Lucas di Grassi

Lucas di Grassi
Lucas di Grassi
	Di Grassi at the TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2018
Nationality	Brazilian
Born	11 August 1984 (age 39); São Paulo, Brazil
Formula E career
Debut season	2014–15
Current team	ABT Cupra Formula E
Racing licence	FIA Platinum
Car number	11
Former teams	Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler, ROKiT Venturi Racing, Mahindra Racing
Starts	116
Championships	1 (2016–17)
Wins	13
Podiums	40
Poles	4
Fastest laps	12
Best finish	1st in 2016–17
Finished last season	15th (32 pts)
WEC career
Debut season	2012
Car number	1
Former teams	Audi Sport Team Joest
Starts	29
Championships	0
Wins	2
Poles	1
Fastest laps	3
Best finish	2nd in 2016
Finished last season	2nd
Formula One World Championship career
Active years	2010
Teams	Virgin
Entries	19 (18 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First entry	2010 Bahrain Grand Prix
Last entry	2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

Lucas Tucci di Grassi (born 11 August 1984) is a Brazilian professional racing driver who is set to compete in the FIA Formula E World Championship for ABT CUPRA. He became the FIA Formula E World Champion in 2016–2017, achieved three overall podiums at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Vice-Champion at the World Endurance Championship (2016), Vice-Champion in Formula 2 (former GP2) and won the Macau Grand Prix in 2005. He raced in Formula 1 in 2010 for Virgin Racing after 2 years as reserve driver.

Born in São Paulo, di Grassi began racing karts at the age of ten, and achieved early success in the regional and later national kart series. He progressed to car racing in 2002 and was the runner up in the Formula Renault 2.0 Brazil and Formula 3 Sudamericana championships. Di Grassi took two consecutive victories in the 2004 British Formula Three Championship and progressed to the Euro Series the following year which saw him clinch a solitary race victory and was the winner of the non-championship Macau Grand Prix. After that, he spent the next three years in the GP2 Series where he won four races and finished the runner-up in 2007 to Timo Glock.

Di Grassi drove in Formula One with the Virgin Racing team in 2010 but was dropped for the following season. He was subsequently employed by Pirelli in mid-2011 as their official tyre tester and developed the company's next generation of tyres. Di Grassi continued this role into 2012. For the next four seasons, he drove for Audi Sport Team Joest in the FIA World Endurance Championship and took a best finish of second with two victories in 2016. Since 2014, di Grassi has raced in Formula E and has scored thirteen victories and won the 2016–17 Drivers' Championship.

In July 2020, Di Grassi was announced as co-founder and Sustainability Ambassador of the eSkootr Championship (eSC) - which was launched in May 2022.