Alex Rullo

Alex Rullo
Alex Rullo
Nationality	Australian
Born	15 June 2000 (age 24); Perth, Western Australia
Super2 Series career
Debut season	2016
Former teams	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport; MW Motorsport
Starts	32
Wins	1
Podiums	3
Poles	2
Best finish	4th in 2018
Supercars Championship career
Car number	78
Current team	Kelly Racing; (Endurance race co-driver)
Championships	0
Races	30
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Pole positions	0
2019 position	43rd (329 pts)

Alexander John Rullo (born 15 June 2000) is an Australian racing car driver. He currently drives in the TCR Australia Series for Kelly Racing. He is also co-driving with Simona de Silvestro in the No. 78 Nissan Altima in the Pirtek Enduro Cup.

In February 2017 it was confirmed that Rullo would race in the 2017 Supercars Championship for Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport and become the youngest driver in the championship's history.^[1]

Racing career

V8 Touring Car Series

Alex Rullo made his debut in the V8 Touring Car National Series at the age of 14, winning a race in his second event.^[2] He managed to win four races out of the 15 contested and finished the season second overall for MW Motorsport.

Super2 Series

Rullo made his Dunlop Series debut for Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport in 2016, driving a Castrol-backed Holden VF Commodore for the full season. Rullo's best race finish was sixth (twice) and he finished 17th in the championship. In 2018 he will drive a Nissan Altima L33 with MW Motorsport.

Supercars Championship

In February 2017, an announcement was made that 16-year-old Rullo was to make his Supercars debut with Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport, the team which he raced with in the Development Series the year prior. Coincidentally, the previous driver to hold the record was Paul Dumbrell, the brother of Lucas, who debuted in 1999.^[1] It was reported that Alex would run the number No. 62 in which he had raced since his karting days. Rullo did not qualify for the new-for-2017 CAMS Superlicense, and was given special dispensation to be reviewed on a race-by-race basis.^[1]

TCR Australia

In 2019 he raced in the inaugural TCR Australia Touring Car Series for Kelly Racing in a Holden Astra TCR.^[3]

Career results

Season	Series	Position	Car	Team
2014	Western Australian Formula Vee 1600 Championship	13th	Ajay 06 Volkswagen
2014	Australian Swift Racing Series	11th	Suzuki Swift Sport
2015	Kumho Tyres Australian V8 Touring Car Series	2nd	Ford BF Falcon	MW Motorsport
2015	Western Australia Super GT Series	4th	Ford BF Falcon	Performance West
2016	Supercars Dunlop Series	17th	Holden VF Commodore	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport
2016	Australian GT Championship	46th	Lamborghini Gallardo FL2	Performance West
2017	Virgin Australia Supercars Championship	29th	Holden VF Commodore	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport
2018	Super2 Series	4th	Nissan Altima L33	MW Motorsport
2018	Virgin Australia Supercars Championship	50th	Nissan Altima L33	Nissan Motorsport
2019	Virgin Australia Supercars Championship	43rd	Nissan Altima L33	Kelly Racing
2019	TCR Australia	13th	Holden Astra TCR	Kelly Racing

Super2 Series results

(key) (Round results only)

Super2 Series results
Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Position	Points
2016	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport	Holden VF Commodore	ADE 24	PHI 19	BAR 15	TOW 19	SAN 16	BAT 16	HOM 11	17th	686
2018	MW Motorsport	Nissan Altima L33	ADE 12	SYM 7	BAR 4	TOW 4	SAN 5	BAT 2	NEW 12	4th	1328

Supercars Championship results

Supercars results
Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	Position	Points
2016	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport	Holden VF Commodore	ADE R1	ADE R2	ADE R3	SYM R4	SYM R5	PHI R6	PHI R7	BAR R8	BAR R9	WIN R10 PO	WIN R11 PO	HID R12	HID R13	TOW R14	TOW R15	QLD R16 PO	QLD R17 PO	SMP R18	SMP R19	SAN QR	SAN R24	BAT R25	SUR R26	SUR R27	PUK R24	PUK R25	PUK R26	PUK R27	SYD R28	SYD R29			N/C	0
2017	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport	Holden VF Commodore	ADE R1 23	ADE R2 25	SYM R3 Ret	SYM R4 Ret	PHI R5 Ret	PHI R6 22	BAR R7 24	BAR R8 25	WIN R9 25	WIN R10 27	HID R11 21	HID R12 23	TOW R13 21	TOW R14 24	QLD R15 Ret	QLD R16 25	SMP R17 22	SMP R18 Ret	SAN QR 21	SAN R19 Ret	BAT R20 15	SUR R21 23	SUR R22 Ret	PUK R23	PUK R24	NEW R25	NEW R26						29th	594
2018	Nissan Motorsport	Nissan Altima L33	ADE R1	ADE R2	MEL R3	MEL R4	MEL R5	MEL R6	SYM R7	SYM R8	PHI R9	PHI R10	BAR R11	BAR R12	WIN R13 PO	WIN R14 PO	HID R15	HID R16	TOW R17	TOW R18	QLD R19 PO	QLD R20 PO	SMP R21	BEN R22	BEN R23	SAN QR Ret	SAN R24 Ret	BAT R25 14	SUR R26 18	SUR R27 C	PUK R28	PUK R29	NEW R30	NEW R31	50th	177
2019	Kelly Racing	Nissan Altima L33	ADE R1	ADE R2	MEL R3	MEL R4	MEL R5	MEL R6	SYM R7	SYM R8	PHI R9	PHI R10	BAR R11	BAR R12	WIN R13 PO	WIN R14 PO	HID R15	HID R16	TOW R17	TOW R18	QLD R19	QLD R20	BEN R21 PO	BEN R22 PO	PUK R23	PUK R24	BAT R25 13	SUR R26 21	SUR R27 22	SAN QR 19	SAN R28 15	NEW R29	NEW R30		41st	329

Bathurst 1000 results

Year	Team	Car	Co-driver	Position	Laps
2017	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport	Holden Commodore VF	Alex Davison	15th	159
2018	Nissan Motorsport	Nissan Altima L33	Simona de Silvestro	14th	161
2019	Kelly Racing	Nissan Altima L33	Simona de Silvestro	13th	160

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Rullo to make history as youngest Supercars driver". Speedcafe. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
^ "History made as 14-year-old wins in Kumho V8s". Speedcafe. 14 June 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
^ https://www.speedcafe.com/2019/05/04/rullo-joins-kelly-racing-for-tcr-australia-bid/ Rullo joins Kelly Racing for TCR Australia bid. Speedcafe. 4 May 2019.

External links

Official website
Profile on V8 Supercars official webpage
Alex Rullo career summary at DriverDB.com
Alex Rullo profile on US Racing Reference

[debut-1] "Rullo to make history as youngest Supercars driver". Speedcafe. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2017.

[2] "History made as 14-year-old wins in Kumho V8s". Speedcafe. 14 June 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2017.

[3] ttps://www.speedcafe.com/2019/05/04/rullo-joins-kelly-racing-for-tcr-australia-bid/ Rullo joins Kelly Racing for TCR Australia bid. Speedcafe. 4 May 2019.

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