About me

Born in Rome in 1987 , Michela showed since childhood an innate talent for sport and speed, skiing at a competitive level. Once she was 16, she decided to set temporarily aside her sport activities and dedicated herself to study, ending brilliantly with a degree in psychology at the Catholic University of Milan.

Michela discovered her passion for the world of motorsports when she was 18 years. Her father Aldo, great 70’s racer in the Tourism category, where he was known as Baronio, let her attend a safe driving course with Mario Ferraris who was very impressed by Michela’s speed and natural control of the car and persuaded her father to let her race.

• In 2008 Michela debuted in the Italian Touring Endurance Championship (CITE) in the category of 2000cc cars, driving an Alfa 147 Cup, with her teammate Mario Ferraris. Thanks to the positive results obtained during the season, the Ferraris team decided to invest in the talent of this girl and in 2009 Michela contributed to the development of a 500 Abarth 24h Special (the “Cinquone”), a car designed and manufactured inside the Romeo Ferraris workshop.
• In 2009 the team took part in the CITE with Cinquone in the second division, where the duo Cerruti-Ferraris achieved 4 victories ahead of Honda and BMW .

• Year 2010 had been a turning point for Michela who, after just two racing seasons on her pocket, decided to race in the Superstars International Series, the most important and competitive championship for cars with engine capacities higher than 4000cc and with more than 400hp. She drove a 530hp C63 AMG Mercedes, fighting against drivers like Gianni Morbidelli, Thomas Biagi and Johnny Herbert among the others.
• On the 10th April 2011 in Monza, Michela obtained an extraordinary result in the season opener of the series: second place in race one and an unexpected and stunning victory in race two, entering in this way in the history of the Superstars Series as the first and the only female racer ever to win the Series in Monza, the temple of speed.

Italian GT Championship

• In 2012 at Mugello, Michela, together with her teammate Edoardo Liberati, gained the first place with a great victory and got the second record, becoming the first female driver to win a race in the history of the Italian GT Championship.
• In 2013, after another podium at Mugello and a pole position in Spielberg, Michela won at Imola, racing alone during the third to last race of the championship .

Blancpain Endurance Series

• In 2013 Michela ended the 1000km in Nürburgring gaining the second place in the Pro – Am class, together with her teammate Stefano Comandini, although both of them belonging to the bronze category.
• In 2014 Michela won the podium at Silverstone during her first appearance of the year at the Blancpain Endurance Series, with her teammates Stefano Comandini and Eugenio Amos.

• In 2013, after a brief participation in the FIA European F3 Championship, Michela debuted in the Auto GP Championship with a 550cv single-seater car. She was the only female racer in the Championship and the first woman to score during two races, the first one of which at her debut in the Nürburging.
• In 2014 with Supernova team, Michela became the first woman to win an international open-wheel race in Imola. Michela gained two more podiums in Monza (May 2014) and in Red Bull Ring (in July).

In September 2014 in Beijing, Michela debuted in the extraordinary Formula E Championship, which took place in 10 cities across the world, through urban routes that cross the heart of the cities, to give public a direct and unusual contact with the racing world. Michela quit the Championship in 2015 as a consequence of several technical problems because of which there weren’t no more the conditions to go on.

Often described as the strongest Italian female driver and included among the best racers in Europe. During her career, Michela attended the International Superstars Series Championship, the Italian GT Championship, the Auto GP Championship, Blancpain Endurance Series Championship and she currently runs in the VLN Endurance Championship, which has involved her also in the famous 24 Hours of Nürburgring.

• International Superstars Series – Monza 2011: the first and only one woman to win (first and only one victory of a woman driver in Monza, ever)
• GT Italian Championship 2012: the first woman to win in the history of the campionship, on board of BMW Z4, in the Mugello racetrack
• in 2012 the renowned UK magazine Badger GP included Michela in the top 5 fastest female drivers in the world: http://badgergp.com/2012/03/top-five-female-racers/
• GT Italian Championship 2013 – Imola: the first and only woman to win an open-wheel race in the Italian GT Championship, without a professional driver in her team
• Blancpain Endurance Series 2013: second place in the 1000km in Nürburgring
• Auto GP World Series 2014 – Imola: the first and only one European woman to win a race driving a great power single-seater car
• VLN Endurance Championship – Nürburgring: the youngest and the only Italian woman who won a race in VLN. The second woman ever to win in the history of the Championship

Michela is the new driver for Walkenhorst Team, with Felipe Laser and Jesse Krohn, winner of BMW Motorsport Junior Program 2014. On the 28th of March, Michela has debuted in the VLN Endurance Championship with the BMW Z4 GT3, with the official support of BMW Motorsport. In May, Michela has attended the 24 Hours of Nürburgring, one of the most famous and legendary race in the world. A memorable experience ended with an extraordinary sixth place.

Since January 2015, at the behest of the Italian Federation, Michela Cerruti has become part of the FIA Women in Motorsport Commission (WIMC), representing Italy. The FIA WIMC, founded on the 11th of December 2009 with the approval of the World Motorsport Council and the FIA president Jean Todt, includes 30 major motorsport personalities including Michèle Mouton, elected president, Susie Wolff, Katherine Legge and Monisha Kalteborn as Ambassadors. The Mission is to create a sports culture that would facilitate and enhance the presence of women in the world of Motorsport, through strategies and policies promoting education and training within the sport .

From April 2016 Michela is committed to a brand new challenge. She’s driving for Romeo Ferraris in the TCR International Championship that makes her competing against the main car manufacturers and the best GT drivers in the world. Together with her it comes back on race, after several years, Alfa Romeo brand; in fact, Michela drives the new Alfa Romeo Giulietta TCR, a mechanical jewel entirely realized by Romeo Ferraris and developed by Michela Cerruti herself.

Also Lamborghini has wanted her to drive its Huracan GT3 in Antonelli Motorsport team during the hardest races of the 2016 Blancpain GT Series Championship.