Franck Perera
Franck Perera is a race car driver who has competed in a number of international open-wheel racing championships.
Career
In 2006, Perera drove in the GP2 Series for the DAMS team, after four years of racing for the Prema team in junior championships. In 2007 he drove for Condor Motorsports in the Atlantic Championship, scoring three wins and finishing second in the championship behind Raphael Matos. On 6 February 2008 Perera announced that he had signed with Conquest Racing to compete in the Champ Car World Series in 2008 after a successful test with the team. However, shortly thereafter Champ Car and the Indy Racing League unified, canceling the Champ Car season. It was announced on 25 February that Perera had modified his deal in order to continue with the team in the IRL IndyCar Series. He lost the ride after three races due to funding issues stemming from the bankruptcy of his sponsor Opes Prime, causing the team to hire Brazilian driver Jaime Camara.at the Nürburgring round of the 2009 GP2 Series season
In order to continue racing in the US, Perera signed to drive in Firestone Indy Lights with Guthrie Racing for the remainder of the 2008 season and made his debut in the seventh race of the season at the Iowa Speedway. He captured his first series victory from the pole at Infineon Raceway, his eighth start. He returned to the IndyCar Series for the points-scoring finale at Chicagoland Speedway, driving the #41 car of A. J. Foyt Enterprises. He was also signed to drive the car of A.S. Roma in the brand new Superleague Formula championship in 2008.
Perera returned to the GP2 Series in 2009, replacing Giacomo Ricci at David Price Racing. Perera was not allowed to start the feature race of the Hungarian round, due to causing an avoidable accident in qualifying, with Romain Grosjean. As his lap time was outside 107% of Lucas di Grassi's pole time, the stewards refused to let him race due to the accident. Grosjean however, was allowed to start. Perera also failed to qualify for both races of the championship held at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit. He left the GP2 Series for the second time after the Spa round. Perera returned to A.S. Roma in the Superleague Formula in 2009 for the Estoril round taking over from Jonathan Kennard. He was replaced at the next round by Julien Jousse.
In 2013, Perera returned full-time, driving a Porsche 911 in the Blancpain Endurance Series for Pro GT by Almeras in the Pro-Am class.
Racing record
Career summary
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Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | DC | Points |
| 2006 | Interwetten.com | ZOL 1 | ZOL 2 | MON 1 | IST 1 | IST 2 | MIS 1 | MIS 2 | SPA 1 | SPA 2 | NÜR 1 | NÜR 2 | DON 1 | DON 2 | LMS 1 | LMS 2 | CAT 1 4 | CAT 2 6 | 22nd | 13 |
Complete GP2 Series results
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | DC | Points |
| 2006 | DAMS | VAL FEA 11 | VAL SPR 14 | IMO FEA Ret | IMO SPR 14 | NÜR FEA Ret | NÜR SPR 15 | CAT FEA 13 | CAT SPR Ret | MON FEA 2 | SIL FEA Ret | SIL SPR 10 | MAG FEA Ret | MAG SPR 12 | HOC FEA 14 | HOC SPR 11 | HUN FEA 9 | HUN SPR Ret | IST FEA 12 | IST SPR 8 | MNZ FEA 15 | MNZ SPR 15 | 16th | 8 |
| 2009 | David Price Racing | CAT FEA | CAT SPR | MON FEA | MON SPR | IST FEA | IST SPR | SIL FEA | SIL SPR | NÜR FEA Ret | NÜR SPR 16 | HUN FEA EX | HUN SPR 18 | VAL FEA 15 | VAL SPR 16 | SPA FEA DNQ | SPA SPR DNQ | MNZ FEA | MNZ SPR | ALG FEA | ALG SPR | 28th | 0 |
American open–wheel racing results
Atlantic Championship
IndyCar Series
| Years | Teams | Races | Poles | Wins | Podiums | Top 10s | Indianapolis 500 Wins | Championships |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Superleague Formula
2009 Super Final Results
- Super Final results in 2009 did not count for points towards the main championship.
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 2009 | A.S. Roma Alan Docking Racing | MAG | ZOL | DON | EST DNQ | MOZ | JAR |