Eddie Cheever III | |
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Nationality | Italian/ American |
Born |
Rome, Italy |
5 June 1993
Related to | Eddie Cheever (father) |
FIA European F3 Championship career | |
Debut season | 2013 |
Current team | Prema Powerteam |
Car no. | 25 |
Starts | 30 |
Wins | 0 |
Poles | 0 |
Fastest laps | 0 |
Best finish | 13th in 2013 |
Previous series | |
2011–12 2010 2009 |
Italian F3 Formula Abarth LO Formula Renault 2.0 Suisse |
Edward Mackay "Eddie" Cheever III (born 5 June 1993) is an Italian-American racing driver. He is the son of the retired Formula One driver Eddie Cheever.
Born in Rome, Cheever began karting in 2006 and raced primarily in Europe for the majority of his karting career, working his way up from the junior ranks to progress through to the KF2 category by 2009 and finished 15th in the CIK-FIA European Championship.
Cheever graduated to single-seaters in 2009. He competed with Jenzer Motorsport in the Swiss and Italian championships, finishing eleventh and fourteenth in the final standings respectively.
In 2010, Cheever moved into the newly launched Formula Abarth series in Italy, staying with Jenzer Motorsport. He achieved a podium in the sprint race at Varano and finished the season eleventh.
In 2011 Cheever joined Lucidi Motors for a campaign in the Italian Formula Three Championship. He finished ninth with podiums at Misano, Adria and Mugello.
He remained in the series in 2012 but switched to Prema Powerteam. He finished as runner-up to Riccardo Agostini in both the European and Italian championship formats.