Jérôme d'Ambrosio

Jérôme d'Ambrosio
Jérôme d'Ambrosio
Jerome d'Ambrosio.jpg
Jérôme d'Ambrosio at the 2009 Belgian Grand Prix
Born 27 December 1985 (1985-12-27) (age 25)
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality Belgium Belgian
Team Virgin-Cosworth
Car # 25
Races 18
Championships 0
Wins 0
Podiums 0
Career points 0
Pole positions 0
Fastest laps 0
First race 2011 Australian Grand Prix
Last race 2011 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

Jérôme d'Ambrosio (born 27 December 1985 in Etterbeek, Belgium) is a Belgian racing driver of Italian descent. He is driving for Marussia Virgin Racing during the 2011 Formula One World Championship.

Contents

Career

Karting

D'Ambrosio began his career in karting, between 1995 and 2002. He was three times Belgian champion, winning the Mini class in 1996, Junior in 2000 and Formula A in 2002. He won the Junior Monaco Kart Cup in 2000, and won World Cup Formula A in 2002.

Formula Renault

D'Ambrosio moved into single-seaters in 2003, winning the Belgian Formula Renault (1.6 litre) championship, driving for former Formula One driver and compatriot Thierry Boutsen's team. Also in 2003, d'Ambrosio drove in the German-based Formula König championship finishing fourth in the season standings. He also took part in a test for the Renault F1 Driver Development Programme, which he won, earning him a place on the programme for 2004, although he was not retained for further seasons. He moved into the French Formula Renault 2-litre series for 2004 where he finished fourth in the final standings and was top rookie. He also started seven races in the Eurocup. He switched to the Italian Formula Renault Championship in 2005, finishing fourth, also starting six Eurocup races. In 2006, he drove at the highest level in the Formula Renault hierarchy, the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, for Tech 1 Racing, but left the series after four rounds having not scored any points.

Euroseries 3000

He switched to the Euroseries 3000, driving for Euronova Racing, taking three podium finishes and ending up fifth in the final standings despite missing the first half of the season. He also took part in a single race meeting of the FIA GT Championship, driving a Gillet Vertigo in the GT2 class.

Formula Master

For 2007, d'Ambrosio took part in the inaugural season of the International Formula Master series with the Cram Competition team. He won five races, scored 100 points and became the category's first champion.

GP2 Series

D'Ambrosio driving for DAMS at the Turkish round of the 2009 GP2 Series season.
D'Ambrosio driving for Virgin Racing as the team's third driver at the 2010 Japanese Grand Prix.

For 2008, D'Ambrosio competed in both the GP2 Series and the new GP2 Asia Series for the DAMS team, alongside Kamui Kobayashi. He finished eleventh in the GP2 drivers' championship, with a best finish of two second places. He continued with the team into the 2008–09 GP2 Asia Series season, and despite not taking a single victory, D'Ambrosio managed to finish runner-up to team-mate Kobayashi. He continued with DAMS into the 2009 season, and finished ninth despite failing to achieve a victory. He remained with the team for the 2010 season, as part of DAMS's co-operation with the Renault Formula One team.[1] He took his first series victory at Monaco, but was later rested for two races in favour of Romain Grosjean.[2] He took his first series pole position for his home round, but retired from the feature race whilst leading. Following a podium finish at Monza, he finished twelfth in the drivers' championship.

Formula One

In January 2010, d'Ambrosio was announced as a reserve driver for Renault F1, rejoining the team's driver programme thanks to its newly-formed links with the Gravity Sport Management company that looks after d'Ambrosio.[1]

It was announced on 16 September that d'Ambrosio would replace Lucas di Grassi at Virgin on four occasions during Friday practice: at the Singapore, Japanese, Korean and Brazilian Grands Prix. He broke the news to Belgian TV channel RTBF.[3] At his first Friday Practice in Singapore, he finished 21st, two-tenths behind teammate Timo Glock. For the Japanese Friday Practice he did not drive as planned.

2011

D'Ambrosio at the 2011 Spanish Grand Prix.

On 21 December 2010, Virgin Racing confirmed that d'Ambrosio would race for the team in 2011.[4] In his first 13 races for the team, d'Ambrosio finished 11 of them with his only retirements coming in Malaysia due to a problem with his car's electronics and in Italy due to gearbox problems. His best finishes have been two 14th places, in Australia and Canada. In his home race, the Belgian Grand Prix, he finished 17th, beating his team-mate Timo Glock.

