Mikhail Aleshin

Mikhail Aleshin
Mikhail Aleshin
	Aleshin in 2017
Nationality	Russian
Born	Mikhail Petrovich Aleshin; 22 May 1987; Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
IndyCar Series career
	38 races run over 4 years
Team(s)	No. 7 (Schmidt Peterson Motorsports)
2017 position	19th
Best finish	15th (2016)
First race	2014 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg)
Previous series
2015; 2010–13; 2011; 2009; 2007, 11; 2006–08; 2005–06; 2004; 2003–05; 2003–05; 2002	European Le Mans Series; Formula Renault 3.5 Series; GP2 Asia Series; FIA Formula Two; GP2 Series; Formula Renault 3.5 Series; A1 Grand Prix; FR 2.0 Italy Winter series; Formula Renault 2.0 Germany; Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0; Russian Formula Three
Championship titles
2010; 2004	Formula Renault 3.5 Series; FR 2.0 Italy Winter series

Mikhail Petrovich Aleshin (Russian: Михаи́л Петро́вич Алёшин, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ɐˈlʲɵʂɨn], born 22 May 1987 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian professional racing driver and the 2010 champion of the Formula Renault 3.5 Series.

Career

Aleshin competed in karting from 1996 to 2000. Since 2001 he has taken part in various international open wheel series. On 14 April 2007 he became the first Russian driver to win a major international single-seater race when he won the opening round of the Formula Renault 3.5 Series season at Monza.[1] He then deputised for the injured Michael Ammermüller in the ART Grand Prix team at the second round of the 2007 GP2 Series season, becoming the second Russian after Vitaly Petrov to race in the series. He remained in FR3.5 for 2008, taking his best finish in the championship so far despite not winning a race.

He joined the relaunched FIA Formula Two Championship for 2009, driving car number 15.[2] He finished third in the championship, with a single win coming at Oschersleben.

Aleshin returned to Formula Renault 3.5 for the 2010 season, partnering Jake Rosenzweig at Carlin.[3] Scoring three victories, he became the champion of the series. He tested for Renault F1 in the young drivers' test in Abu Dhabi and stated that he was confident for a Formula One drive in 2011, but did not obtain one.[4]

Aleshin remained with Carlin to drive in 2011 GP2 Series and 2011 GP2 Asia Series, the team's first season in the category and Aleshin's first attempt at the series since 2007. He was partnered by Max Chilton, another driver who had previously been employed by Carlin in lower formulae.[5] He endured a frustrating Asia series, afflicted by technical problems which left him last in the drivers' championship, before announcing that he did not have a budget to compete in the main series, and would henceforth be stepping back to the ATS Formel 3 Cup. He then, however, secured a last-minute temporary GP2 deal with Carlin, only to crash in qualifying for the first round of the season in Turkey, injuring metacarpals in both hands which prevented him from racing.[6] He returned to action for the following round of the championship at Catalunya, but was then replaced by Oliver Turvey as his money ran out.[7] After eight races on the sidelines, he returned to racing action with Carlin at the Hungaroring.[8] He was replaced again by Parente for the season finale at Monza, and finished 32nd and last in the overall standings.[9]

In 2014 Aleshin began racing in the IndyCar Series with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports.[10]

Fontana crash

At Fontana in the final race of the 2014 IndyCar season, Aleshin was practicing his race-car before the race. The first driver from Russia to race in the Verizon IndyCar Series, Aleshin was in Turn 4 of the two-mile Fontana track—a track where the cars travel at more than 200 mph—when the accident occurred.[11][12]

Aleshin's No. 7 car was driving low on the track before clipping the apron at the bottom, this unsettled the car and subsequently sent it into a spin. Charlie Kimball, who was running the high line, had no time to react to Aleshin's car that was sliding up the track before him and he slammed into Aleshin at almost full speed. The impact sent both cars into the outside retaining wall where the upwards momentum of Aleshin's out of control car caused it to vault up and over Kimball and the nose speared through the catch fencing, causing it to pirouette against the fence. Aleshin's car then fell back onto the track as pieces of the car were scattered for yards and a large section of the catch fencing was ripped down. Kimball was able to get out of his car on his own, however, Aleshin was rushed to the hospital in a critical condition.[11][12]

"The 7 car spun from the bottom and I really had nowhere to go," said Kimball, who was not hurt. Aleshin, meanwhile, was diagnosed with a concussion, fractured ribs, a broken right clavicle and chest injuries.[11][12]

Motorsports career results

Aleshin driving for Carlin Motorsport at the Donington Park round of the 2007 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season.

Aleshin driving a Red Bull RB2 at Moscow City Racing show (2008).

