David Greco
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David Greco (born August 6, 1986 in Civitavecchia, Italy) is an aspiring Italian racecar driver with three years experience in cars preceded by three years experience racing karts. Greco began learning to drive karts in 1998 at the age of 12 and continued driving arrive-and-drive rental karts until becoming involved in organized racing in 2000. While Italian in origin, Greco is a man of the world having lived in Sao Paulo, Brazil for four years before moving to Toronto, Canada for another four; before returning to his native Civitavecchia, Italy in October, 2006.
Greco continues to pursue a real racing career, and while 2006 was a year in which a small budget was sought, the year became one of waiting and ultimately no driving. Among the possible targets for 2007, for David Greco, is the Formula Renault Eurocup. Greco has experience in these cars from his time as test driver for the Gelles Racing Team in 2004. Greco was a quick study and impressed many onlookers during his FR test days. His early weeks in the Skip Barber National Championship were similarly impressive. Said one Skip Barber official at Lime Rock in 2005: "We're pretty excited about David, it's not that often we have someone show up out of the blue and do as well as he has so far." Which included a podium in his first race, and a front row start for his third.
Like many aspiring racers, Greco awaits the financial support that is the sine qua non of jump-starting a career in motorsports.
Greco is an established simulation racer who currently driver in the Formula SimRacing World Championship for the Kiwi Virtual team. Formula SimRacing is a professional league in which drivers and teams earn prize money. He also races in the Armaroli Sim Racing World Cup for Team Italy. Greci is the only driver to have represented Italy this season. The winning nation in the Armaroli championship wins $1000 USD. Prior to these, Greco won both the 2005-02 SimCar Champ3 and 2006-01 Champ2 championships at SimCar. Among the competition at SimCar is (now) former Champ Car World Series and future NASCAR driver A.J. Allmendinger.
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[edit] Road Racing Career
David made his debut in a car in August 2002, just days after turning 16 and having yet to drive a road-going car. So far he has impressed in each car he has driven, and looks to extend his career in the future.
[edit] 2007
A full announcement of David Greco's 2007 season plans is expected before the end of 2006.
[edit] 2006
David sat out all of the 2006 racing season while pursuing financial backing for future racing.
[edit] 2005
- Skip Barber Racing School - National Championship (SBNC)
- Competed in five races over three race weekends.
- Raced at:
- Highlights include podium finish in first race and front row start in third race.
[edit] 2004
- Formula Renault (FR) North America
- Test driver for the Gelles Racing Team.
- Highlights include recording the fastest time of the day on a wet track at Watkins Glen in June.
- Tested at:
[edit] 2003
- Formula Ford Canada
- Test drove at Key Motorsports (now defunct) at St-Eustache, north of Montreal.
[edit] 2002
- Formula Ford Brazil
- First race within days of turning 16—finished sixth—on the Autódromo José Carlos Pace in Interlagos, Sao Paolo, Brazil.
[edit] Karting Career
David's karting career started and ran its course in Brazil where his family was living in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He proved to be an instant talent in karts winning many races and championships. Highlights include:
[edit] 2002
[edit] 2001
- Second place in 500 Miles of Granja Viana endurance kart race (Category B)
- Champion of the Summer Super Sport and F4 Suzuki classes
- Vice-Champion entire Super Sport championship
[edit] 2000
- Debut season racing.
- Second place in 500 Miles of Granja Viana endurance kart race (Category B)
- Fifth place, category v4 championship
[edit] Sim Racing
Sim Racing, using racing video games for the PC, is becoming an increasingly valid form of racing. While it certainly does not substitute for real racing experience, sim racing offers some good training for real racing. Moreover, sim racing can offer drivers of real cars some advantage in learning circuit layouts; quite famously, Jacques Villeneuve mentioned in 1996 that he had learned the layout of the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit using a video game.
[edit] 2006
- Armaroli Sim Racing World Cup representing team Italy. After eight races, Team Italy leads the championship on the strength of four wins, one second-place, two third-place finishes, and one out of the top ten all by David Greco.
- Second place in race one at Zandvoort; pole and first place in race two at Zolder; pole and first place in race three at Laguna Seca; pole and third place in race four at Silverstone; pole and 11th place finish in race five at Barcelona; pole and race win in race six at Nurburgring; pole and fifth place finish in race seven at Montreal; race win at Monza;
- SimCar Racing
- Champ2 champion in season 2006-01
- NorAm Championship series: Race Winner - Birmingham, July 10, 2006; Race Winner - Adelaide, July 24, 2006; Race Winner - Trois-Rivieres, July 31, 2006; Race Winner - Watkins Glen, August 7, 2006
- F1-Career Racing.
- Winner of race two—at Monza, Italy, September 18, 2006; Second place, race three at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, September 25, 2006; Winner race six at Magny Cours, October 30, 2006;
- Formula SimRacing World Championship driver for the Kiwi Virtual team
- Race winner - Nurburgring; Race winner - Montreal; finished the season tied for third place (with 2005 champion Dennis Hirrle of Germany.
[edit] 2005
- SimCar Champ3 champion in season 2005-02
- SimCar Formula Focus Championship third place (participating in only four of ten races)
[edit] 2004 & 2003
- Raced in various online/offline leagues.
SimCar, ASRWC, FSR, and F1-Career all race with rFactor.
