Antonio Spavone (born 2 June 1994) is an Italian former

racing driver Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition. In North America, the term is commonly used to describe all forms of automobile sport including non ...

and entrepreneur.

Career

Karting

Spavone was born in

Naples Naples ( ; ; ) is the Regions of Italy, regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 908,082 within the city's administrative limits as of 2025, while its Metropolitan City of N ...

. He began

karting Kart racing or karting is a motorsport discipline using open-wheel, four-wheeled vehicles known as go-karts or shifter karts. They are usually raced on scaled-down circuits, although some professional kart races are also held on full-size motor ...

in 2005 and raced primarily in his native Italy for the majority of this part of career, working his way up from the junior ranks to progress through to the KF2 category by 2010.

Formula Abarth

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, Spavone graduated to single–seaters into the newly launched

Formula Abarth Formula Abarth was an open wheel racing An open-wheel car is a car with the wheels outside the car's main body, and usually having only one seat. Open-wheel cars contrast with street cars, Sports car racing, sports cars, Stock car racing, stoc ...

series in

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, stating with Alan Racing, debuting at

Vallelunga Vallelunga (Italian for ''long valley'') is a valley, or plateau,Tonino Floris, Marco Spada, ''Pedalando nel Lazio''p. 97 Edizioni Mediterranee, 1996 . near Campagnano di Roma, Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in S ...

with three rounds to spare. His best result was a finish in fourteenth place at Mugello that brought him 31st place in the series standings. Spavone stayed in Formula Abarth for a second season in

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but switched to debutants

JD Motorsport JD Motorsport was an auto racing team based in Vespolate, Italy that competed in formula single-seaters in Europe. History The team was formed in 1995 by Roberto Cavallari and Alfredo Cappelletti. In 1996 the team started to participate in Form ...

, when the series split in European and Italian series. He had six-pointscoring finishes in Italian and four in European Series and finally finished thirteenth and fourteenth respectively.

Auto GP World Series

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Spavone joined

Euronova Racing Vincenzo Sospiri Racing Srl (also known as Fortec Italia Motorsport, Euronova Racing, VS Racing) is an auto racing team based in Italy. History After retiring from racing, Vincenzo Sospiri decided to collaborate with Fortec Motorsport and Italia ...

for his debut in Auto GP World Series.

GP3 Series

As well as Auto GP competing Spavone also will race for

Trident Racing Trident Motorsport (formerly known as Trident Racing) is a motor racing team that competes in Open-wheel car, single-seater formula racing. It was founded in 2006 in order to compete in the GP2 Series, GP2 championship, which was Europe's second h ...

GP3 Series The GP3 Series, or GP3 for short, was a single-seater motor racing series launched in 2010 as a feeder series for the GP2 Series, introduced by GP2 organiser Bruno Michel. GP3 followed the entire European leg of the Formula One series and the ...

Racing record

Career summary

Complete Auto GP results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

Complete GP3 Series results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Spavone, Antonio 1994 births Living people Racing drivers from Naples Italian racing drivers Formula Abarth drivers Auto GP drivers Formula Masters China drivers Italian GP3 Series drivers International GT Open drivers Ombra Racing drivers JD Motorsport drivers Euronova Racing drivers Trident Racing drivers Super Nova Racing drivers GT4 European Series drivers