Max Chilton

Max Chilton

Chilton in 2012
Born	(1991-04-21) 21 April 1991 Reigate, Surrey, England
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	British
Entries	( starts)

Max Chilton
Related to	Tom Chilton (brother)
Previous series
2010–2012 2009–10–2011 2009 2007–09 2007 2007 2005 2005–06	GP2 Series GP2 Asia Series Formula Renault 3.5 Series British Formula Three Le Mans Series Star Mazda Championship T Cars Autumn Trophy T Cars

Max Alexander Chilton (born 21 April 1991 in Reigate, Surrey) is a British racing driver. He will make his Formula One debut in 2013, racing for the Marussia F1 Team, having previously raced for the Marussia-backed Carlin GP2 Series team in 2012. His brother Tom is also a racing driver, currently competing in the World Touring Car Championship. Chilton comes from a family of racing enthusiasts and his father, Grahame, is the proprietor of the Carlin Motorsport team.

Early life

Chilton was born in Reigate, Surrey. Chilton's father Grahame is the multi-millionaire chairman of insurance firm Aon Benfield and vice chairman of Aon Corporation. He was educated at Ardingly College from 2000 to 2008.

Career

Karting

Chilton started his racing career at the age of 10 in karts where he spent 2 years learning the ropes in cadet karting before stepping up to junior TKM. He started to make a name for himself with J.I.C.A, where he made regular appearances on the podium, before turning his attention to car racing at the age of 14. Throughout this period Chilton was racing in the Super 1 National Kart Championships.

T Cars

He dovetailed his 2005 karting season with a season in the T Cars championship, for drivers between fourteen and seventeen years of age. He finished eighth in his first season, before going on to finish third in the Autumn Trophy. He continued in T Cars in 2006, where he finished as runner-up to Luciano Bacheta by just three points. He won seven races to Bacheta's six.

Formula Three

Chilton qualifying for Hitech Racing at the Croft round of the 2008 British Formula Three season.

Chilton made his debut at the second round of the 2007 British Formula Three season for Arena International, despite being below the required age of 16 to take part in the season opener having sought special dispensation on the eve of his 16th birthday. His best result was eleventh, in Bucharest and at Brands Hatch. He also made one appearance in the Star Mazda Championship, at Laguna Seca – because he was a guest driver, Chilton was ineligible for points. He also drove in the 2007 1000km of Silverstone, with brother Tom for Arena, and they finished sixth overall, eight laps down on the winning Peugeot 908 HDi FAP of Nicolas Minassian and Marc Gené.

Chilton returned for a second season, this time moving to David Hayle's Hitech Racing, and improved to tenth place in the championship. He recorded two pole positions at Monza and Rockingham, and scored two podiums – 2nd in the opening race at Oulton Park and third at Rockingham. He moved to Carlin Motorsport for the 2009 season, scoring three pole positions in the first four races. Chilton took two race wins during the season; the first at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve in Portimão, and the second in his final Formula Three race at Brands Hatch.

GP2 Series

Chilton driving for Carlin at the Monza round of the 2011 GP2 Series season.

Chilton graduated to the GP2 Asia Series for the 2009–10 season, driving for Barwa Addax. From there Chilton moved to Ocean Racing Technology for the 2010 GP2 Series season championship with the highest place finish of 5th.

In 2011 Chilton joined the Carlin team for the outfit's first foray into GP2, having previously driven for them in Formula Three. Partnered variously by reigning Formula Renault 3.5 Series champion Mikhail Aleshin and Álvaro Parente, he finished 22nd in the Asia series and 20th in the main series. He remained with the team, now with backing from the Marussia Formula One team, for the 2012 season alongside Rio Haryanto. He secured his first series podium finish in the feature race of the first round of the championship in Malaysia, and later his first pole position and race victory in the Hungarian feature race. This dramatic improvement in form, allied to consistent points-scoring finishes throughout the season, resulted in Chilton rising to fourth place in the drivers' championship.

