Fabio
Leimer

Fabio Leimer was born on 17 April 1989 in Rothrist, Switzerland. He began racing in karts in 2003 and won the Swiss Junior Championship that year. In 2006 he stepped up to single-seaters in Formula BMW ADAC, and in 2007 he raced in Formula Renault with Jenzer Motorsport. In 2008 he finished runner-up to Chris van der Drift in the International Formula Master, winning three races. He took the title in the series in 2009, clinching it at Oschersleben with his sixth win of the season.

In GP2 he first raced in the 2009-10 Asia series with Ocean Racing Technology and stayed with the team for the 2010 main championship, where he won the sprint race at Barcelona. In 2011 he won the Barcelona sprint race again, this time for Rapax. In 2012 he finished seventh overall with Racing Engineering, taking six podiums but no wins. In 2013 he won the GP2 title with three victories and seven podium finishes.

In 2014 he joined Rebellion Racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship, his first experience of sports cars. In 2015 he was reserve driver for Manor Marussia and took part in one practice session, at the Hungarian Grand Prix. He never started a Formula One race. That year he also replaced Jaime Alguersuari at Virgin Racing for the two Formula E rounds in London, finishing 14th in the first race and crashing out of the second.

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