Alex Peroni
| Alex Peroni | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  Australian |
| Born | 27 November 1999 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| FIA Formula 3 Championship career | |
| Debut season | 2019 |
| Current team | Campos Racing |
| Car number | 23 |
| Starts | 13 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Poles | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| Best finish | 20th in 2019 |
| Previous series | |
| 2017-18 2016-18 2016 2015 | Formula Renault NEC Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Challenge Monoplace Italian F4 Championship |
| Championship titles | |
| 2016 | Challenge Monoplace |
Alexander 'Alex' Peroni (born 27 November 1999) is an Australian racing driver and 2016 Challenge Monoplace champion.[1] He was born in Hobart, Tasmania.
Career summary
Formula 4
In 2015, Peroni graduated to single-seaters, participating in the Italian F4 Championship with Torino Squadra Corse, finishing fourteenth overall with two podiums at Imola and Misano.
Formula Renault
In 2016, Peroni continued his collaboration with TS Corse, competing in Formula Renault 2.0 machinery in the V de V Challenge Monoplace. He dominated the season and won 14 from 21 races to clinch the championship title.[2]
For 2017, Peroni switched to Formula Renault Eurocup but decided to move to the Fortec Motorsports team.[3] He won race 2 at Pau and finished the season 10th in the drivers' standings ahead of his teammates Aleksey Korneev, Najiy Razak and Frank Bird.[4]
In 2018 he moved to MP Motorsport to again compete in the Formula Renault Eurocup, where he finished 9th in the championship, with the highlight being a 1st and 2nd place in the two Monaco events. He also won both races of the first round of the NEC series on the streets of Pau, which was his only NEC event of the year.
Formula 3
For 2019, he moved to the FIA Formula 3 Championship with Campos Racing.[5]
In the 2019 Italian feature race, merely a week after the crash which took Anthoine Hubert's life, and put Juan Manuel Correa in a coma, Peroni had a monumental crash after hitting a "sausage kerb", which sent him into a somersault into the tyre barriers, finally coming to a stop at the catch fence. He walked away from the crash with a broken vertebrae, but was in a stable condition. He remained in hospital for the next Sunday morning. He missed that weekend's Race 2 as a precaution.[6]
Racing record
Career summary
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Italian F4 Championship | Torino Squadra Corse | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 43 | 14th |
| 2016 | V de V Challenge Monoplace | TS Corse | 21 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 19 | 947 | 1st |
| Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC† | ||
| 2017 | Formula Renault Eurocup | Fortec Motorsports | 23 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 72 | 10th |
| Formula Renault NEC | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC† | ||
| 2018 | Formula Renault Eurocup | MP Motorsport | 20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 89 | 9th |
| Formula Renault NEC | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 60 | 7th‡ | ||
| 2019 | FIA Formula 3 Championship | Campos Racing | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 20th |
‡ Peroni was ineligible for points from the second round onwards.
† As Peroni was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.
* Season still in progress.
Complete FIA Formula 3 Championship 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 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Campos Racing | CAT FEA 12 |
CAT SPR 24 |
LEC FEA 8 |
LEC SPR 14 |
RBR FEA 21 |
RBR SPR Ret |
SIL FEA 10 |
SIL SPR Ret |
HUN FEA 261 |
HUN SPR 16 |
SPA FEA Ret |
SPA SPR 15 |
MNZ FEA Ret |
MNZ SPR DNS |
SOC FEA |
SOC SPR |
20th | 5 |
* Season still in progress.
*^1 - 10 second time penalty for avoidable contact dropping Peroni from 13th to 26th.
References
- ^ "Hobart's Alex Peroni wins Formula Renault Monoplace Challenge title". 6 November 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
- ^ Rolland, Emmanuel (3 December 2016). "Championnat V de V – Vilarino, Ferté et Illiano champions 2016" (in French). Motorsport.com. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
- ^ "Peroni confirms Formula Renault Eurocup entry". 24 February 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
- ^ Allen, Peter (21 May 2017). "Peroni holds off Fenestraz to win Formula Renault Eurocup race two in Pau". Formula Scout. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
- ^ Allen, Peter (1 February 2019). "Alex Peroni moves up to FIA F3 with Campos Racing". Formula Scout.
- ^ Mat, Coch (7 September 2019). "Aussie walks away from frightening airborne Monza crash". Speedcafe. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
External links
- Official website
- Alex Peroni career summary at DriverDB.com