Franck Perera

Franck Perera (born 21 June, 1984, Montpellier, France) is a race car driver who has competed in a number of international open wheel racing championships.

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. On February 6, 2008, Perera announced that he had signed with Conquest Racing to compete in the Champ Car World Series in 2008 Champ Car World Series Season after a successful test with the team. However, shortly thereafter Champ Car and the Indy Racing League unified, canceling the Champ Car season. It was announced on February 25 that Perera had modified his deal in order to continue with the team in the IRL IndyCar Series. He lost the ride after three races due to funding issues stemming the bankruptcy of his sponsor Opes Prime, causing the team to hire Brazilian driver Jaime Camara.

In order to continue racing in the US, Perera signed to drive in the Firestone Indy Lights Series 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. On September 3rd A.J. Foyt announced that Perera will drive the number 41 car at Chicagoland and possibly 2009.

Career History

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums	Final Placing
2007	Atlantic Championship	Condor Motorsports	12	2	3	8	2nd
2005	F3 Euro Series	Prema Powerteam	20	0	0	3	4th
2004	F3 Euro Series	Prema Powerteam	20	0	0	4	8th
2003	Italian Formula Renault 2000	Prema Powerteam	12	7	5	8	1st
2002	Italian Formula Renault 2000	Prema Powerteam	10	0	0	2	8th

Complete GP2 Series results

(F1 driver results legend 2) (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	21	DC	Points
2006	DAMS	VAL FEA 11	VAL SPR 14	SMR FEA Ret	SMR SPR 14	EUR FEA Ret	EUR SPR 15	ESP FEA 13	ESP SPR Ret	MON FEA 2	GBR FEA Ret	GBR SPR 10	FRA FEA Ret	FRA SPR 12	GER FEA 14	GER SPR 11	HUN FEA 9	HUN SPR Ret	TUR FEA 12	TUR SPR 8	ITA FEA 15	ITA SPR 15	16th	8

American Open-Wheel

(American Open Wheel driver results legend) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

IndyCar

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Rank	Points
2008	Conquest	HMS 14	STP Ret	JPN	LBH 6	KAN	IND	MIL	TXS	IOW	RIR	WGL	NSH	MDO	KTY	SNM	DET	CHI 15	29th	71

* 2008 season in progress

Years	Teams	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums (Non-win)	Top 10s (Non-podium)	Indianapolis 500 Wins	Championships
1	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0

References

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