Roberto
Merhi

Roberto Merhi was born on 22 March 1991 in Castellón de la Plana, Spain. After competing in Formula Renault in 2007 and 2008, he moved to the Formula 3 Euro Series in 2009 and finished seventh. In 2010 he was fifth with Mücke Motorsport. In 2011 he took the title with Prema, winning eleven races and finishing on the podium 20 times. He then spent two seasons in the DTM, scoring no points for Persson Motorsport in 2012 and driving for HWA in 2013. He took second place in the final race of that season and ended up 15th in the standings. In 2014 he finished third in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series with Zeta Corse, including a win in Hungary in heavy rain by 29 seconds.

Merhi first sat in a Formula One car during practice for the 2014 Italian Grand Prix, driving for Caterham. In 2015 he joined Marussia. The team did not take part in the Australian Grand Prix. In Malaysia he was allowed to start despite missing the 107% qualifying limit, and he finished 15th. In Monaco he came 16th and beat his team-mate Will Stevens for the first time. A driveshaft failure forced him out in Canada, his only retirement in Formula One. At the British Grand Prix he finished 12th, the team's best result of the year. Alexander Rossi drove for Marussia in five of the last seven races, with Merhi back in the car only in Russia and Abu Dhabi. He was 13th in Russia and ended the season 19th in the drivers' standings.

After Formula One, Merhi raced in a wide range of series. In 2016 he drove in the LMP2 class of the World Endurance Championship and finished third in class at Spa. He set the fastest lap on his Le Mans debut. In 2017 he contested a few Formula 2 race weekends. In 2018 he began the season with a full-time seat at MP Motorsport but left the team before the Belgian round. In the LMP2 class of the 2019-20 Asian Le Mans Series he took three podiums and finished third in the championship. In 2021 he was runner-up in the S5000 Tasman Series with one win. In 2022 he returned to Formula 2 for a few race weekends and finished third in the Austrian feature race. In 2023 he joined Mahindra in Formula E from the Jakarta ePrix onwards.

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