Artem Markelov
Artem Valeryevich Markelov is a Russian racing driver who will compete in the FIA Formula 2 Championship for HWA Team in 2020.
Career
Karting
Born in Moscow, Markelov began karting in 2006 and raced mostly in his native Russia for the majority of his karting career, working his way up through the junior ranks to progress into the KF2 category by 2010.ADAC Formel Masters
In 2011, Markelov moved into open-wheel racing, competing in ADAC Formel Masters with Motopark Academy, taking eleven podiums in twenty-three races, including one win at Red Bull Ring. As a result, Markelov finished in fourth place in the final championship standings.Formula Three
During the 2011 season, Markelov made his Formula Three debut, with Motopark, in the Hockenheimring round of the Formula 3 Euro Series.race at Nürburgring in 2012
Markelov and Motopark – now under the Lotus moniker – elected to compete in the German Formula Three Championship in 2012. He finished seventh in the standings, scoring three podiums, including sprint-race wins at Lausitz and Hockenheim.
Markelov stayed in the German series for another year in 2013, remaining with Motopark. He had eighteen podiums in twenty-three races, including wins in both main races at Lausitz. He finished as runner-up to his teammate Marvin Kirchhöfer.
GP2 Series / FIA Formula 2
Markelov made his GP2 Series debut in 2014 with Russian Time, where he joined Mitch Evans. Markelov had only one point-scoring finish at Spa, finishing the season 24th, twenty positions behind Evans in the drivers' championship.Markelov and Evans remained with Russian Time in 2015. Markelov took his first podium at Spa, when he started from the 22nd position on the grid. He made the progress in the championship to the thirteenth place, being more consistent, but he was still eight positions behind the Evans in the standings.
Markelov continued to race with Russian Time in 2016, but this time he was joined in the team by Raffaele Marciello. Markelov claimed his first GP2 Series win in the feature race in Monaco, starting from the fifteenth starting position. But he wasn't stable as Marciello, finishing tenth in the drivers' championship.
2017
For the 2017 season, the GP2 Series was rebranded as the FIA Formula 2 Championship. While Markelov remained with Russian Time for his fourth consecutive season with the Dallara GP2/11 machinery, which was also the final year of use for the chassis in the championship, being joined by Luca Ghiotto. Markelov won the first race in the FIA Formula 2 Championship history. He also collected wins at Spielberg, Spa, Jerez and Abu Dhabi While it wasn't enough to prevent Charles Leclerc winning the drivers' championship, he brought the teams' championship to Russian Time with the help of Ghiotto.2018
Markelov returned with Russian Time to the championship in.2019
Following the 2018 season, Markelov was left without a drive in the 2019 Formula 2 season after Russian Time withdrew from the series. However, following Jordan King's participation in the 2019 Indianapolis 500, Markelov was called up by MP Motorsport for the Monaco round as a one-off replacement. He scored points in both races, with a sixth place in the first race and a fourth place in the second race.As a result of the weekend at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps following the Lap 2 feature race crash that killed BWT Arden driver Anthoine Hubert, the team signed Markelov to finish out the season at Sochi and Abu Dhabi, although the car number changed from 19 to 22.
2020
In, Markelov will continue to race in F2 with the same team, now HWA Racelab. He will be joined by Giuliano Alesi, son of former Formula One driver Jean Alesi, who left Trident at the end of the 2019 season.Formula One
In February 2018, Markelov was announced as Renault development driver for the 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship and drove in an official Formula One session for the first time at the 2018 Russian Grand Prix.Racing record
Career summary
† As Markelov was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.* Season still in progress.
