1. Rio Haryanto was born on 22 January 1993 and is an Indonesian businessman and former racing driver, who competed in Formula One at 12 Grands Prix in 2016.
34 Facts About Rio Haryanto
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Rio Haryanto won his first title at the Formula BMW Pacific Championship in 2009 with Meritus.
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Rio Haryanto began his car racing career competing in three Asian-based series during 2008: the Asian Formula Renault Challenge, Formula Asia 2.0, and Formula BMW Pacific.
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Rio Haryanto was most competitive in the FAsia 2.0 series, winning two races to finish third overall in the championship behind expatriate European drivers Felix Rosenqvist and Matthias Beche.
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Rio Haryanto's main focus this year was the Formula BMW Pacific championship, which he dominated with 11 victories from the 15 races, driving for the Malaysian Meritus team.
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Rio Haryanto competed in a round of the equivalent European FBMW series, himself a guest driver on this occasion.
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Rio Haryanto stepped up to the more competitive European racing scene full-time for 2010 by joining the Manor Racing team for the Formula One-supporting GP3 Series.
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Rio Haryanto's form was "one of the surprises of the season", according to the Autosport magazine.
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Rio Haryanto remained with the team for 2011, now badged as Marussia Manor Racing, alongside Quaife-Hobbs and Matias Laine.
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Rio Haryanto made his GP2 Series debut with DAMS at the non-championship season finale at Yas Marina in 2011.
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Rio Haryanto was in the series full-time for 2012 with the Marussia-backed Carlin team, where he partnered Max Chilton.
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Rio Haryanto was the first Indonesian to compete at this level of motorsport since Ananda Mikola competed in International Formula 3000 during 2000 and 2001.
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Rio Haryanto raced in the 2013 GP2 Series for the Barwa Addax Team alongside teammate Jake Rosenzweig.
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Rio Haryanto switched to Campos for the 2015 GP2 Series season.
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Rio Haryanto achieved his second victory in the sprint race at the Red Bull Ring despite a damaged front wing.
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Rio Haryanto finished the 2015 GP2 Series season in fourth place with 138 points.
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Rio Haryanto did not receive the prize test in 2011 because teammate Adrian Quaife-Hobbs beat him in the standings on this occasion.
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On 18 February 2016, Rio Haryanto was confirmed as a driver of Manor Racing for the 2016 Formula One season alongside 2015 DTM Champion Pascal Wehrlein.
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Rio Haryanto made his debut at the 2016 Australian Grand Prix, however got off to a rocky start with an incident involving Romain Grosjean when they collided in the pit lane during practice.
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Rio Haryanto was later issued a three-place grid penalty for the incident, as well as two penalty points added to his licence.
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Rio Haryanto retired from his debut race due to a drive link problem on the 18th lap.
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Rio Haryanto was the second driver to be eliminated from qualifying for the 2016 Bahrain Grand Prix, ahead of Felipe Nasr.
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Rio Haryanto was the last car to finish the race, in 17th place and one lap down.
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Rio Haryanto managed to beat the other Renault driver Jolyon Palmer to 21st in China, before he became tangled up in a first-lap crash in Russia that involved Nico Hulkenberg and Esteban Gutierrez.
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Rio Haryanto repeated his Bahrain performance in Spain, with his next race in Monaco bringing him a career-best 15th, albeit 4 laps down and the last classified finisher.
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Rio Haryanto remained the last classified car in the next two races, with 19th and 18th places, before a 16th-place finish in Austria brought attention to the gap in talent between himself and teammate Wehrlein, who scored Manor's only point of the season in the same race.
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Rio Haryanto spun off in the wet in Britain, whilst what would turn out to be his final two races again saw him the last classified finisher as his future became unclear due to a lack of sponsorship.
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Rio Haryanto participated in the 2018 SIC888 Race at Shanghai International Circuit.
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Rio Haryanto teamed up with fellow Indonesians, Anderson Tanoto and Audi R8 LMS Cup champion Andrew Haryanto, driving an Audi R8 LMS GT4.
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Rio Haryanto finished 31st overall and 12th in the Pro-Am Cup.
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Rio Haryanto was born in Solo to Sinyo Rio Haryanto and Indah Pennywati, both Surakarta locals of Chinese-Indonesian descent.
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In 2014, Rio Haryanto earned a business degree from Anglia Ruskin University, studying at their Singaporean campus.
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Rio Haryanto is well known for owning Grandis Barn Restaurant in Surakarta, and Teakyard Restaurant in Colomadu, Central Java.
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On 5 December 2024, Haryanto married Athina Papadimitriou, who is the niece of Sandiaga Uno.