Can Artam


Can Artam is a Turkish race car driver born into a car racing family. He raced in the 2005 GP2 Series for the iSport team and was the 2001 US Barber Formula Dodge champion.

Career

Artam's career begun in karting in 1999, and he moved up to the Turkish Touring Car Championship in 2001. Later in the year he also raced in US Barber Formula Dodge, winning the title.
He remained in the TTCC in 2002, also racing in North American Fran Am 2000 Pro Championship and some races of Turkish Formula Three Championship, whilst returning to karting for some events. The Formula Renault would be the only series he would compete in during 2003, though with the new year seeing part seasons in both British Formula 3's National-Class and Formula Renault V6 Eurocup.
On 29 May 2004 Can Artam got his shot in Formula 3000 in Imola as the first Turkish driver racing in this category, driving part of the season for the Coloni team, and later driving some races for Super Nova. In 2005, he drove in GP2, the replacement series for F3000, for the iSport International team alongside Scott Speed, although without much success, scoring just two points with seventh place at the Monaco round of the inaugural GP2 championship. Until 2013 he has not raced in any major championships.
In 2013 he started racing again in the Turkish Touring Car Championship with Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport. He finished the first race of the season 3rd despite a flat tire.

Racing record

International Formula 3000

YearEntrant12345678910DCPoints
2004Coloni MotorsportIMO
Ret		CAT
10		MON
Ret		NUR
13		MAG
Ret		SILHOC
10		NC0
2004Super Nova RacingHUN
14		SPA
13		MNZ
9		NC0

GP2 Series

YearEntrant1234567891011121314151617181920212223DCPoints
2005iSport InternationalIMO
FEA
16		IMO
SPR
Ret		CAT
FEA
Ret		CAT
SPR
Ret		MON
FEA
7		NÜR
FEA
17		NÜR
SPR
Ret		MAG
FEA
17		MAG
SPR
16		SIL
FEA
18		SIL
SPR
14		HOC
FEA
Ret		HOC
SPR
20		HUN
FEA
14		HUN
SPR
12		IST
FEA
11		IST
SPR
16		MNZ
FEA
9		MNZ
SPR
9		SPA
FEA
Ret		SPA
SPR
22		BHR
FEA
17		BHR
SPR
16		22nd2