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2002	Russian Formula 3 Championship	Lukoil Racing F3	4	0	0	?	1	40	4th
2003	Formula Renault 2000 Germany	JD Motorsport	14	0	0	0	0	99	12th
2003	Formula Renault 2000 Masters	JD Motorsport	8	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2004	Formula Renault 2000 Germany	Lukoil Racing Team	14	0	2	1	3	185	5th
	Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup	Lukoil Racing Team	16	0	0	0	0	26	17th
	Formula Renault 2000 Italia		?	?	?	?	?	?	1st
2005	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	Lukoil Racing Team	10	0	0	0	0	3	30th
2005	Formula Renault 2.0 Germany	Lukoil Racing Team	16	1	1	1	7	274	2nd
2005–06	A1 Grand Prix	A1 Team Russia	2	0	0	0	0	0	25th
2006	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Carlin Motorsport	17	0	1	0	2	41	11th
2007	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Carlin Motorsport	17	1	1	0	1	44	13th
2007	GP2 Series	ART Grand Prix	4	0	0	0	0	3	25th
2008	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Carlin Motorsport	16	0	0	0	3	73	5th
2009	FIA Formula Two Championship	Motorsport Vision	16	1	1	0	5	59	3rd
2010	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Carlin	17	3	1	2	8	138	1st
	GP3 Series	Carlin	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	German Formula 3 Trophy	Stromos ArtLine	2	2	2	2	2	N/A	NC†
2011	GP2 Series	Carlin	8	0	0	0	0	0	32nd
	GP2 Asia Series	Carlin	4	0	0	0	0	0	27th
	German Formula 3 Championship	Stromos ArtLine	8	0	0	0	0	3	18th
	German Formula 3 Trophy	Stromos ArtLine	8	7	8	8	7	70	3rd
	Superleague Formula	Russia	3	0	0	0	1	56	12th
	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	KMP Racing	2	0	0	0	0	4	28th
2012	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Team RFR	17	0	1	1	1	46	13th
2013	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Tech 1 Racing	17	0	0	0	0	33	12th
2013	Blancpain Endurance Series	SMP Racing	4	0	0	0	1	7	29th
2014	IndyCar Series	Schmidt Peterson Hamilton Motorsports	18	0	0	0	1	372	17th
2015	European Le Mans Series	AF Corse	1	0	0	0	0	56	5th
		AF Racing	2	0	0	0	2
		SMP Racing	2	0	0	0	1
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2	SMP Racing	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	13th
	IndyCar Series	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	1	0	0	0	0	40	33rd
2016	IndyCar Series	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	16	0	1	0	1	347	15th
	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMP2	SMP Racing	4	0	0	0	0	34	16th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2	SMP Racing	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	7th
2017	IndyCar Series	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	12	0	0	0	0	237	19th
2017	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2	SMP Racing	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	16th
2018	Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup	SMP Racing	5	0	1	1	1	23	20th
2018	24 Hours of Le Mans	SMP Racing	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
2018-19	FIA World Endurance Championship	SMP Racing	8	0	0	0	4	94	4th
2019	Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup	SMP Racing	5	1	0	0	2	73	2nd
	24 Hours of Le Mans	SMP Racing	1	0	0	0	1	N/A	3rd
	Intercontinental GT Challenge	Ferrari	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC

^† As Aleshin was a guest driver, he was ineligible for championship points.

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Formula Renault 3.5 results
Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Pos	Points
2006	Carlin Motorsport	ZOL 1 13	ZOL 2 Ret	MON 1 15	IST 1 23	IST 2 2	MIS 1 7	MIS 2 16	SPA 1 Ret	SPA 2 6	NÜR 1 3	NÜR 2 21	DON 1 7	DON 2 9	LMS 1 19	LMS 2 Ret	CAT 1 8	CAT 2 13	12th	41
2007	Carlin Motorsport	MNZ 1 1	MNZ 2 19	NÜR 1 Ret	NÜR 2 15	MON 1 7	HUN 1 9	HUN 2 20	SPA 1 Ret	SPA 2 7	DON 1 9	DON 2 Ret	MAG 1 Ret	MAG 2 10	EST 1 Ret	EST 2 14	CAT 1 5	CAT 2 13	12th	44
2008	Carlin Motorsport	MNZ 1 5	MNZ 2 5	SPA 1 5	SPA 2 3	MON 1 6	SIL 1 Ret	SIL 2 18	HUN 1 9	HUN 2 15	NÜR 1 3	NÜR 2 DNS	BUG 1 6	BUG 2 4	EST 1 9	EST 2 23	CAT 1 2	CAT 2 14	5th	73
2010	Carlin Motorsport	ALC 1 1	ALC 2 11	SPA 1 1	SPA 2 4	MON 1 2	BRN 1 Ret	BRN 2 9	MAG 1 1	MAG 2 4	HUN 1 2	HUN 2 3	HOC 1 5	HOC 2 4	SIL 1 6	SIL 2 11	CAT 1 2	CAT 2 3	1st	138
2011	KMP Racing	ALC 1	ALC 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	MNZ 1	MNZ 2	MON 1	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	HUN 1 11	HUN 2 8	SIL 1	SIL 2	LEC 1	LEC 2	CAT 1	CAT 2	28th	4
2012	Team RFR	ALC 1 Ret	ALC 2 11	MON 1 8	SPA 1 4	SPA 2 Ret	NÜR 1 13	NÜR 2 6	MSC 1 14	MSC 2 9	SIL 1 11†	SIL 2 17†	HUN 1 Ret	HUN 2 19	LEC 1 12	LEC 2 17	CAT 1 9	CAT 2 2	13th	46
2013	Tech 1 Racing	MNZ 1 15	MNZ 2 14	ALC 1 10	ALC 2 11	MON 1 8	SPA 1 14	SPA 2 Ret	MSC 1 16	MSC 2 5	RBR 1 Ret	RBR 2 18	HUN 1 5	HUN 2 13	LEC 1 17†	LEC 2 6	CAT 1 Ret	CAT 2 14	12th	33

