In his 23 IndyCar starts across four seasons with as many different teams, Luca Filippi showed flashes of the pace that had taken him to six victories in GP2 between 2006 and 2012. That was never more clearly on display than at his favourite circuit in Toronto, where the Italian scored his only series podium in 2015. He finished runner-up to CFH Racing team-mate Josef Newgarden in a memorable 1-2 for the underdog outfit, but that only tells part of the story of a race he feels unlucky not to have won.
Filippi is certainly well-qualified to pass judgement on street tracks given the various venues he’s competed at in an international career that featured trips to Monaco, Valencia and Singapore while on the Formula 1 undercard. The 38-year-old raced on the famously bumpy streets of Baltimore, as well as at Houston, St. Petersburg and Long Beach in IndyCar, while a season of Formula E in 2017-18 took in trips to Hong Kong, Marrakech, Santiago, Punta del Este, Rome, Paris, Zurich and New York. Then there’s the inner-city Copenhagen track and classic Pau circuit he sampled during his tenure in the FIA ETCR electric tin-top series.
