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Andrea Montermini
👁 Image Montermini at the Brands Hatch round of the 2014 Blancpain Sprint Series season.
Born	(1964-05-30) 30 May 1964 (age 61) Sassuolo, Italy
Racing licence	👁 Image FIA Platinum (until 2014)[1] 👁 Image FIA Gold (2015–2019) 👁 Image FIA Silver (2020–)[2]
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	👁 Italy Italian
Active years	1994–1996
Teams	Simtek, Pacific, Forti
Entries	29 (19 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First entry	1994 Spanish Grand Prix
Last entry	1996 German Grand Prix

Andrea Montermini (born 30 May 1964^[3]) is an Italian racing driver. He drove in Formula One from 1994 to 1996.

Montermini raced in Formula 3 in 1989, taking second place in the Monaco GP support race and 4th in the Italian F3 Championship. He then moved up to Formula 3000, racing for three seasons before finally taking second place in the 1992 season, winning three rounds while driving for the Il Barone Rampante team.

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Montermini participated in 29 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 29 May 1994 for Simtek, replacing Roland Ratzenberger, who had been killed during qualifying for the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. Montermini himself crashed heavily in practice for the 1994 Spanish Grand Prix, breaking his left heel and his right foot. He returned to Formula One the next season, with the Pacific Grand Prix team, and drove for Forti in 1996 alongside countryman Luca Badoer until the team folded. For the 1997 season, Montermini was signed as test driver for the MasterCard Lola team,^[4] but it folded after one race. He scored no points in his Formula One career. As of 2024^[update], he holds the record for the shortest F1 driver of all time, at a height of 1.57m (5ft 1in) tall.^[5]

Montermini competed in the American Champ Car series three different seasons: 1993-1994 and 1999. He scored a fourth place at Detroit in his first season, driving for the underfunded Euromotorsport team. In 1999 he drove a few events for Dan Gurney in Gurney's last season of team ownership. When others such as Alex Barron, Gualter Salles and Raul Boesel were replaced, he filled in and scored a best finish of 11th in Vancouver.

Montermini raced in the 2001 24 Hours of Daytona, but has primarily raced in the FIA GT Championship, mostly in Ferrari cars. He has taken two class wins and four further class podiums. In 2006, he has occasionally raced alongside Jarek Janis and Sascha Bert in a Saleen ran by the Zakspeed team. In 2007, he won the International GT Open's GTA class, driving a Ferrari 430 for Scuderia Playteam alongside co-champion Michele Maceratesi, the duo becoming overall champions the following season. He won a second overall championship title in 2013.^[6]

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Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	DC	Points
1990	Madgwick International	DON Ret	SIL 4	PAU Ret	JER 3	MNZ Ret	PER Ret	HOC Ret	BRH Ret	BIR 9	BUG 2	NOG Ret	8th	13
1991	3001 International	VAL Ret	PAU Ret	JER 3	MUG 11	PER 10	HOC Ret	BRH 10	SPA Ret	BUG 3	NOG Ret	10th	8
1992	Il Barone Rampante	SIL Ret	PAU Ret	CAT 1	PER 3	HOC 9	NÜR Ret	2nd	34
	Forti Corse	SPA 1	ALB 1	NOG 4	MAG Ret
Sources:[7][8]

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Year	Team	No.	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Rank	Points	Ref
1993	Euromotorsport	50	Lola T92/00	Chevrolet 265A V8t	SRF 25	PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	DET 4	POR	CLE	TOR 27	MIS	NHM	ROA	VAN 19	MDO	NZR	LS	18th	12	[9]
1994	Payton/Coyne Racing	39	Lola T93/00	Ford XB V8t	SRF DNS	PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	24th	10	[10]
	King Racing	60	Lola T94/00	Ford XB V8t	CLE 16	TOR 7	MIS	MDO	NHM	VAN	ROA				NZR
	Project Indy	64	Lola T93/00	Ford XB V8t	LS 9
1999	All American Racers	36	Eagle 997	Toyota RV8D V8t	MIA	MOT	LBH	NZR	RIO	STL	MIL	POR	CLE	ROA	TOR	MIS	DET	MDO	CHI	VAN 11	LS 24	HOU 23	SRF 15	FON	31st	2	[11]

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Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	WDC	Points
1994	MTV Simtek Ford	Simtek S941	Ford HBD 6 3.5 V8	BRA	PAC	SMR	MON	ESP DNQ	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	EUR	JPN	AUS	NC	0
1995	Pacific Grand Prix	Pacific PR02	Ford ED 3.0 V8	BRA 9	ARG Ret	SMR Ret	ESP DNS	MON DSQ	CAN Ret	FRA NC	GBR Ret	GER 8	HUN 12	BEL Ret	ITA DNS	POR Ret	EUR Ret	PAC Ret	JPN Ret	AUS Ret	NC	0
1996	Forti Grand Prix	Forti FG01B	Ford Zetec-R 3.0 V8	AUS DNQ	BRA Ret	ARG 10	EUR DNQ	SMR DNQ	NC	0
		Forti FG03		MON DNS	ESP DNQ	CAN Ret	FRA Ret	GBR DNQ			GER DNP	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	JPN
Sources:[7][8][12]

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1998	👁 Japan Nissan Motorsports 👁 United Kingdom TWR	👁 Netherlands Jan Lammers 👁 France Érik Comas	Nissan R390 GT1	GT1	342	6th	6th
1999	👁 France Courage Compétition	👁 Italy Alex Caffi 👁 Italy Domenico Schiattarella	Courage C52-Nissan	LMP	342	6th	5th
Sources:[7][13]

• Profile on F1 Rejects
• Official website
• Andrea Montermini career summary at DriverDB.com 👁 Edit this at Wikidata
  
• Andrea Montermini at the CONI honored athlete website (in Italian) 👁 Edit this at Wikidata
  

Sporting positions
Preceded by Joël Camathias Richard Lietz	International GT Open Champion 2008 With: Michele Maceratesi	Succeeded by Joël Camathias Marcel Fässler
Preceded by Federico Leo Gianmaria Bruni	International GT Open Champion 2013	Succeeded by Roman Mavlanov Daniel Zampieri

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