Even though Alex’s outright third place in race 1 was subsequently changed to fourth, he made it into third on the Rookies podium. [Renault Sport photo] A fourth place in his first Formula Renault Eurocup race at Estoril has exceeded Alex’s expectations. The 16 year-old Hobart driver was initially upgraded to the race 1 podium […]
A perfect performance in the penultimate round of the Monoplace Challenge at Magny Cours has put Alex within striking distance of the title. The 16 year-old Hobart driver qualified on pole position and won all three races in round six of the international series for Formula Renault openwheelers. His triple victory extended his points lead […]
Alex has extended his lead again in the crucial fourth round of the French Monoplace Challenge at Motorland Aragon. The sixteen year-old Hobart driver scored two wins and a second at the 5.3km Spanish circuit, one of four cross-border rounds in the seven-round series for Formula Renault 2.0 cars. As a result his lead has […]
Alex Peroni has gone further ahead in the French Monoplace Challenge after round 3 at the Paul Ricard circuit. It was another controversial round of the series for Alex, who won one of the round’s three races but was hit twice by team RC drivers. In the first incident, during Saturday’s qualifying session, Alex was […]
Alex Peroni has retained his lead in the French Monoplace Challenge series at a controversial second round at Le Mans. After placing second in the first of the weekend’s three races, the 16 year-old from Hobart, Tasmania, was disadvantaged in the second race when several drivers were allowed to change their wet weather tyres just […]
Following Alex’s recent familiarisation test, he has now completed two days of testing at Barcelona in preparation for this weekend’s race meeting. It was obvious why just a week ago Formula 1 teams were here testing. It’s a very demanding track with many very fast flowing corners that test both driver and car. The team […]
Following a 5 month wait since last year’s final event of the Formula 4 season, Alex returned to the cockpit of a race car in the pre-season shakedown of his Formula Renault 2.0. It was Alex’s first contact with his new team TS Corse who proved to be a great bunch of guys that are […]
2015 turned out to be an incredible year with competition at the very highest level in the Italian Formula 4 Championship. 2016 should be an opportunity to step it up further and we remain confident that Alex will have the support necessary to head back to Europe. While there’s still some uncertainty around what Alex’s […]
Friday the 24th of July saw Alex participate at Adria International Raceway in a test organised by DAV Racing. This was an incredible opportunity made possible by the very successful DAV Racing (www.davracing.it) team that chose to trial Alex with two other drivers from Brazil and Venezuela. After an introduction to the test, theory, seat fitting […]
Just over a month ago there was the first race meeting of the year for Alex at the Vallelunga circuit near Rome. Here’s a lap of the circuit on board Alex’s car