55 Facts About Sergey Sirotkin

Sergey Sirotkin began karting aged 12 before graduating to Formula Abarth in 2010, winning the European Championship and finishing runner-up in the Italian Championship the following season.

Sergey Sirotkin twice finished third in the GP2 standings with Rapax and ART, taking several wins across his two full seasons in the series.

Sergey Sirotkin scored his maiden points finish in Italy, but was dropped by Williams at the end of the season after SMP withdrew his sponsorship due to performance concerns with the FW41.

Sergey Sirotkin returned as a reserve driver for Renault and McLaren in 2019, remaining at the former for 2020 before his departure.

Since leaving Formula One, Sergey Sirotkin has moved into sportscar racing, competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship, GT World Challenge Europe, Intercontinental GT Challenge and the Middle East Trophy for SMP.

Sergey Olegovich Sirotkin was born on 27 August 1995 in Moscow, Russia.

Sergey Sirotkin graduated from Moscow Automobile and Road Construction University in 2017 with a degree in race car engineering.

Sergey Sirotkin began karting in 2008 and raced in various international series, working his way up from the junior ranks to progress through to the KF3 and KF2 category by 2010.

Sergey Sirotkin made his debut at Vallelunga, finishing the first race in the points and later added four more point-scoring finishes to finish 18th in the championship.

Sergey Sirotkin remained in Formula Abarth, and with Jenzer, for a second season in 2011; the series splitting into two separate classifications for European and Italian championship races.

Sergey Sirotkin won the European Series title with a race to spare, taking five wins in fourteen races.

In 2012, Sergey Sirotkin continued his collaboration with Euronova Racing into the Auto GP World Series.

Sergey Sirotkin stalled at the start of the first race, but recorded a finish of fourth place in the second race; he set the fastest lap in both races.

Sergey Sirotkin went on to finish the season in third place overall, behind Quaife-Hobbs and Pal Varhaug.

Sergey Sirotkin finished the season with two race wins in Valencia and Sonoma, and seven podium finishes.

Sergey Sirotkin recorded his first pole position at the Marrakech Street Circuit.

Sergey Sirotkin participated in the Italian Formula Three Championship in 2012, driving for Euronova.

Sergey Sirotkin recorded two wins at the Hungaroring and Monza, and a further four podium finishes over the course of the season.

Sergey Sirotkin made his Formula Renault 3.5 debut in his home event at the Moscow Raceway, partnering fellow Russian driver Nikolay Martsenko at BVM Target.

Sergey Sirotkin finished the first race of the meeting in twentieth place, before retiring from the second race.

Sergey Sirotkin expanded his Formula Renault 3.5 campaign to contest a full season in 2013, competing with ISR Racing.

Sergey Sirotkin had podiums at Alcaniz and Hungaroring with another three-point-scoring finishes to achieve the ninth place in the championship standings.

For 2014 Sergey Sirotkin switched to the Fortec Motorsport team and partnered there with Oliver Rowland.

Sergey Sirotkin scored his first pole position and won his first Formula Renault 3.5 Series race on his home soil at Moscow Raceway.

Sergey Sirotkin had a tough start of the season, as he spun and stalled in the season opener at Barcelona.

Sergey Sirotkin's problems continued in the Feature race in Monaco, where he had started from pole position but crashed into the wall.

Sergey Sirotkin converted his pace to race results in Baku with double podium finish in both Feature and Sprint races.

Sergey Sirotkin had another double podium finish in the Hungaroring round.

Sergey Sirotkin continued to win, repeating success in the feature Hockenheim race.

Sergey Sirotkin had technical issues with a car at Monza and Spa-Francorchamps before finishing second in Sepang.

Sergey Sirotkin finished third in the final race of the season at Abu Dhabi, tying with Raffaele Marciello in the drivers' standings.

Sergey Sirotkin was classified third in the standings as he had achieved more wins than Marciello.

Sergey Sirotkin replaced injured Alexander Albon in ART Grand Prix.

Sergey Sirotkin finished both races of the round in points.

In 2020 Sergey Sirotkin returned to Formula 2 with ART Grand Prix for pre-season testing as a replacement for the quarantined Christian Lundgaard.

In July 2013, Sergey Sirotkin joined the Sauber Formula One team, with the aim of participating in Friday sessions in 2013 with a view to making his race debut, and a full race seat for the 2014 season.

Sergey Sirotkin stayed in his role as test driver in 2014.

Sergey Sirotkin made his race weekend debut in free practice at the 2014 Russian Grand Prix where he recorded the 17th fastest time, some four-tenths of a second slower than his more experienced teammate Adrian Sutil.

Sergey Sirotkin was unable to secure a contract with Sauber for 2015 because the team completely changed its structure and selected drivers with good financing.

Sergey Sirotkin became a reserve driver for 2017, remaining with Renault.

Sergey Sirotkin took part in the first free practice sessions during the Russian, Spanish, Austrian and Malaysian Grands Prix and received positive feedback from Renault head Cyril Abiteboul.

Sergey Sirotkin impressed the team with his driving pace and talent, technical feedback and work ethic.

Sergey Sirotkin made it into the second qualifying segment for the first time at Baku, qualifying 12th, but his race was ended on the first lap after he was squeezed between Nico Hulkenberg and Fernando Alonso's cars and his car suffered front-left suspension damage.

Sergey Sirotkin had a seat problem during the race and was the last driver to cross the finish line.

Sergey Sirotkin passed Stoffel Vandoorne on the first lap but his race was ruined after the mechanics were not able to fit the tyres in time for the 3-minute signal prior start of the race.

Sergey Sirotkin received a 10-second stop-and-go penalty for this, finishing the race second last, ahead of Stroll.

Williams had the slowest car in the Canadian Grand Prix, Sergey Sirotkin finished 17th, at the back of the field.

Sergey Sirotkin did not gain from the rain-affected qualifying of the Hungarian Grand Prix, finishing second last, just ahead of Stroll.

Sergey Sirotkin was forced to make an early pit-stop, and had a long battle with Sergio Perez, who turned into the Russian driver's car.

Sergey Sirotkin got a five second time penalty for the blocking and finished last.

Sergey Sirotkin lost out to Stroll in qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix but finished one place ahead of him in the race.

In 2019 Sergey Sirotkin served as reserve driver for the Formula One teams of both McLaren and Renault.

Sergey Sirotkin continued as reserve driver for Renault in 2020.

Sergey Sirotkin raced at the 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans for SMP Racing with Mikhail Aleshin and Viktor Shaytar, finishing 36 laps behind the LMP2 class winner.

In 2020, Sergey Sirotkin signed with AF Corse to drive a factory-supported Ferrari 488 GT3 at the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup.