Ronnie Quintarelli

Ronnie Quintarelli

Quintarelli in 2015 SUPER GT Motegi
Nationality  Italian
Born (1979-08-09) 9 August 1979
Negrar, Italy
Super GT career
Debut season 2005
Current team NISMO
Car no. 1
Former teams SARD
Starts 85
Wins 16

Ronnie Quintarelli (9 August 1979) is an Italian racecar driver.

Biography

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.


Racing record

Season Series Team Name Races Poles Wins Points Final Placing
2000 Formula Renault 2000 Italia Prema Powerteam * 2 1 * 3rd
2001 Formula Renault Eurocup Cram Coompetition 5 1 1 66 7th
2002 Formula Volkswagen Team Penker Racing * 4 2 * 2nd
GC-21 Inging Motorsport 1 0 1 - -
2003 All-Japan F3 Inging Motorsport 20 0 0 200 4th
Macau Grand Prix JB Motorsport with Inging 1 0 0 0 4th
Korea Super Prix JB Motorsport with Inging 1 0 0 0 16th
2004 All-Japan F3 Inging Motorsport 20 8 4 251 1st
Macau Grand Prix Inging Motorsport 1 0 0 0 8th
Bahrain Super Prix Inging Motorsport 1 0 0 0 22nd
2005 Formula Nippon Kondo Racing Team 6 0 0 12 9th
Super GT (GT500) SARD 8 0 1 21 16th
1000 km Suzuka (Pokka 1000 km) SARD 1 0 0 - 1st
2006 Formula Nippon Team Boss Inging 9 0 0 6 10th
Super GT (GT500) Cerumo 1 0 0 9 24th
Formula One Midland F1 Test driver
2007 Formula Nippon Team Boss Inging 9 1 0 27 7th
Super GT (GT500) Bandai Toyota Team Kraft 3 0 0 2 24th
2008 Formula Nippon Cerumo / Inging 8 0 0 21.5 9th
Super GT (GT500) Hasemi Motorsport 9 1 1 39 12th
2009 Super GT (GT500) Hasemi Motorsport 9 1 1 49 7th
2010 Super GT (GT500) Team Impul 7 1 1 47 5th
2011 Super GT (GT500) Mola 8 1 4 90 1st
2012 Super GT (GT500) Mola 8 2 2 93 1st
2013 Super GT (GT500) Nismo 8 0 1 50 6th
2014 Super GT (GT500) Nismo 8 2 1 81 1st
2015 Super GT (GT500) Nismo 8 2 2 79 1st
2016 Super GT (GT500) Nismo 8 0 2 62 3rd

Complete Super GT results

Year Team Car Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 DC Pts
2005 SARD Toyota Supra GT500 OKA
8
FUJ
Ret
SEP
9
SUG
2
MOT
14
FUJ
12
AUT
11
SUZ
11
16th 21
2006 Lexus Team Cerumo Lexus SC430 GT500 SUZ OKA FUJ SEP SUG SUZ
7
MOT AUT FUJ 24th 9
2007 Lexus Team Kraft Lexus SC430 GT500 SUZ OKA FUJ SEP
11
SUG
9
SUZ
Ret
MOT AUT FUJ 24th 2
2008 Hasemi Motorsport Nissan GT-R GT500 SUZ
15
OKA
10
FUJ
15
SEP
9
SUG
11
SUZ
5
MOT
1
AUT
6
FUJ
13
12th 39
2009 Hasemi Motorsport Nissan GT-R GT500 OKA
12
SUZ
13
FUJ
7
SEP
1
SUG
9
SUZ
2
FUJ
6
AUT
8
MOT
12
7th 49
2010 Impul Nissan GT-R GT500 SUZ
Ret
OKA
4
FUJ
6
SEP
1
SUG
4
SUZ
12
FUJ
C
MOT
5
5th 47
2011 MOLA Nissan GT-R GT500 OKA
6
FUJ
10
SEP
2
SUG
1
SUZ
2
FUJ
7
AUT
2
MOT
2
1st 90
2012 MOLA Nissan GT-R GT500 OKA
7
FUJ
8
SEP
14
SUG
3
SUZ
1
FUJ
2
AUT
1
MOT
2
1st 93
2013 NISMO Nissan GT-R GT500 OKA
3
FUJ
Ret
SEP
9
SUG
3
SUZ
2
FUJ
9
AUT
8
MOT
8
6th 50
2014 NISMO Nissan GT-R GT500 OKA
7
FUJ
8
AUT
1
SUG
14
FUJ
2
SUZ
2
BUR
10
MOT
1
1st 81
2015 NISMO Nissan GT-R GT500 OKA
13
FUJ
1
CHA
5
FUJ
4
SUZ
7
SUG
6
AUT
1
MOT
2
1st 79
2016 NISMO Nissan GT-R GT500 OKA
1
FUJ
1
SUG
9
FUJ
4
SUZ
6
CHA
14
MOT
9
MOT
7
3rd 62
Sporting positions
Preceded by
James Courtney
All-Japan Formula Three
Champion

2004
Succeeded by
João Paulo de Oliveira
Preceded by
Takashi Kogure
Loïc Duval
Super GT (GT500) Champion
20112012 with:
Masataka Yanagida
Succeeded by
Kohei Hirate
Yuji Tachikawa
Preceded by
Kohei Hirate
Yuji Tachikawa
Super GT (GT500) Champion
20142015 with:
Tsugio Matsuda
Succeeded by
Kohei Hirate
Heikki Kovalainen
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