Australian
Alex Peroni is an Australian racing driver best remembered for surviving one of the most spectacular crashes in modern junior single-seater history.
Formula 3
Peroni contested the FIA Formula 3 Championship with Campos Racing in 2019 and 2020. His 2019 season was defined by his accident at Monza: running wide around the outside of the Parabolica, his car struck a track-limits sausage kerb at high speed, which launched it airborne and sent it cartwheeling onto the barrier before landing upside down. Remarkably, Peroni climbed out and walked away, though he had suffered concussion and a fractured vertebra and missed the remainder of the season. The kerb was removed from the circuit in the aftermath.
Having made a full recovery, Peroni signed again with Campos for 2020. He immediately showed his pace, taking his maiden FIA F3 podium with third place in the season-opening race at the Red Bull Ring. He added two further podiums — third at Silverstone and second at Barcelona — to finish tenth in the championship on 64 points, comfortably his strongest single-seater campaign.
Peroni's career is defined as much by his resilience as by his results, his recovery and competitive return after the Monza crash standing as its defining story.