Fabio Onidi (born 9 March 1988 in

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) is am Itatian former professional

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Career

Karting

Prior to starting his racing career, Onidi raced in

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 ...

for a number of years, finishing sixth in the European Championship ICA Junior category and winning the Italian Championship ICA Junior title in 2003.

Formula BMW

Onidi began his single–seater career in 2004 in the

Formula BMW ADAC Formula BMW was a junior racing formula for single seater cars. It was positioned at the bottom of the motorsport career ladder alongside the longer established Formula Ford category. Like Formula Ford, it was intended to function as the young k ...

series, as one of former

Formula One Formula One (F1) is the highest class of worldwide racing for open-wheel single-seater formula Auto racing, racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The FIA Formula One World Championship has been one ...

driver

Sebastian Vettel Sebastian Vettel (; born 3 July 1987) is a German racing driver who most recently competed in Formula One from to . Vettel won four Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won consecutively from to with Red Bull, and rema ...

's team–mates at ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. He finished his debut season in eighth place with the highlight being a

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. He continued in the championship in

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, switching to the Eifelland Racing team. He finished the season in 11th place despite missing three races during the year. Onidi also took part in the end–of–season Formula BMW World Final, held at the

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, but he retired from the event.

Formula Renault 2.0

At the end of 2005, Onidi joined

Fortec Motorsport Fortec Motorsport Ltd. is a motor-racing team that races in the GB3 Championship, GB4 Championship, and F4 British Championship. The team was bought in 1995 by current owner Richard Dutton. Past drivers for the team include Juan Pablo Montoya, ...

to contest the British Formula Renault 2.0 Winter Series. He scored 20 points in the four races to finish 17th in the standings. He continued with the team into the main championship in 2006, finishing the season as the best rookie driver in 11th place. In

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, Onidi joined the Motorsport Arena team to contest both the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 and Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup. He took a best finish of eighth place to finish 20th in the Eurocup standings, whilst in the Northern European Cup, he took podium places at both

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and

Nürburgring The () is a 150,000-person capacity motorsports complex located in the town of Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It features a Grand Prix motor racing, Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a long configuration, built in the 1920s ...

to finish ninth in the championship, despite missing the last six races of the season. In November 2007, Onidi took part in the four race Italian Formula Renault 2.0 Winter Series with

RP Motorsport RP Motorsport was an auto racing team based in Italy in Piacenza. The Italian team won many times the EuroFormula Open Championship, becoming one of the most successful outfit in the series. In February 2022 the team assets were sold to Irish ra ...

, taking two podiums to finish third in the standings. He finished level on points with the

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entry of

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, but lost out on countback.

Euroseries 3000/Auto GP

For 2008, Onidi moved up to the

Euroseries 3000 Auto GP, sometimes referred to as the Auto GP World Series and formerly known as both Euro Formula 3000 and the Euroseries 3000, was a European formula racing series. The series' roots can be traced back to 1999 and the Italian Formula 3000 serie ...

championship with the

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team. He won his debut race at

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and took a second victory at

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later in the season to finish runner–up in the championship behind

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. In the accompanying Italian

Formula 3000 Formula 3000 (F3000) was a type of open wheel, single seater formula racing, occupying the tier immediately below Formula One and above Formula Three. It was so named because the cars were powered by 3.0 L engines. Formula 3000 championship ...

series, he also ended the year as runner–up, finishing a single point behind

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n driver

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. Onidi remained in the championship in

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

, moving to fellow Italian team

Fisichella Motor Sport Fisichella Motor Sport is a motorsport team, founded by Italian Formula One driver Giancarlo Fisichella and his manager Enrico Zanarini. Racing history Euroseries 3000 Fisichella Motor Sport had a team, run by Scuderia Coloni, racing in the ...

to partner

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. He again took two victories during the season, at

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and Vallelunga, but despite leading the championship heading into the final round at

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, he finished third in the standings, behind

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and eventual champion

Will Bratt William Bratt (born 13 April 1988 in Oxford) is a British racing driver. He previously competed in the British Touring Car Championship with Rob Austin Racing. Career T Cars After three years in Super 1 karting, Bratt moved into the T Cars ...

. Onidi continued in the series for a third season in

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, when the championship was re–branded as

Auto GP Auto GP, sometimes referred to as the Auto GP World Series and formerly known as both Euro Formula 3000 and the Euroseries 3000, was a European formula racing series. The series' roots can be traced back to 1999 and the Italian Formula 3000 serie ...

