Sergey Sirotkin

Sergey Olegovich Sirotkin (Серге́й Оле́гович Сиро́ткин; born 27 August 1995) is a Russian professional racing driver who competed in Formula One in for the Williams team.

He was also the reserve driver for Renault in and.

Sergey Olegovich Sirotkin was born on 27 August 1995 in Moscow, Russia.

His father, Oleg Sirotkin, was head of the National Institute of Aviation Technologies, Russia.

Sirotkin began karting in 2008 and raced in various international series, working his way up from the junior ranks to progress through to the KF3 and KF2 category by 2010.

Having turned fifteen years old, Sirotkin graduated to single-seaters, racing in the newly launched Formula Abarth series in Italy for Jenzer Motorsport.

Sirotkin remained in Formula Abarth, and with Jenzer, for a second season in 2011; the series splitting into two separate classifications for European and Italian championship races.

But prior to the round at Spa, Sirotkin switched to the Euronova Racing by Fortec team.

He won the European Series title with a race to spare, taking five wins in fourteen races.

In the Italian Series, Sirotkin finished as runner-up with two race victories, losing out to former teammate Patric Niederhauser after an error in the final race at Autodromo Nazionale Monza.

In 2012, Sirotkin continued his collaboration with Euronova Racing into the Auto GP World Series.

His first round at Monza saw him qualify on the front row, losing pole position to Adrian Quaife-Hobbs by just 0.04 seconds.

He stalled at the start of the first race, but recorded a finish of fourth place in the second race; he also set the fastest lap in both races.

At Valencia, he again started behind points leader Quaife-Hobbs, but this time Sirotkin passed him before the first turn, and eventually scored his first win—again setting fastest lap—becoming the youngest Auto GP winner in the process.

After another fastest lap in the second race, Sirotkin established a record of four consecutive fastest laps; breaking a record previously held by Romain Grosjean.

Sirotkin went on to finish the season in third place overall, behind Quaife-Hobbs and Pål Varhaug.

He finished the season with two race wins in Valencia and Sonoma, and seven podium finishes.

He also recorded his first pole position at the Marrakech Street Circuit.

Sirotkin also participated in the Italian Formula Three Championship in 2012, driving for Euronova.

He recorded two wins at the Hungaroring and Monza, and a further four podium finishes over the course of the season.

He also scored points in twenty-two of the twenty-four races—after retiring from the second race at Vallelunga and being disqualified from the third race at Monza—and finished the season fifth overall in both the European and Italian Series championships.

Sirotkin made his Formula Renault 3.5 debut in his home event at the Moscow Raceway, partnering fellow Russian driver Nikolay Martsenko at BVM Target.

He finished the first race of the meeting in twentieth place, before retiring from the second race.

Sirotkin expanded his Formula Renault 3.5 campaign to contest a full season in 2013, competing with ISR Racing.

He had podiums at Alcañiz and Hungaroring with another three-point-scoring finishes to achieve the ninth place in the championship standings.

Overall, he finished 5th in the championship, with 132 points.

For 2014 Sirotkin switched to the Fortec Motorsport team and partnered there with Oliver Rowland.

He scored his first pole position and won his first Formula Renault 3.5 Series race on his home soil at Moscow Raceway.

Despite this, the second Forteс car often broke and he did not finish in 5 races.

But whenever he finished a race, he usually did this in points, missing a points finish only once.

In February 2015, it was announced that Sirotkin would debut in the series with Rapax.

He achieved his first victory at Silverstone—a circuit on which he had no previous racing experience—when he won the feature race.

During the season he had another four podium finishes.

Though a GP2 rookie, Sirotkin finished third in the overall standings.

For the 2016 season, Sirotkin switched to defending champions ART Grand Prix.

He had a tough start of the season, as he spun and stalled in the season opener at Barcelona.

His problems continued in the Feature race in Monaco, where he had started from pole position but crashed into the wall.

Sirotkin converted his pace to race results in Baku with double podium finish in both Feature and Sprint races.

He graduated from Moscow Automobile and Road Construction University in 2017 with a degree in race car engineering.

He made his début at Vallelunga, finishing the first race in the points and later added four more point-scoring finishes to finish 18th in the championship.