Karting Filippi started his
karting career in 2007 in the Cadet class. He made his first international appearance in 2009. In 2009, Filippi competed in the European
KF3 championship where he finished 40th in a Vortex powered Tony Kart. He also competed in the French Grand Prix Open Karting. The following two years, he competed in the
KF2 class. He ended the 2011 season with two top-ten classifications in the French and Grand Prix Open championships.
Single-seaters After six years of karting, Filippi made is autoracing debut in 2007 at
Circuit Paul Armagnac. He was entered by Equipe Palmyr in the amateur
Single-seater V de V Challenge driving a
Tatuus FR2000. Driving against other old
Formula Renault and
Formula Master cars he finished twelfth in his first race. He raced six races in his inaugural racing season and finished 25th in the standings. The following season, Filippi switched to the Bossy Racing team racing a
Tatuus N.T07 Formula Master chassis. He won the first three races of the season at
Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. He went on to win eleven of the eighteen races in the season. Besides the three races he won in Barcelona, Filippi won two races in
Motorland Aragón, three races at
Lédenon and three races at
Magny-Cours. Towards the end of the racing season, he made his debut in the
Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 with RC Formula. At Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, he finished 22nd in the first and 27th in the second race. .
World Touring Car Championship 2014 On March 19, 2014, it was announced that Filippi would race in the
World Touring Car Championship. Filippi joined
Campos Racing driving one of their TC2
SEAT León's. Filippi became the youngest ever points scorer in a WTCC race at the
Race of Morocco in Marrakech. This was followed by consistent pace in the TC2 class all season before clinching a class win at the
Race of Japan 2015 For 2015, with the departure of
Dušan Borković from Campos Racing, Filippi was promoted to the TC1
Chevrolet Cruze for the 2015 season. Again, Filippi scored points to finish in Marrakech and at the Nordschleife. At the Race of China, Filippi set a new career-best qualifying position with seventh, before suffering from an accident in Race 1 which forced him to retire. In Thailand, it was much the same story with a strong qualifying but a Race 1 incident with
Tiago Monteiro forced him to retire once again. At the Race of Qatar, Fillipi qualified tenth and therefore lined up on pole position for Race 2. Filippi is currently the youngest driver ever to have started from pole position in a WTCC race at 20 years and 331 days old.
2016 On February 9, 2016, Filippi's main sponsor
Oscaro announced that Filippi would be continuing with Campos Racing in the TC1 Chevrolet for the
2016 World Touring Car Championship season. It was also announced that 4-time world champion
Yvan Muller would be accompanying Filippi as a driver coach for the season. ==Racing record==