Gianmaria Bruni

Gianmaria Bruni

Nation:	Italy
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	2004 Australian Grand Prix
Last start:	2004 Brazilian Grand Prix
Constructors
2004  Minardi
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-25. ( 2004 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 18th - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Gianmaria Bruni (born May 30, 1981 in Rome ) is an Italian racing driver . He started in Formula 1 for the Minardi team in 2004 and drove in the GP2 series from 2005 to 2006 .

Career

In order to start a career as an amateur kart driver at the age of 10 , even though the minimum age to compete was 12, he lied to the then director of La Pista d'Oro , a kart circuit in Rome, about his age.

He gained his first experience as a racing driver in 1997 in the Italian Formula Renault . In 1998 he won the title and rose to the European Formula Renault. He won the European title in 1999, after which he devoted himself to British Formula 3 , which brought him fifth in 2000 and fourth in 2001. After other similar European series, it caught the attention of Minardi, who tested it in 2003; the bigger hurdle in his career, however, was to raise enough financial support for Minardi in 2004 to participate.

Although Bruni eventually got a cockpit at Minardi and took part in the 2004 Formula 1 World Championship , he had to make do with a car that was decidedly less advanced than most of the other participants. He and only one other participant this season did not score any World Championship points.

In 2005 Bruni drove in the GP2 series , a formula championship included in the F1 support package and intended as a junior series. He won his first GP2 race in Barcelona on May 7th. Shortly before the races in Monza in September, he left the Coloni GP2 team and joined the Durango team , where he took a pole position for the next event at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium .

In 2006 , Bruni also started in Formula GP2. This time he competed with the Trident Racing team. He won the races at Imola and Hockenheim and finished the season in seventh place.

In 2007 he switched to the FIA GT Championship , where he competed with the AF Corse team in the GT2 class. He finished the 2007 season together with his teammate Stéphane Ortelli after three victories in third place overall. In the 2008 season , Bruni will also compete in the FIA ​​GT Championship. With his new team-mate Toni Vilander , he won the GT2 class title after five class wins. At the same time, Bruni competed in the Le Mans Series with Robert Bell . Bruni won three of the five championship races with Bell, but at the last race at Silverstone the race calendars of both series collided. Bruni decided in favor of the FIA ​​GT and was therefore only runner-up behind team-mate Bell. In the 2009 Le Mans Series season he continued to form a driver pairing with Bell and won two 1000 km races in the GT2 class, but still finished the championship behind Marc Lieb and Richard Lietz . At the same time, he continued to compete in the FIA ​​GT with Toni Vilander and although he finished the drivers' championship behind Richard Westbrook , he contributed to winning the AF Corse team championship with several class wins.

statistics

Successes in the GP2 series

season	Team name	No.	run	Pole positions	Victories	Final placement
2005	Coloni Motorsport	17/25	19th	2	1	9.
2006	Trident Racing	26th	21st	2	2	7th

Statistics in Formula 1

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
2004	Wilux Minardi Cosworth	Minardi PS04B	Ford Cosworth 3.0 V10	18th	-	-	-	-	-	-	25th
total				18th	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th
2004
	DNF	14th	17th	DNF	DNF	DNF	14th	DNF	DNF	18th	16	17th	14th	DNF	DNF	DNF	16	17th

Legend
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
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2008	Risi Competizione	Ferrari F430 GTC	Mika Salo	Jaime Melo	19th place and class win
2009	AF Corse	Ferrari F430 GTC	Luís Pérez Companc	Matias Russo	Rank 26
2010	AF Corse	Ferrari F430 GTC	Pierre Kaffer	Jamie Melo	failure	Engine failure
2011	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GTC	Giancarlo Fisichella	Toni Vilander	Rank 13
2012	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GTC	Giancarlo Fisichella	Toni Vilander	17th place and class win
2013	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Giancarlo Fisichella	Matteo Malucelli	Rank 22
2014	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Giancarlo Fisichella	Toni Vilander	Rank 13 and class win
2015	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Giancarlo Fisichella	Toni Vilander	Rank 25
2016	AF Corse	Ferrari 488 GTE	Alessandro Pier Guidi	James Calado	failure
2018	Porsche GT Team	Porsche 991 RSR GTE	Frédéric Makowiecki	Richard Lietz	Rank 16
2019	Porsche GT Team	Porsche 991 RSR GTE	Frédéric Makowiecki	Richard Lietz	Rank 21

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2008	Risi Competizione	Ferrari F430 GTC	Jaime Melo	Mika Salo	failure	accident
2009	Advanced Engineering Pecom Racing Team	Ferrari F430 GTC	Luís Pérez Companc	Matias Russo	Rank 8
2010	Risi Competizione	Ferrari F430 GTC	Jaime Melo	Pierre Kaffer	Rank 6 and class win
2011	AF Corse	Ferrari F430 GTC	Giancarlo Fisichella	Pierre Kaffer	Rank 15
2012	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia	Giancarlo Fisichella	Toni Vilander	Disqualified
2013	Risi Competizione	Ferrari 458 Italia	Olivier Beretta	Matteo Malucelli	Rank 16
2014	Risi Competizione	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Giancarlo Fisichella	Matteo Malucelli	failure	accident
2018	Porsche GT Team	Porsche 911 RSR	Laurens Vanthoor	Earl Bamber	Rank 12

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