Franck Perera

Franck Perera 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. On 6 February 2008, Perera announced that he had signed with Conquest Racing to compete in the Champ Car World Series in 2008 [Champ Car season|2008] 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 25 February 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 from the bankruptcy of his sponsor Opes Prime, causing the team to hire Brazilian driver Jaime Camara.
File:Franck Perera 2009 GP2 Nurburgring.jpg|thumb|left|Perera driving for David Price Racing at the Nürburgring round of the 2009 [GP2 Series season]
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 [Superleague Formula season|2008].
Perera returned to the GP2 Series in 2009, replacing Giacomo Ricci at David Price Racing. 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. Perera also failed to qualify for both races of the championship held at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit. 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.
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.

Racing record

Career summary

^† Guest driver, ineligible for points.
^‡ Team standings.
^* Season still in progress.

Complete Formula Renault 2.0 Italia results

Complete Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup results

Year

Entrant

Points

2002

Prema Powerteam

MAG
31

SIL
15

JAR
8

AND
8

OSC

SPA
13

IMO
Ret

DON

EST
5

13th

2003

Prema Powerteam

BRN
1
9

BRN
2
26

ASS
1
5

ASS
2
Ret

OSC
1
5

OSC
2
8

DON
1
4

DON
2
12

10th

Complete Formula Renault 2.0 Germany results

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	DC	Points
2003	Prema Powerteam	OSC 1	OSC 2	HOC 1 DSQ	HOC 2 DNS	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	SAL 1	SAL 2	A1R 1	A1R 2	OSC 1 9	OSC 2 14	LAU 1	LAU 2	30th	19

Complete Formula 3 Euro Series results

Year

Entrant

Chassis

Engine

Points

HOC1
1
3

HOC1
2
19

EST
1
8

EST
2
7

ADR
1
DSQ

ADR
2
2

PAU
1
5

PAU
2
6

NOR
1
3

NOR
2
19†

MAG
1
10

MAG
2
8

NÜR
1
10

NÜR
2
8

ZAN
1
6

ZAN
2
9

BRN
1
3

BRN
2
6

HOC2
1
5

HOC2
2
11

8th

HOC1
1
Ret

HOC1
2
8

PAU
1
Ret

PAU
2
6

SPA
1
6

SPA
2
6

2005 [Monaco Grand Prix Formula Three|MON
1]
5

2005 Monaco [Grand Prix Formula Three|MON
2]
3

OSC
1
6

OSC
2
15

NOR
1
4

NOR
2
3

NÜR
1
5

NÜR
2
6

ZAN
1
3

ZAN
2
6

LAU
1
5

LAU
2
5

HOC2
1
4

HOC2
2
5

4th

Complete GP2 Series results

Year

Entrant

Points

2006

DAMS

VAL
FEA
11

VAL
SPR
14

IMO
FEA
Ret

IMO
SPR
14

NÜR
FEA
Ret

NÜR
SPR
15

CAT
FEA
13

CAT
SPR
Ret

MON
FEA
2

SIL
FEA
Ret

SIL
SPR
10

MAG
FEA
Ret

MAG
SPR
12

HOC
FEA
14

HOC
SPR
11

HUN
FEA
9

HUN
SPR
Ret

IST
FEA
12

IST
SPR
8

MNZ
FEA
15†

MNZ
SPR
15†

16th

NÜR
FEA
Ret

NÜR
SPR
16

HUN
FEA
EX

HUN
SPR
18

VAL
FEA
15

VAL
SPR
16†

SPA
FEA
DNQ

SPA
SPR
DNQ

28th

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	DC	Points
2006	Interwetten.com	ZOL 1	ZOL 2	MON 1	IST 1	IST 2	MIS 1	MIS 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	DON 1	DON 2	LMS 1	LMS 2	CAT 1 4	CAT 2 6	22nd	13