🇮🇹 Giovanni Venturini

Giovanni Venturini is an established professional, rated 5,130, who competed as a Gold-graded endurance driver. He drove for Lamborghini as a factory driver between 2015 and 2021 and raced in GT World Challenge Europe in 2019, sharing a car in that series' multiclass field. Earlier in his career he was a solo racing driver in open-wheel championships, most extensively in GP3 Series with Trident.[1]

Venturini's indexed record spans four series from 2010 to 2019 and comprises 46 starts across 46 contests. He won twice, once in the 2010 Formula Renault Eurocup with Epsilon Euskadi and once in GP3 Series, taking six podiums across his career. His most recent racing was in GT World Challenge Europe in 2019, where he finished 23rd in the championship after five rounds and took one podium. His earlier open-wheel work came in 2010 and 2012, when he raced Formula Renault Eurocup and GP3 Series; he took two podiums in Renault Eurocup and three in GP3, where he spent the bulk of his single-seater years with Trident.[2]

Venturini raced regularly against drivers who would reach elite professional status. He finished ahead of Carlos Sainz, who went on to win the 2014 Formula V8 3.5 championship and race in Formula 1, seven times across their meetings in that series and GP3. He also beat Mitch Evans, a Formula E and GP2 regular, on three occasions in GP3. In both single-seater championships he was closely matched with Aaro Vainio, a professional Silver-graded driver, though he more often found himself behind Kevin Korjus, a Gold-graded professional and 2010 Formula Renault Eucocup champion who raced across all three of the open-wheel series Venturini competed in.