Bruno Junqueira

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Bruno Junqueira
Bruno Junqueira at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May of 2009.
Nationality	Brazilian
Date of birth	November 4, 1976 (1976-11-04) (age 33)
Place of birth	Belo Horizonte
2010 IRL IndyCar Series
Debut season	2001
Current team	Dale Coyne Racing
Car no.	18
Former teams	Chip Ganassi Racing Newman/Haas Racing
Starts	20
Wins	0
Poles	9
Best finish	20th in 2008

Bruno Junqueira
CART/Champ Car World Series
Years active	2001-2007
Teams	Chip Ganassi Racing Newman/Haas Racing Dale Coyne Racing
Starts	101
Wins	8
Poles	9
Best finish	2nd in 2002, 2003, 2004
Previous series
1998-2000 1995-1997	International Formula 3000 Formula Three Sudamericana
Championship titles
2000 1997	International Formula 3000 Formula Three Sudamericana

Bruno Junqueira (born November 4, 1976 in Belo Horizonte) is a Brazilian race car driver that 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.

Contents 1 Racing career 1.1 Early career 1.2 Champ Car 1.3 IndyCar Series 2 Motorsports Career Results 2.1 Racing Record 2.2 American Open Wheel 2.3 Indy 500 results 3 External links

[edit] Racing career

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 14th 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 5th in the race.

In 2005, Junqueira was injured in an accident in the Indianapolis 500, while lapping A.J. Foyt IV. Due to his injuries, he 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 he 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 perennial backmarker team Dale Coyne Racing as teammate to the inexperienced Katherine Legge. However, Junquiera delivered results like that team had never seen before, finishing seventh in the championship and three consecutive podium finishes late in the season, nearly capturing the team's first win at Circuit Zolder.

[edit] IndyCar Series

Prior to the 2008, Champ Car unified with the rival Indy Racing League. Junqueira drove the #18 car for the Coyne team's first season in the new series, alongside rookie Brazilian countryman Mario Moraes. His Indianapolis 500 was ruined by a mirror falling off, causing him to lose three laps during repairs. He season was not a great success, as he finished 20th overall with only two top ten finishes, both on road courses.

He was out of a drive for 2009. He did 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 fault.

[edit] Motorsports Career Results

[edit] Racing Record

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Poles	Wins	Points	Final Placing
1997	Formula Three Sudamericana	?	Unknown				1st
1998	Intl. Formula 3000	Draco Racing	12	0	0	3	14th
1999	Intl. Formula 3000	Den Bla Avis	10	1	1	20	5
		Petrobras Junior Team
	Formula One	Williams-Supertec	Test driver
2000	Intl. Formula 3000	Petrobras Junior Team	10	2	4	48	1st
2001	CART World Series	Ganassi	20	1	1	68	16th
	Indy 500		1	0	0	-	5th
2002	CART World Series	Ganassi	19	4	2	164	2nd
	Indy 500		1	1	0	-	31st
2003	CART World Series	Newman/Haas	18	2	2	199	2nd
2004	CART World Series	Newman/Haas	14	1	2	341	2nd
	Indy 500		1	0	0	-	5th
2005	CART World Series	Newman/Haas	2	0	1	59	19th
	Indy 500		1	0	0	-	30th
2006	CART World Series	Newman/Haas	14	1	0	219	5th
2007	CART World Series	Dale Coyne	14	0	0	233	7th

[edit] American Open Wheel

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Year	Team	Series	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	Rank	Points
2001	Ganassi	CART	MTY Ret	LBH 9	TXS NH	NZR 7	MOT Ret	MIL 4	DET Ret	POR Ret	CLE Ret	TOR 13	MIS 9	CHI 17	MDO 13	ROA 1	VAN 12	LAU 11	ROC Ret	HOU Ret	LS 7	SRF Ret	FON 4	16th	68
		IRL	PHX	HMS	ATL	INDY 5	TXS	PPIR	RIR	KAN	NSH	KTY	STL	CHI	TX2									37th	30
2002	Ganassi	CART	MTY 11	LBH 17	MOT 1	MIL 10	LS 4	POR 2	CHI 2	TOR 14	CLE 13	VAN 9	MDO 4	ROA 3	MTL 13	DEN 1*	ROC 5	MIA 5	SRF 14	FON 9	MEX 3			2nd	164
		IRL	HMS	PHX	FON	NZR	INDY 31	TXS	PPIR	RIR	KAN	NSH	MIS	KTY	STL	CHI	TX2							51st	1
2003	Newman/Haas	CART	STP 3	MTY 5	LBH 3	BRH 2	LAU 4	MIL Ret	LS 2	POR 4	CLE 3	TOR 3	VAN 2	ROA 1	MID 13	MTL 13	DEN 1	MIA 9	MEX 7	SRF Ret	FON NH			2nd	199
2004	Newman/Haas	CCWS	LBH 2	MTY 2	MIL 6	POR 2	CLE 2	TOR Ret	VAN 4	ROA 15	DEN 3	MTL 1	LS 2	LAS 2	SRF 1	MEX 2								2nd	3411
		IndyCar	HMS	PHX	MOT	INDY 5	TXS	RIR	KAN	NSH	MIL	MIS	KTY	PPIR	NZR	CHI	FON	TX2						28th	30
2005	Newman/Haas	CCWS	LBH 3	MTY 1	MIL Inj	POR Inj	CLE Inj	TOR Inj	EDM Inj	SJO Inj	DEN Inj	MTL Inj	LSV Inj	SRF Inj	MEX Inj									19th	59
		IndyCar	HMS	PHX	STP	MOT	INDY Ret	TXS	RIR	KAN	NSH	MIL	MIS	KTY	PPIR	SNM	CHI	WGL	FON					36th	10
2006	Newman/Haas	CCWS	LBH Ret	HOU 10	MTY 10	MIL Ret	POR 4	CLE 2	TOR 8	EDM Ret	SJO Ret	DEN 2	MTL 12	ROA 2	SRF 6	MEX 4								5th	219
2007	Dale Coyne	CCWS	LSV 7	LBH 6	HOU 7	POR 13	CLE Ret	MTL Ret	TOR 5	EDM 7	SJO 7	ROA 9	ZOL 2	ASN 3	SRF 3	MEX 7								7th	233
2008	Dale Coyne	IndyCar	HMS Ret	STP Ret	MOT2 DNP	LBH2 12	KAN 15	INDY 20	MIL 18	TXS 15	IOW DNS	RIR Ret	WGL 6	NSH 15	MDO 13	EDM 14	KTY 14	SNM 17	DET 7	CHI 20	SRF3 15			20th	256

¹ New CART points system introduced, 2004.

² Races run on same day.

³ Non-points-paying, exhibition race.

Years	Teams	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums (Non-win)	Top 10s (Non-podium)	Indianapolis 500 Wins	Championships
5	3	20	1	0	0	4	0	0

[edit] Indy 500 results

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish	Team
2001	G-Force	Oldsmobile	20th	5th	Ganassi
2002	G-Force	Chevrolet	1st	31st	Ganassi
2004	G-Force	Honda	4th	5th	Newman/Haas
2005	Panoz	Honda	12th	30th	Newman/Haas
2008	Dallara	Honda	15th	20th	Coyne
2009	Dallara	Honda	Replaced by A. Tagliani		Conquest

Sporting positions
Preceded by Gabriel Furlán	Formula Three Sudamericana Champion 1997	Succeeded by Gabriel Furlán
Preceded by Nick Heidfeld	International Formula 3000 Champion 2000	Succeeded by Justin Wilson

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