Galli and Swiss driver Luca Maspoli. She was picked up by Red Bull early on in her career as one of their sponsored athletes.[4][5]

Molinaro progressed into driving in 2013, competing in several regional rallies in Italy, aboard a Citroën C2. In 2016 she switched the Citroën for an Opel Adam R2, taking part in a series of Austrian and German events alongside Ilka Minor.[6] The following year she entered the FIA European Rally Championship in the same car, coming seventh in the Junior U27 and winning the title in the Ladies' Trophy.[7][8]

2017 would also see Molinaro make her World Rally Championship debut, coming 49th at the Rallye Deutschland alongside Veronica Gulbæk Engan.[9] She also co-drove for Craig Breen for the first time, at the Monza Rally Show in December.[2] In 2018 she entered a single ERC event at the Rallye Açores, and made a further WRC appearance at the Rally Sweden, both in a Ford Fiesta R5 co-driven by Martijn Wydaeghe. She repeated at the Rally Sweden the following season in a Citroën C3 R5 together with Lorenzo Granai, achieving her best championship result with 28th place overall and 11th place in WRC-2.[6]

Molinaro's main programme for 2019 though was a rallycross debut in the newly rebranded TitansRX International Europe Series, where she finished fifth in a Hyundai i30, in a championship won by WRX event-winner Kevin Hansen.[10] In 2020 and 2021 Molinaro contested the Italian Gravel Championship, where she finished tenth and seventh respectively, winning the ladies' trophy in both cases.[6]

In July 2021, Molinaro joined the new electric off-road racing series Extreme E as the championship's female reserve driver, after her predecessor Jutta Kleinschmidt was signed by Abt Cupra XE for the remainder of the season.[11] Molinaro remained in the role into 2022, where she got her debut at the season-opening Desert X-Prix in Saudi Arabia, replacing Xite Energy Racing's Klara Andersson, who had tested positive for COVID-19.[12] She impressed, outpacing teammate Oliver Bennett and almost qualifying for the final race.[13][14]

Racing record

Complete WRC results

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 WDC Points
2017 Tamara Molinaro Opel Adam R2 MON SWE MEX FRA ARG POR ITA POL FIN GER
49 		ESP GBR AUS NC 0
2018 Tamara Molinaro Ford Fiesta R5 MON SWE
35 		MEX FRA ARG POR ITA FIN GER TUR GBR ESP AUS NC 0
2019 Tamara Molinaro Citroën C3 R5 MON SWE
28 		MEX FRA ARG CHL POR ITA FIN GER TUR GBR ESP AUS
C 		NC 0

Complete WRC-2 results

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 WDC Points
2019 Tamara Molinaro Citroën C3 R5 MON SWE
11 		MEX FRA ARG CHL POR ITA FIN GER TUR GBR ESP AUS
C 		NC 0

Complete Extreme E results

(key)

Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 Pos. Points
2022 Xite Energy Racing Spark ODYSSEY 21 DES
6 		ISL1 ISL2 COP ENE 6th* 8*

* Season still in progress.

References

  1. ^ "Molinaro targets WRC after Italian title double". World Rally Championship. 8 November 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  2. ^ a b Gago, Martín (30 November 2017). "Craig Breen y Tamara Molinaro, juntos en el Monza Rally Show". revistascratch.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  3. ^ "Tamara Molinaro - rally codriver profile". eWRC-results.com. Archived from the original on 10 October 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  4. ^ Villarín, Nacho (1 April 2018). "Tamara Molinaro: "Quiero ser como Ogier"". Marca (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  5. ^ "Tamara Molinaro". speedqueens.blogspot.com. 2 March 2018. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  6. ^ a b c "Tamara Molinaro - rally driver profile". eWRC-results.com. Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  7. ^ "L'ERC Junior Tamara Molinaro veut faire de bonnes recos". Eurosport.fr (in French). 2 August 2017. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  8. ^ Alessandrini, Alex (17 September 2017). "Tamara Molinaro vince a Roma e si laurea campionessa FIA ERC Ladies". rallyssimo.it (in Italian). Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  9. ^ Hoffmann, Toni (15 August 2017). "Tamara Molinaro zeigt sich vor der Weltelite". Speedweek.com (in German). Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  10. ^ "Tamara Molinaro postala prvi ženski pilot Titans-RX-a". autopress.hr (in Croatian). 10 May 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  11. ^ "Tamara Molinaro joins Extreme E as Championship Driver". Extreme E. 6 July 2021. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
  12. ^ Nguyen, Justin (18 February 2022). "Tamara Molinaro subbing for Andersson in Desert X Prix". thecheckeredflag.co.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  13. ^ "07 - Continental Traction Challenge Classification - After Final Race" (PDF). Al Kamel Systems. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  14. ^ Whitfield, Steve (20 February 2022). "Desert X-Prix: Rosberg X Racing triumph in red-flagged final". Autosport. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
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