Cristiano da Matta
Nation: | Brazil | ||||||||
Formula 1 world championship | |||||||||
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First start: | 2003 Australian Grand Prix | ||||||||
Last start: | German Grand Prix 2004 | ||||||||
Constructors | |||||||||
2003-2004 Toyota | |||||||||
statistics | |||||||||
World Cup balance: | WM-13. ( 2003 ) | ||||||||
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World Cup points : | 13 | ||||||||
Podiums : | - | ||||||||
Leadership laps : | 18 over 93 km |
Cristiano Monteiro da Matta (born September 19, 1973 in Belo Horizonte ) is a former Brazilian automobile racing driver . He became Indy Car Champion in 2002 and drove 28 Formula 1 races in 2003 and 2004 .
Career
From 1999 to 2002, Matta drove with the Champ Cars in the American Championship Series, where he won the title with Newman / Haas Racing in 2002 . He then switched to Formula 1 and contested a total of 28 GP races for Toyota Racing before being replaced by test driver Ricardo Zonta after the 2004 German Grand Prix . In 2005 he switched to the Champ Car series again, but could not build on the successful period of 2002.
On August 3, 2006, while training on the Road America racetrack in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, da Matta collided with a red deer that had run onto the track. Da Matta suffered severe head injuries and had to be flown to the hospital by helicopter for emergency surgery. After a subdural hematoma had been removed , he was in the intensive care unit at Theda Clark Memorial Hospital in Neenah, Wisconsin for observation until August 20, 2006. On September 22nd, 2006 he was released home, where the rehabilitation program that had meanwhile started is being continued. His racing team announced that his healing was making very good progress.
In November 2008, Da Matta took part in a kart race in Brazil that was highly regarded internationally. He also tested for the 24-hour race in Daytona. In 2010 Da Matta started in the Brazilian racing series "Fórmula Truck". In April 2011 it was announced that Da Matta would return to US motorsport with the Jagua RSR GT team in the American Le Mans Series . He ended his career at the end of the 2012 season.
statistics
Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship
These statistics include all the driver's participations in the Formula 1 World Championship .
general overview
season | team | chassis | engine | run | Victories | Second | Third | Poles | nice Race laps |
Points | WM-Pos. |
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2003 | Panasonic Toyota Racing | Toyota TF103 | Toyota 3.0 V10 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | 13. |
2004 | Panasonic Toyota Racing | Toyota TF104 / TF104B | Toyota 3.0 V10 | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 17th |
total | 28 | - | - | - | - | - | 13 |
Single results
season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th | 16 | 17th | 18th |
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2003 | ||||||||||||||||||
DNF | 11 | 10 | 12 | 6th | 10 | 9 | 11 | DNF | 11 | 7th | 6th | 11 | DNF | 9 | 7th | |||
2004 | ||||||||||||||||||
12 | 9 | 10 | DNF | 13 | 6th | DNF | DSQ | DNF | 14th | 13 | DNF |
Legend | ||
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colour | abbreviation | meaning |
gold | - | victory |
silver | - | 2nd place |
bronze | - | 3rd place |
green | - | Placement in the points |
blue | - | Classified outside the point ranks |
violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
NC | not classified | |
red | DNQ | did not qualify |
DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
black | DSQ | disqualified |
White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
WD | withdrawn | |
Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
TD | Friday test driver | |
without | DNP | did not participate in the training (did not practice) |
INJ | injured or sick | |
EX | excluded | |
DNA | did not arrive | |
C. | Race canceled | |
no participation in the World Cup | ||
other | P / bold | Pole position |
SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
* | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
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() | Streak results | |
underlined | Leader in the overall standings |
Sebring results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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2011 | Jaguar RSR | Jaguar XKR | Bruno Junqueira | Oriol Servià | Rank 38 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.autoweek.com/article/20081110/FREE/811109973
- ^ Racer website: Cristiano da Matta on Sebring and beyond. (No longer available online.) At: www.racer.com , archived from the original on April 15, 2011 ; Retrieved April 15, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Matta, Cristiano there |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Monteiro da Matta, Cristiano |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian formula driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | 19th September 1973 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Belo Horizonte , Brazil |