Michael Caruso (racing driver)
| Michael Caruso | |
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Michael Caruso in 2015
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| Nationality |
 Australian |
| Born |
25 May 1983 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Supercars Record | |
| Car number | 23 |
| Current team | Nissan Motorsport |
| Series championships | 0 |
| Races | 289 |
| Race wins | 2 |
| Podium finishes | 9 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| 2016 Championship position | 10th (2239 pts) |
Michael Caruso (born 25 May 1983) is an Australian professional motor racing driver. Caruso currently competes in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship, driving the No. 23 Nissan Altima for Nissan Motorsport.
Caruso began his career in go-karts at age 12, before graduating to Formula Ford in 2001. He moved to Formula 3 in 2002 and won the Australian Formula 3 Championship in 2003. Despite offers to move to FIA Formula 3000 in Europe, he chose to join the Holden Young Lions team in the V8 Supercars Development Series for 2004. After a poor start he quit the team mid-season. In 2005 Caruso competed in the first two rounds of the Australian Formula 3 Championship, before moving to Europe to be test and reserve driver for the F3000 outfit Team Astromega.
In 2006 he returned to Australia and to the V8 Supercars Development Series with Jim Morton's Decina Racing, finishing 4th in the championship. In 2007 he was runner-up in the Development Series, again with Jim Morton's renamed Ford Rising Star program. He also made three main-game V8 Supercars starts in this period. The first of which was at the 2006 Bathurst 1000 as a replacement for Mark Porter in a Brad Jones Racing entry. Porter had a serious crash on the Friday of the event and later died in hospital. In 2007, Caruso entered the Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000 with WPS Racing.
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