Fabrizio Crestani

Fabrizio Crestani is an Italian racing driver.

Career

Having competed in karts until 2005, Crestani moved up to the Formula Junior 1600 Italia championship, finishing in 4th place in the championship, driving for PSR Motorsport. Crestani had one win and finished behind Pasquale Di Sabatino, Mihai Marinescu and Jaime Alguersuari in the championship. He also made his debut in the Italian Formula Three Championship for Corbetta Competizioni at the final round at the Misano World Circuit. Having qualified 7th for both races, Fabrizio recorded a sixth and a seventh from the two races, allowing him to finish 13th in the championship.
Crestani moved up full-time to Italian F3 for 2006, continuing with Corbetta Competizioni. Over the course of the season, he recorded one pole position at Vallelunga Circuit|Vallelunga], and five podiums on his way to fifth in the championship. He also made an appearance in the British Formula 3 Championship when the series visited Mugello. Driving in the Invitational Class, he finished both races outside of the points recording a 15th and a 14th with lap times matching the National Class runners.
A third season of Italian F3 followed, again with Corbetta. Having recorded two more pole positions at Misano, Crestani finally recorded his first wins in the championship at Mugello, leading home 2008 champion Mirko Bortolotti in both races. A third win would follow later in the year at Vallelunga, but Crestani could not improve on his championship position from 2006 by again finishing fifth, 41 points behind champion Paolo Maria Nocera.
Crestani would not return to the series for 2008, instead moving to the Euroseries 3000 championship for GP Racing. Again, a fifth place championship position was the net result of the season including wins at Mugello, and a double at the Magione season finale. He finished 8th in the counterpart Italian series, which ran at the same time as the Euro series, at four of the first five rounds. He also forayed into the International Formula Master series, racing at Valencia, Pau and Brno for Euronova Racing. His best finish was first in the race at Pau – holding off champion Chris van der Drift by 0.058 seconds, giving him a total of 0.5 points in the championship.
After Tiago Monteiro acquired the former BCN Competición team and renamed it as Ocean Racing Technology, Monteiro replaced both drivers from round one, hiring Yelmer Buurman and Crestani to be the drivers to replace them from round two of the 2008–09 [GP2 Asia Series season] onwards. He scored no points and finished 28th in the championship. He resumed his Euroseries career with the TP Formula team, although he then switched to the Emmebi Motorsport outfit for the final round of the championship. He took six podium finishes, a pole position and a fastest lap from the 13 races to finish fourth in the championship and fifth in the concurrent Italian F3000 championship.
Crestani had a fragmented 2010, competing four races in Auto GP season|Auto GP] for the DAMS and Trident teams, and six races for David Price Racing in the main GP2 Series after replacing Giacomo Ricci in the team. Due to lack of sponsorship, Fabrizio Crestani then undertook a full 2011 season in Auto GP with the Lazarus team alongside compatriot Fabio Onidi; he finished fourth in the championship.
Crestani remained with Lazarus as the team made its GP2 Series début in 2012, and was partnered by Giancarlo Serenelli.
In 2023, after a year away from the series, Crestani returned to the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup, driving alongside Ricky Capo and Sam Neary for GRT Grasser Racing Team.

Racing record

Complete GP2 Series results

Year

Entrant

Points

SPA
FEA
Ret

SPA
SPR
14

MNZ
FEA
10

MNZ
SPR
15

YMC
FEA
13

YMC
SPR
14

30th

2012

Venezuela GP Lazarus

SEP
FEA
10

SEP
SPR
21

BHR1
FEA
14

BHR1
SPR
19

BHR2
FEA
Ret

BHR2
SPR
23

CAT
FEA
17

CAT
SPR
10

MON
FEA
19

MON
SPR
Ret

VAL
FEA
Ret

VAL
SPR
DNS

SIL
FEA
11

SIL
SPR
22

24th

SIL
FEA
18

SIL
SPR
17

NÜR
FEA
19

NÜR
SPR
21

33rd

Complete GP2 Asia Series results

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	DC	Points
2008–09	Ocean Racing Technology	SHI FEA	SHI SPR	DUB FEA 14	DUB SPR C	BHR FEA Ret	BHR SPR 17	LSL FEA 10	LSL SPR 21	SEP FEA 15	SEP SPR 16	BHR FEA 18	BHR SPR 15	28th	0