Roberto Merhi · Biography

On 5 July 2015, at the British Grand Prix, Roberto Merhi Muntan crossed the line at Silverstone in twelfth place driving for Manor Marussia. It was his best result in Formula One, which he reached after almost a decade in Europe's junior single-seater categories. Born on 22 March 1991 in Castellón de la Plana, Spain, Merhi has raced single-seaters, touring cars, endurance prototypes and GT cars in Europe, Asia and Oceania.

Early years in Formula Renault

Merhi made his single-seater debut in 2006 in the Italian Formula Renault 2.0 Winter Series with It Loox Racing and finished fourth. In 2007 he raced for Jenzer Motorsport in the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 and in the Italian championship, where he was again fourth and took his first win. In 2008 he moved to Epsilon Euskadi. He finished runner-up in Formula Renault 2.0 WEC with three wins and fourth in the Eurocup.

The Formula 3 Euro Series title

He stepped up to the Formula 3 Euro Series in 2009 with Manor Motorsport and finished seventh with four podiums. In 2010 he switched to Mücke Motorsport, won at Hockenheim and finished fifth; that year he also raced in the GP3 Series with ATECH CRS GP and was sixth. In 2011, with Prema Powerteam, he won eleven races and became Formula 3 Euro Series champion with 406 points. He also won the FIA Formula 3 International Trophy that year.

From the DTM to Formula Renault 3.5

The title earned him a place with Mercedes in the DTM. In 2012 he drove for Persson Motorsport as part of the brand's junior programme and did not score. In 2013, with HWA, he scored 26 points and finished fifteenth; at the season finale at Hockenheim he was second behind Timo Glock. In 2014 he returned to single-seaters in Formula Renault 3.5 with Zeta Corse and finished third with three wins. That year he also drove the Caterham Formula One car in practice at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.

A season in Formula One with Manor

In March 2015, Manor named Merhi as Will Stevens' teammate for its return to the grid. The team did not take to the track at the Australian Grand Prix because of technical problems, so Merhi made his debut in Malaysia. He started thirteen Grands Prix, with twelfth at Silverstone as his best finish. From Singapore onwards he gave up his seat to Alexander Rossi for five of the last seven rounds, though he raced again in Russia and ended the year in Abu Dhabi. He finished nineteenth in the standings without scoring.

Endurance racing, Formula 2 and Formula E

After Formula One he turned to endurance racing. In 2016 he contested the World Endurance Championship in LMP2 with Manor and set the fastest lap at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, although he did not finish. He combined prototypes and single-seaters: in Formula 2 he was eighteenth in 2017 with Campos and Rapax and twelfth in 2018 with MP Motorsport and Campos. In the 2019-20 Asian Le Mans Series he finished third with Eurasia Motorsport, and in 2020 he was fourteenth in class at Le Mans. In 2021 he was runner-up in the S5000 Tasman Series with Team BRM. He returned to Formula 2 with Campos in 2022 and took a podium in Austria. In May 2023, Mahindra chose him to replace Oliver Rowland in Formula E from the Jakarta ePrix, and he completed the rest of the 2022-23 season with the Indian team.

The Japanese chapter in Super GT

In 2022 he made his debut in the GT300 class of Japan's Super GT with Team LeMans at Fuji. With that team he finished ninth in 2023, with three podiums, and tenth in 2024, with one pole. In 2025 he moved to Velorex. In the second round of the year, the Fuji 3 Hours, he started 27th in the Ferrari 296 GT3 he shared with Yoshiaki Katayama and won the GT300 race, Velorex's first victory in the class. Away from the track, in 2023 he co-founded TC Racing with Thibaut Courtois, a team that competes in Spanish Formula 4. In April 2026, Comtoyou Racing announced him for the opening round of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup alongside Mari Boya and Lance Stroll.