Mário de Araújo Cabral

Mário de Araújo Cabral

Nation:	Portugal
Automobile world championship
First start:	1959 Portuguese Grand Prix
Last start:	1964 Italian Grand Prix
Constructors
1959, 1960 and 1963  Scuderia Centro Sud  1964  Derrington-Francis Racing Team
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 4th - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Mário Veloso de Araújo Cabral (born January 15, 1934 in Cedofeita ; † August 17, 2020 ) was a Portuguese racing driver .

Career

Mário "Nicha" de Cabral was the outstanding racing driver in Portugal in the 1950s and 1960s. Cabral, who never aspired to a professional racing career, drove his first Grand Prix in the 1959 Formula 1 season . At the Portuguese Grand Prix he drove a Cooper T51 from Scuderia Centro Sud to tenth place.

The racing career was repeatedly interrupted by military missions (Cabral was a paratrooper in the Portuguese army). So he only came to racing occasionally. He competed twice more for the Scuderia Centro Sud in Formula 1, in the 1964 Italian Grand Prix he contested the race with the defeated Derrington-Francis ATS100 . He did not score points for the World Cup.

In 1965, Cabral was so badly injured in a Formula 2 race in Rouen that his career seemed over. In 1968, however, he returned and drove sports car races until the mid-1970s. Among others, he drove the Porsche 917 by David Piper . He also competed regularly in races in Africa, including some runs in the Angolan Sports Car Series .

statistics

Statistics in Formula 1

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1959	Scuderia Centro Sud	Cooper T51	Maserati 2.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1960	Scuderia Centro Sud	Cooper T51	Maserati 2.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1963	Scuderia Centro Sud	Cooper T60	Climax 1.5 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1964	Derrington-Francis Racing Team	Derrington-Francis ATS100	ATS 1.5 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				4th	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
1959
							10
1960
								DNF
1963
						DNF	DNS
1964
								DNF

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
1972	Ecurie Bonnier Switzerland	Lola T280	Jorge de Bagration	Hughes de Fierlant	failure	Clutch damage

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th
1958	Manuel Nogueria Pinto	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
						21st
1959	Scuderia Centro Sud	Maserati 300S	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
					8th
1965	Autodelta Iso Rivolta	Alfa Romeo GTA Iso Grifo	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
									DNF		DNF				DNF
1968	Mike de Udy	Porsche 906	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
					19th
1970	André Wicky	Porsche 907	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
						15th			9
1971	Wicky Racing Team David Piper	Porsche 908 Porsche 917	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
										10			DNF
1972	Ecurie Bonnier	Lola T290 Lola T280	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
										DNF	DNF
1973	Ecurie Bonnier	Lola T292	DAY	VAL	DIJ	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
						DNF
1975	Alroy Racing	March 75S	DAY	MUG	DIJ	MON	SPA	BY	ONLY	ZEL	WAT
						DNF			DNF	14th

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Web links

• Image. Mário de Araújo Cabral
• Mario Cabral at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nicha Cabral: Morreu o primeiro piloto português na F1 , Motor 24, August 17, 2020.