Leonardo Augusto Antunes de Souza (born January 9, 1986) is a Brazilian racing driver.
Career
Karting De Souza was born in Curitiba. He began racing karts in 1999 at the age of 13, where he won three South Brazilian championships in 2001, 2003 and 2004, besides the State championships of Parana and Santa Catarina in 2001 and 2003 respectively.
Formula Renault and Formula Three In 2005 and 2006, de Souza competed in the Brazilian Formula Renault with his own team, Kemba Racing. In 2007, with the extinction of the series he and the team didn't compete anywhere during the season, only returning to the track in 2008 in the South American Formula 3, where he scored regularly in the last three stages of the championship in Santa Cruz do Sul (RS), Curitiba (PR) and Interlagos (SP) and ending the year in ninth place. In 2009, he and the team saw their first win at their home track in Curitiba, unfortunately the lack of better performances due to mechanical failures hurt their fight in the championship and he could only finish the season again in the ninth place.
For 2010 and 2011 seasons, de Souza continued to race with his own team in South America Formula 3 and was able to get another two wins (at Londrina in 2010 and Rio de Janeiro in 2011) and more podiums finishes, but unfortunately poor reliability meant that again he would finish the championship way behind the main contenders.
During the 2012 season, de Souza was in contention for the title until the first race of the last round when he suffered a mechanical problem and did not finish the race, confirming the title for that year champion Fernando "Kid" Rezende, he dropped to third place overall in the last race, his best championship result in the series standings.
De Souza missed the beginning of the 2013 season but took two wins and two second places in the last four races of the year, he has the distinction of winning the last race of the South America Formula 3 as the series transformed into the new Formula 3 Brasil for the 2014 season, the 2013 and last champion of the series is Felipe Guimaraes.
De Souza wasn't successful during 2014 and 2015 when the series turned into Formula 3 Brasil, claiming only one win in his category and one podium finish in those two seasons.
Racing record
Career summary Season Series Team name Races Poles Wins Podiums F/Laps Points Position 2005 Formula Renault Brasil Kemba Racing 14 0 0 0 0 18 21st 2006 Formula Renault Brasil Eng Makers 10 0 0 0 0 8 18th 2008 Formula 3 Sudamericana Kemba Racing 14 0 0 0 0 24 8th 2009 Formula 3 Sudamericana Kemba Racing 14 0 1 2 0 33 9th 2010 Formula 3 Sudamericana Kemba Racing 20 0 1 4 1 171 5th 2011 Formula 3 Sudamericana Kemba Racing 20 0 1 7 0 164 5th2012 Formula 3 Sudamericana Kemba Racing 12 0 1 4 0 84 3rd2013 Formula 3 Sudamericana Kemba Racing 8 1 2 5 2 115 4th2014 Formula 3 Brasil Kemba Racing 10 0 1 1 0 49 6th2015 Formula 3 Brasil Kemba Racing 12 0 0 0 0 15 9th2016 Formula 3 Brasil Kemba Racing 8 0 0 1 0 27 9th2017 Formula 3 Brasil Kemba Racing 10 0 0 0 0 86 3rd *Season still in progress.
Complete Formula 3 Brasil results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Pos Points 2014 Kemba Racing TAR1 TAR2 SCS1 SCS2 BRA1 BRA2 INT1 INT2 CUR11 CUR12 VEL1 VEL2 CUR21 CUR22 GOI1 GOI2 6th 49 2015 Kemba Racing CUR11 CUR12 VEL1 VEL2 SCS1 SCS2 CUR21 CUR22 CAS1 CAS2 CGR1 CGR2 CUR31 CUR32 INT1 INT2 9th 15 2016 Kemba Racing VEL1 VEL2 SCS1 SCS2 CAS1 CAS2 CAS3 INT1 INT2 LON1 LON2 CUR1 CUR2 GOI1 GOI2 INT1 INT2 9th 27 2017 Kemba Racing CUR1 CUR2 INT11 INT12 VEC1 VEC2 INT21 INT22 SCS1 SCS2 LON1 LON2 GOI1 GOI2 INT31 INT32 3rd 86
References
External links
Formula 3 Sudamericana official website drivers page in Kemba Racing website Interview concerning his stolen equipment at Rio de Janeiro