Mirko Venturi is a racing driver who last raced in WEC for AF Corse. Venturi has recorded 1 win and 2 podiums from 4 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 3,327 ranks Venturi 2135th of 15,348 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the low five figures. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 2014-09-20 | CIRCUIT OF THE AMERICAS · LMGTE Am | P4 | +8 |
| 2014-06-14 | LE MANS · LMGTE Am | P3 | +30 |
| 2014-05-03 | SPA FRANCORCHAMPS · LMGTE Am | P1 | +39 |
| 2014-04-20 | SILVERSTONE · LMGTE Am | P6 | −9 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | ▸WEC | AF Corse | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P12 | +68 | 3,354 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇵🇹 Pedro Lamy | 4,903 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 50% |
| 🇦🇹 Klaus Bachler | 4,121 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25% |
| 🇩🇰 Christoffer Nygaard | 3,917 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 50% |
| 🇩🇰 Kristian Poulsen | 3,655 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25% |
| 🇩🇪 Christian Ried | 3,633 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25% |
| 🇨🇦 Paul Dalla Lana | 3,558 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 50% |
| 🏳️ Khaled Al Qubaisi | 3,354 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25% |
| 🇮🇹 Michele Rugolo | 3,601 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 67% |
| 🇬🇧 Ben Collins | 3,581 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 67% |
| 🇮🇹 Paolo Ruberti | 3,481 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 100% |
Mirko Venturi is an Italian racing driver with a single season of professional endurance racing on record. In 2014, he competed in the World Endurance Championship for AF Corse, fielding a Ferrari in the LMGTE Am category. Across four rounds, he scored one victory and two additional podium finishes, averaging a third-place result. His Racer Rating of 3,327 places him in the upper tier of semi-professional drivers competing in strong national and international fields.[1]
Venturi's record against his regular rivals shows a mixed picture typical of a driver making brief appearances in a competitive series. He ran four shared races against several FIA-graded professionals: he split results evenly with Pedro Lamy, an FIA Platinum driver and two-time champion rated substantially higher, and with Christoffer Nygaard, an FIA Gold driver. Against other Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze graded competitors including Klaus Bachler, Kristian Poulsen, Christian Ried and Paul Dalla Lana, he generally finished behind them. However, his victories over higher-rated drivers tell a different story: he finished ahead of Matthieu Vaxiviere, a FIA Gold rated two-time champion, on two occasions, and also beat Pedro Lamy twice and both Shinji Nakano and Patrick Long once each. These results demonstrate capability against established professionals despite his limited single-season tenure.[2]
Venturi has since retired from racing. His career remains confined to that four-race WEC campaign in 2014, which represented his only documented circuit-racing activity at the professional level.