Can Artam Explained

Can Artam
Nationality:Turkish
Birth Date:30 June 1981
Birth Place:Istanbul, Turkey

Can Artam (born 30 June 1981, in Istanbul) is a Turkish race car driver born into a car racing family. He raced in the 2005 GP2 Series for the iSport team and was the 2001 US Barber Formula Dodge champion.

Career

Artam's career begun in karting in 1999, and he moved up to the Turkish Touring Car Championship in 2001. Later in the year he also raced in US Barber Formula Dodge, winning the title.

He remained in the TTCC in 2002, also racing in North American Fran Am 2000 Pro Championship and some races of Turkish Formula Three Championship, whilst returning to karting for some events. The Formula Renault would be the only series he would compete in during 2003, though with the new year seeing part seasons in both British Formula 3's National-Class and Formula Renault V6 Eurocup.

On 29 May 2004 Can Artam got his shot in Formula 3000 in Imola as the first Turkish driver racing in this category, driving part of the season for the Coloni team,[1] and later driving some races for Super Nova.[2] In 2005, he drove in GP2, the replacement series for F3000, for the iSport International team alongside Scott Speed, although without much success, scoring just two points with seventh place at the Monaco round of the inaugural GP2 championship. Until 2013 he has not raced in any major championships.

In 2013 he started racing again in the Turkish Touring Car Championship with Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport.[3] He finished the first race of the season 3rd despite a flat tire.

Racing record

Career summary

SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPolesF/lapsPointsPosition
2002North American Fran Am 2000 Pro ChampionshipAutoTechnica20002014th
2003Formula Renault V6 EurocupEuroInternational3000619th
British Formula 3 International Series - ScholarshipPromatecme UK5000357th
2004International Formula 3000 ChampionshipColoni Motorsport9000019th
2005GP2 SeriesiSport International24000222nd

International Formula 3000

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

YearEntrant12345678910DCPoints
2004Coloni MotorsportIMO
CAT
MON
NUR
MAG
SILHOC
NC0
Super Nova RacingHUN
SPA
MNZ

GP2 Series

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

Notes and References

  1. News: Can Artam ilk 10'da . . 2004-05-19 . Turkish . 2013-09-19 .
  2. News: Can Artam SüperNova ile anlaştı . . 2004-08-12 . Turkish . 2013-09-19 .
  3. News: Can Artam yeni takımında . . 2013-03-14 . Turkish . 2013-09-19 .