Simone Tempestini | |
Nationality: | n |
Birth Date: | 12 August 1994 |
Birth Place: | Treviso, Italy |
Years: | –present |
Co-Driver: | Sergiu Itu |
Races: | 49 |
Championships: | 2 (JWRC 2016 & WRC3 2016) |
Wins: | 0 |
Podiums: | 0 |
Stagewins: | 0 |
Points: | 4 |
First Race: | 2013 Rally Finland |
Last Race: | 2019 Rally Catalunya |
Updated: | 27.10.2019 |
Simone Tempestini (born 12 August 1994[1]) is a Romanian rally driver. He won the 2016 Junior World Rally Championship with the Romanian team Napoca Rally Academy and the Romanian Rally Championship in 2015, 2016, and 2018.
Tempestini made his competition debut in 2009. He won the 2015 and 2016 Romanian Rally Championship driving a Ford Fiesta R5 (and a Citroën DS3 R3T Max, in the last round of 2016) for the Napoca Rally Academy team, followed by another two champion titles, in 2018 and 2019.
Tempestini won both the 2016 JWRC and the WRC 3 categories of the World Rally Championship, driving for the same team. As part of his prize, he competes in the 2017 World Rally Championship-2 driving a Citroën DS3 R5.
He stated that he feels "100% Romanian" although he is the son of the Romanian-Italian driver Marco Tempestini.[2] [3] He has also competed in WRC with an Italian licence.[1]
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Pos. | Points | |
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2013 | Napoca Rally Academy | Škoda Fabia R2 | MON | SWE | MEX | POR | ARG | GRE | ITA | FIN | GER | AUS | FRA | ESP | NC | 0 | |||
Subaru Impreza STi R4 | GBR 39 | ||||||||||||||||||
2014 | Napoca Rally Academy | Citroën DS3 R3T | MON | SWE | MEX | POR | ARG | ITA | POL | FIN | GER | AUS | FRA | ESP | GBR | NC | 0 | ||
2015 | Napoca Rally Academy | Citroën DS3 R3T Max | MON | POR | POL | FIN | GER | AUS | FRA | ESP | GBR | NC | 0 | ||||||
Subaru Impreza STi N14 | SWE | MEX | ARG | ||||||||||||||||
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX | ITA | ||||||||||||||||||
2016 | Napoca Rally Academy | Ford Fiesta R5 | MON | SWE | MEX | ARG | NC | 0 | |||||||||||
Citroën DS3 R3T Max | POR | ITA | POL | FIN | GER | CHN | FRA | ESP | GBR | AUS | |||||||||
2017 | Gekon Racing | Citroën DS3 R5 | MON Ret | SWE Ret | MEX | FRA 13 | ARG | POR 15 | ITA | POL 36 | FIN 19 | GER 15 | ESP 14 | GBR 50 | AUS | NC | 0 | ||
2018 | Simone Tempestini | Ford Fiesta R5 | MON | SWE | MEX | FRA | ARG | POR 36 | 18th | 4 | |||||||||
Citroën Total Rallye Team | Citroën C3 R5 | ITA Ret | FIN 36 | GER 20 | |||||||||||||||
Simone Tempestini | Citroën C3 R5 | TUR 8 | GBR 15 | ESP 22 | AUS | ||||||||||||||
2019 | Friulmotor Rally Team | Hyundai i20 R5 | MON | SWE | MEX | FRA 47 | ARG | CHL | POR 18 | ITA 13 | FIN | GER 19 | TUR | GBR | ESP Ret | AUS | NC | 0 |
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Pos. | Points | |
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2014 | Simone Tempestini | Citroën DS3 R3T | POR 6 | POL Ret | FIN 5 | GER 5 | FRA Ret | GBR Ret | 8th | 28 | ||
2015 | Simone Tempestini | Citroën DS3 R3T | MON 4 | POR 6 | POL 1 | FIN 9 | FRA | ESP 3 | GBR Ret | 4th | 62 | |
2016 | Napoca Rally Academy | Citroën DS3 R3T | POR 1 | POL 1 | FIN 2 | GER 1 | FRA 4 | GBR 2 | 1st | 123 |
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Pos. | Points | |
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2014 | Simone Tempestini | Citroën DS3 R3T | MON | SWE | MEX | POR 6 | ARG | ITA | POL Ret | FIN 6 | GER 5 | AUS | FRA Ret | ESP | GBR Ret | 7th | 26 | ||
2015 | Simone Tempestini | Citroën DS3 R3T | MON 4 | SWE | MEX | ARG | POR 7 | ITA | POL 1 | FIN 10 | GER | AUS | FRA 1 | ESP 4 | GBR Ret | 3rd | 81 | ||
2016 | Napoca Rally Academy | Citroën DS3 R3T | MON | SWE | MEX | ARG | POR 1 | ITA | POL 1 | FIN 2 | GER 1 | CHN | FRA 4 | ESP | GBR 2 | AUS | 1st | 123 |
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Pos. | Points | |
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2015 | Napoca Rally Academy | Subaru Impreza WRX STi | MON | SWE 9 | MEX Ret | ARG 7 | POR | ITA 17 | POL | FIN | GER | AUS | FRA | ESP | GBR | 34th | 8 | ||
2016 | Napoca Rally Academy | Ford Fiesta R5 | MON 9 | SWE 9 | MEX | ARG | POR | ITA | POL | FIN | GER | CHN | FRA | ESP | GBR | AUS | 38th | 4 | |
2017 | Gekon Racing | Citroën DS3 R5 | MON | SWE | MEX | FRA 4 | ARG | POR 3 | ITA | POL 10 | FIN 5 | GER 6 | ESP 5 | GBR 20 | AUS | 7th | 56 | ||
2018 | Simone Tempestini | Ford Fiesta R5 | MON | SWE | MEX | FRA | ARG | POR 16 | 15th | 28 | |||||||||
Citroën Total Rallye Team | Citroën C3 R5 | ITA Ret | FIN 9 | GER 10 | |||||||||||||||
Simone Tempestini | Citroën C3 R5 | TUR 2 | GBR 7 | ESP 10 | AUS | ||||||||||||||
2019 | Friulmotor Rally Team | Hyundai i20 R5 | MON | SWE | MEX | FRA 11 | ARG | CHL | POR 10 | ITA 3 | FIN | GER 4 | TUR | GBR | ESP Ret | AUS | 17th | 28 |