1. Stefano Coletti was born on 6 April 1989 and is a former Monegasque professional racing driver who raced for SMP Racing in the European Le Mans Series.
34 Facts About Stefano Coletti
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Stefano Coletti is the first Monegasque driver since Louis Chiron to have won a race in Monaco.
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In 2005, Stefano Coletti moved up to Formula racing, joining Eifelland Racing to contest the Formula BMW ADAC championship, where he finished eighteenth in the standings.
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Stefano Coletti took part in the Formula BMW World Final in Bahrain for ASL Team Mucke Motorsport, finishing in twenty-fifth place.
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Stefano Coletti continued in the championship in 2006, taking four podium places, including a single victory, to finish seventh in the standings.
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Stefano Coletti took part in four Formula BMW USA races, winning three of them to finish the season in fifth place, despite missing a large proportion of the championship.
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Stefano Coletti competed in the Formula BMW World Final, held at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo, where he finished in third place, behind Mika Maki and race winner Christian Vietoris.
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Stefano Coletti moved up to the Formula 3 Euro Series for the 2008 season, joining the French Signature-Plus team.
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Stefano Coletti missed the next round of the series at Pau before joining Prema Powerteam, who he remained with for the rest of the season.
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Stefano Coletti took a best race result of fourth to finish the year in twentieth position.
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Stefano Coletti took part in the Masters of Formula 3 and Macau Grand Prix non-championship races, but retired from both events.
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In January 2009, Prema announced that Stefano Coletti would be staying with the team for the 2009 season.
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Stefano Coletti was involved in a controversial incident after the first race at the Norisring.
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Stefano Coletti felt that Bianchi had said "bad words" to him, and struck the ART Grand Prix driver and championship leader.
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Stefano Coletti was then stripped of his third place, and was excluded from the rest of the meeting.
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Stefano Coletti failed to score points after the Oschersleben rounds, and finished tenth in the championship.
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In November 2008, Stefano Coletti sampled Formula Renault 3.5 Series machinery for the first time, testing for RC Motorsport at Valencia alongside former GP2 Series driver Andy Soucek.
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Stefano Coletti originally finished in eleventh place, but after Marco Barba received a 25-second penalty, Coletti was promoted into the final points paying position in tenth.
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Stefano Coletti returned to the series for a full season in 2010, driving alongside Greg Mansell at Comtec Racing.
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Stefano Coletti took five podium finishes on his way to sixth place in the championship.
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Stefano Coletti contested fourteen races of the inaugural GP3 Series season for the Tech 1 Racing team, replacing Daniel Juncadella after the first round of the championship.
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Stefano Coletti's team-mates were variously Doru Sechelariu, Jean-Eric Vergne, Jim Pla and the returning Juncadella.
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Stefano Coletti finished the year ninth in the championship; the best-placed of the Tech 1 drivers.
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Stefano Coletti made his GP2 debut in 2009 at Valencia when he replaced Davide Valsecchi at Durango.
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Stefano Coletti suffered a fraught first meeting in the series, receiving three drive-through penalties.
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Stefano Coletti escaped with compressed vertebrae and minor bruising, missing the following day's sprint race as his car's monocoque was written off by the impact.
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Stefano Coletti missed the Brands Hatch rounds of the F3 Euroseries due to his injury.
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Stefano Coletti was due to return to GP2 at Monza having originally been passed fit, but pulled out due to recurring pain during Thursday scrutineering.
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Stefano Coletti returned to GP2 in 2011, driving for Trident Racing alongside Rodolfo Gonzalez.
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Stefano Coletti began the main series strongly, winning the sprint race of the first round of the championship, held at Istanbul Park.
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Stefano Coletti missed the rest of the season as a result.
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Stefano Coletti's injury healed, Coletti returned to GP2 for the 2012 season with Scuderia Coloni, alongside Fabio Onidi, but after ten rounds of the championship, lying only 14th in the championship with one podium finish, he left the team by mutual consent.
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Stefano Coletti promptly joined the Rapax team for the final rounds of the championship, replacing Daniel de Jong.
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Stefano Coletti finished in the points in three of the remaining four races, moving him above Rio Haryanto into a final championship position of 13th.