Simone Tempestini

Simone Tempestini is an Romanian rally driver.

Born in Italy in 1994, he made his competition debut in 2009. He won the 2015 and 2016 Romanian Rally Championship driving a Ford Fiesta R5 for the Napoca Rally Academy team.

Tempestini won both the 2016 JWRC and the WRC 3 categories of the World Rally Championship, driving for the same team.

Based in Romania, Tempestini has stated that he feels "100 % Romanian".[1] He has competed in WRC with an Italian licence due to not having received Romanian citizenship.

References

  1. http://www.gsp.ro/sporturi/auto/foto-premiera-in-motorsportul-romanesc-simone-tempestini-campion-mondial-la-wrc-junior-490266.html
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