Franck Perera

Franck Perera
Franck Perera
	Perera in 2024
Nationality	French
Born	21 March 1984 (age 42); Montpellier (France)
GP2 Series career
Debut season	2006
Current team	David Price Racing
Categorisation	FIA Gold (until 2019); FIA Platinum (2020–)
Car number	27
Former teams	DAMS
Starts	26
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	16th in 2006
Previous series
2008–09; 2008; 2008; 2007; 2006; 2004–05; 2004–05; 2003; 2003; 2002–03; 2002–03	Superleague Formula; IndyCar Series; Firestone Indy Lights; Atlantic Championship; World Series by Renault; Formula One testing; Formula Three Euroseries; FR2000 Germany; FR2000 Netherlands; FR2000 Masters; Formula Renault 2000 Italia
Championship titles
2015; 2003	European Le Mans Series - GTC; Formula Renault 2000 Italia

Franck Perera (born 21 March 1984 in Montpellier, France) is a professional race car driver and a Lamborghini Squadra Corse factory driver.

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.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[3] 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.^{[citation needed]}

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 No. 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.^{[citation needed]}

Perera returned to the GP2 Series in 2009, replacing Giacomo Ricci at David Price Racing.^[4] 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.^[5] Perera also failed to qualify for both races of the championship held at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit.^[6] 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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

Racing record

Career summary