Matteo Bobbi (born 2 July 1978 in Milan) is an Italian racing driver with experience in several motor sport categories, including three years as a Minardi test driver in Formula One.Bobbi keeps on testing at Minardi. | F1 News | Crash.Net
During a brief time with Formula One's Minardi as their test driver, Bobbi also began racing in sports cars, winning the 2003 FIA GT Championship with Thomas Biagi in a BMS Scuderia Italia Ferrari, and finishing as runner-up in 2004. In 2006, he won the GT2 class with Jaime Melo.
Career Bobbi began racing karts in 1995 and progressed to Formula Renault in 1998, where he finished on the podium several times. He tested a Formula One car for Minardi in 2000, and became their official test driver the following year. Also that year, he competed in the Spanish Formula Nissan Championship, in which he won at Valencia. He won six races in 2002, finishing as runner-up in the championship standings.
Bobbi continued to work with Minardi until mid-2003, including a Grand Prix weekend test session at the 2003 San Marino Grand Prix. Giovanni Minardi was his manager at the time. He also competed in the Rolex Sports Car Series for Cheever Racing.
Bobbi and Davide Valsecchi, who are currently working as Formula One commentators for Sky Italia, were temporarily suspended by the company for making sexist remarks during an on-air post-race analysis of the 2023 Spanish Grand Prix.
Racing results
Complete Formula One participations (key) Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 WDC Points European Minardi Cosworth Minardi PS03 Cosworth V10 AUS MAL BRA SMR ESP AUT MON CAN EUR FRA GBR GER HUN ITA USA JPN - -
24 Hours of Le Mans results Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Racing Box Andrea Piccini Thomas Biagi Lola B08/80-Judd LMP2 203 DNF DNF
Complete GT1 World Championship results Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pos Points Ref 2010 Triple H Team Hegersport Maserati ABUQRDNS ABUCR7 SILQR16 SILCR4 BRNQR10 BRNCR11 PRIQR14 PRICR11 30th 19 Marc VDS Racing Team Ford SPAQR SPACR NÜRQR NÜRCR ALGQR ALGCR NAVQR12 NAVCR10 INTQR20 INTCR15 SANQR15 SANCRRet 2011 DKR Engineering Corvette ABUQR ABUCR ZOLQR ZOLCR ALGQR15 ALGCRRet SACQR SACCR SILQR SILCR NAVQR NAVCR PRIQR PRICR ORDQR ORDCR BEIQR BEICR SANQR SANCR 43rd 0
References
External links Official website