24 Facts About Risi Competizione

Risi Competizione is an Italo-American auto racing Ferrari factory-backed team formed by Giuseppe Risi in 1997.

Risi Competizione has won races and championships in the IMSA GT championship, American Le Mans Series, and Rolex Sports Car Series, as well as earning three class wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1998,2008 and 2009.

Much of Risi Competizione's success has come through the use of Ferrari machines.

Risi Competizione was initially created as a competition arm of Ferrari of Houston, a car dealership owned by Giuseppe Risi.

Risi Competizione in turn was able to promote his Houston dealership.

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Back in the United States, Doyle-Risi Competizione earned their third victory of the year at the inaugural Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta, winning the race overall against several teams they had competed against at Le Mans.

Doyle-Risi Competizione opened the 1999 season by competing in the 24 Hours of Daytona, finishing the race in second place and only two laps behind the race winner.

Doyle-Risi Competizione followed this by joining the American Le Mans Series, a replacement for the previous year's IMSA GT Championship.

In 2001, Risi Competizione entered a sole 333 SP at the 24 Hours of Daytona but failed to finish, and the team chose to not compete for the rest of the season.

The Rand-Risi Competizione team swept the ten-race season, winning their class in every event and clinching the championships.

Meanwhile, Risi Competizione's 360 debuted in two of the final rounds of the American Le Mans Series season, earning podiums in their class for both races.

For 2003, Risi Competizione's 360 was entered in the Daytona 24 Hours and earned second place overall, beating multiple faster prototypes.

Risi Competizione continued their development of the 360 Modena into 2004, eventually upsetting the series' Porsche dominance with a victory in their class at the New England Grand Prix.

Now that their development of the 360 Modena was completed, Risi Competizione was chosen by Ferrari in 2005 to campaign another new car in the American Le Mans Series, this time the MC12 for Ferrari's sister brand Maserati.

Risi Competizione improved over the next season, earning eight victories out of the twelve races in the American Le Mans Series, including the 12 Hours of Sebring.

The Risi Competizione team finished 3rd in the ALMS GT2 championship behind Krohn Racing and Flying Lizard Motorsports with Salo and Melo finishing 7th in the drivers championship.

Risi Competizione entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the second year in a row, entering a Salo and Melo along with Ferrari factory driver Gianmaria Bruni in their primary car, while Krohn Racing used Tracy Krohn, Niclas Jonsson, and Eric van de Poele in their cooperative entry.

Risi Competizione kicked off the 2009 American Le Mans Series season with a GT2 class win at the 12 Hours of Sebring.

In 2014, Risi Competizione competed in the GTLM class of the newly created United SportsCar Championship, running a Ferrari 458 Italia GTLM driven by Giancarlo Fisichella and Pierre Kaffer.

In 2016, Risi Competizione used the new Ferrari 488 GTE in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with a driver lineup of Giancarlo Fisichella and Toni Vilander, scoring a class win in the season finale at Petit Le Mans and finishing 5th in the championship standings.

Risi Competizione entered the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans race where they were joined by Matteo Malucelli.

Risi Competizione started the 2017 season in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with the same drivers and the same car.

In 2018 Risi Competizione competed at the 24 Hours of Daytona, 12 Hours of Sebring and Petit Le Mans with Ferrari factory drivers without scoring a podium.

In 2019 Risi Competizione made only 3 races, scoring a GTLM class win at MOTUL Petit Le Mans with the Le Mans-winning crew Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Daniel Serra, and a runner-up finish at the 24 Hours of Daytona with the same drivers and Davide Rigon.