Vicky Piria

**Vittoria "Vicky" Piria** (born 11 November 1993 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian racing driver, who competes in the 2020 BRSCC W Series Championship, using #11 as her race number. An inaugural member of the W Series, **Piria** would claim ninth in the 2019 Championship, ensuring that she claimed an automatic qualifying spot for 2020.

## Background

Piria began karting at the age of ten, racing in her native Italy for five years in various categories through to 2008. In 2009 Piria graduated to car racing, taking a series of part-time seats in Italian Formula 2000 and Italian Formula Renault. She duly claimed a handful of points finishes in both categories, before moving into Formula Abarth in 2010.

### Expanded Experiences: 2010 - 2014

Piria's first campaign in Formula Abarth was not a strong one, as she failed to score points at all in twelve races. She duly stayed in the Abarth series in 2011, competing in both the Italian and European editions, scoring eight points finishes between them. That earned her the attention of several teams in the GP3 Series, with Piria joining Trident Racing to claim 27th in the Championship, having failed to score.

After that Piria moved into European F3 Open for 2013, where she would finish tenth with 29 points. In 2014 Piria moved to the United States to compete in the Pro Mazda Championship, although after competing in four races she ran out of budget and dropped out of the Championship. After that, Piria would take a hiatus from racing until 2018, where she raced in two rounds of the Porsche Carrera Cup Italia.

## W Series History

Piria was one of the original 55 applicants for the 2019 Driver Selection Test, and duly survived the assessment process to claim a race seat for the 2019 BRSCC W Series Championship, claiming #11 as her race number. Unfortunately for Piria her debut at the season opening 2019 Hockenheim Race would not go to plan, as she ran at the back of the field throughout after a poor start. Yet, her form improved in Zolder as she fought for points throughout, having been engaged in a fight in a queue of cars behind Esmee Hawkey.

The 2019 Misano Race would serve as Piria's home race, with the Italian racer having her best weekend in the W Series to that point, claiming fifth after escaping from a queue of cars behind Sarah Moore. A quiet run to twelfth in Nuremburg followed, before Piria returned to the points in Assen with a run to eighth place. Another strong result followed at Brands Hatch, with Piria fighting her way to sixth place after a defensive drive to fend off Jessica Hawkins, Marta García and Sabré Cook.

That result moved Piria into ninth with 24 points, ensuring that she claimed an automatic qualification spot for the 2020 season.

### An Italian Champion?: 2020

Piria duly decided to take up the offer of an automatic seat for the 2020 Championship, with the Italian racer again using #11 as her race number.

## Full W Series Record

Shown below are a series of tables outlining Vicky Piria's career in the W Series in statistical form.

### W Series Entries

The list below includes all of the teams and cars, as well as overall finishing positions for Vicky Piria during their W Series career:

 2020 | 11

### Career Results

Below is a table showing Vicky Piria's full W Series record.

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 'W Series announces 18 drivers for 2020 season', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 21/10/2019), https://wseries.com/w-hub/w-series-announces-18-drivers-for-2020-season/, (Accessed 01/04/2020)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 [Archived] '2019 W Series Drivers', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20200321160627/https://wseries.com/2019-drivers/, (Accessed 04/04/2020) - Original
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 'Vicky Piria', *driverdb.com*, (Driver Database, 2020), https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/vicky-piria/, (Accessed 06/04/2020)
4. ↑ [Archived] 'The Weekend at Hockenheim', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20191013101433/https://wseries.com/races/hockenheim/, (Accessed 01/04/2020) - Original
5. ↑ [Archived] 'Zolder, Belgium', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506170558/https://wseries.com/races/zolder/, (Accessed 02/04/2020) - Original
6. ↑ [Archived] 'Misano, Italy', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506173425/https://wseries.com/races/misano/, (Accessed 02/04/2020) - Original
7. ↑ [Archived] 'Assen, The Netherlands', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506100417/https://wseries.com/races/assen/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original
8. ↑ [Archived] 'Brands Hatch, UK', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506194151/https://wseries.com/races/brands-hatch/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original