Gabriele Minì

Gabriele Minì (born 20 March 2005) is an Italian racing driver.[1] He is the current champion of the Italian F4 Championship.

Gabriele Minì
Nationality Italian
Born (2005-03-20) 20 March 2005
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Formula Regional European Championship career
Debut season2021
Current teamART Grand Prix
Car numberTBA
Best finishTBA in 2021
Previous series
2020
2020		ADAC Formula 4
Italian F4 Championship
Championship titles
2020Italian F4 Championship
Awards
2019CIK-FIA Rookie of the Year

Career

Karting

Minì started his karting career in 2012. His first karting title came in the Italian Championship in 2017 in the 60 Mini Class at the age of 12. The year after Minì mainly competed in international competitions, becoming champion in the WSK Super Master Series, beating Mercedes Academy driver Paul Aron among others, and finishing as runner-up in the CIK-FIA Karting World Championship. Following these achievements, Minì was signed to Nicolas Todt's All Road Management scheme.[2] 2019 would be Minì's final year in karting; he finished second in the WSK Champions Cup and the FIA European Karting Championship respectively.[3]

Lower formulae

In late January 2020 it was announced that the Italian would made his car racing debut in the Italian F4 Championship and race in two rounds of the ADAC F4 Championship for Prema Powerteam alongside Sebastian Montoya, Gabriel Bortoleto and FDA-Member Dino Beganovic.[4] Minì started his season off strongly by scoring all three pole positions at the first round in Misano, winning his first ever race in single-seaters.[5] He would not score any more podiums for five consecutive races, although he finished each one of those races in the points. The Italian collected a hattrick of podiums at the Red Bull Ring, where he also won the third race of the weekend. After further wins in Mugello and Imola Minì had amassed a sizeable gap to his title rivals behind, and after a second-place finish in race two in the penultimate weekend the Italian was crowned champion of the series.[6]

Minì also raced in two rounds of the ADAC F4 Championship, winning his first race in that series at the Nürburgring.[7] He finished tenth in the standings.

Formula Regional European Championship

In December 2020 Minì took part in the post-season rookie test for the Formula Regional European Championship for ART Grand Prix alongside his F4 title rival Francesco Pizzi and Grégoire Saucy.[8] Without prior experience in a car at that level Minì completed the second-fastest laptime of the day.[9] After a second test later that month, the French outfit confirmed Minì would race with them in the 2021 season.[10][11]

Formula One

In October 2019, Minì partook in an evaluation with the Ferrari Driver Academy.[12]

Racing record

Career summary
Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2020 Italian F4 Championship Prema Powerteam 20 4 9 2 12 284 1st
ADAC Formula 4 Championship 6 1 2 2 4 82 10th
2021 Formula Regional European Championship ART Grand Prix

References
  1. "Gabriele Mini - Prema Powerteam". March 11, 2020. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  2. Allen, Peter (December 6, 2020). "Todt's All Road Management signs karter Gabriele Mini". FormulaScout. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
  3. "Gabriele Minì is the FIA Karting Rookie of the Year 2019". October 30, 2019. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  4. "Karting-talent Gabriele Mini to race with Prema in Formula 4". January 31, 2020. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  5. "Gabriele Mini wins on car racing debut at Misano in Italian F4". August 1, 2020. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  6. "Gabriele Mini crowned Italian F4 champion at Imola with second place to Crawford". November 22, 2020. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  7. "Prema's Gabriele Mini wins on ADAC F4 debut at Nurburgring". August 15, 2020. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  8. "Mini, Pizzi and Saucy to drive for ART GP in 'FREC' rookie test". December 7, 2020. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  9. "ART GP's Saucy fastest on final day of 'FREC' Paul Ricard rookie test". December 9, 2020. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  10. Wood, Elliot (December 19, 2020). "Montoya and Beganovic star in Euroformula and FREC test at Barcelona". FormulaScout. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
  11. "ART WELCOMES GABRIELE MINI TO ITS FORMULA REGIONAL EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP BY ALPINE CAMPAIGN". January 21, 2021. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
  12. "Svolto a Fiorano il 4° ACI Sport - FDA Camp per giovani talenti (The 4th ACI Sport - FDA Camp for young talents was held in Fiorano)". Motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. October 19, 2019. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Dennis Hauger		 Italian F4 Championship
Champion
2020		 Succeeded by
TBC
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