In the Virgin garage, d'Ambrosio is now affectionately known as 'Custard', with the word pasted on his cockpit when he began testing for the 2011 season at Valencia. Ambrosia is a well-known UK brand of custard and rice pudding.[citation needed]

Racing record

Career summary

Season Series Team Name Races Poles Wins Points Final Placing
2003 Formula Renault 1.6 Belgium Thierry Boutsen Racing  ?  ?  ?  ? 1st
Formula König  ?  ?  ?  ? 240 4th
2004 Championnat de France Formula Renault 2.0 Graff Racing 14 0 0 156 4th
Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 7 0 0 28 16th
2005 Formula Renault 2.0 Italia Euronova Racing 17 1 1 199 4th
Formula Renault 2.0 Italia Winter Series 2  ? 2 40 3rd
Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 6 0 0 22 15th
Italian Formula 3000 Light 1 0 0 9 6th
2006 Euroseries 3000 Euronova Racing 10 0 0 39 5th
Formula Renault 3.5 Series Tech 1 Racing 7 0 0 0 NC
FIA GT Championship Gillet Vertigo Streiff (GT2) 1 0 0 0 NC
2007 International Formula Master Cram Competition 16 1 5 100 1st
2008 GP2 Series DAMS 20 0 0 21 11th
GP2 Asia Series 10 0 0 12 11th
2008–09 GP2 Asia Series DAMS 11 1 0 36 2nd
2009 GP2 Series DAMS 20 0 0 29 9th
2010 GP2 Series DAMS 18 1 1 21 12th
Formula One Renault F1 Test driver
Formula One Virgin Racing Test driver
2011 Formula One Marussia Virgin Racing 18 0 0 0* 24th*

* Season in progress.

Complete GP2 Series results

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

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 DC Points
2008 DAMS ESP
FEA

Ret
ESP
SPR

15
TUR
FEA

Ret
TUR
SPR

Ret
MON
FEA

9
MON
SPR

7
FRA
FEA

6
FRA
SPR

Ret
GBR
FEA

9
GBR
SPR

12
GER
FEA

Ret
GER
SPR

11
HUN
FEA

9
HUN
SPR

Ret
EUR
FEA

5
EUR
SPR

2
BEL
FEA

8
BEL
SPR

2
ITA
FEA

7
ITA
SPR

6
11th 21
2009 DAMS ESP
FEA

3
ESP
SPR

3
MON
FEA

6
MON
SPR

2
TUR
FEA

Ret
TUR
SPR

15
GBR
FEA

19
GBR
SPR

12
GER
FEA

10
GER
SPR

7
HUN
FEA

16
HUN
SPR

Ret
VAL
FEA

9
VAL
SPR

4
BEL
FEA

Ret
BEL
SPR

Ret
ITA
FEA

4
ITA
SPR

4
POR
FEA

Ret
POR
SPR

10
9th 29
2010 DAMS ESP
FEA

Ret
ESP
SPR

10
MON
FEA

8
MON
SPR

1
TUR
FEA

10
TUR
SPR

8
VAL
FEA

Ret
VAL
SPR

8
GBR
FEA

11
GBR
SPR

11
GER
FEA
GER
SPR
HUN
FEA

6
HUN
SPR

Ret
BEL
FEA

Ret
BEL
SPR

Ret
ITA
FEA

5
ITA
SPR

2
ABU
FEA

14
ABU
SPR

8
12th 21

Complete GP2 Asia Series results

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

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 DC Points
2008 DAMS DUB1
FEA

11
DUB1
SPR

8
IDN
FEA

Ret
IDN
SPR

Ret
MYS
FEA

3
MYS
SPR

Ret
BHR
FEA

11
BHR
SPR

12
DUB2
FEA

7
DUB2
SPR

3
11th 12
2008–09 DAMS CHN
FEA

9
CHN
SPR

5
DUB
FEA

7
DUB
SPR

C
BHR1
FEA

2
BHR1
SPR

3
QAT
FEA

5
QAT
SPR

7
MYS
FEA

Ret
MYS
SPR

DSQ
BHR2
FEA

3
BHR2
SPR

2
2nd 36

Complete Formula One results

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

Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 WDC Points
2010 Virgin Racing Virgin VR-01 Cosworth CA2010 2.4 V8 BHR AUS MAL CHN ESP MON TUR CAN EUR GBR GER HUN BEL ITA SIN
TD
JPN
TD
KOR
TD
BRA
TD
ABU
2011 Marussia Virgin Racing Virgin MVR-02 Cosworth CA2011 2.4 V8 AUS
14
MAL
Ret
CHN
20
TUR
20
ESP
20
MON
15
CAN
14
EUR
22
GBR
17
GER
18
HUN
19
BEL
17
ITA
Ret
SIN
18
JPN
21
KOR
20
IND
16
ABU
Ret
BRA
24th* 0*

* Season in progress.

References

External links

Sporting positions
Preceded by
Jan Charouz
International Formula Master champion
2007
Succeeded by
Chris van der Drift

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