Norberto Fontana

Norberto Fontana

Nation:	Argentina
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	1997 French Grand Prix
Last start:	1997 European Grand Prix
Constructors
1997  clean
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 4th - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Norberto Fontana (born January 20, 1975 in Arrecifes ) is an Argentine automobile racing driver who u. a. started in Formula 1 for a short time .

Career

Fontana drove karting for a long time . In 1992 he became champion in the Argentine Formula Renault . In 1993 he became champion in the Swiss Formula Ford . In the same year he drove in the European Formula Ford and came third in the overall standings. In 1994 he started in the German Formula 3 championship . Fontana finished the season in 6th place. In 1995 he became a Formula 1 test driver at Sauber and champion of the German Formula 3. In 1996 he continued to be a test driver at Sauber and at the same time drove races in Formula Nippon and in the International Formula 3000 Championship .

Fontana competed in four Formula 1 races for the Sauber team in the 1997 season . His first race was the French Grand Prix , where he retired after a driving error. At the British Grand Prix and the German Grand Prix he achieved his best placings with ninth place each. After his fourth Grand Prix race at the European Grand Prix , he retired from Formula 1.

Fontana then drove back to Formula Nippon in 1997 and 1998 . In 1999 he drove in the International Formula 3000 Championship and finished 15th at the end of the year. In 2000 he contested a few races in the ChampCar World Series . At the same time, he drove a Toyota in the Argentine touring car championship . In 2001 he took part in three races of the International Formula 3000 Championship.

From 2002 to 2010 he drove again in the Argentine touring car championship. In 2002 and 2010 he won this series with a Toyota.

statistics

Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1997	Red Bull Sauber Petronas	Clean C16	Petronas 3.0 V10	4th	-	-	-	-	-	-	23.
total				4th	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th
1997
								DNF	9	9							14th

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

literature

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

Web links

Commons : Norberto Fontana  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Career stations on Speedsport-Magazine.de