René Binder

René Binder (born 1 January 1992) is an Austrian racing driver. He is the nephew of former Formula One driver Hans Binder, and his father, Franz, was also a racing driver.[1]

René Binder
Binder in 2019
Nationality	Austrian
Born	1 January 1992 Innsbruck, Austria
GP2 Series career
Debut season	2012
Former teams	Venezuela GP Lazarus, Arden International, Trident, MP Motorsport, ART Grand Prix, Carlin
Starts	72
Championships	0
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	22nd in 2015
Previous series
2015 2010–2012 2011 2009	Formula Renault 3.5 Series ATS Formel 3 Cup FIA Formula Two Championship ADAC Formel Masters

Career

Binder was born in Innsbruck. He began his racing career in karting in 2002, remaining in the category until 2008.[2] During this time, he finished third in the German Junior Kart Championship in 2007 and was runner-up in the German Challenger Kart Championship in 2008. In 2009 he began his formula racing career by competing in the ADAC Formel Masters series for the Abt Sportsline team. Whilst his teammate Daniel Abt won the championship, Binder finished the season in seventh position with three podium finishes. Binder then moved up to the German Formula Three Championship: in 2010, he drove for Motopark Academy and finished in twelfth place in the championship, with a best result of third position; 2011 saw him move to the Jo Zeller Racing team,[3] for whom he improved to eighth place despite missing a round of the championship; and for the 2012 season he is driving for the Van Amersfoort Racing team. In 2011 he also competed in one round of the FIA Formula Two Championship, held at the Austrian Red Bull Ring.

Binder driving in the 2018 6 Hours of Silverstone.

Binder made his GP2 Series début in the tenth round of the 2012 season, held at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. He replaced Giancarlo Serenelli in the Lazarus team, where he partnered Sergio Canamasas.[4] He did not score any championship points.

For the 2015 season, he will partner Ferrari Academy driver Raffaele Marciello at Trident Racing.

In 2018, he signed a contract with Juncos Racing to run the no. 32 car in 6 races of the 2018 IndyCar Series.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2009	ADAC Formel Masters	Team Abt Sportsline	16	0	0	1	3	90	7th
2010	ATS Formel 3 Cup	Motopark Academy	18	0	0	0	1	12	12th
2011	ATS Formel 3 Cup	Jo Zeller Racing	16	0	0	0	1	26	8th
	FIA Formula Two Championship	MotorSport Vision	2	0	0	0	0	0	28th
2012	ATS Formel 3 Cup	Van Amersfoort Racing	27	3	0	1	7	191	6th
	GP2 Series	Venezuela GP Lazarus	6	0	0	0	0	0	31st
2013	GP2 Series	Venezuela GP Lazarus	21	0	0	0	0	11	23rd
2014	GP2 Series	Arden International	22	0	0	0	0	3	25th
2015	GP2 Series	Trident	12	0	0	0	0	2	22nd
		MP Motorsport	7	0	0	0	0
	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Pons Racing	2	0	0	0	0	4	22nd
2016	Formula V8 3.5 Series	Lotus	18	0	0	0	5	161	7th
	GP2 Series	ART Grand Prix	2	0	0	0	0	0	23rd
		Carlin	2	0	0	0	0
2017	World Series Formula V8 3.5	Lotus	18	4	2	2	5	201	4th
	FIA Formula 2 Championship	Rapax	2	0	0	0	0	0	28th
2018	IndyCar Series	Juncos Racing	6	0	0	0	0	61	28th
2018–19	FIA World Endurance Championship	ByKolles Racing Team	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2019	European Le Mans Series	Panis Barthez Competition	6	0	0	0	0	19.5	18th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	8th
	WeatherTech SportsCar Championship	Juncos Racing	4	0	0	0	0	88	18th
2020	European Le Mans Series	Inter Europol Competition	5	0	0	0	0	15.5	16th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	17th
2021	Asian Le Mans Series	G-Drive Racing

Complete FIA Formula Two Championship results

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

Year	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pos	Points
2011	SIL 1	SIL 2	MAG 1	MAG 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	BRH 1	BRH 2	RBR 1 16	RBR 2 13	MON 1	MON 2	CAT 1	CAT 2	28th	0

