Thomas Biagi

Thomas Biagi
	Thomas Biagi in 2011, as a Superstars Series driver.
Nationality	Italian
Born	7 May 1976 (age 47); Bologna, Italy
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	2004, 2008–
Teams	Barron Connor Racing, AF Corse, Racing Box
Best finish	DNF
Class wins	0

Last updated January 18, 2024

Thomas Biagi (born 7 May 1976, in Bologna), is an Italian professional racing driver.

Biagi started his career in single seaters, driving in Formula Alfa Boxer and Italian Formula Three Championship,^[1] where he was 5th best in 1995, with two wins. From there, he moved up to the FIA Formula 3000 Championship from 1995 to 1998, without major results. His debut race in 1995 saw him collide with Marco Campos on the last lap, resulting in a crash that caused fatal injuries to Campos.

Biagi switched to the "second division", the Italian F3000 Championship, in 1999, taking 4th place, which he repeated in 2000 (after the series had become Euro F3000), this time with a win, before taking a 2nd overall in 2001, in his second season with GP Racing.

In 2003, Thomas Biagi made a successful move to the FIA GT Championship, which he won in a BMS Scuderia Italia Ferrari 550 Maranello (co-driven with Matteo Bobbi).^[1] After a year in the Le Mans Endurance Series, he returned to the FIA GT with Vitaphone Racing, helping the squad take two Team titles before winning the Drivers title himself in 2007.^[1]

In spite of having won the drivers title in the GT1 class, Biagi downgraded to GT2 in 2008, to drive a Ferrari 430 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	11	12	Pos	Points
1995	Auto Sport Racing	Reynard 95D	Cosworth	SIL	CAT	PAU	PER	HOC	SPA	EST	MAG 9					NC	0
1996	Auto Sport Racing	Lola T96/50	Zytek-Judd	NÜR Ret	PAU DNQ	PER 8	HOC DSQ	SIL	SPA DNQ	MAG 6	EST 6	MUG 5	HOC 7			12th	4
1997	Nordic Racing	Lola T96/50	Zytek-Judd	SIL DNQ	PAU DNQ	HEL DNQ										31st	0
1997	GP Racing	Lola T96/50	Zytek-Judd				NÜR DNQ	PER 14	HOC 18	A1R Ret	SPA Ret	MUG 16	JER 12			31st	0
1998	Coloni Motorsport	Lola T96/50	Zytek-Judd	OSC 4	IMO 10	CAT	SIL	MON	PAU							15th	3
1998	Prema Powerteam	Lola T96/50	Zytek-Judd							A1R 12	HOC 10	HUN 13	SPA 10	PER Ret	NÜR 12	15th	3
1999	Monaco Motorsport	Lola T99/50	Zytek	IMO DNQ	MON DNQ	CAT DNQ	MAG DNQ	SIL DNQ	A1R	HOC	HUN	SPA	NÜR			NC	0

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2004	Barron Connor Racing	John Bosch Danny Sullivan	Ferrari 575-GTC	GTS	163	DNF	DNF
2008	AF Corse	Toni Vilander Christian Montanari	Ferrari F430 GT2	GT2	111	DNF	DNF
2009	Racing Box	Andrea Piccini Matteo Bobbi	Lola B08/80-Judd	LMP2	203	DNF	DNF

24 Hours of Daytona

(key)

24 Hours of Daytona results
Year	Class	No	Team	Car	Co-drivers	Laps	Position	Class Pos.
2008	GT	56	Mastercar	Ferrari F430 Challenge	Matthew Marsh Christian Montanari	55	64 ^DNF	40 ^DNF

Complete International Superstars Series results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	DC	Points
2010	Team BMW Italia	BMW M3 (E92)	MNZ R1 4	MNZ R2 4	IMO R1 1	IMO R2 2	ALG R1 2	ALG R2 5	HOC R1 2	HOC R2 4	CPR R1 6	CPR R2 2	VAL R1 3	VAL R2 5	KYA R1 8	KYA R2 1			1st	170
2011	Team BMW Italia	BMW M3 (E92)	MNZ R1 4	MNZ R2 8	VNC R1 3	VNC R2 4	ALG R1 1	ALG R2 1	DON R1 7	DON R2 9	MIS R1 3	MIS R2 18	SPA R1 6	SPA R2 4	MUG R1 4	MUG R2 2	VAL R1 4	VAL R2 10	4th	147
2012	Dinamic	BMW M3 (E92)	MNZ R1 4	MNZ R2 4	IMO R1 3	IMO R2 2	DON R1 4	DON R2 6	MUG R1 Ret	MUG R2 3	HUN R1 2	HUN R2 3	SPA R1 10	SPA R2 4	VAL R1 3	VAL R2 6	PER R1 Ret	PER R2 3	3rd	161
2013	Mercedes-AMG Romeo Ferraris	Mercedes C63 AMG	MNZ R1 2	MNZ R2 1	BRN R1 1	BRN R2 3	SVK R1 2	SVK R2 2	ZOL R1 9	ZOL R2 4	ALG R1 3	ALG R2 4	DON R1 DSQ	DON R2 DSQ	IMO R1 13	IMO R2 7	VAL R1 10	VAL R2 6	4th	138

Complete Porsche Supercup results

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

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	DC	Points
2014	MOMO-Megatron	ESP 22†	MON 23	AUT 21	GBR 16	GER 16	HUN 16	BEL 18	ITA 20	USA 19	USA 25†	28th	0

^† Did not finish, but was classified as he had completed more than 90% of the race distance.

Sources

1 2 3 FIA GT Championship - Driver Biography : Thomas Biagi

External links

Official website
Thomas Biagi career summary at DriverDB.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Christophe Bouchut	FIA GT Champion 2003 with: Matteo Bobbi	Succeeded by Fabrizio Gollin Luca Cappellari
Preceded by Andrea Bertolini Michael Bartels	FIA GT Champion 2007	Succeeded by Andrea Bertolini Michael Bartels
Preceded by Gianni Morbidelli	Italian Superstars Series champion 2010	Succeeded by Alberto Cerqui
Preceded by Gianni Morbidelli	International Superstars Series champion 2010	Succeeded by Andrea Bertolini
Preceded by Miguel Ramos Alvaro Parente	International GT Open champion 2016 with Fabrizio Crestani	Succeeded by Giovanni Venturini

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