Neel Jani

Neel Jani is a race car driver born in Switzerland on the 8th of December 1983. He will race in the 2005 GP2 Series for the Racing Engineering team, and he is currently a part of the Red Bull Racing Junior team.

Jani's career started in karting in 1998, where he stayed for two years before moving up to Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup in 2001. In the same year he also raced some races in Italian Formula Renault. He would stay in both for 2002, again only racing part of the Italian Formula Renault season. In 2003 he moved to Formula Renault V6 Eurocup, driving for the Jenzer team.

He stayed in V6 Eurocup for 2004, driving for the DAMS team this time, whilst also one race for DAMS' FIA GT Championship team. In 2005 he will race in GP2 Series, as number two at Racing Engineering to Borja Garcia, and he is also expected to test for Formula One team Red Bull later in the year. He has previously been linked to an F1 seat with Sauber.

GP2 Series Record