Sergey Afanasyev (racing driver)

Sergey Afanasyev
Sergey Afanasyev
Nationality	Russian
Born	25 March 1988 (age 36); Moscow, Soviet Union
GT World Challenge career
Current team	Black Falcon
Racing licence	FIA Silver
Car number	5
Starts	2
Previous series
2020; 2017–2019; 2015–2016; 2014; 2013; 2013; 2012; 2011; 2010; 2009; 2008; 2008; 2007; 2006; 2006; 2005; 2005; 2003–2004	GT World Challenge; Lamborghini Super Trofeo; TCR International; FIA GT Series; ADAC GT Masters; FIA GT Series; FIA GT1; Auto GP; FIA Formula 2; International Formula Master; Formula Renault 3.5 Series; International Formula Master; Formula 3 Euro Series; Formula Renault 2.0 NEC; Formule Renault 2.0 Suisse; Formula Renault 2.0 Germany; Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup; Formula RUS
Championship titles
2019; 2013; 2004	Lamborghini Super Trofeo; FIA GT Series; Formula RUS

Sergey Andreyevich Afanasyev (Russian: Серге́й Андре́евич Афана́сьев, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej ɐnˈdrʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪf]; born 25 March 1988) is a Russian racing driver, holder of honour "Master of sports of Russia".

Education

School

Sergey graduated from school (Moscow) in 2004 with the gold medal.

Higher education

2009 – Academic Law University (Russian Academy of Science) // Law (Honours degree)

2010 – Lomonosov Moscow State University // Marketing

2013 – Moscow Socio-Pedagogical Institute // Pedagogics and psychology

Career

Early career

Afanasyev began his racing career 1998 in baggy-kart where immediately started to achieve high results. Since 1999 started to take part in go-kart competition.

1999 – bronze in Russian Championship in Mini

2000 – Champion of Russia in Raket

2001 – bronze in Russian Championship in ICA-junior

2002 – Champion of Russia in ICA-junior

2002 – Champion of Russia in Oka-junior (winter track racing)

Formula RUS and Formula Renault 2000

Sergey began his racing career in openwheels in 2003 in the Formula RUS. That year saw him take three wins in this series. The next year he took championship title. He also took part in eight Formula Renault Monza races for BVM Minardi Junior Team, finishing the year in 13th place.

The following year, Afanasyev took part in a full Formula Renault 2.0 season, driving with Lukoil Racing team. He finished tenth overall in that year. He also contested thirteen races of the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0, hugely crashed at Bilbao and taking a best race result of fourth at Oschersleben to finish twenty-fourth in the standings.

In 2006 Afanasiev moved up to new Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup championship for Lukoil Racing team. He finished eighth overall in that year. He also contested ten races of the Formule Renault 2.0 Suisse championship and finishing as runner-up.

Formula 3 Euro Series

In 2007 Afanasyev made his debut in Formula 3 Euro Series for HBR Motorsport team. Also he contested in Masters of Formula 3 at Zolder, but he did not qualify and missed the race.

International Formula Master

Afanasyev took part in International Formula Master for two years with JD Motorsport team. In first season he won one race and finished eighth overall. He also contested in six Formula Renault 3.5 Series races for the KTR team and failed to score a championship point.

Afanasyev remained in the series for 2009 season and improved to second place overall.

FIA Formula Two Championship

In 2010 Afanasyev graduated to Formula Two, finishing third in the standings with four podium finishes which gave him the right to receive the F1 licence.^[1]

Auto GP

Afanasyev switched to Auto GP for 2011, joining team champions DAMS.^[2] He was the only who scored three wins, but due to problems with British visa he missed Donington round and finished the season just on third place.

FIA GT1 World Championship

In 2012 Afanasyev and his main sponsor Lukoil decide to leave open-wheels and join FIA GT1 World Championship with Valmon Racing Team Russia in Aston Martin. His partner that year was Andreas Zuber.^[3]

GT racing

In the end of 2012 Sergey together with Bernd Schneider finished 4th in the Baku City Challenge.

In 2013 together with HTP Gravity Charouz team on Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 joined by Andreas Simonsen won the Championship.

