Luciano Bacheta

Luciano Bacheta
Nationality	British
Born	(1990-04-26) 26 April 1990 (age 34) Romford, England
Racing licence	FIA Silver
Starts	194
Wins	26
Poles	9
Fastest laps	13
Previous series
2014 2013 2011–12 2011 2008–10 2008–09 2007 2006–07 2006 2006	European Le Mans Series Auto GP FIA Formula Two Championship GP3 Series Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault 2.0 WEC Formula Palmer Audi FPA Autumn Trophy T Cars Ginetta Junior Championship
Championship titles
2012 2006	FIA Formula Two Championship T Cars

Akshay Luciano Bacheta (born 26 April 1990 in Romford, England) is a British professional racecar driver, born to Indian parents with Italian ancestry.^[1]

Career

Luciano Bacheta's Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 car at Ciudad del Motor de Aragón in 2009.

Bacheta started karting at the age of fourteen in 2004 and stepped up to cars in 2005, racing in the Junior Ginetta series, recording six wins and the most fastest laps and pole positions. In 2006, Bacheta won the T Cars Championship after scoring six consecutive victories mid-season, and edged out Max Chilton by three points. In the off-season, Bacheta moved into open-wheel racing, competing in the Formula Palmer Audi Autumn Trophy. At Snetterton, Bacheta won his very first race in a single-seater car, and went on to finish the Autumn Trophy in third place after problems at round two.

Bacheta committed to racing a full campaign in Formula Palmer Audi for the 2007 season, and finished third overall in the championship standings with three poles and four wins. He competed in the Autumn Trophy again at the completion of the season, but could only finish a lowly fourteenth in the standings.

Bacheta moved into Formula Renault in 2008, moving into both the Eurocup and the West European Cup, driving for the Hitech Junior Team. Bacheta made six starts in the WEC, recording a best finish of ninth at Magny-Cours with left him 26th in the championship. He fared three places better in the pan-European series, amassing three points from an eighth-place finish at Le Mans. Bacheta moved to Epsilon Sport for the 2009 campaigns, but put his main emphasis into the Eurocup, with just one appearance in the WEC – finishing fifth and sixth – at the World Touring Car Championship-supporting round in Pau. In the Eurocup, Bacheta finished in the points three times, en route to sixteenth in the championship, despite missing the rounds in Hungary with budgetary problems. He has returned to the series in 2010, with the new Interwetten Junior Team, finishing as vice-champion. He was also awarded BRDC Rising Star status and nominated for the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award.

Racing record

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2006	T Cars	PalmerSport Junior	20	6	3	5	11	170	1st
	Formula Palmer Audi Autumn Trophy		6	2	1	?	3	102	3rd
	Ginetta Junior Championship		2	0	0	0	2	0†	NC†
2007	Formula Palmer Audi		20	4	2	?	9	303	3rd
	Formula Palmer Audi Autumn Trophy		3	0	0	0	0	37	14th
2008	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	Hitech Junior Team	14	0	0	0	0	3	23rd
	Formula Renault 2.0 WEC		6	0	0	0	0	2	26th
2009	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	Epsilon Sport	12	0	0	0	0	11	16th
	Formula Renault 2.0 WEC		2	0	0	0	0	11	13th
2010	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	Interwetten Junior Team	16	1	0	2	6	124	2nd
	Formula BMW Europe	DAMS	4	0	0	0	0	N/A	NC†
	Formula Renault 2.0 NEC	Interwetten Junior Team	2	0	0	0	0	1	32nd
	Formula Renault UK	Team Firstair	2	0	0	0	0	14	25th
2011	GP3 Series	RSC Mücke Motorsport	12	0	0	0	0	4	22nd
	FIA Formula Two Championship	MotorSport Vision	4	0	0	0	0	18	13th
2012	FIA Formula Two Championship	MotorSport Vision	20	5	3	5	8	231.5	1st
2013	Auto GP	Zele Racing	8	1	0	0	2	49	11th
2014	European Le Mans Series - LMP2	Greaves Motorsport	3	0	0	0	0	22	13th
2015	Renault Sport Trophy - Elite Class	Oregon Team	9	0	0	0	0	62	5th
	Renault Sport Endurance Trophy		6	1	1	0	3	72	3rd
2016	Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup	HTP Motorsport	5	0	0	0	0	10	34th

^† As Bacheta was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.

Complete GP3 Series results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	DC	Points
2011	RSC Mücke Motorsport	IST FEA Ret	IST SPR 19	CAT FEA 22	CAT SPR 16	VAL FEA 18	VAL SPR 10	SIL FEA 5	SIL SPR 19	NÜR FEA 25	NÜR SPR 25	HUN FEA 17	HUN SPR Ret	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	22nd	4

Complete FIA Formula Two Championship results

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

Year	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pos	Points
2011	SIL 1	SIL 2	MAG 1	MAG 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	BRH 1	BRH 2	RBR 1 7	RBR 2 10	MNZ 1 10	MNZ 2 5	CAT 1	CAT 2	13th	18
2012	SIL 1 1	SIL 2 1	ALG 1 1	ALG 2 1	NÜR 1 2	NÜR 2 6	SPA 1 Ret	SPA 2 1	BRH 1 3	BRH 2 6	LEC 1 2	LEC 2 5	HUN 1 3	HUN 2 8	MNZ 1 4	MNZ 2 3	1st	231.5

Complete Auto GP results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pos	Points
2013	Zele Racing	MNZ 1 8	MNZ 2 2	MAR 1 8	MAR 2 1	HUN 1 16†	HUN 2 9	SIL 1 10	SIL 2 8	MUG 1	MUG 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	DON 1	DON 2	BRN 1	BRN 2	11th	49

Complete European Le Mans Series results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	Rank	Points
2014	Greaves Motorsport	LMP2	Zytek Z11SN	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SIL	IMO	RBR 4	LEC 5	EST Ret	13th	22

750 Motor Club

After some years away from competing, Luciano Bacheta returned to racing at the 750MC Birkett 6 Hour Relay in 2019 and won aboard a Radical SR3, with team-mates Wade Eastwood and Charles Graham.

References

1. "Bacheta named BASA Sports Personality of the Year". sportasiaonline.com. Sport Asia Online. 6 March 2011. Archived from the original on 24 February 2015. Retrieved 20 January 2012. I've got Italian ancestry, but I'm not immediately Italian both my parents are Indian

External links

• Official website
• Luciano Bacheta career summary at DriverDB.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Adrian Quaife-Hobbs	T Cars Champion 2006	Succeeded by Daniel Brown
Preceded by Mirko Bortolotti	FIA Formula Two Championship Champion 2012	Succeeded by None (Series ended)