🇹🇭 Francesco Simonazzi

Francesco Simonazzi is a semi-professional driver with a Racer Rating of 3,866, placing him among competitive drivers at the professional-amateur boundary in endurance and sportscar racing. The FIA Silver categorisation denotes a professional-level driver in GT and endurance competition, typically early in a full-time career; within that context, Simonazzi has shown the ability to win races and score podiums regularly, but his record against stronger opposition reveals consistent difficulty in the sharpest fields. Across 124 starts since 2019, he has won 8 races and taken 24 podiums, the vast majority in Euroformula Open, where he competed for BVM Racing across four seasons from 2021 to 2024 and finished as runner-up in his final year.[1]

Simonazzi's competitive profile emerges clearly from his head-to-head records against established rivals. Against Vlad Lomko and Christian Mansell, both stronger drivers by rating, he has won individual races but lost decisively in the aggregate; he holds a losing record against Josh Mason and Filip Ugran as well. He has occasional results against genuinely elite opposition, beating Andrea Kimi Antonelli three times, Gabriel Bortoleto twice, and Oliver Bearman once, but these are isolated instances within a much longer record of races where those drivers finished ahead. His step into Formula 3 in 2023 on the back of his Euroformula success yielded no points across four starts with Rodin Carlin. His career has since shifted toward endurance racing, where he is establishing himself through the European Le Mans Series for Duqueine Team in 2025 and recently started in GT World Challenge Europe with Dinamic GT.[2]