Matteo Bobbi

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	2009
Teams	Racing Box
Best finish	DNF
Class wins	0

Matteo Bobbi (born 2 July 1978 in Milan) is an Italian racing driver with experience in several motor sport categories, including three years as a Minardi test driver in Formula One.^[1]

During a brief time with Formula One's Minardi as their test driver, he also began racing in sports cars, winning the 2003 FIA GT Championship with Thomas Biagi in a BMS Scuderia Italia Ferrari,^[2] and finishing as runner-up in 2004. In 2006, he won the GT2 class with Jaime Melo.

Bobbi began racing karts in 1995 and progressed to Formula Renault in 1998, where he finished on the podium several times. He tested a Formula One car for Minardi in 2000, and became their official test driver the following year. Also that year, he competed in the Spanish Formula Nissan Championship, in which he won at Valencia. He won six races in 2002, finishing as runner-up in the championship standings.

Bobbi continued to work with Minardi until mid-2003, including a Grand Prix weekend test session at the 2003 San Marino Grand Prix. Giovanni Minardi was his manager at the time.^[2] He also competed in the Rolex Sports Car Series for Cheever Racing.

Bobbi and Davide Valsecchi, who are currently working as Formula One commentators for Sky Italia, were temporarily suspended by the company for making sexist remarks during an on-air post-race analysis of the 2023 Spanish Grand Prix.^[3]

Racing results

Complete Formula One participations

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
2003	European Minardi Cosworth	Minardi PS03	Cosworth V10	AUS	MAL	BRA	SMR TD	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	ITA	USA	JPN	-	-

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2009	Racing Box	Andrea Piccini Thomas Biagi	Lola B08/80-Judd	LMP2	203	DNF	DNF

Complete GT1 World Championship results

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pos	Points
2010	Triple H Team Hegersport	Maserati	ABU QR DNS	ABU CR 7	SIL QR 16	SIL CR 4	BRN QR 10	BRN CR 11	PRI QR 14	PRI CR 11													30th	19
2010	Marc VDS Racing Team	Ford									SPA QR	SPA CR	NÜR QR	NÜR CR	ALG QR	ALG CR	NAV QR 12	NAV CR 10	INT QR 20	INT CR 15	SAN QR 15	SAN CR Ret	30th	19
2011	DKR Engineering	Corvette	ABU QR	ABU CR	ZOL QR	ZOL CR	ALG QR 15	ALG CR Ret	SAC QR	SAC CR	SIL QR	SIL CR	NAV QR	NAV CR	PRI QR	PRI CR	ORD QR	ORD CR	BEI QR	BEI CR	SAN QR	SAN CR	43rd	0

References

^ Bobbi keeps on testing at Minardi. | F1 News | Crash.Net
^ ^a ^b "Motorsport.com: News channel". Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
^ Tondo, Lorenzo (2023-06-07). "Sky Italia suspends F1 commentators after sexist remarks on air". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-06-07.

External links

Official website

Sporting positions
Preceded by Christophe Bouchut	FIA GT Champion 2003 with: Thomas Biagi	Succeeded by Fabrizio Gollin Luca Cappellari

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[1] Bobbi keeps on testing at Minardi. | F1 News | Crash.Net

[Motorsport.com:_News_channel-2] "Motorsport.com: News channel". Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2008-02-22.

[3] Tondo, Lorenzo (2023-06-07). "Sky Italia suspends F1 commentators after sexist remarks on air". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-06-07.

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