28 Facts About Santino Ferrucci

Santino Michael Ferrucci was born on May 31,1998 and is an American racing driver.

Santino Ferrucci has previously raced in the FIA Formula 2 Championship and the NASCAR Xfinity Series.

Santino Ferrucci competed in five races in German Formula Three for EuroInternational, scoring 2nd in his fourth.

Santino Ferrucci completed three races in British Formula 3 for Fortec Motorsport, scoring a pole and two wins as well as the end of European Formula 3 season, again for EuroInternational.

At the start of 2015, Santino Ferrucci competed in the Toyota Racing Series for Giles Motorsport.

Santino Ferrucci finished the season 3rd overall, scoring his only win at Manfeild and scoring 5 other podiums.

Santino Ferrucci returned to European Formula 3, this time with Mucke Motorsport, finishing 11th overall and scoring his only podium in Formula 3 at Spa.

Santino Ferrucci's best result was a 3rd in the sprint race at Spa-Francorchamps and ended the season 12th in the standings.

In February 2017, Santino Ferrucci retained a DAMS drive for a second GP3 season.

Santino Ferrucci only competed in the first three events, and scored points in only the first two races, before making a switch to Formula 2.

Santino Ferrucci made his Formula 2 debut in Hungary and finished the remainder of the year with Trident, with ninth his best result for a race and 22nd in the season standings.

Santino Ferrucci was disqualified from the Sprint Race results at Silverstone for a separate incident when he deliberately forced Maini off the track.

Trident alleged that money had been made available for the Detroit IndyCar race, whilst noting that Santino Ferrucci had defaulted on F2 debt to them.

Santino Ferrucci finished 19th in the standings, with seven points and a best result of sixth in the Baku Sprint race.

Santino Ferrucci got his first taste of F1 machinery when he tested for Haas at Silverstone after the British Grand Prix.

In June 2018, Santino Ferrucci made his debut in the IndyCar Series at the Detroit Grand Prix for Dale Coyne Racing as a substitute for Pietro Fittipaldi.

Santino Ferrucci retired from his first race after colliding with Charlie Kimball on lap 56.

Santino Ferrucci signed with Coyne to contest the full 2019 IndyCar Series season driving the No 19 Cly-Del Honda.

Three races later, Santino Ferrucci recorded his best career IndyCar finish by taking the checkered flag in 4th position at Texas Motor Speedway.

Santino Ferrucci finished 4th at the Indianapolis 500, and scored five top 5s out of 14 races, to finish 13th in points.

Santino Ferrucci signed with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing to run a third car sponsored by Hyvee at the 2021 Indianapolis 500.

Santino Ferrucci expressed to Bobby Rahal that he would be open to a full-time return to IndyCar if Rahal were to give him a drive in the third RLL car.

In June, Santino Ferrucci apologized for making homophobic comments after Saturday practice incidents involving Andretti Global drivers Colton Herta and Kyle Kirkwood at the 2024 Detroit Grand Prix.

In January 2021, Santino Ferrucci made his midget car racing debut in the Chili Bowl for Dave Mac Motorsports.

Santino Ferrucci failed to finish his G Feature race and was classified in tenth.

On January 8,2021, it was confirmed that Santino Ferrucci would run a 20-race schedule piloting the No 26 Toyota Supra for Sam Hunt Racing for the upcoming NASCAR Xfinity Series season.

Santino Ferrucci had limited stock car racing experience prior to NASCAR, with his lone foray being a super late model test with Fury Race Cars in 2020.

Santino Ferrucci was born in Woodbury, Connecticut, to Mike and Valerie Santino Ferrucci.