Stefano Coletti
Nationality	Monégasque
Born	(1989-04-06)6 April 1989 (age 35) La Colle, Monaco
European Le Mans Series – LMP2 career
Debut season	2016
Racing licence	FIA Gold
Former teams	SMP Racing
Starts	6
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	3rd in2016
Previous series
2015 2011 2010 2009,2011–14 2009–10 2008–09 2007 2006–07 2006 2005–06	IndyCar Series GP2 Asia Series GP3 Series GP2 Series Formula Renault 3.5 Series Formula 3 Euro Series Italian Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula BMW USA Formula BMW ADAC

Stefano Coletti (born 6 April 1989) is a formerMonégasque professionalracing driver who raced forSMP Racing in theEuropean Le Mans Series. His sisterAlexandra Coletti is an alpine skier. He is the first Monégasque driver sinceLouis Chiron (1931) to have won a race inMonaco.^[1]

Born inLa Colle, Monaco, Coletti enjoyed a successfulkarting career prior to moving intosingle-seater racing. In 2003, he finished as runner-up in theItalian Open MastersICA–Junior category before winning the Andrea Margutti Trophy and European Championship ICA–Junior titles in 2004.

In 2005, Coletti moved up toFormula racing, joining Eifelland Racing to contest theFormula BMW ADAC championship, where he finished eighteenth in the standings. He also took part in the Formula BMW World Final inBahrain forASL Team Mücke Motorsport, finishing in twenty-fifth place.

He continued in the championship in 2006, taking four podium places, including a single victory, to finish seventh in the standings. He also took part in four Formula BMW USA races, winning three of them to finish the season in fifth place, despite missing a large proportion of the championship. Coletti once again competed in the Formula BMW World Final, held at theCircuit Ricardo Tormo, where he finished in third place, behindMika Mäki and race winnerChristian Vietoris.^[2]

In August 2006, Coletti made his debut in theEurocup Formula Renault 2.0 series, driving for theCram Competition andMotopark Academy teams, although he failed to score a point in any of the six races he entered.

In 2007, he joined theSpanishEpsilon Euskadi team to contest both the Eurocup andItalian Formula Renault 2.0 championships. He finished fourth in the Eurocup standings after taking a win at theHungaroring and two further podium places, whilst in the Italian series he took two victories – both atMisano – to finish in tenth place.

Coletti moved up to theFormula 3 Euro Series for the2008 season, joining theFrenchSignature-Plus team. However, he left the team after the first four races after being dropped from theRed Bull Driver Development scheme.^[3] Coletti missed the next round of the series atPau before joining Prema Powerteam, who he remained with for the rest of the season. He took a best race result of fourth to finish the year in twentieth position. He also took part in theMasters of Formula 3 andMacau Grand Prix non-championship races, but retired from both events.

In January 2009, Prema announced that Coletti would be staying with the team for the2009 season.^[4] At the first round of the year inHockenheim, Coletti qualified on the front row of the grid before going on to win the opening race of the season.^[5] The following month, Coletti took part in the Masters of Formula 3 event held atZandvoort, qualifying in fourth position before finishing the race in third place, behindFinns Mika Mäki and race winnerValtteri Bottas.^[6]

Coletti was involved in a controversial incident after the first race at theNorisring. Having finished third to move into third in the championship, Coletti had an altercation with race winnerJules Bianchi. Coletti felt that Bianchi had said "bad words" to him, and struck theART Grand Prix driver and championship leader. Coletti was then stripped of his third place, and was excluded from the rest of the meeting.^[7] Coletti failed to score points after theOschersleben rounds, and finished tenth in the championship.

In November 2008, Coletti sampledFormula Renault 3.5 Series machinery for the first time, testing forRC Motorsport at Valencia alongside formerGP2 Series driverAndy Soucek. On 15 May 2009 it was announced that Coletti would race for Prema Powerteam in theMonaco round of the2009 Formula Renault 3.5 Series, replacingFrankie Provenzano.^[8] He originally finished in eleventh place, but afterMarco Barba received a 25-second penalty, Coletti was promoted into the final points paying position in tenth.

Coletti returned to the series for a full season in2010, driving alongsideGreg Mansell atComtec Racing.^[9] He took five podium finishes on his way to sixth place in the championship.

Coletti also contested fourteen races of theinauguralGP3 Series season for theTech 1 Racing team, replacingDaniel Juncadella after the first round of the championship. His team-mates were variouslyDoru Sechelariu,Jean-Éric Vergne,Jim Pla and the returning Juncadella. Coletti finished the year ninth in the championship; the best-placed of the Tech 1 drivers.

Coletti made his GP2 debut in2009 atValencia when he replacedDavide Valsecchi atDurango.^[10] He suffered a fraught first meeting in the series, receiving three drive-through penalties. In race one he received one for jumping the start and one for crossing the white line at the pit lane exit, before retiring from the race. In race two he stalled on the grid and was penalised for starting from the grid instead of the pitlane; he collided withDani Clos before taking this penalty. In his third GP2 race, at theCircuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Coletti crashed heavily with two laps remaining causing the race to finish undersafety car conditions.^[11] He escaped with compressed vertebrae and minor bruising, missing the following day's sprint race as his car'smonocoque was written off by the impact.^[12] He also missed theBrands Hatch rounds of the F3 Euroseries due to his injury. He was due to return to GP2 atMonza having originally been passed fit, but pulled out due to recurring pain during Thursday scrutineering.^[13]

Coletti returned to GP2 in 2011, driving forTrident Racing alongsideRodolfo González. In theAsia series, he scored a victory in the sprint race atYas Marina on his way to fourth place in the drivers' standings. He also began themain series strongly, winning the sprint race of the first round of the championship, held atIstanbul Park. After winning the sprint race inHungary, he crashed heavily during the feature race atSpa-Francorchamps and sustained twovertebral compression fractures, two years after sustaining a similar, but more minor injury. He missed the rest of the season as a result.^[14] His seat was taken by compatriotStéphane Richelmi.^[15]

His injury healed, Coletti returned to GP2 for the2012 season withScuderia Coloni, alongsideFabio Onidi, but after ten rounds of the championship, lying only 14th in the championship with one podium finish, he left the team by mutual consent.^[16] He promptly joined theRapax team for the final rounds of the championship, replacingDaniël de Jong.^[17] He finished in the points in three of the remaining four races, moving him aboveRio Haryanto into a final championship position of 13th.

^* Season still in progress.

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position; races initalics indicate fastest lap)

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	Qualifying	Quali Race	Main race
2008	Prema Powerteam	Dallara F308	12th	7th	DNF
2009	Prema Powerteam	Dallara F308	9th	22nd	DNF
2013	EuroInternational	Dallara F312	17th	11th	DNF
2014	EuroInternational	Dallara F312	12th	10th	6th

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position; races initalics indicate fastest lap)

† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position; races initalics indicate fastest lap)

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)

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