Next year Andreas left the championship and Sergey was joined by Stef Dusseldorp.

Touring Car Racing

Together with Lukoil Sergey moved to the front wheel driving cars and in 2015–2016 took part in the new championship – TCR International Series achieving podiums and the pole-position.

Lamborghini Super Trofeo

In 2017 Afanasyev and Lukoil made a mutual decision to terminate the interaction. Sergey drove two years with ArtLine racing team in the European and Middle East championships in ProAm category achieving the best result as the runner-up.

Lamborghini Super Trofeo championship was selected by Jonnesway tools as the General sponsor of Afanasiev, due to the good price-to-performance ratio.

Sergey joined the Bonaldi team in 2019 joined by Danny Kroes in the car. Together they won the Chempionship. The best results were achieved in Zandvoort (hometrack of Danny), where they won both races in front of the Dutch fans.

Coming back to GT racing

In November 2019 Afanasyev joined the Black Falcon racing team for the Kyalami 9 Hours race which was the part of the International GT Challenge. His partners were Patrick Assenheimer and Hubert Haupt in silver class. They were leading most part of the race, but after an accident in heavy rain they finished second.

The next race was Bathurst 12 Hours. Haupt was not able to join so he was replaced by Michele Beretta. They were leading until the last 4 hours of the race. Issues with the car after a small contact with the wall pushed them back; they finished third.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2003	Formula RUS	Lukoil-Serebryaniy dojd'-Junior	14	0	1	1	5	39	4th
2004	Formula RUS	Lukoil Racing Team Junior	14	10	11	12	14	63	1st
2004	Formula Renault Monza	BVM Minardi Junior Team	8	0	0	0	0	32	13th
2005	Formula Renault 2.0 Germany	Lukoil Racing Team	16	0	0	0	0	155	10th
	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	Lukoil Racing Team	13	0	0	0	0	0	24th
	Formula RUS	Lukoil Racing Team-Formula Rus	1	1	1	1	1	22	16th
2006	Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup	Lukoil Racing	14	1	2	1	2	167	8th
	Formule Renault 2.0 Suisse	Lukoil Racing	10	6	8	8	9	230	2nd
	Formula RUS	Formula Rus	2	2	2	1	2	43	10th
2007	Formula 3 Euro Series	HBR Motorsport	18	0	0	0	0	0	21st
2007	Masters of Formula 3	HBR Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	NC
2008	International Formula Master	JD Motorsport	16	1	1	0	2	28	8th
2008	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	KTR	6	0	0	0	0	0	34th
2009	International Formula Master	JD Motorsport	16	1	0	1	9	68	2nd
2010	FIA Formula Two Championship	MotorSport Vision	18	0	1	1	4	157	3rd
2011	Auto GP	DAMS	12	1	3	1	4	117	3rd
2012	FIA GT1 World Championship	Valmon Racing Team Russia	6	0	0	0	0	0	31st

Complete Formula Renault 2.0 NEC 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	DC	Points
2006	Lukoil Racing	OSC 1 5	OSC 2 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	NÜR 1 15	NÜR 2 Ret	ZAN 1 6	ZAN 2 6	OSC 1 Ret	OSC 2 4	ASS 1 Ret	ASS 2 1	AND 1 15	AND 2 6	SAL 1 5	SAL 2 16	8th	167

Complete Formula 3 Euro Series results

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

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	DC	Points
2007	HBR Motorsport	Dallara F305/045	Mercedes	HOC 1 17	HOC 2 20	BRH 1 Ret	BRH 2 16	NOR 1 DSQ	NOR 2 Ret	MAG 1 20	MAG 2 Ret	MUG 1 17	MUG 2 12	ZAN 1 13	ZAN 2 Ret	NÜR 1 14	NÜR 2 12	CAT 1 18	CAT 2 12	NOG 1 19	NOG 2 20	HOC 1 DNS	HOC 2 DNS	21st	0

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series 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	Pos	Points
2008	KTR	MNZ 1	MNZ 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	MON 1	SIL 1	SIL 2	HUN 1	HUN 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	LMS 1 17	LMS 2 23	EST 1 19	EST 2 19	CAT 1 Ret	CAT 2 Ret	34th	0

