Leonardo Fornaroli
Fornaroli driving the Dallara F3 2019 during the 2023 Spielberg Formula 3 round.
NationalityItaly Italian
Born (2004-12-03) 3 December 2004
Piacenza, Italy
FIA Formula 3 Championship career
Debut season2023
Current teamTrident
Car number4
Starts18 (18 entries)
Wins0
Podiums3
Poles1
Fastest laps1
Best finish11th in 2023
Previous series
2022
2022
2020–2021
2020–2021		FR European Championship
FR Asian Championship
Italian F4 Championship
ADAC Formula 4
Championship titles
2022FR European Rookie Championship

Leonardo Fornaroli (born 3 December 2004) is an Italian racing driver who will compete in the 2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship for Trident. He is the 2022 Formula Regional European rookie champion.[1][2][3]

Career

Karting

Fornaroli began karting competitively in his native Italy around the age of ten, first winning the Mini Academy class of the Championkart championship in 2016 before moving up to X30 Junior the following year.[4] He came runner-up in the 2017 X30 Challenge Italy, in a season that also included entry to international IAME events, but found more success in 2018, when he was third in the Italian Karting Championship and made his full-time European debut in the WSK Super Master Series.[5] Fornaroli's final year in karting would prove to be his best, as he was a front-runner in the 2019 WSK Euro Series on his OK debut and finished 3rd in the prestigious Trofeo Andrea Margutti.[6][7] At the end of the year, he was invited to participate in the 16th edition of the annual Supercorso Federale event at Vallelunga, as one of five young karting talents selected by ACI Sport and the Ferrari Driver Academy.[8][9]

Lower formulae

2020

Having tested a Formula 4 car for the first time at the Supercorso Federale, 2020 would see Fornaroli make his debut in the Italian F4 Championship, driving for sportscar racing team Iron Lynx, which extended its program to single-seaters.[10][11] He repaid the faith straightaway, taking a solid fourth-place finish on debut at Misano.[12] He would go on to score 8 top-five finishes from 20 races, including a podium at Monza, and finished 9th in the overall standings on 108 points. At the end of the year, as an award for his performances, Fornaroli was again invited to ACI Sport's Supercorso Federale, together with F4 rivals Gabriele Minì, Francesco Pizzi, Andrea Rosso and four karting drivers.[13]

2021

Fornaroli racing in the 2021 Italian F4 Championship.

In 2021 Fornaroli remained in the series with Iron Lynx, partnering new Ferrari Driver Academy recruit Maya Weug and Pietro Armanni. He was the highest-placed driver in the 2020 standings to return.[14] Consistency would once again prove to be his biggest asset, as he was in the points in every race he finished. Two very strong weekends at Misano, where he clinched his first F4 victory from his first pole before scoring two further podiums,[15] and Imola would initially see Fornaroli as the only real threat for eventual champion Oliver Bearman.[16] He would however lose out shortly after, despite a second pole and more podiums at the Red Bull Ring and Mugello, and reached the season finale at Monza in third position, as part of a four-way fight for second.[17] The weekend did not go to plan for him, as he faced a lowly 9th position, a retirement and a DNS that eventually dropped him to fifth in the standings, behind runner-up Tim Tramnitz and Prema's Kirill Smal and Sebastián Montoya. Fornaroli's closest teammate, Armanni, finished 23 places and 172 points behind him.[18]

Formula Regional

Fornaroli racing in the 2022 Formula Regional European Championship at the Red Bull Ring.

In 2022 Fornaroli made the step up to Formula Regional, first doing a partial campaign in the Asian Championship for Hitech Grand Prix, with a fourth-place qualifying result and a fifth-place finish as highlights,[19] before returning to Europe for the main season with new team Trident, alongside F4 rival Tramnitz and Roman Bilinski.[20][21] Consistency would prove to be the Italian's biggest trait, as he went on to score points in 15 of the 20 races on his and his team's debut season. He finished 8th in the overall standings, as the best-placed rookie and well ahead of both of his teammates. His best finish was a fourth place in race one at the Hungaroring.[22][23]

FIA Formula 3

2023

At the end of September 2022, Fornaroli partook in the FIA Formula 3 post-season test with Trident, partnering Oliver Goethe and FRECA rival Gabriel Bortoleto on all three days.[24][25][26] On 3 December 2022, on his 18th birthday, it was announced that Fornaroli would be part of the team's 2023 line-up alongside Bortoleto and Goethe.[27] He started his season with eighth in Bahrain, but was a victim of puncture in the feature race.[28] He would prove his worth in Melbourne, where he qualified and finished fourth in the feature race.[29] Fornaroli took his first podium with second in Monaco during the sprint race after holding off Grégoire Saucy.[30] He followed it up with a third place during the Barcelona sprint race.[31] He was on the hunt for more points in the feature race, but was pushed off-track by Luke Browning on the opening lap.[32]

Fornaroli took his maiden pole position in Silverstone, forming a Trident 1-2 ahead of teammate Oliver Goethe.[33][34] In the feature race, he would get bested by Goethe and fall to second place, but nevertheless grabbed a huge haul of points.[35] He would qualify in the top 3 in both Hungary and Spa-Francorchamps, but would only earn four points from the two rounds.[36][37] After an eighth place during the sprint race in Monza, Fornaroli ranked 11th in the standings with 69 points, amassing three podiums and a pole position that year.[38]

