# Sergey Afanasyev (racing driver)

Sergey Andreyevich Afanasyev (Russian: Серге́й Андре́евич Афана́сьев, IPA:; born 25 March 1988) is a Russian racing driver, holder of honour "Master of sports of Russia".

## 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.

### Auto GP

Afanasyev switched to Auto GP for 2011, joining team champions DAMS. 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.

### 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. They were leading most part of the race, but after an accident in heavy rain they finished second.
The next race was Bathurst 12 Hours. Haupt was not able to join so he was replaced by Michele Beretta. They were leading until the last 4 hours of the race. Issues with the car after a small contact with the wall pushed them back; they finished third.

## Racing record
### Career summary

| 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 |
| 2004 | 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 |
| 2005 | Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 | Lukoil Racing Team | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24th |
| 2005 | 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 |
| 2006 | Formule Renault 2.0 Suisse | Lukoil Racing | 10 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 230 | 2nd |
| 2006 | 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 |
| 2007 | Masters of Formula 3 | HBR Motorsport | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | NC |
| 2008 | International Formula Master | JD Motorsport | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 28 | 8th |
| 2008 | 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 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 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 | DC | Points |
| 2005 | Lukoil Racing Team | ZOL 1 Ret | ZOL 2 25 | VAL 1 Ret | VAL 2 29 | LMS 1 | LMS 2 | BIL 1 Ret | BIL 2 DNS | OSC 1 4 | OSC 2 Ret | DON 1 21 | DON 2 11 | EST 1 25 | EST 2 15 | MNZ 1 18 | MNZ 2 Ret | 24th | 9 |

### Complete Formula Renault 2.0 NEC 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 | DC | Points |
| 2006 | Lukoil Racing | OSC 1 5 | OSC 2 2 | SPA 1 | SPA 2 | NÜR 1 15 | NÜR 2 Ret | ZAN 1 6 | ZAN 2 6 | OSC 1 Ret | OSC 2 4 | ASS 1 Ret | ASS 2 1 | AND 1 15 | AND 2 6 | SAL 1 5 | SAL 2 16 | 8th | 167 |

### 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 |

### FIA GT competition results
#### 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.