Complete GP2 Series results
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | DC | Points |
| 2014 | RT Russian Time | BHR FEA 15 | BHR SPR 10 | CAT FEA 11 | CAT SPR Ret | MON FEA Ret | MON SPR Ret | RBR FEA 21 | RBR SPR 16 | SIL FEA 18 | SIL SPR 17 | HOC FEA Ret | HOC SPR 12 | HUN FEA 16 | HUN SPR 20† | SPA FEA 7 | SPA SPR Ret | MNZ FEA 21 | MNZ SPR Ret | SOC FEA 16 | SOC SPR 12 | YMC FEA Ret | YMC SPR 19 | 24th | 6 |
| 2015 | Russian Time | BHR FEA 13 | BHR SPR 12 | CAT FEA 12 | CAT SPR 5 | MON FEA Ret | MON SPR 14 | RBR FEA 5 | RBR SPR DSQ | SIL FEA 21 | SIL SPR 14 | HUN FEA 22 | HUN SPR 18 | SPA FEA 3 | SPA SPR 5 | MNZ FEA 5 | MNZ SPR 14 | SOC FEA Ret | SOC SPR 12 | BHR FEA 16 | BHR SPR 8 | YMC FEA Ret | YMC SPR C | 13th | 48 |
| 2016 | Russian Time | CAT FEA 4 | CAT SPR 4 | MON FEA 1 | MON SPR 8 | BAK FEA Ret | BAK SPR 5 | RBR FEA Ret | RBR SPR 11 | SIL FEA 10 | SIL SPR 12 | HUN FEA 9 | HUN SPR 4 | HOC FEA Ret | HOC SPR 9 | SPA FEA 5 | SPA SPR 21† | MNZ FEA 10 | MNZ SPR 10 | SEP FEA DNS | SEP SPR 13 | YMC FEA 3 | YMC SPR 7 | 10th | 97 |
† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.
Complete FIA Formula 2 Championship results
| 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 |
| Russian Time | BHR FEA 1 | BHR SPR 8 | CAT FEA 8 | CAT SPR 9 | MON FEA 2 | MON SPR 5 | BAK FEA 4 | BAK SPR 5 | RBR FEA 8 | RBR SPR 1 | SIL FEA 4 | SIL SPR 3 | HUN FEA 17† | HUN SPR 9 | SPA FEA 1 | SPA SPR Ret | MNZ FEA 9 | MNZ SPR 15 | JER FEA 5 | JER SPR 1 | YMC FEA 1 | YMC SPR 6 | 2nd | 210 | |||
| Russian Time | BHR FEA 3 | BHR SPR 1 | BAK FEA Ret | BAK SPR Ret | CAT FEA 8 | CAT SPR 9 | MON FEA 1 | MON SPR 4 | LEC FEA 14 | LEC SPR 14† | RBR FEA 8 | RBR SPR 1 | SIL FEA 6 | SIL SPR 4 | HUN FEA 8 | HUN SPR 13 | SPA FEA 6 | SPA SPR 5 | MNZ FEA 2 | MNZ SPR 2 | SOC FEA 11 | SOC SPR 5 | YMC FEA 2 | YMC SPR 7 | 5th | 186 | |
| MP Motorsport | BHR FEA | BHR SPR | BAK FEA | BAK SPR | CAT FEA | CAT SPR | MON FEA 6 | MON SPR 4 | LEC FEA | LEC SPR | RBR FEA | RBR SPR | SIL FEA | SIL SPR | HUN FEA | HUN SPR | SPA FEA | SPA SPR | MNZ FEA | MNZ SPR | 16th | 16 | |||||
| BWT Arden | SOC FEA Ret | SOC SPR 10 | YMC FEA Ret | YMC SPR Ret | 16th | 16 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| BWT HWA Racelab | RBR FEA Ret | RBR SPR 18 | RBR FEA DNS | RBR SPR 16 | HUN FEA Ret | HUN SPR 14 | SIL FEA 18 | SIL SPR | SIL FEA | SIL SPR | CAT FEA | CAT SPR | SPA FEA | SPA SPR | MNZ FEA | MNZ SPR | MUG FEA | MUG SPR | SOC FEA | SOC SPR | * | * |
† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.
* Season still in progress.
Complete Formula One participations
| Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | WDC | Points |
| Renault Sport F1 Team | Renault R.S.18 | Renault R.E.18 1.6 V6 t | AUS | BHR | CHN | AZE | ESP | MON | CAN | FRA | AUT | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | SIN | RUS TD | JPN | USA | MEX | BRA | ABU | – | – |
Complete Super Formula Results
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | DC | Points |
| 2019 | UOMO Sunoco Team LeMans | SUZ 10 | AUT Ret | SUG 16 | FUJ 19 | MOT 12 | OKA | SUZ | 21st | 0 |