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Gianmarco Raimondo
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Gianmarco Raimondo
Birth Date: November 28, 1990
Resides: St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Email: gmo@gianmarcoraimondo.com
Website: www.gianmarcoraimondo.com
Driver Facts
Seventeen-year-old Gianmarco Raimondo is a 2008 Formula BMW Americas Junior. A graduate of the Sunoco Ron Fellows Karting Championship (SRFKC) where he raced Intercontinental C (ICC) shifter karts, He also raced in the Stars of Karting series with Hamilton, Ontario-based Cameron Motorsports. At the end of the 2007 racing season, Gianmarco was awarded a scholarship by SRFKC to compete in the Skip Barber Southern Region Championship where he scored a podium result in a race at Sebring in January of this year. He now races with Team Autotecnica in the Formula BMW Americas series.
Profile
When a young Gianmarco Raimondo first decided to set foot in a full fledged racing kart, he, as well as the people around him, knew he would set about his early racing career as he did while playing soccer, running track and field, or playing the drums. Failure was not an option. Committed, dedicated, and passionate for everything he does, young “G-MO” was focused on the task at hand, and it showed. Successful from the get go, his parents decided that Gianmarco had outgrown the club karting level and moved him quickly to regional and International level Canadian karting, where he would find similar success that would lead to more satisfying results. After paying his dues and showing incredible form and fortune at club races in Batavia, New York, Mosport and Hamilton, Ontario, Gianmarco moved to the senior ranks of karting against some of the stiffest competition in Canada. Gianmarco quickly became a mainstay in the Canadian karting ranks, and was the definition of consistency. Solid results and a number of fast laps and pole positions caught the attention of the racing world, and it became clear he was destined for the upper echelons of motorsports.
Podium results throughout the 2007 season, including a win in the Florida Winter Tour against an international field as well as a top three at the Super Karts USA (SKUSA) Supernationals, considered one of the hardest races on the North American schedule, made the choice to take another step up the ladder for the 2008 season an easy one. Having already attended the Formula BMW licensing course in Valencia, Spain where he earned his International C racing licence, Gianmarco was invited back for the scholarship shootouts after proving his speed and consistency to the coaches at BMW’s training school. Formula BMW, and its Junior Scholarship Program are considered the biggest, and the first step into a very short and competitive ladder to the top levels of motorsports.
The season ahead will prove to be like the many challenges Gianmarco has faced in his young career, whether it be soccer, track and field, playing the drums or in the future, strapping himself into a 150 mile-per-hour race car, one thing is for sure – Gianmarco will tackle his foray into professional open-wheel racing with the same fervour and sense of accomplishment he has put into all of his endeavours and without a doubt, Gianmarco has what it takes to succeed at this level and beyond.
2008 Drivers
