Ronnie Quintarelli
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Quintarelli in 2015 SUPER GT Motegi
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| Nationality |  Italian |
| Born | 9 August 1979 Negrar, Italy |
| Super GT career | |
| Debut season | 2005 |
| Current team | NISMO |
| Car no. | 1 |
| Former teams | SARD |
| Starts | 79 |
| Wins | 16 |
Ronnie Quintarelli (9 August 1979) is an Italian racecar driver.
Biography
Quintarelli first encountered motorsports at age 6 when his father gave him a small go-kart. He raced go-karts for 9 years, winning many national and international championships. In 2000, Quintarelli made his formula racing debut in Italian Formula Renault 2000 and competed in many races based in Europe until 2002. Then he moved to Japan to compete in the Japanese Formula Three Championship in 2003, and in 2004, he became the series champion. In 2011, Quintarelli won the Super GT series and the following year, won the championship for the second year in a row, driving a Nissan. After moving to the NISMO works team in the 2013 season, driving the prestigious car number #23, Quintarelli won his third Super GT title in 2014,and again in 2015 for yet again second year in a row becoming the most titled foreign driver of the Super GT series.
Racing record
| Season | Series | Team Name | Races | Poles | Wins | Points | Final Placing | |
| 2000 | Formula Renault 2000 Italia | Prema Powerteam | * | 2 | 1 | * | 3rd | |
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| 2001 | Formula Renault Eurocup | Cram Coompetition | 5 | 1 | 1 | 66 | 7th | |
| 2002 | Formula Volkswagen | Team Penker Racing | * | 4 | 2 | * | 2nd | |
| GC-21 | Inging Motorsport | 1 | 0 | 1 | - | - | ||
| 2003 | All-Japan F3 | Inging Motorsport | 20 | 0 | 0 | 200 | 4th | |
| Macau Grand Prix | JB Motorsport with Inging | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4th | ||
| Korea Super Prix | JB Motorsport with Inging | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16th | ||
| 2004 | All-Japan F3 | Inging Motorsport | 20 | 8 | 4 | 251 | 1st | |
| Macau Grand Prix | Inging Motorsport | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8th | ||
| Bahrain Super Prix | Inging Motorsport | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22nd | ||
| 2005 | Formula Nippon | Kondo Racing Team | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 9th | |
| Super GT (GT500) | SARD | 8 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 16th | ||
| 1000 km Suzuka (Pokka 1000 km) | SARD | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | 1st | ||
| 2006 | Formula Nippon | Team Boss Inging | 9 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 10th | |
| Super GT (GT500) | Cerumo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 24th | ||
| Formula One | Midland F1 | Test driver | ||||||
| 2007 | Formula Nippon | Team Boss Inging | 9 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 7th | |
| Super GT (GT500) | Bandai Toyota Team Kraft | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 24th | ||
| 2008 | Formula Nippon | Cerumo / Inging | 8 | 0 | 0 | 21.5 | 9th | |
| Super GT (GT500) | Hasemi Motorsport | 9 | 1 | 1 | 39 | 12th | ||
| 2009 | Super GT (GT500) | Hasemi Motorsport | 9 | 1 | 1 | 49 | 7th | |
| 2010 | Super GT (GT500) | Team Impul | 7 | 1 | 1 | 47 | 5th | |
| 2011 | Super GT (GT500) | Mola | 8 | 1 | 4 | 90 | 1st | |
| 2012 | Super GT (GT500) | Mola | 8 | 2 | 2 | 93 | 1st | |
| 2013 | Super GT (GT500) | Nismo | 8 | 0 | 1 | 50 | 6th | |
| 2014 | Super GT (GT500) | Nismo | 8 | 2 | 1 | 81 | 1st | |
| 2015 | Super GT (GT500) | Nismo | 8 | 2 | 2 | 79 | 1st | |
| 2016 | Super GT (GT500) | Nismo | 2 | 0 | 2 | 40 | 1st* | |
* Season still in progress.
Complete Super GT results
| Year | Team | Car | Class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | DC | Pts |
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| 2005 | SARD | Toyota Supra | GT500 | OKA 8 |
FUJ Ret |
SEP 9 |
SUG 2 |
MOT 14 |
FUJ 12 |
AUT 11 |
SUZ 11 |
16th | 21 | |
| 2006 | Lexus Team Cerumo | Lexus SC430 | GT500 | SUZ | OKA | FUJ | SEP | SUG | SUZ 7 |
MOT | AUT | FUJ | 24th | 9 |
| 2007 | Lexus Team Kraft | Lexus SC430 | GT500 | SUZ | OKA | FUJ | SEP 11 |
SUG 9 |
SUZ Ret |
MOT | AUT | FUJ | 24th | 2 |
| 2008 | Hasemi Motorsport | Nissan GT-R | GT500 | SUZ 15 |
OKA 10 |
FUJ 15 |
SEP 9 |
SUG 11 |
SUZ 5 |
MOT 1 |
AUT 6 |
FUJ 13 |
12th | 39 |
| 2009 | Hasemi Motorsport | Nissan GT-R | GT500 | OKA 12 |
SUZ 13 |
FUJ 7 |
SEP 1 |
SUG 9 |
SUZ 2 |
FUJ 6 |
AUT 8 |
MOT 12 |
7th | 49 |
| 2010 | Impul | Nissan GT-R | GT500 | SUZ Ret |
OKA 4 |
FUJ 6 |
SEP 1 |
SUG 4 |
SUZ 12 |
FUJ C |
MOT 5 |
5th | 47 | |
| 2011 | MOLA | Nissan GT-R | GT500 | OKA 6 |
FUJ 10 |
SEP 2 |
SUG 1 |
SUZ 2 |
FUJ 7 |
AUT 2 |
MOT 2 |
1st | 90 | |
| 2012 | MOLA | Nissan GT-R | GT500 | OKA 7 |
FUJ 8 |
SEP 14 |
SUG 3 |
SUZ 1 |
FUJ 2 |
AUT 1 |
MOT 2 |
1st | 93 | |
| 2013 | NISMO | Nissan GT-R | GT500 | OKA 3 |
FUJ Ret |
SEP 9 |
SUG 3 |
SUZ 2 |
FUJ 9 |
AUT 8 |
MOT 8 |
6th | 50 | |
| 2014 | NISMO | Nissan GT-R | GT500 | OKA 7 |
FUJ 8 |
AUT 1 |
SUG 14 |
FUJ 2 |
SUZ 2 |
BUR 10 |
MOT 1 |
1st | 81 | |
| 2015 | NISMO | Nissan GT-R | GT500 | OKA 13 |
FUJ 1 |
CHA 5 |
FUJ 4 |
SUZ 7 |
SUG 6 |
AUT 1 |
MOT 2 |
1st | 79 | |
| 2016 | NISMO | Nissan GT-R | GT500 | OKA 1 |
FUJ 1 |
SUG |
FUJ |
SUZ |
CHA |
MOT |
MOT |
1st* | 40* |
* Season still in progress.
External links
- Ronnie Quintarelli career summary at DriverDB.com
| Sporting positions | ||
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| Preceded by | All-Japan Formula Three Champion 2004 |
Succeeded by João Paulo de Oliveira |
| Preceded by | Super GT (GT500) Champion 2011–2012 with: Masataka Yanagida |
Succeeded by Kohei Hirate Yuji Tachikawa |
| Preceded by | Super GT (GT500) Champion 2014–2015 with: Tsugio Matsuda |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
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