Bruno Junqueira

Bruno Furtado Junqueira (born November 4, 1976) is a Brazilian professional racing driver who most recently competed in the IRL IndyCar Series. He is a former Formula 3000 champion and three-time runner-up in the Champ Car World Series.

Racing career

Early career Junqueira started racing karts in Brazil and dominated Formula Three Sudamericana before moving to Formula 3000. He tested for the Williams Formula One team for many years, and came close to landing a race drive in 2000, losing out to Jenson Button. He rebounded from this setback, winning that year's International Formula 3000 Championship.

Champ Car In 2001, Junqueira joined the CART Championship Car series driving for Chip Ganassi Racing where he had immediate success, capturing a win in his fourteenth race and finished second in points with two wins the following year. In 2003 Ganassi left to the rival Indy Racing League and Junqueira joined Newman/Haas Racing, the top team remaining in what was now the Champ Car World Series. He captured series runner up honors in both 2003 and 2004, capturing two wins in each of those seasons. He also drove in the Indianapolis 500 four times for both Ganassi and Newman/Haas in one-off appearances. In 2002, he qualified for the pole position, and he twice finished fifth in the race.

In the 2005 Indianapolis 500, Junqueira crashed head-on into the turn two wall after he passed backmarker A. J. Foyt IV, but Foyt inattentively did not see Junqueira's car under him and struck his right-rear corner. He suffered a concussion and a fractured vertebrae and missed the remainder of the 2005 Champ Car season. Junqueira was the Champ Car points leader at the time, having won the second race of the year in Monterrey, Mexico. Veteran Oriol Servia took his place and finished runner-up in the standings.

In 2006, Junqueira returned to the cockpit at Newman/Haas but for the first time in his career he did not win a race and only finished fifth in the championship while his teammate Sébastien Bourdais won his third straight title. He was replaced in the second Newman/Haas car in 2007 by rookie Graham Rahal and Junqueira signed to drive for Dale Coyne Racing as teammate to the inexperienced Katherine Legge. Junquiera finished seventh in the championship including three consecutive podium finishes late in the season.

IndyCar Series

Prior to the 2008 Indycar Series Season, Champ Car unified with the rival Indy Racing League. Junqueira drove the No. 18 car for the Coyne team's first season in the new series, alongside Brazilian rookie countryman Mario Moraes. His Indianapolis 500 was ruined by a mirror falling off, causing him to lose three laps during repairs. His season was not a great success, as he finished twentieth overall with only two top-ten finishes, both on road courses.

Junqueira was out of a drive for 2009. He made a deal with Conquest Racing for the Indianapolis 500 and qualified the car on Bump Day, but was asked to withdraw for the team's regular driver Alex Tagliani, who had failed to qualify his car due to a technical failure.

In 2011, driving for A. J. Foyt Racing, Junqueira qualified his car for the 500 in nineteenth position, only to once again have to give up his chance to drive in the actual race. Foyt sold the unsponsored car's entry to Andretti Autosport, whose driver Ryan Hunter-Reay had been the final car bumped from the field. In 2012, he entered in for an injured Josef Newgarden at the first Grand Prix of Baltimore.

Racing record

Career summary Includes points scored by other Team Brazil drivers.

Complete International Formula 3000 results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)

American open–wheel racing results (key)

CART/Champ Car Series

^ New points system implemented in 2004.

IndyCar Series 1 Races run on same day. 2 Non-points-paying, exhibition race.

Indianapolis 500 Year Chassis Engine Start Finish Team 2001 G-Force Oldsmobile 20 5 Chip Ganassi Racing 2002 G-Force Chevrolet 1 31 Chip Ganassi Racing 2004 G-Force Honda 4 5 Newman/Haas Racing 2005 Panoz Honda 12 30 Newman/Haas Racing 2008 Dallara Honda 15 20 Dale Coyne Racing 2009 Dallara HondaReplaced byA. Tagliani Conquest Racing 2010 Dallara Honda 25 32 FAZZT Race Team 2011 Dallara HondaReplaced byR. Hunter-Reay A. J. Foyt Enterprises

Complete American Le Mans Series results

Complete A1 Grand Prix results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 DC Points 2006–07 Brazil NEDSPR NEDFEA CZESPR CZEFEA BEISPR BEIFEA MYSSPR MYSFEA IDNSPR IDNFEA NZLSPR NZLFEA AUSSPR AUSFEA RSASPR17 RSAFEA7 MEXSPRRet MEXFEA13 SHASPR SHAFEA GBRSPR12 GBRSPRRet 18th 9 2007–08 NEDSPR NEDFEA CZESPR CZEFEA MYSSPR MYSFEA ZHUSPR ZHUFEA NZLSPR NZLFEA AUSSPR AUSFEA RSASPRRet RSAFEA9 MEXSPR10 MEXFEA8 SHASPR SHAFEA GBRSPR GBRSPR 11th 44

Complete Stock Car Brasil 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 Rank Points 2011 RC3 Bassani Peugeot 408 CTB INT RBP VEL CGD RIO INT SAL SCZ LON BSB14 VEL22 30th 2 2012 RC3 Bassani Peugeot 408 INT CTB VEL RBP LON RIO SAL19 CAS TAR CTB BSB INT 34th 2 2014 Full Time Sports Chevrolet Sonic INT1Ret SCZ1 SCZ2 BRA1 BRA2 GOI1 GOI2 GOI1 CAS1 CAS2 CUR1 CUR2 VEL1 VEL2 SCZ1 SCZ2 TAR1 TAR2 SAL1 SAL2 CUR1 NC† 0† † Ineligible for championship points.

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results Year Team Class Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Rank Points 2014 RSR Racing PC Oreca FLM09 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 DAY9† SEB2 LGA3 KAN6 WGL9 IMS2 ELK9† VIR4 AUS11† ATL9 10th 201 2015 RSR Racing PC Oreca FLM09 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 DAY4 SEB6 LGA1 BEL5 WGL6 MOS4 LIM2 ELK1 AUS2 ATL6 3rd 301 2016 BAR1 Motorsports PC Oreca FLM09 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 DAY SEB LBH LGA BEL WGL MOS LIM ELK5 AUS4 ATL 21st 56 2017 BAR1 Motorsports PC Oreca FLM09 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 DAY SEB AUS BEL2 WGL MOS ELK ATL 18th 32 2018 3GT Racing GTD Lexus RC F GT3 Lexus 5.0 L V8 DAY15 SEB MOH BEL WGL MOS LIM ELK VIR LGA ATL 59th 16 † Did not complete sufficient laps in order to score points.