Alex Peroni, turned 24 in November 2023, has spent over half of his life pursuing his dream of becoming a professional racing driver at international level.
Karting started at age 7 and soon he was participating in World Series Karting in Italy. His desire to compete with the best grew when racing in Europe although this occurred only once a year when he would make a short trip over to Italy.
Alex’s mother, father and sister have recognised his commitment to the sport and have been behind him all the way. In 2015 he moved to Italy and raced in the ultra competitive Italian Formula 4 Championship, in 2016 French VdeV (champion), Formula Renault Eurocup in 2017 (10th) and 2018 (9th with a win on the streets of Monaco), Formula 3 in 2019 – 2020. Alex’s career was hanging on with a thread as he had to raise the considerable funds to race. In 2021, despite a number of offers to move to Formula 2, the budget required proved to be too big a challenge. With only one more year of funding, insufficient to fund another year in Formula 3 with a top team, he made the move to the US and to Indy Lights.
A lot of time and effort had gone into attempting to raise the funds for F2 and by the time the decision was made to move to Indy Lights the most competitive seats were no longer available. Carlin offered to go back to Indy Lights if Alex signed up. Unfortunately team Carlin was plagued by financial and technical difficulties and the season came to an abrupt early end. Time to head back to Europe.
Receiving Australia’s prestigious Peter Brock award was a memorable moment in 2021.
With limited funding available, Alex abandoned the single seater path and headed to endurance racing in LMP2. The 2022 season was a positive one with three podium finishes and a number of options opened for 2023. With funding availability diminishing he turned to GT3.
Alex’s funding would allow him to compete in 4 races in the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe. In the first two events at Monza and Paul Ricard the car was retired before Alex was able to jump in. At the SPA-Francorchamps 24H race the car was also damaged very early but with some magical ‘race tape’ Alex was able to start his stint and the car ultimately finished the race in 32nd with Alex completing his full complement of eight hours.
Time to focus on 2024!