Complete GP2 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

GP2 Series results
Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	DC	Points
2007	ART Grand Prix	BHR FEA	BHR SPR	CAT FEA 6	CAT SPR Ret	MON FEA	MAG FEA	MAG SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	NÜR FEA	NÜR SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	IST FEA	IST SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	VAL FEA 9	VAL SPR 20	25th	3
2011	Carlin	IST FEA DNS	IST SPR DNS	CAT FEA 16	CAT SPR 18	MON FEA	MON SPR	VAL FEA	VAL SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	NÜR FEA	NÜR SPR	HUN FEA 15	HUN SPR 15	SPA FEA Ret	SPA SPR Ret	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR				32nd	0

Complete GP2 Asia Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

GP2 Asia Series results
Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	DC	Points
2011	Carlin	YMC FEA Ret	YMC SPR 24	IMO FEA 20	IMO SPR 20	27th	0

Complete FIA Formula Two Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

FIA Formula Two Championship results
Year	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	DC	Points
2009	VAL 1 4	VAL 2 6	BRN 1 2	BRN 2 Ret	SPA 1 18	SPA 2 8	BRH 1 10	BRH 2 3	DON 1 2	DON 2 7	OSC 1 5	OSC 2 1	IMO 1 7	IMO 2 Ret	CAT 1 2	CAT 2 7	3rd	59

24 Hours of Daytona

(key)

24 Hours of Daytona results
Year	Class	No	Team	Car	Co-drivers	Laps	Position	Class Pos.
2014	GTD	72	SMP/ESM Racing	Ferrari 458	Boris Rotenberg Sergey Zlobin Maurizio Mediani Mika Salo	662	21	4

IndyCar Series

(key)

IndyCar Series results
Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Rank	Points
2014	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Dallara DW12	Honda	STP 12	LBH 6	ALA 22	IMS 25	INDY 21	DET 17	DET 7	TXS 7	HOU 23	HOU 2	POC 7	IOW 21	TOR 11	TOR 23	MDO 14	MIL 8	SNM 7	FON DNS	16th	372
2015				STP	NLA	LBH	ALA	IMS	INDY	DET	DET	TXS	TOR	FON	MIL	IOW	MDO	POC	SNM 10			33rd	40
2016				STP 5	PHX 17	LBH 16	ALA 17	IMS 13	INDY 27	DET 15	DET 17	RDA 16	IOW 5	TOR 6	MDO 17	POC 2	TXS 16	WGL 22	SNM 11			15th	347
2017				STP 14	LBH 12	ALA 10	PHX 17	IMS 18	INDY 13	DET 6	DET 16	TXS 15	RDA 10	IOW 21	TOR	MDO 14	POC	GTW	WGL	SNM		19th	237

Indianapolis 500

Indianapolis 500
Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish	Team
2014	Dallara	Honda	15	21	Schmidt Peterson Hamilton Motorsports
2016	Dallara	Honda	7	27	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
2017	Dallara	Honda	13	13	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports

Complete European Le Mans Series results

European Le Mans Series results
Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	Rank	Points
2015	AF Corse	LMP2	Oreca 03	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SIL 8					5th	56
	SMP Racing		BR Engineering BR01			IMO 8	RBR 3
	AF Racing		BR Engineering BR01					LEC 2	EST 3