Formula One

In November 2011 Chilton drove for the Force India team in the Young Driver test at Abu Dhabi's Yas Marina Circuit. This was his second time driving Formula One machinery following a straight-line aerodynamic test for the team earlier in the year. Chilton was later appointed Marussia F1's testing and reserve driver for the second half of the 2012 season, starting from the Japanese Grand Prix. Chilton competed in the First Practice session at the 2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in November for Marussia F1.

In December 2012, Nikolai Fomenko, the engineering director of Marussia F1, announced that Chilton would race for the team full-time in 2013. The team confirmed the next day Chilton that would race.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2005	T Cars		?	?	?	?	7	?	8th
	T Cars Autumn Trophy		7	0	0	0	4	106	3rd
2006	T Cars	Tomax	20	7	7	?	14	167	2nd
2007	British Formula Three Championship	Arena Motorsport	20	0	0	0	0	0	18th
2008	British Formula Three Championship	Hitech Racing	22	0	2	1	2	72	10th
2009	British Formula Three Championship	Carlin Motorsport	20	1	4	2	5	171	4th
	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Comtec Racing	1	0	0	0	0	0	40th
2010	GP2 Series	Ocean Racing Technology	20	0	0	0	0	3	25th
2011	GP2 Series	Carlin	18	0	0	0	0	4	20th
2012	GP2 Series	Marussia Carlin GP2 Team	24	2	2	0	4	169	4th
	Formula One	Marussia F1 Team	Test driver

* Season in progress.

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
2009	Comtec Racing	CAT SPR	CAT FEA	SPA SPR	SPA FEA	MON FEA 19	HUN SPR	HUN FEA	SIL SPR	SIL FEA	BUG SPR	BUG FEA	ALG SPR	ALG FEA	NÜR SPR	NÜR FEA	ALC SPR	ALC FEA	40th	0

Complete GP2 Series 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	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	DC	Points
2010	Ocean Racing Technology	ESP FEA 18	ESP SPR 16	MON FEA Ret	MON SPR 14	TUR FEA 9	TUR SPR 11	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR 11	GBR FEA 19	GBR SPR 19	GER FEA 19	GER SPR 16	HUN FEA 17	HUN SPR 16	BEL FEA 17	BEL SPR 11	ITA FEA 8	ITA SPR 5	ABU FEA 12	ABU SPR 12					24th	3
2011	Carlin	TUR FEA Ret	TUR SPR 17	ESP FEA 12	ESP SPR 11	MON FEA 7	MON SPR 6	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR Ret	GBR FEA Ret	GBR SPR 19	GER FEA 17	GER SPR 6	HUN FEA 18	HUN SPR Ret	BEL FEA 15	BEL SPR 16	ITA FEA Ret	ITA SPR 18							20th	4
2012	Marussia Carlin GP2 Team	MYS FEA 3	MYS SPR 7	BHR1 FEA 4	BHR1 SPR 5	BHR2 FEA 5	BHR2 SPR 13	ESP FEA 7	ESP SPR 5	MON FEA 5	MON SPR 2	VAL FEA 7	VAL SPR 4	GBR FEA 9	GBR SPR 19	GER FEA 14	GER SPR Ret	HUN FEA 1	HUN SPR 11	BEL FEA 12	BEL SPR 22	ITA FEA 4	ITA SPR 6	SGP FEA 1	SGP SPR 19	4th	169

* Season in progress.

Complete GP2 Asia Series results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	DC	Points
2009–10	Barwa Addax Team	ABU1 FEA 16	ABU1 SPR 17			BHR1 FEA 18	BHR1 SPR 12	BHR2 FEA 19	BHR2 SPR 15	18th	2
	Ocean Racing Technology			ABU2 FEA 8	ABU2 SPR 6
2011	Carlin	ABU FEA 12	ABU SPR 18	ITA FEA 22	ITA SPR 15					22nd	0

Complete Formula One results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicates 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	WDC	Points
2012	Marussia F1 Team	Marussia MR01	Cosworth CA2012 V8	AUS	MAL	CHN	BHR	ESP	MON	CAN	EUR	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	SIN	JPN	KOR	IND	ABU TD	USA	BRA	NC	0

External links

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