Ronnie Quintarelli | |
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Quintarelli in 2015 SUPER GT Motegi
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Nationality | Italian |
Born |
Negrar, Italy |
9 August 1979
Super GT career | |
Debut season | 2005 |
Current team | NISMO |
Car no. | 23 |
Former teams | SARD, Lexus Team Cerumo, Lexus Team Kraft, Hasemi Motorsport, Team Impul, MOLA |
Starts | 85 |
Championships | 4 (2011, 2012, 2014 & 2015) |
Wins | 16 |
Poles | 9 |
Best finish | 1st in 2011, 2012, 2014 & 2015 |
Finished last season | 3rd |
Previous series | |
2005-2008 | Formula Nippon |
Ronnie Quintarelli (9 August 1979) is an Italian racecar driver.
Quintarelli first encountered motorsports at age 6 when his father gave him a small go-kart. He raced go-karts for 9 years, winning many national and international championships. In 2000, Quintarelli made his formula racing debut in Italian Formula Renault 2000 and competed in many races based in Europe until 2002. Then he moved to Japan to compete in the Japanese Formula Three Championship in 2003, and in 2004, he became the series champion. In 2011, Quintarelli won the Super GT series and the following year, won the championship for the second year in a row, driving a Nissan. After moving to the NISMO works team in the 2013 season, driving the prestigious car number #23, Quintarelli won his third Super GT title in 2014,and again in 2015 for yet again second year in a row becoming the most titled foreign driver of the Super GT series.