Complete GP2 Series results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	DC	Points
2012	Venezuela GP Lazarus	SEP FEA	SEP SPR	BHR1 FEA	BHR1 SPR	BHR2 FEA	BHR2 SPR	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	VAL FEA	VAL SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HOC FEA	HOC SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA 19	SPA SPR 17	MNZ FEA 17	MNZ SPR 13	MRN FEA Ret	MRN SPR Ret	31st	0
2013	Venezuela GP Lazarus	SEP FEA 11	SEP SPR 8	BHR FEA 18	BHR SPR 25	CAT FEA 20	CAT SPR 19	MON FEA 7	MON SPR 6	SIL FEA 16	SIL SPR 13	NÜR FEA 20	NÜR SPR 10	HUN FEA 22	HUN SPR 13	SPA FEA DNS	SPA SPR 20	MNZ FEA 16	MNZ SPR 14	MRN FEA 18	MRN SPR 9	YMC FEA 15	YMC SPR 16			23rd	11
2014	Arden International	BHR FEA 9	BHR SPR 8	CAT FEA 15	CAT SPR Ret	MON FEA Ret	MON SPR 20	RBR FEA 12	RBR SPR 12	SIL FEA 24	SIL SPR 19	HOC FEA 11	HOC SPR 22	HUN FEA 20	HUN SPR 14	SPA FEA Ret	SPA SPR 23	MNZ FEA 20	MNZ SPR Ret	SOC FEA 23	SOC SPR Ret	YMC FEA Ret	YMC SPR 23			25th	3
2015	Trident	BHR FEA 17	BHR SPR Ret	CAT FEA 22	CAT SPR Ret	MON FEA 11	MON SPR 16	RBR FEA 17	RBR SPR 14	SIL FEA 17	SIL SPR 18	HUN FEA 23	HUN SPR 24	SPA FEA	SPA SPR											22nd	2
	MP Motorsport															MNZ FEA 10	MNZ SPR 8	SOC FEA 16	SOC SPR Ret	BHR FEA 20	BHR SPR Ret	YMC FEA 14	YMC SPR C
2016	ART Grand Prix	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	BAK FEA	BAK SPR	RBR FEA 16	RBR SPR 15	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR													23rd	0
	Carlin													HOC FEA 13	HOC SPR 15	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	SEP FEA	SEP SPR	YMC FEA	YMC SPR

Complete World Series Formula V8 3.5 results

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

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Pos	Points
2015	Pons Racing	ALC 1	ALC 2	MON 1	SPA 1	SPA 2	HUN 1	HUN 2	RBR 1	RBR 2	SIL 1	SIL 2	NÜR 1 13	NÜR 2 8	BUG 1	BUG 2	JER 1	JER 2		22nd	4
2016	Lotus	ALC 1 4	ALC 2 3	HUN 1 11	HUN 2 7	SPA 1 5	SPA 2 6	LEC 1 3	LEC 2 5	SIL 1 3	SIL 2 2	RBR 1 Ret	RBR 2 12	MNZ 1 5	MNZ 2 2	JER 1 5	JER 2 7	CAT 1 Ret	CAT 2 6	7th	161
2017	Lotus	SIL 1 5	SIL 2 4	SPA 1 6	SPA 2 2	MNZ 1 1	MNZ 2 1	JER 1 4	JER 2 5	ALC 1 5	ALC 2 Ret	NÜR 1 6	NÜR 2 9	MEX 1 6	MEX 2 Ret	COA 1 1	COA 2 10	BHR 1 9	BHR 2 1	4th	201

Complete FIA Formula 2 Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	DC	Points
2017	Rapax	BHR FEA	BHR SPR	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	BAK FEA	BAK SPR	RBR FEA	RBR SPR	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	JER FEA 15	JER SPR 17	YMC FEA	YMC SPR	28th	0

American open-wheel racing results

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

IndyCar Series

(key)

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Rank	Points
2018	Juncos Racing	Dallara DW12	Chevrolet	STP 22	PHX	LBH	ALA 16	IMS	INDY	DET 21	DET 22	TXS	ROA	IOW	TOR 17	MDO 21	POC	GTW	POR	SNM	28th	61

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Rank	Points
2018–19	ByKolles Racing Team	LMP1	ENSO CLM P1/01	Nismo VRX30A 3.0 L Turbo V6	SPA	LMS	SIL Ret	FUJ	SHA	SEB	SPA	LMS	NC	0

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

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

Year	Entrant	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Rank	Points
2019	Juncos Racing	DPi	Cadillac DPi-V.R	Cadillac 5.5 L V8	DAY 8	SEB 10	LBH	MDO	DET	WGL 8	MOS	ELK	LGA	PET 10	18th	88

Complete European Le Mans Series results

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

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	Rank	Points
2019	Panis Barthez Competition	LMP2	Ligier JS P217	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	LEC 10	MNZ 9	CAT 15	SIL 7	SPA 8	ALG 7	18th	19.5
2020	Inter Europol Competition	LMP2	Ligier JS P217	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	LEC 7	SPA 11	LEC 6	MNZ 12	ALG Ret		16th	15.5

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2019	Panis Barthez Competition	Julien Canal Will Stevens	Ligier JS P217-Gibson	LMP2	362	13th	8th
2020	Inter Europol Competition	Jakub Śmiechowski Matevos Isaakyan	Ligier JS P217-Gibson	LMP2	325	42nd	17th

References

1. About (rene-binder.com; Retrieved 25 April 2011)
2. Rene Binder (formel3.de; Retrieved 25 April 2011)
3. Wunschkandidat bei Zeller Racing (Motorsport-xl.de; 26 March 2011)
4. O'Leary, Jamie (2012-08-31). "Rene Binder replaces Giancarlo Serenelli at Lazarus GP2 team". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 2012-08-31.

External links

• Official website (in German)
• René Binder career details at driverdb.com