Filipe Albuquerque

Filipe Miguel Delgadinho Araújo Albuquerque (né Albuquerque; born 13 June 1985) is a Portuguese professional racing driver, currently driving a Cadillac V-Series.R in the IMSA SportsCar Championship for Wayne Taylor Racing.

A former Audi factory driver in DTM and LMP1, Albuquerque has been most successful in LMP2, winning the FIA World Endurance Championship, European Le Mans Series and 24 Hours of Le Mans for United Autosports in 2020. Additionally, he is a three-time IMSA runner-up and two-time overall winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2018 and 2021.

Career

Albuquerque driving for Epsilon Euskadi at the Donington Park round of the 2007 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season. Albuquerque started his motor racing career in karting in 1993, "I started karting as a joke, but it quickly became more and more serious" Albuquerque recalled, "It's really hard to get sponsorship to go racing. Without Red Bull I would probably be at home studying" he added. He went on to win two national karting titles before moving up to Spanish Formula Three with the help of Red Bull. But later, Albuquerque was moved up to the Formula Renault, "a driver was fired from Red Bull" The Portuguese commented, "and I was told I would do the Renault 2.0-litre race in Zolder."

Highlights FIA WEC (LMP2): Champion (2019–20) 24 Hours of Le Mans: LMP2 Winner (2020) European Le Mans Series: Champion (2020) Race of Champions: Winner (2010) Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0: Champion (2006) Formula Renault 2.0 NEC: Champion (2006) 24 Hours of Daytona: Overall winner (2018 and 2021), GTD Winner (2013) Italian GT Championship – GT3: 3rd (2010) Blancpain Endurance Series – GT3 Pro Cup : 3rd (2011) North American Endurance Cup: Champion (2017)

Racing record

Career summary † As Albuquerque was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points. Season still in progress.

Complete Formula Renault 2.0 Germany/NEC results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete GP2 Series 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 DC Points 2007 Racing Engineering BHRFEA BHRSPR CATFEA CATSPR MONFEA MAGFEA MAGSPR SILFEA SILSPR NÜRFEA NÜRSPR HUNFEA HUNSPR ISTFEA ISTSPR MNZFEA MNZSPR SPAFEA SPASPR 32nd 0 Arden International VALFEA VALSPRSource:

Complete 24 Hours of Daytona results

Complete IMSA SportsCar Championship results (key)(Races in bold indicate pole position) Season still in progress.

Complete European Le Mans Series results ‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.

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 2018 Full Time Sports Chevrolet Cruze INT1 CUR1 CUR2 VEL1 VEL2 LON1 LON2 SCZ1 SCZ2 GOI1 MOU1 MOU2 CAS1 CAS2 VCA1 VCA2 TAR1 TAR2 GOI1 GOI2 INT1 NC† 0† † As Albuquerque was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.