Paul di Resta
| Paul di Resta | |
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di Resta in 2014
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| Born |
16 April 1986 Uphall, West Lothian, Scotland |
| DTM career | |
| Debut season | 2007 |
| Current team | HWA AG |
| Car no. | 3 |
| Former teams | Persson Motorsport |
| Starts | 88 |
| Championships | 1 |
| Wins | 7 |
| Poles | 6 |
| Fastest laps | 9 |
| Best finish | 1st in 2010 |
| Finished last season | 5th (116 points) |
| Formula One World Championship career | |
| Nationality |
 British |
| Active years | 2011–2013 |
| Teams | Force India |
| Entries | 58 (58 starts) |
| Championships | 0 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Podiums | 0 |
| Career points | 121 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| First entry | 2011 Australian Grand Prix |
| Last entry | 2013 Brazilian Grand Prix |
Paul di Resta (born 16 April 1986) is a British racing driver who drove in Formula One from 2010 to 2013 and became a reserve driver for the Williams F1 team in 2016. A former DTM and Formula 3 Euroseries champion, di Resta did not secure a Formula One drive for 2014, and rejoined Mercedes to race again in the DTM.
Di Resta was born in Uphall, Livingston, Scotland, and grew up in Bathgate, West Lothian, and went to Bathgate Academy. He now lives in Monaco, and is a cousin of racing drivers Dario and Marino Franchitti. His step-father was Scottish footballer Dougie McCracken. His younger brother, Stefan, has raced at an amateur level.
Di Resta and Laura Jordan became engaged in December 2013 and married on 28 August 2014.
He started his career in karting, racing in various competitive series of karts from 1994 until 2002. In 2001 he won the British JICA Championship.
He stepped up to single-seaters at the end of 2002, when he competed in the British Formula Renault Winter Series. He raced in British Formula Renault full-time in 2003 with the Eurotek Motorsport team, finishing seventh in the standings with one race win. He switched to Manor Motorsport for 2004, finishing third in the championship standings with four wins. He also entered some races of Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 with the Manor team. He also won the McLaren Autosport BRDC Young Driver of The Year Award in 2004. The award had been won by his cousin Dario Franchitti in 1992.
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