| Eddie Cheever III | |
| Related To: | Eddie Cheever (father) |
| Nationality: |  Italian Americanvia dual nationality |
| Birth Date: | 5 June 1993 |
| Birth Place: | Rome, Italy |
| Racing Licence: | FIA Gold |
| Current Series: | FIA World Endurance Championship |
| First Year: | 2018–19 |
| Current Team: | MR Racing |
| Car Number: | 70 |
| Starts: | 8 |
| Wins: | 0 |
| Poles: | 0 |
| Fastest Laps: | 0 |
| Best Finish: | 9th |
| Year: | 2018–19 |
| Prev Series: | NASCAR K&N Pro Series West NASCAR K&N Pro Series East NASCAR Whelen Euro Series FIA F3 European Championship Italian F3 Formula Abarth LO Formula Renault 2.0 Suisse |
| Prev Series Years: | 2015 2015 2014–15 2013 2011–12 2010 2009 |
| Titles: | International GT Open - Pro-Am GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup - Bronze Cup GT World Challenge Europe GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup - Pro-Am Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo - GT3 |
| Title Years: | 2023 2023 2020 2020 2016 |
Edward Mackay "Eddie" Cheever III (born 5 June 1993)[1] is an Italian-American racing driver who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship for MR Racing in the LMGTE Am class. He is the son of retired Formula One driver and 1998 Indianapolis 500 winner Eddie Cheever.
Born in Rome, Cheever began karting in 2006 and raced primarily in Europe for the majority of his karting career, working his way up from the junior ranks to progress through to the KF2 category by 2009 and finishing 15th in the CIK-FIA European Championship.[1] [2]
Cheever graduated to single-seaters in 2009. He competed with Jenzer Motorsport in the Swiss and Italian championships, finishing eleventh and fourteenth in the final standings, respectively.[3] [4]
In 2010, Cheever moved into the newly launched Formula Abarth series in Italy, staying with Jenzer Motorsport. He achieved a podium in the sprint race at Varano and finished the season eleventh.[5] [6]
In 2011, Cheever joined Lucidi Motors for a campaign in the Italian Formula Three Championship.[7] He finished ninth with podiums at Misano, Adria and Mugello.[8]
He remained in the series in 2012 but switched to Prema Powerteam.[9] He finished as runner-up to Riccardo Agostini in both the European and Italian championship formats.[10]
On 9 November 2012, Cheever tested a Scuderia Ferrari Formula One car at Vallelunga, as a result of his performance in the Italian Formula Three Championship.[11]
Cheever continued his collaboration with Prema Powerteam in FIA European Formula 3 Championship in 2013.[12]
In 2014, Cheever made the switch from open wheel to stock cars, running the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series for Italian-based CAAL Racing, scoring his first win and his first pole position at Brands Hatch. He then won two more races, at Magione[13] and Le Mans,[14] to finish the season third in points.[15] He won the Jerome Sarran Trophy, rewarding the highest-placed driver aged 25 or under, and the Race And Win Pole Award, rewarding the driver scoring the highest number of pole positions during the season.On 4 August 2015, Cheever announced that he would make his K&N Pro Series East debut at Watkins Glen International for Bill McAnally Racing.[16] He also ran one race in K&N Pro Series West at All American Speedway, also for Bill McAnally Racing.
Cheever has been a long-time member of Sky - Tempesta Racing, alongside Chris Froggatt and Jonathan Hui. In 2023, the team began partnering with Garage 59 and switched to driving the McLaren 720S GT3 in the GT World Challenge Europe.[17]
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Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)| NASCAR Whelen Euro Series - Elite 1 results | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Pts | ||||
| 51 | VAL | VAL | BRH | BRH | TOU | TOU | NÜR | NÜR | UMB | UMB | LEM | LEM | 3rd | 625 | ||||||
| VAL | VAL | VEN | VEN | BRH | BRH | TOU | TOU | 5th | 599 | |||||||||||
| UMB | UMB | ZOL | ZOL | |||||||||||||||||
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | Class | Make | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Rank | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Spirit of Race | GTD | Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 | Ferrari 4.5L V8 | DAY | SEB | LGA | DET | WGL | MOS | IMS | ELK | VIR | COA | PET | 105th | 14 | |
| 2018 | Spirit of Daytona Racing | P | Cadillac DPi-V.R | Cadillac 5.5 L V8 | DAY | SEB | LBH | MDO | DET | WGL | MOS | ELK | LGA | PET | 49th | 30 | ||
| 2022 | Risi Competizione | GTD Pro | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 | Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8 | DAY | SEB | LBH | LGA | WGL | MOS | LIM | ELK | VIR | 31st | 255 | |||
| 2024 | Cetilar Racing | GTD | Ferrari 296 GT3 | Ferrari 3.0 L Turbo V6 | DAY | SEB | LBH | LGA | WGL | MOS | ELK | VIR | IMS | PET | 10th* | 234 |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 |  MR Racing |  Olivier Beretta Motoaki Ishikawa | Ferrari 488 GTE | GTE Am | 324 | 38th | 9th | |
| 2019 | MR Racing | Olivier Beretta Motoaki Ishikawa | Ferrari 488 GTE | GTE Am | 328 | 41st | 10th |
(Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | Car | Class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Pos. | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | nowrap | Sky - Tempesta Racing | nowrap | Ferrari 488 GT3 | Pro-Am | IMO | NÜR | SPA 6H | SPA 12H | SPA 24H | LEC | 2nd | 79 | |
| 2021 | nowrap | Sky - Tempesta Racing | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 | Pro-Am | MON | LEC | SPA 6H | SPA 12H | SPA 24H | NÜR | CAT | 5th | 69 | |
| 2022 | Sky - Tempesta with GruppeM Racing | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | Gold | IMO | LEC | 8th | 35 | |||||||
| Sky - Tempesta Racing by HRT | IMO | LEC | SPA 6H | SPA 12H | SPA 24H | HOC | CAT | |||||||
| 2023 | Sky – Tempesta Racing | nowrap | McLaren 720S GT3 Evo | Bronze | MNZ | LEC | SPA 6H | SPA 12H | SPA 24H | NÜR | CAT | 1st | 92 | |
| 2024 | Sky – Tempesta Racing | Ferrari 296 GT3 | Bronze | LEC | SPA 6H | SPA 12H | SPA 24H | NÜR | MNZ | JED | 2nd* | 43* |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | Car | Class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Pos. | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Sky - Tempesta Racing | Ferrari 488 GT3 | Pro-Am | MIS 1 | MIS 2 | MIS 3 | MAG 1 | MAG 2 | ZAN 1 | ZAN 2 | CAT 1 | CAT 2 | CAT 3 | 1st | 131 | |
| 2021 | Sky - Tempesta Racing | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 | Silver | MAG 1 | MAG 2 | ZAN 1 | ZAN 2 | MIS 1 | MIS 2 | BRH 1 | BRH 2 | VAL 1 | VAL 2 | 16th | 9 | |
| 2022 | Sky - Tempesta with GruppeM Racing | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | Silver | BRH 1 | BRH 2 | MAG 1 | MAG 2 | ZAN 1 | ZAN 2 | MIS 1 | MIS 2 | 8th | 38.5 | |||
| Sky - Tempesta Racing by HRT | VAL 1 | VAL 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 2024 | Sky - Tempesta Racing | Ferrari 296 GT3 | Bronze | BRH 1 | BRH 2 | MIS 1 | MIS 2 | HOC 1 | HOC 2 | MAG 1 | MAG 2 | CAT 1 | CAT 2 | 2nd* | 41* |