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	17	18	DC	Points
2010	SIL 1 3	SIL 2 6	MAR 1 8	MAR 2 7	MNZ 1 Ret	MNZ 2 2	ZOL 1 4	ZOL 2 15	ALG 1 9	ALG 2 12	BRH 1 6	BRH 2 5	BRN 1 3	BRN 2 4	OSC 1 4	OSC 2 3	VAL 1 5	VAL 2 5	3rd	157

Complete Auto GP 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	Pos	Points
2011	DAMS	MNZ 1 4	MNZ 2 10	HUN 1 5	HUN 2 1	BRN 1 8	BRN 2 9	DON 1	DON 2	OSC 1 1	OSC 2 2	VAL 1 1	VAL 2 14	MUG 1 6	MUG 2 13	3rd	117

FIA GT competition results

GT1 World Championship results

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Pos	Points
2012	Valmon Racing Team Russia	Aston Martin	NOG QR 13	NOG CR 13	ZOL QR Ret	ZOL CR 15	NAV QR 15	NAV QR 13	SVK QR	SVK CR	ALG QR	ALG CR	SVK QR	SVK CR	MOS QR	MOS CR	NUR QR	NUR CR	DON QR	DON CR	31st	0

FIA GT Series results

Year	Class	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Points
2013	Pro-Am	HTP Gravity Charouz	Mercedes-Benz	NOG QR 12	NOG CR 16	ZOL QR 6	ZOL CR 7	ZAN QR 7	ZAN QR 12	SVK QR 6	SVK CR 1	NAV QR 4	NAV CR 4	BAK QR 6	BAK CR Ret	1st	136

Complete TCR International Series results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	DC	Points
2015	Team Craft-Bamboo Lukoil	SEAT León Cup Racer	MYS 1 3	MYS 2 Ret	CHN 1 10	CHN 2 11	ESP 1 2	ESP 2 9	POR 1 11	POR 2 Ret	ITA 1 11†	ITA 2 DNS	AUT 1 8	AUT 2 4	RUS 1 5	RUS 2 4	RBR 1 6	RBR 2 4	SIN 1 5	SIN 2 18†	THA 1 3	THA 2 7	MAC 1 10	MAC 2 Ret	7th	134
2016	Team Craft-Bamboo Lukoil	SEAT León TCR	BHR 1 4	BHR 2 5	POR 1 5	POR 2 4	BEL 1 9	BEL 2 9	ITA 1 4	ITA 2 Ret	AUT 1 Ret	AUT 2 2	GER 1 4	GER 2 4	RUS 1 13	RUS 2 7	THA 1 9	THA 2 7	SIN 1 6	SIN 2 Ret	MYS 1 9	MYS 2 7	MAC 1 Ret	MAC 2 DNS	9th	141

^† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 75% of the race distance.

References

^ "Russian Sergey Afanasiev confirmed in Formula Two line-up". FIA Formula Two Championship. MotorSport Vision. 1 March 2010. Archived from the original on 4 March 2010. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
^ "Afanasiev, Tambay et Haryanto with Dams". DAMS. Oceanet. 14 April 2011. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
^ "Сергей Афанасьев выступит в чемпионате мира FIA GT" [Sergey Afanasyev to participate in FIA GT World Championship] (in Russian). Lukoil Racing. 5 April 2012. Archived from the original on 4 July 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2012.

External links

Profile on Instagram
Official site
Sergey Afanasyev career summary at DriverDB.com
Profile on Lukoil Racing Team
Profile on Formula Two Championship
Profile on IFM site

[1] "Russian Sergey Afanasiev confirmed in Formula Two line-up". FIA Formula Two Championship. MotorSport Vision. 1 March 2010. Archived from the original on 4 March 2010. Retrieved 1 March 2010.

[2] "Afanasiev, Tambay et Haryanto with Dams". DAMS. Oceanet. 14 April 2011. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 14 April 2011.

[3] "Сергей Афанасьев выступит в чемпионате мира FIA GT" [Sergey Afanasyev to participate in FIA GT World Championship] (in Russian). Lukoil Racing. 5 April 2012. Archived from the original on 4 July 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2012.

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