Can Artam

Can Artam
Can Artam during the 2005 Hockenheimring GP2 Series round
Nationality	Turkish
Born	(1981-06-30) 30 June 1981 Istanbul, Turkey

Can Artam (born 30 June 1981, in Istanbul) is a Turkish race car driver born into a car racing family. He raced in the 2005 GP2 Series for the iSport team and was the 2001 US Barber Formula Dodge champion.

Career

Artam's career begun in karting in 1999, and he moved up to the Turkish Touring Car Championship in 2001. Later in the year he also raced in US Barber Formula Dodge, winning the title.

He remained in the TTCC in 2002, also racing in North American Fran Am 2000 Pro Championship and some races of Turkish Formula Three Championship, whilst returning to karting for some events. The Formula Renault would be the only series he would compete in during 2003, though with the new year seeing part seasons in both British Formula 3's National-Class and Formula Renault V6 Eurocup.

On 29 May 2004 Can Artam got his shot in Formula 3000 in Imola as the first Turkish driver racing in this category, driving part of the season for the Coloni team, and later driving some races for Super Nova. In 2005, he drove in GP2, the replacement series for F3000, for the iSport International team alongside Scott Speed, although without much success, scoring just two points with seventh place at the Monaco round of the inaugural GP2 championship. Until 2013 he has not raced in any major championships.

In 2013 he started racing again in the Turkish Touring Car Championship with Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport. He finished the first race of the season 3rd despite a flat tire.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/laps	Points	Position
2002	North American Fran Am 2000 Pro Championship	AutoTechnica	2	0	0	0	20	14th
2003	Formula Renault V6 Eurocup	EuroInternational	3	0	0	0	6	19th
	British Formula 3 International Series - Scholarship	Promatecme UK	5	0	0	0	35	7th
2004	International Formula 3000 Championship	Coloni Motorsport	9	0	0	0	0	19th
2005	GP2 Series	iSport International	24	0	0	0	2	22nd

International Formula 3000

(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	DC	Points
2004	Coloni Motorsport	IMO Ret	CAT 10	MON Ret	NUR 13	MAG Ret	SIL	HOC 10				NC	0
	Super Nova Racing								HUN 14	SPA 13	MNZ 9

GP2 Series

(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	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	DC	Points
2005	iSport International	IMO FEA 16	IMO SPR Ret	CAT FEA Ret	CAT SPR Ret	MON FEA 7	NÜR FEA 17	NÜR SPR Ret	MAG FEA 17	MAG SPR 16	SIL FEA 18	SIL SPR 14	HOC FEA Ret	HOC SPR 20	HUN FEA 14	HUN SPR 12	IST FEA 11	IST SPR 16	MNZ FEA 9	MNZ SPR 9	SPA FEA Ret	SPA SPR 22	BHR FEA 17	BHR SPR 16	22nd	2

External links

• Can Artam career summary at DriverDB.com