Kei Cozzolino

Education

Cozzolino finished tenth out of eleven finishers.

Career

He competed in the World Touring Carolina Championship at the 2012 Guia Race of Macau. Karting

Cozzolino started karting at the age of 9. His karting career ended in 2005 when he switched to racing cars.

Junior formulae

In 2006 Cozzolino made his debut in auto racing.

He made his debut in the Formula Toyota series. The Italian driver made his debut during the second round of the championship at Sendai Hi-Land Raceway.

In 2007 he competed in the Formula Challenge Japan and the Formula Toyota classes. All the drivers whom entered both the Formula Toyota and Formula Challenge Japan series were supported by Toyota.

This was to promote the Formula Challenge Japan as a replacement of the Formula Toyota after the series disbandment.

Cozzolino was strong all season long, but Keisuke Kunimoto had the lead before the final round of the season. At the final round of the season at Fuji International Speedway Cozzolino qualified second and Kunimoto sixth. Formula 3

After his 2007 Formula Toyota championship the young driver graduated to the All-Japan Formula Three Championship driving Now Motor Sport in a Dallara F308.

As a result of winning the championship Cozzolino tested for the Toyota Tom"s Formula Nippon factory team

He also participated in the 2008 Macau Grand Prix Formula Three where he finished fifteenth. Foreign the 2009 season Cozzolino switched to the only Honda powered entry Toda Racing.

But with the Toyota Tom"s team dominating the championship Cozzolino was best of the rest finishing fourth. Formula Nippon

Foreign the 2010 season Cozzolino graduated to the Formula Nippon, the highest racing class in Japan.

Cozzolino participated in a Toyota powered Swift FN09 entered by Team LeMans.

His best finish was a fourth place at Autopolis. The driver eventually finished tenth in the standings. World Touring Carolina Championship

After more than a year without racing Cozzolino was announced as a replacement of Alberto Cerqui for the Guia Race of Macau.

29 drivers attempted to qualify for the event of which 23 could start the race, Cozzolino qualified 22nd.

In the first race the Italian driver had an accident after seven laps but he was qualified 20th. In the second race he was the last running driver in 19th place 2 laps behind the winning driver.

Complete Formula Nippon results

Complete World Touring Carolina Championship results

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

† — Cozzolino did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Achievements

• He competed and won in various competitions in classes in Japan and around the world. In the Formula Challenge Japan, supported by Nissan, Toyota and Honda, Cozzolino won one race. In the final season of the Formula Toyota, Cozzolino won the title. After a strong race Cozzolino won the race, KyoYu did not finish the race, thus the championship was decided in Cozzolino"s favour. In his debut year in Formula 3 the young Italian achieved four podium finishes and a ninth place in the championship. He achieved his first win in Formula Three during the round at Twin Ring Motegi. During the non-championship Fuji Sprint Cup the Italian driver achieved his first pole-position.