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

24 Hours of Le Mans results
Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2015	SMP Racing	Kirill Ladygin Anton Ladygin	BR Engineering BR01-Nissan	LMP2	322	33rd	13th
2016	SMP Racing	Maurizio Mediani Nicolas Minassian	BR Engineering BR01-Nissan	LMP2	347	11th	7th
2017	SMP Racing	Sergey Sirotkin Viktor Shaytar	Dallara P217-Gibson	LMP2	330	33rd	16th
2018	SMP Racing	Vitaly Petrov Jenson Button	BR Engineering BR1-AER	LMP1	315	DNF	DNF
2019	SMP Racing	Vitaly Petrov Stoffel Vandoorne	BR Engineering BR1-AER	LMP1	379	3rd	3rd

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

FIA World Endurance Championship results
Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Rank	Points
2016	SMP Racing	LMP2	BR Engineering BR01	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SIL	SPA	LMS 5	NÜR	MEX	COA	FUJ 8	SHA 6	BHR 9	16th	34
2018–19	SMP Racing	LMP1	BR Engineering BR1	AER P60B 2.4 L Turbo V6	SPA 5	LMS Ret	SIL Ret	FUJ 4	SHA 3	SEB 3	SPA 3	LMS 3		4th	94

References

"Aleshin wins race one at Monza". autosport.com. 14 April 2007. Retrieved 8 May 2007.
"Red Bull places Aleshin in F2". autosport.com. 12 January 2009. Retrieved 12 January 2009.
Mills, Peter (26 February 2010). "Aleshin joins Carlin for FR3.5 return". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
Straw, Edd (16 November 2010). "Aleshin expects F1 race seat in 2011". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
"Carlin sign Aleshin and Chilton for GP2". gp2series.com. GP2 Series. 27 January 2011. Archived from the original on 2 June 2011. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
Elizalde, Pablo (6 May 2011). "Aleshin ruled out of Turkey event". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
"Oliver Turvey back at Carlin for Monaco". crash.net. Crash Media Group. 26 May 2011. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
O'Leary, Jamie (28 July 2011). "Mikhail Aleshin rejoins Carlin for Hungaroring GP2 weekend". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
Elizalde, Pablo (7 September 2011). "Parente returns to Carlin for Monza GP2 round". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
Beer, Matt. Aleshin lands Schmidt IndyCar deal, Racer, 22 November 2013, Retrieved 22 November 2013
Peltz, Jim (29 August 2014). "IndyCar driver Mikhail Aleshin hurt in multi-car crash in Fontana". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
Bianchi, Jordan (30 August 2014). "IndyCar driver Mikhail Aleshin hospitalized after crash during practice". sbnation.com. Retrieved 29 August 2015.

External links

Official website
Mikhail Aleshin driver statistics at Racing-Reference
Driver Database

Sporting positions
Preceded by Pastor Maldonado	Italian Formula Renault 2.0 Winter Series Champion 2004	Succeeded by Atte Mustonen
Preceded by Bertrand Baguette	Formula Renault 3.5 Series Champion 2010	Succeeded by Robert Wickens

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[1] "Aleshin wins race one at Monza". autosport.com. 14 April 2007. Retrieved 8 May 2007.

[2] "Red Bull places Aleshin in F2". autosport.com. 12 January 2009. Retrieved 12 January 2009.

[3] Mills, Peter (26 February 2010). "Aleshin joins Carlin for FR3.5 return". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 4 March 2010.

[4] Straw, Edd (16 November 2010). "Aleshin expects F1 race seat in 2011". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 16 November 2010.

[5] "Carlin sign Aleshin and Chilton for GP2". gp2series.com. GP2 Series. 27 January 2011. Archived from the original on 2 June 2011. Retrieved 26 May 2011.

[6] Elizalde, Pablo (6 May 2011). "Aleshin ruled out of Turkey event". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 26 May 2011.

[7] "Oliver Turvey back at Carlin for Monaco". crash.net. Crash Media Group. 26 May 2011. Retrieved 26 May 2011.

[8] O'Leary, Jamie (28 July 2011). "Mikhail Aleshin rejoins Carlin for Hungaroring GP2 weekend". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 2 August 2011.

[9] Elizalde, Pablo (7 September 2011). "Parente returns to Carlin for Monza GP2 round". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 12 September 2011.

[10] Beer, Matt. Aleshin lands Schmidt IndyCar deal, Racer, 22 November 2013, Retrieved 22 November 2013

[:0-11] Peltz, Jim (29 August 2014). "IndyCar driver Mikhail Aleshin hurt in multi-car crash in Fontana". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 29 August 2015.

[:1-12] Bianchi, Jordan (30 August 2014). "IndyCar driver Mikhail Aleshin hospitalized after crash during practice". sbnation.com. Retrieved 29 August 2015.