Olivier Beretta

Olivier Beretta (born 23 November 1969) is a professional racing driver^[1] from Monaco who raced in Formula One^[2] in 1994 for the Larrousse team, partnering Érik Comas. He participated in 10 Grands Prix, debuting on 27 March 1994. He scored no championship points, and was replaced when his sponsorship money ran out. During 2003 and 2004, he tested for the Williams team.

Olivier Beretta

Beretta in 2012
Born	(1969-11-23) 23 November 1969 (age 53) Monte Carlo, Monaco
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	Monégasque
Active years	1994
Teams	Larrousse
Entries	10 (9 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First entry	1994 Brazilian Grand Prix
Last entry	1994 Hungarian Grand Prix

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	1996–2015, 2017–
Teams	Team Oreca, JML Team Panoz, Corvette Racing, AF Corse
Best finish	4th (2001, 2006, 2012)
Class wins	6 (1999, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011)

Career

Born in Monte Carlo, Beretta has seen more success in sportscar racing, taking class wins at the 24 Heures du Mans with Viper GTS-Rs in 1999 (10th overall) and 2000 (7th overall), Corvettes in 2004 (C5-R, 6th overall), 2005 (C5-R, 5th overall) and 2006 (C6-R, 4th overall) and driving LMP900 class cars to 6th (2001), 4th (2002) and 3rd (2003) place class finishes.

He made a single NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series start at Heartland Park Topeka in 1999 for Bobby Hamilton Racing, qualifying 10th and finishing 17th.

For 2012, Beretta made the move from Corvette^[3] to Ferrari and started the season at the 2012 24 Hours of Daytona with Risi Competizione's Ferrari F458 Italia Grand Am. He competed in the FIA World Endurance Championship in a GTE-Pro class Ferrari F458 Italia for AF Corse.

Racing record

Complete International Formula 3000 results

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

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Pos.	Pts
1992	Piquet Racing	Reynard 92D	Mugen Honda	SIL 9	PAU Ret	CAT Ret	PER Ret	HOC Ret	NÜR 9					NC	0
			Ford Cosworth							SPA Ret	ALB 17†	NOG 9	MAG Ret
1993	Forti Corse	Reynard 93D	Ford Cosworth	DON 1	SIL 10	PAU 4	PER Ret	HOC 4	NÜR 5	SPA 13	MAG 9	NOG 4		6th	20

 

Beretta driving for Larrousse at the 1994 British Grand Prix.

Complete Formula One results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Pts
1994	Tourtel Larrousse F1	Larrousse LH94	Ford HBF7/8 3.5 V8	BRA Ret	PAC Ret	SMR Ret	MON 8	ESP DNS	CAN Ret	FRA Ret	GBR 14	GER 7	HUN 9	BEL	ITA	POR	EUR	JPN	AUS	NC	0
Source:^[4]

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1995	Courage Compétition	Eric van de Poele   Matiaz Tomlje	Courage C41-Chevrolet	WSC	-	DNQ	DNQ
1996	Viper Team Oreca	Philippe Gache   Éric Hélary	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT1	283	21st	12th
1997	Viper Team Oreca	Philippe Gache   Dominique Dupuy	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT2	263	DNF	DNF
1998	Viper Team Oreca	Pedro Lamy   Tommy Archer	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT2	312	13th	2nd
1999	Viper Team Oreca	Karl Wendlinger   Dominique Dupuy	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GTS	325	10th	1st
2000	Viper Team Oreca	Karl Wendlinger   Dominique Dupuy	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GTS	333	7th	1st
2001	Team PlayStation	Karl Wendlinger   Pedro Lamy	Chrysler LMP	LMP900	298	4th	3rd
2002	PlayStation Team Oreca	Érik Comas   Pedro Lamy	Dallara SP1-Judd	LMP900	359	5th	4th
2003	JML Team Panoz	Gunnar Jeannette   Max Papis	Panoz LMP01 Evo-Élan	LMP900	360	5th	3rd
2004	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin   Jan Magnussen	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	GTS	345	6th	1st
2005	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin   Jan Magnussen	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT1	349	5th	1st
2006	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin   Jan Magnussen	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT1	355	4th	1st
2007	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin   Max Papis	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT1	22	DNF	DNF
2008	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin   Max Papis	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT1	341	15th	3rd
2009	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin   Marcel Fässler	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT1	311	DNF	DNF
2010	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin   Emmanuel Collard	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT2	255	DNF	DNF
2011	Corvette Racing	Tommy Milner   Antonio García	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GTE Pro	314	11th	1st
2012	AF Corse	Andrea Bertolini   Marco Cioci	Ferrari 458 Italia GTC	GTE Pro	326	22nd	4th
2013	AF Corse	Kamui Kobayashi   Toni Vilander	Ferrari 458 Italia GTC	GTE Pro	312	20th	5th
2014	AF Corse	Davide Rigon   Pierre Kaffer	Ferrari 458 Italia GTC	GTE Pro	28	DNF	DNF
2015	AF Corse	Davide Rigon   James Calado	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	GTE Pro	332	21st	2nd
2017	Spirit of Race	Thomas Flohr   Francesco Castellacci	Ferrari 488 GTE	GTE Am	326	41st	12th
2018	MR Racing	Eddie Cheever III   Motoaki Ishikawa	Ferrari 488 GTE	GTE Am	324	38th	9th
2019	MR Racing	Eddie Cheever III   Motoaki Ishikawa	Ferrari 488 GTE	GTE Am	328	41st	10th
Source:^[5]

