Romeo Ferraris has announced its fourth and final driver for this season’s FIA eTouring Car World Cup, with Giovanni Venturini partnering Bruno Spengler, Maxime Martin and Luca Filippi in the Italian squad.
Venturini, 30, is an experienced GT racer who graduated from single seaters into the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe in 2014.
He moved to the Blancpain Endurance Series and Italian GT Championship in 2015 and stayed in the latter in 2016.
In 2017 Venturini won the overall Intercontinental GT Open with two victories, and he remained in the series the following year but ended up fourth overall.
In 2019 he competed in the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup, and after a quiet year in 2020 he moved to the GT World Challenge America series in 2021, winning twice on his way to second overall.
Venturini will partner Spengler, Martin and Filippi in one of the team’s all-electric Alfa Romeo Giulia cars.
“This year a new chapter in my career opens and I was immediately thrilled to take the opportunity to race with Romeo Ferraris in the FIA ETCR championship,” said Venturini.
“It is a project with ample room for growth and very fascinating, even more because it will allow me to discover first-hand the strengths of electric propulsion in motorsport.
“I know I have a lot to learn, but I expect to be the protagonist behind the wheel of the Giulia ETCR already in Pau, a track where I have always wanted to measure myself. Now the opportunity has come.”
Team Principal Michela Cerruti believes the team has a very strong driver line-up for its second season of electric racing.
“I am satisfied with the line-up we have put together for this edition of the FIA ETCR,” said Cerruti. “Giovanni is another driver of great value who has chosen to race with us after Luca, Maxime and Bruno: thanks to this quartet we can count on talent, speed, experience and the ability to work in very structured organizations, also to contribute to technical development.
“These are precious requirements, which will allow us to grow further as a team as well as as manufacturer and to make the Giulia ETCR even more competitive.
“The confidence placed in our project by riders of this calibre gives us an additional dose of enthusiasm for the start of the season in Pau.”