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Edward Mackay "Eddie" Cheever III (born 5 June 1993) is an Italian-American racing driver who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship for MR Racing in the LMGTE Am class. He is the son of retired Formula One driver and 1998 Indianapolis 500 winner Eddie Cheever.
Career
= Karting
=Born in Rome, Cheever began karting in 2006 and raced primarily in Europe for the majority of his karting career, working his way up from the junior ranks to progress through to the KF2 category by 2009 and finishing 15th in the CIK-FIA European Championship.
= Formula Renault
=Cheever graduated to single-seaters in 2009. He competed with Jenzer Motorsport in the Swiss and Italian championships, finishing eleventh and fourteenth in the final standings, respectively.
= Formula Abarth
=In 2010, Cheever moved into the newly launched Formula Abarth series in Italy, staying with Jenzer Motorsport. He achieved a podium in the sprint race at Varano and finished the season eleventh.
= Italian Formula Three
=In 2011, Cheever joined Lucidi Motors for a campaign in the Italian Formula Three Championship. He finished ninth with podiums at Misano, Adria and Mugello.
He remained in the series in 2012 but switched to Prema Powerteam. He finished as runner-up to Riccardo Agostini in both the European and Italian championship formats.
= Formula One
=On 9 November 2012, Cheever tested a Scuderia Ferrari Formula One car at Vallelunga, as a result of his performance in the Italian Formula Three Championship.
= FIA Formula 3 European Championship
=Cheever continued his collaboration with Prema Powerteam in FIA European Formula 3 Championship in 2013.
= NASCAR
=In 2014, Cheever made the switch from open wheel to stock cars, running the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series for Italian-based CAAL Racing, scoring his first win and his first pole position at Brands Hatch. He then won two more races, at Magione and Le Mans, to finish the season third in points. He won the Jerome Sarran Trophy, rewarding the highest-placed driver aged 25 or under, and the Race And Win Pole Award, rewarding the driver scoring the highest number of pole positions during the season.
On 4 August 2015, Cheever announced that he would make his K&N Pro Series East debut at Watkins Glen International for Bill McAnally Racing. He also ran one race in K&N Pro Series West at All American Speedway, also for Bill McAnally Racing.
= Sports car racing
=Cheever has been a long-time member of Sky – Tempesta Racing, alongside Chris Froggatt and Jonathan Hui. In 2023, the team began partnering with Garage 59 and switched to driving the McLaren 720S GT3 in the GT World Challenge Europe.
Racing record
= Career summary
=* Season still in progress.
= Complete FIA Formula 3 European Championship results
=(key)
= NASCAR
=(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Whelen Euro Series – Elite 1
= Complete IMSA Sportscar Championship results
=(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
= Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results
=(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
= Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results
== Complete GT World Challenge Europe results
=GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup
(Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
* Season still in progress.
GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
References
External links
Official website (in Italian)
Eddie Cheever III career summary at DriverDB.com
Eddie Cheever III on Twitter
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Cadillac DPi-V.R
- Kejuaraan Ketahanan Dunia FIA 2018–2019
- Ayrton Senna
- CART musim 1993
- CART musim 1995
- Daytona 24 Jam 2006
- Dale Earnhardt
- Grand Prix Brasil
- Alain Prost
- Eddie Cheever III
- Eddie Cheever
- Cheever
- 2024 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup
- 2024 International GT Open
- 2024 GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup
- 2024 IMSA SportsCar Championship
- 2024 GT World Challenge Europe
- 2024 24 Hours of Spa
- 2024 24 Hours of Daytona