2024

Fornaroli and Trident continued their relationship together for the 2024 season.[39]

Karting record

Karting career summary

Season Series Team Position
2016 South Garda Winter Cup — Mini ROK NC
2017 IAME International Open — X30 Junior NC†
IAME International Final — X30 Junior 5th
2018 South Garda Winter Cup — OKJ Team Driver Racing Kart NC
WSK Super Master Series — OKJ NC
Italian Championship — X30 Junior 3rd
CIK-FIA European Championship — OKJ NC†
WSK Open Cup — OKJ NC
IAME International Final — X30 Junior 3rd
WSK Final Cup — OKJ NC†
2019 Italian Championship — X30 Senior Team Driver Racing Kart 5th
Trofeo Andrea Margutti — OK 3rd
WSK Euro Series — OK 18th
IAME Euro Series — X30 Senior 46th
CIK-FIA European Championship — OK NC
IAME International Final — X30 Senior NC
Sources:[40][41]

Racing record

Racing career summary

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2020 Italian F4 Championship Iron Lynx 20 0 0 1 2 108 9th
ADAC Formula 4 Championship 3 0 0 0 0 0 NC†
2021 Italian F4 Championship Iron Lynx 20 1 2 3 7 180 5th
ADAC Formula 4 Championship 6 0 0 0 1 0 NC†
FIA Central European Zone Formula 4 2 1 1 1 2 43 3rd
2022 Formula Regional Asian Championship Hitech Grand Prix 9 0 0 0 0 22 17th
Formula Regional European Championship Trident 20 0 0 0 0 83 8th
2023 FIA Formula 3 Championship Trident 18 0 1 0 3 69 11th
2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship Trident

* Season still in progress.

Complete Italian F4 Championship results

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

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 DC Points
2020 Iron Lynx MIS
1
4		 MIS
2
15		 MIS
3
9		 IMO1
1
17		 IMO1
2
17		 IMO1
3
5		 RBR
1
13		 RBR
2
26		 RBR
3
10		 MUG
1
5		 MUG
2
12		 MUG
3
14		 MNZ
1
4		 MNZ
2
4		 MNZ
3
3		 IMO2
1
4		 IMO2
2
5		 IMO2
3
6		 VLL
1
8		 VLL
2
C		 VLL
3
16		 9th 108
2021 Iron Lynx LEC
1
7		 LEC
2
8		 LEC
3
4		 MIS
1
1		 MIS
2
3		 MIS
3
2		 VLL
1
10		 VLL
2
8		 VLL
3
8		 IMO
1
Ret		 IMO
2
2		 IMO
3
2		 RBR
1
6		 RBR
2
2		 RBR
3
7		 MUG
1
Ret		 MUG
2
8		 MUG
3
2		 MNZ
1
9		 MNZ
2
Ret		 MNZ
3
DNS		 5th 180

Complete Formula Regional Asian Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate the fastest lap of top ten finishers)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 DC Points
2022 Hitech Grand Prix ABU
1
8		 ABU
2
5		 ABU
3
22†		 DUB
1
11		 DUB
2
8		 DUB
3
11		 DUB
1
9		 DUB
2
26†		 DUB
3
9		 DUB
1		 DUB
2		 DUB
3		 ABU
1		 ABU
2		 ABU
3		 17th 22

Complete Formula Regional European Championship results

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

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 DC Points
2022 Trident MNZ
1
10		 MNZ
2
15		 IMO
1
8		 IMO
2
8		 MCO
1
9		 MCO
2
12		 LEC
1
20		 LEC
2
23		 ZAN
1
8		 ZAN
2
5		 HUN
1
4		 HUN
2
5		 SPA
1
6		 SPA
2
8		 RBR
1
19		 RBR
2
10		 CAT
1
9		 CAT
2
8		 MUG
1
5		 MUG
2
8		 8th 83

Complete FIA Formula 3 Championship 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 17 18 19 20 DC Points
2023 Trident BHR
SPR
8		 BHR
FEA
27		 MEL
SPR
7		 MEL
FEA
4		 MON
SPR
2		 MON
FEA
24		 CAT
SPR
3		 CAT
FEA
NC		 RBR
SPR
15		 RBR
FEA
10		 SIL
SPR
7		 SIL
FEA
2		 HUN
SPR
13		 HUN
FEA
9		 SPA
SPR
9		 SPA
FEA
14		 MNZ
SPR
8		 MNZ
FEA
15		 11th 69
2024 Trident BHR
SPR
 BHR
FEA
 MEL
SPR
 MEL
FEA
 IMO
SPR
 IMO
FEA
 MON
SPR
 MON
FEA
 CAT
SPR
 CAT
FEA
 RBR
SPR
 RBR
FEA
 SIL
SPR
 SIL
FEA
 HUN
SPR
 HUN
FEA
 SPA
SPR
 SPA
FEA
 MNZ
SPR
 MNZ
FEA
 TBD TBD

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