Complete FIA GT Championship results

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

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pos.	Pts
1997	Viper Team Oreca	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT2	HOC 1	SIL 3	HEL	NÜR 17	SPA 2	A1R 2	SUZ 1	DON 1	MUG Ret	SEB 1	LAG 3	3rd	60
1998	Viper Team Oreca	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT2	OSC 1	SIL 1	HOC 1	DIJ 1	HUN 2	SUZ 1	DON 1	A1R 2	HOM 1	LAG 1		1st	92
1999	Viper Team Oreca	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT	MNZ 1	SIL 1	HOC	HUN 2	ZOL 1	OSC 1	DON 1	HOM 2	GLN 2	ZHU 1		1st	78
2002	Team A.R.T.	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT	MAG	SIL	BRN Ret	JAR	AND	OSC	SPA	PER	DON	EST		NC	0
2007	Luc Alphand Aventures	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT1	ZHU	SIL	BUC	MNZ	OSC	SPA 6	ADR	BRN	NOG	ZOL		36th	7

Complete European Le Mans Series results

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

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Pos.	Pts
2001	Team PlayStation	LMP900	Chrysler LMP	Mopar 6.0 V8	SEB	DON 8	JAR	EST	MOS	VAL	PET	23rd	12
2007	Luc Alphand Aventures	GT1	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Chevrolet LS7.R 7.0L V8	MNZ	VAL	NÜR	SPA	SIL	INT 2		25th	4
2008	Luc Alphand Aventures	GT1	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Chevrolet LS7.R 7.0L V8	CAT	MNZ 2	SPA	NÜR Ret	SIL			10th	8
2014	SMP Racing	GTC	Ferrari 458 Italia GT3	Ferrari 4.5 V8	SIL 2	IMO 2	RBR 2	LEC 1	EST 3			1st	94

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Craftsman Truck Series

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	NCTC	Pts
1999	Bobby Hamilton Racing	4	Dodge	HOM	PHO	EVG	MMR	MAR	MEM	PPR	I70	BRI	TEX	PIR	GLN	MLW	NSV	NZH	MCH	NHA	IRP	GTY	HPT 17	RCH	LVS	LVL	TEX	CAL	87th	112

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

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

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Pos.	Pts
2012	AF Corse	LMGTE Pro	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Ferrari F142 4.5 V8	SEB 1	SPA 4	LMS 4	SIL Ret	SÃO 4	BHR 4	FUJ 4	SHA 3		53rd	3.5
2013	AF Corse	LMGTE Pro	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Ferrari F142 4.5 V8	SIL	SPA	LMS 4	SÃO	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR		16th	24
2014	AF Corse	LMGTE Pro	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Ferrari 4.5 V8	SIL	SPA	LMS Ret	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	SÃO		NC	0
2015	AF Corse	LMGTE Pro	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Ferrari 4.5 V8	SIL	SPA	LMS 2	NÜR	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR		13th	36
2017	Spirit of Race	LMGTE Am	Ferrari 488 GTE	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 V8t	SIL	SPA	LMS 7	NÜR	MEX	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	12th	12
2018–19	MR Racing	LMGTE Am	Ferrari 488 GTE	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 V8t	SPA 5	LMS 5	SIL 7	FUJ Ret	SHA 6	SEB 5	SPA 8	LMS 5		10th	71
2019–20	MR Racing	LMGTE Am	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	SIL 3	FUJ 4	SHA 7	BHR 7	COA 10	SPA	LMS	BHR		15th	43

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

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

Year	Team	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pos.	Pts
2014	Risi Competizione	GTLM	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Ferrari F142 4.5 V8	DAY 11	SEB	LBH	LAG	WGL	MOS	IMS	ROA	VIR	COA	PET 11	45th	22
2015	Risi Competizione	GTLM	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Ferrari F142 4.5 V8	DAY 9	SEB	LBH	LAG	WGL	MOS	ROA	VIR	COA	PET		26th	23
2016	Risi Competizione	GTLM	Ferrari 488 GTE	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 V8	DAY 6	SEB	LBH	LAG	WGL	MOS	LIM	ROA	VIR	COA	PET	25th	26

References

1. "Olivier Beretta makes his Pirelli World Challenge season opener count". Motorsport.com. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
2. "The Monaco Grand Prix – did you know?". Formula1.com. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
3. Watkins, Gary. "Olivier Beretta parts company with Corvette Racing". Autosport.com. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
4. Small, Steve (2000). Grand Prix Who's Who (3 ed.). Travel Publishing. p. 70. ISBN 1902007468.
5. "All Results of Olivier Beretta". racingsportscars.com. Retrieved June 19, 2018.

External links

 

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• Olivier Beretta driver statistics at Racing-Reference

Sporting positions
Preceded by Justin Bell	FIA GT Championship GT2 Champion 1998 With: Pedro Lamy	Succeeded by Mike Rockenfeller Marc Lieb (2005)
Preceded by Klaus Ludwig Ricardo Zonta	FIA GT Championship Champion 1999 With: Karl Wendlinger	Succeeded by Julian Bailey Jamie Campbell-Walter
Preceded by Inaugural	American Le Mans Series GTS Champion 1999-2000	Succeeded by Terry Borcheller
Preceded by Ron Fellows Johnny O'Connell (GTS)	American Le Mans Series GT1 Champion 2005-2007 With: Oliver Gavin	Succeeded by Jan Magnussen Johnny O'Connell
Preceded by Fabio Babini Kirill Ladygin Viktor Shaytar	European Le Mans Series GTC Champion 2014 With: Anton Ladygin & Devi Markozov	Succeeded by Franck Perera Eric Dermont Dino Lunardi