. He raced for

Team Lazarus Team Lazarus, currently competing as L&A Infinity Racing, is an Italian auto racing team, based in Padova, which is currently competing in the International GT Open and Blancpain GT Endurance Series formerly starting in GP2 Series and Auto GP ...

in a single–car team. After taking a podium at the first event in Brno, Onidi added a further three podium positions to finish the season in eighth place, level on points with

Carlos Iaconelli Carlos "Iaco" Iaconelli (born June 26, 1987) is a Brazilian former racing car driver. Career He spent much of his early career in karting before moving into single-seaters in 2004, where he competed in both Brazilian Formula Renault and the Sou ...

, who took seventh place due to his three race wins. He remained with Lazarus for the

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and was joined by compatriot

Fabrizio Crestani Fabrizio Crestani (born 17 December 1987) is an Italian racing driver. Career Having competed in karts until 2005, Crestani moved up to the Formula Junior 1600 Italia championship, finishing in 4th place in the championship, driving for PSR M ...

; the two proved evenly matched, finishing fifth and sixth in the championship with Onidi seven points ahead.

A1 Grand Prix

Onidi made his

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debut in October 2008, racing for

A1 Team Italy A1 Team Italy was the Italian team of A1 Grand Prix, an international racing series. Management ''A1 Team Italy'' owner was Piercarlo Ghinzani. History 2008–09 season ''Drivers: Edoardo Piscopo, Fabio Onidi'' For the 2008–09 seaso ...

at the first round of the 2008–09 season at Zandvoort in the

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. Despite treacherous weather conditions, he finished seventh in the sprint race, although he retired from the feature race after a collision with the

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car of

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GP2 Series

In the autumn of 2008, Onidi took part in

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testing at

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, testing for

BCN Competición BCN Competición was a Spanish motorsport team active in the GP2 Series and the International Formula 3000. The team, owned by Enrique Scalabroni and Jaime Pintanel, was founded in 2002. Due to financial problems, the team was sold to Tiago Mont ...

Piquet GP Piquet GP, formerly known as Minardi Piquet Sports or Minardi by Piquet Sports and Piquet Sports, is a motor racing team. The team's history can be traced back to when the GP Racing team was founded in 1997, and also to when Piquet Sports was cr ...

and

Super Nova Racing Super Nova Racing was a British racing team that has competed in International Formula 3000, Formula 3000/GP2 Series, GP2 and the A1 Grand Prix series. History Super Nova first entered racing in 1991. Super Nova was a new incarnation of the p ...

, and a year later he tested for

Coloni Motorsport Coloni Motorsport, also known as Scuderia Coloni, was an auto racing team from Italy. Founded by former racing driver Enzo Coloni in 1983, the team participated in Formula Three between 1983 and 1986, before racing in Formula One as Enzo Coloni ...

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. He made his GP2 racing début in the non-championship 2011 season finale with the Super Nova team alongside

Giacomo Ricci Giacomo Ricci (born 30 March 1985 in Baveno) is a former Italian racing driver. Career Formula BMW Ricci began his car racing career by driving in the German-based Formula BMW ADAC series in 2001 and 2002, with a best finish of seventh in the d ...

, and switched to the category full-time for the 2012 season with the Coloni team, where he was paired with

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. He finished 20th in the final championship standings.

Other series

In April 2010, he drove for

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in the final

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pre–season test held at the

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, and in October 2010 he sampled a

Formula Renault 3.5 Series The World Series Formula V8 3.5, formerly the World Series by Nissan from 1998 to 2004, the Formula Renault 3.5 Series from 2005 to 2015 and the Formula V8 3.5 in 2016 and 2017, was a motor racing series promoted by RPM Racing (1998–2004) and R ...

car for the first time, testing for Fortec Motorsport and

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Racing record

Career summary

† – Team standings. ‡ – The team were known as

FMS International Fisichella Motor Sport is a motorsport team, founded by Italian Formula One driver Giancarlo Fisichella and his manager Enrico Zanarini. Racing history Euroseries 3000 Fisichella Motor Sport had a team, run by Scuderia Coloni, racing in the ...

until the second round of the season.

Complete Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 results

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

Complete Formula Renault 2.0 NEC results

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

Complete GP2 Series results

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

Complete GP2 Final results

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

FIA GT Series results

References

External links

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