Devlin DeFrancesco

Joining MP Motorsport, DeFrancesco finished the year in 21st place without scoring points.

Alongside teammates Misha Goikhberg, Tristan Vautier and Rubens Barrichello, the race ended early ahead of the 22nd hour of racing due to heavy rainfall, which placed the car in 5th place at the flag.

He finished 23rd in the standings with 66 points.

He would not score throughout the year and finished 25th.

Devlin DeFrancesco (born January 17, 2000) is a Canadian-Italian auto racing driver formally competing in the IndyCar Series for Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport.

In January 2022, DeFrancesco won the 60th running of the Daytona 24, alongside his teammates Eric Lux, Patricio O'Ward and Colton Herta, in the LMP2 class.

DeFrancesco was born 15 weeks premature on January 17, 2000, to Andrew and Cathy DeFrancesco.

Weighing only a pound at birth, he would spend time at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre until he was nursed back to health.

He would finish the season 10th overall with a total of 465 points.

He had a best result of 12th at Gateway and ranked 23rd in the driver's standings.

DeFrancesco is continuing with the same team for the 2023 season.

† As DeFrancesco was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.

‡ Points only counted towards the Michelin Endurance Cup, and not the overall LMP2 Championship.

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

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

In 2014, DeFrancesco placed 2nd overall in the Italian Championship and 3rd overall in the CIK FIA European Championship.

In 2014, he sustained an injury to his wrist that required two surgeries and that kept him out of a full racing series for roughly year.

As part of his rehabilitation, Devlin attended the Carlin Academy, where he used a combination of simulators and on-track testing to prepare for FIA Formula 4-style racing.

In 2015, DeFrancesco was selected to be a part of the Generation Ganassi Driver Identification Program, a mentoring and talent development program sponsored by Chip Ganassi Racing aiming to identify and assist up to 10 North American drivers between the ages of 13 and 18.

Graduating from karts in 2015, DeFrancesco competed in the 2015 Ginetta Junior Championship with HHC Motorsports.

In early 2016, DeFrancesco competed in New Zealand's Toyota Racing Series with Giles Motorsport.

DeFrancesco joined Carlin Motorsports for the 2016 MSA Formula season, taking three wins and finishing 5th in the points standings.

DeFrancesco continued his collaboration with Carlin Motorsport in the Euroformula Open and Spanish Formula 3 Championships in 2017.

A strong campaign saw him end the season as Spanish Formula 3 champion with 3 wins and 5 podiums.

He would also take a victory and seven podiums in the Euroformula Open championship, netting 3rd in the championship standings.

DeFrancesco joined the FIA Formula 3 European Championship for the final two rounds of the 2017 season.

He would once again team up with Carlin in 2018, competing in the opening two races.

He was forced to withdraw from the following round to undergo dental surgery, and subsequently made the switch to join GP3 Series for the remainder of the 2018 season, teaming up with MP Motorsport.

DeFrancesco would race in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, joining the grid for the 2018 24 Hours of Daytona.

He would finish 6th on debut,.

He would return for the ‘Petit Le Mans’ event at Road Atlanta in October, and would finish in 9th place.

In 2019, DeFrancesco contested the inaugural FIA F3 championship, with Trident Racing.

DeFrancesco would take part in a partial 2019/20 F3 Asian Championship certified by FIA campaign with Absolute Racing, finishing 7th in the championship with three podiums.

2019 saw Devlin return to the Daytona 24 with JDC MotorSports.

In February 2020, it was announced that Devlin would rejoin Trident Racing for a second year in the championship, but would be forced to withdraw from the season amongst fears of COVID-19, DeFrancesco being immunocompromised.

In 2020, DeFrancesco joined Steinbrenner Racing and Andretti Autosport to compete the 2020 Indy Pro 2000 Championship.

He scored two wins and was runner-up to Sting Ray Robb.

The Canadian moved to Indy Lights in 2021 in a car co-entered by Steinbrenner Racing and Andretti Autosport.

With two podiums and nine top 5s, he would finish 6th in the points standings.

DeFrancesco joined the IndyCar Series for the 2022 season, driving the Number 29 car entered as Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport.