Antonio
Giovinazzi

Antonio Giovinazzi was born on 14 December 1993 in Martina Franca, Italy. He started karting at the age of six and won national and international titles, including the WSK Master Series in the KF2 class in both 2010 and 2011. He moved into single-seaters in 2012 and won the Formula Pilota China title at his first attempt. He finished runner-up in British Formula 3 in 2013, behind Jordan King, and again in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship in 2015, behind Felix Rosenqvist. That same year he also won the Masters of Formula 3. In 2016 he took second place in the GP2 Series in his rookie season with Prema, eight points behind his team-mate Pierre Gasly.

In 2017 Giovinazzi was a reserve driver for Sauber, Ferrari and Haas. He made his Formula One debut at the Australian Grand Prix, standing in for the injured Pascal Wehrlein, and finished twelfth. He was the first Italian to start a Formula One race since Jarno Trulli and Vitantonio Liuzzi in Brazil in 2011. He also replaced Wehrlein in China. In 2018 he remained a reserve and test driver for Sauber and Ferrari.

He became a full-time driver for Alfa Romeo, the rebranded Sauber team, in 2019, alongside Kimi Räikkönen. His first points came with tenth place in Austria. In Singapore he led the race for four laps. In Brazil he achieved his best result of fifth place, after a penalty for Lewis Hamilton. He ended the season 17th in the championship with 14 points. In 2020 he was 17th again with four points, and in 2021 he scored in Monaco and Saudi Arabia and finished 18th. Alfa Romeo parted company with him after that season. He made 62 starts and did not reach the podium.

Afterwards he stayed on as a Ferrari reserve driver. In 2021-22 he raced for Dragon in Formula E without scoring a point. In endurance racing he finished fifth in the LMGTE Pro class at the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 2023 he won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Ferrari 499P with James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi, 50 years after Ferrari's last top-class entry. In 2025 he won the FIA World Endurance Championship with Ferrari.

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