Sergey Afanasyev (racing driver)

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".

Sergey Afanasyev
Nationality Russian
Born (1988-03-25) 25 March 1988
Moscow, Soviet Union
GT World Challenge career
Current teamBlack Falcon
Racing licence FIA Silver
Car number5
Starts2
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

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. Leading most part of the race, but after an accident in heavy rain they finished second.

Next race was – Bathurst 12 Hours. Haupt was not able to join so he was replaced by Michele Beretta. Leading until the last 4 hours of the race. Issues with the car after a small contact with the wall pushed them back. Third position at the finish is still a good result for the rookies of the one of the most incredible circuits in the world.

Racing record

Career results

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
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 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 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
Masters of Formula 3 1 0 0 0 0 N/A NC
2008 International Formula Master JD Motorsport 16 1 1 0 2 28 8th
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 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

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

  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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