33 Facts About Roberto Merhi

Roberto Merhi Muntan was born on 22 March 1991 and is a Spanish racing driver, who competes in the GT300 class of Super GT for LeMans.

Roberto Merhi previously competed in Formula E for Mahindra and who drove in Formula One.

Roberto Merhi has raced in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series for Pons, and won the Formula 3 Euro Series championship, whilst driving for Prema.

Roberto Merhi was born in Castellon de la Plana, Spain to Brazilian parents of Lebanese descent.

In 2007, Roberto Merhi mainly competed in Italian Formula Renault and the Formula Renault Eurocup, finishing 4th and 18th respectively.

Roberto Merhi did five races in the Spanish Formula Three Championship.

Roberto Merhi made the full-time step-up to Formula Three in 2009 when he was signed by Manor Motorsport for their Formula 3 Euro Series campaign, finishing seventh, with four podiums.

Roberto Merhi moved to Mucke Motorsport for the 2010 season, improving on his debut season by finishing fifth in the standings, with four podiums, including his maiden win at Hockenheim.

Roberto Merhi subsequently won the championship, getting 20 top-3 finishes, including 11 wins.

Roberto Merhi collected a 7th place at the Norisring and two 10th finishes.

Roberto Merhi moved to Formula Renault 3.5 Series in 2014 with Zeta Corse.

Roberto Merhi competed in the first round at Aragon, but was replaced by Alex Fontana so as to focus on his commitments with Marussia during the second round in Monaco, which had their races on the same date.

In round five in Austria, Roberto Merhi was deemed at fault for a massive collision with Nicholas Latifi when Roberto Merhi slowed at the finish line.

Roberto Merhi was disqualified from the race and banned from the next two events, and has since not returned to the series.

In 2017, Roberto Merhi replaced Stefano Coletti at Campos Racing for the Barcelona round of the championship.

Roberto Merhi competed at the Spa, Monza and Yas Marina rounds, for Rapax Team.

Roberto Merhi scored a full-time drive for the 2018 Formula 2 season with MP Motorsport.

Roberto Merhi then joined Campos for the final two rounds of the season, replacing Roy Nissany.

Roberto Merhi made his Formula 2 return for Campos Racing at the Austrian round of 2022, replacing an injured Ralph Boschung.

Roberto Merhi retired from the sprint race, but scored third position in the feature race, coming back from 21st position.

In 2021, Roberto Merhi competed in the Australian single-seater championship, the S5000 Tasman Series, racing for Team BRM.

Roberto Merhi got 3 podiums, one of them a victory, thus proclaiming himself runner-up.

For 2022, Roberto Merhi will compete in Super GT for the Team LeMans in an Audi R8 LMS GT3 alongside drivers Yoshiaki Katayama and Shintaro Kawabata, making his debut at the second round of the championship at Fuji.

In September 2022, Roberto Merhi announced that he would compete in the final round at Okayama of the 2022 Super Formula Lights.

Roberto Merhi made his first appearance in a Formula One car for the Caterham team during practice for the 2014 Italian Grand Prix.

On 9 March 2015, the Manor Marussia team announced that Roberto Merhi would drive in the Australian Grand Prix, alongside Britain's Will Stevens.

Roberto Merhi finished in 15th place, 3 laps down on race winner Sebastian Vettel.

However, in the Monaco Grand Prix Roberto Merhi finished in 16th ahead of Stevens.

Roberto Merhi was dropped in favour of Alexander Rossi for five of the last seven Grands Prix of 2015, the exceptions being Russia and Abu Dhabi, before taking a subsequent demotion to Formula E in 2017 and Formula 2 in 2018.

For 2019, Roberto Merhi revealed that he was working with an F1 team as a development driver, but his contract prevented him from revealing which team he was working with.

Roberto Merhi continued to work as a development driver for 2020.

Roberto Merhi returned to Formula E in April 2023, partaking in the rookies' driver test in Berlin with Mahindra Racing.

In May 2023, it was confirmed that Roberto Merhi will replace the departing Oliver Rowland for the 2023 Jakarta ePrix.