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John Filippi
French racing driver

John Filippi

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Bastia, Haute-Corse, Corsica, France
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29 years
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John Filippi (born 27 February 1995) is a French auto racing driver who competes in the World Touring Car Championship for Campos Racing.

Racing career

Karting

Filippi started his karting career in 2007 in the Cadet class. He made his first international appearance in 2009. In 2009 Filippi competed in the European KF3 championship where he finished 40th in a Vortex powered Tony Kart. He also competed in the French Grand Prix Open Karting. The following two years the driver from Corsica competed in the KF2 class. He ended the 2011 season with two top ten classifications in the French and Grand Prix Open championships.

Single-seaters

After six years of karting John Filippi made is autoracing debut in 2007 at Circuit Paul Armagnac. The Corsican was entered by Equipe Palmyr in the amateur Single-seater V de V Challenge driving a Tatuus FR2000. Driving against other old Formula Renault and Formula Master cars he finished twelfth in his first race. He raced six races in his inaugural racing season and finished 25th in the standings.

The following season Filippi switched to the Bossy Racing team racing a Tatuus N.T07 Formula Master chassis. This decision made the youngdriver highly successful. He won the first three races of the season at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. He went on to win eleven of the eighteen races in the season. Beside the three races he won in Barcelona Filippi won two races in Motorland Aragón, three races at Lédenon and three races at Magny-Cours. Towards the end of the racing season he made his debut in the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 with RC Formula. At Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya he finished 22nd in the first and 27th in the second race.

World Touring Car Championship

2014

On March 19, 2014 it was announced that John Filippi would race in the World Touring Car Championship. Filippi joined Campos Racing driving one of their TC2 SEAT León's.

Filippi became the youngest ever points scorer in a WTCC race at the Race of Morocco in Marrakech. This was followed by consistent pace in the TC2 class all season before clinching a class win at the Race of Japan

2015

For 2015 with the departure of Dušan Borković from Campos Racing, Filippi was promoted to the TC1 Chevrolet Cruze for the 2015 season.

Again Filippi scored a points finish in Marrakech and at the Nordschleife. At the Race of China Filippi set a new career best qualifying position with P7, before suffering from an accident in Race 1 which forced him to retire. In Thailand it was much the same story with a strong qualifying but a Race 1 incident with Tiago Monteiro forced him to retire once again.

At the Race of Qatar qualified 10th and therefore lined up on pole position for Race 2. Filippi is currently the youngest driver ever to have started from pole position in a WTCC race at 20 years and 331 days old.

2016

On February 9, 2016, Filippi's main sponsor Oscaro announced that Filippi would be continuing with Campos Racing in the TC1 Chevrolet for the 2016 World Touring Car Championship season. It was also announced that 4-time world champion Yvan Muller would be accompanying Filippi as driver coach for the season.

Racing record

Complete World Touring Car Championship results

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

YearTeamCar123456789101112131415161718192021222324DCPoints
2014Campos RacingSEAT León WTCCMAR1
MAR2
FRA1
FRA2
HUN1
HUN2
SVK1
SVK2
AUT1
AUT2
RUS1
RUS2
BEL1
BEL2
ARG1
ARG2
BEI1
BEI2
CHN1
CHN2
JPN1
JPN2
MAC1
MAC2
18th4
2015Campos RacingChevrolet RML Cruze TC1ARG1
ARG2
MAR1
MAR2
HUN1
HUN2
GER1
GER2
RUS1
RUS2
SVK1
SVK2
FRA1
FRA2
POR1
POR2
JPN1
JPN2
CHN1
CHN2
THA1
THA2
QAT1
QAT2
18th6
2016Campos RacingChevrolet RML Cruze TC1FRA1
FRA2
SVK1
SVK2
HUN1
HUN2
MAR1
MAR2
GER1
GER2
RUS1
RUS2
POR1
POR2
ARG1
ARG2
JPN1
JPN2
CHN1
CHN2
QAT1
QAT2
18th9
2017Sébastien Loeb RacingCitroën C-Elysée WTCCMAR1
MAR2
ITA1
ITA2
HUN1
HUN2
GER1
GER2
POR1
POR2
ARG1
ARG2
CHN1
CHN2
JPN1
JPN2
MAC1
MAC2
QAT1
QAT2
12th48

Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.

Complete World Touring Car Cup results

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

YearTeamCar123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930DCPoints
2018Team Oscaro by Campos RacingCupra León TCRMAR1
10
MAR2
17
MAR3
11
HUN1
Ret
HUN2
13
HUN3
Ret
GER1
16
GER2
NC
GER3
20
NED1
15
NED2
10
NED3
14
POR1
Ret
POR2
12
POR3
16
SVK1
18
SVK2
5
SVK3
Ret
CHN1
Ret
CHN2
Ret
CHN3
20
WUH1
16
WUH2
Ret
WUH3
DNS
JPN1
20
JPN2
22†
JPN3
12
MAC1
Ret
MAC2
11
MAC3
23†
26th14

Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Complete TCR Europe Touring Car Series results

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

YearTeamCar1234567891011121314DCPoints
2019Vuković MotorsportRenault Mégane R.S TCRHUN1
13
HUN2
Ret
HOC1
15
HOC2
18
SPA1
22
SPA2
17
RBR1
Ret
RBR2
Ret
OSC1
WD
OSC2
WD
31st15
PCR SportCUPRA León TCRCAT1
27†
CAT2
Ret
MNZ1
11
MNZ2
17
2020Target CompetitionHyundai i30 N TCRLEC1
3
LEC2
7
ZOL1
ZOL2
MNZ1
MNZ2
CAT1
CAT2
SPA1
SPA2
JAR1
JAR2
5th*58*

Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.Season still in progress.

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