Bruno Furtado Junqueira (born November 4, 1976) is a Brazilian professional racing driver who most recently competed in the IRL IndyCar Series. He is a former Formula 3000 champion and three-time runner-up in the Champ Car World Series.

Racing career

Early career Junqueira started racing karts in Brazil and dominated Formula Three Sudamericana before moving to Formula 3000. He tested for the Williams Formula One team for many years, and came close to landing a race drive in 2000, losing out to Jenson Button. He rebounded from this setback, winning that year's International Formula 3000 Championship.

Champ Car In 2001, Junqueira joined the CART Championship Car series driving for Chip Ganassi Racing where he had immediate success, capturing a win in his fourteenth race and finished second in points with two wins the following year. In 2003 Ganassi left to the rival Indy Racing League and Junqueira joined Newman/Haas Racing, the top team remaining in what was now the Champ Car World Series. He captured series runner up honors in both 2003 and 2004, capturing two wins in each of those seasons. He also drove in the Indianapolis 500 four times for both Ganassi and Newman/Haas in one-off appearances. In 2002, he qualified for the pole position, and he twice finished fifth in the race.

In the 2005 Indianapolis 500, Junqueira crashed head-on into the turn two wall after he passed backmarker A. J. Foyt IV, but Foyt inattentively did not see Junqueira's car under him and struck his right-rear corner. He suffered a concussion and a fractured vertebrae and missed the remainder of the 2005 Champ Car season. Junqueira was the Champ Car points leader at the time, having won the second race of the year in Monterrey, Mexico. Veteran Oriol Servia took his place and finished runner-up in the standings.

In 2006, Junqueira returned to the cockpit at Newman/Haas but for the first time in his career he did not win a race and only finished fifth in the championship while his teammate Sébastien Bourdais won his third straight title. He was replaced in the second Newman/Haas car in 2007 by rookie Graham Rahal and Junqueira signed to drive for Dale Coyne Racing as teammate to the inexperienced Katherine Legge. Junquiera finished seventh in the championship including three consecutive podium finishes late in the season.

IndyCar Series

Prior to the 2008 Indycar Series Season, Champ Car unified with the rival Indy Racing League. Junqueira drove the No. 18 car for the Coyne team's first season in the new series, alongside Brazilian rookie countryman Mario Moraes. His Indianapolis 500 was ruined by a mirror falling off, causing him to lose three laps during repairs. His season was not a great success, as he finished twentieth overall with only two top-ten finishes, both on road courses.

Junqueira was out of a drive for 2009. He made a deal with Conquest Racing for the Indianapolis 500 and qualified the car on Bump Day, but was asked to withdraw for the team's regular driver Alex Tagliani, who had failed to qualify his car due to a technical failure.

In 2011, driving for A. J. Foyt Racing, Junqueira qualified his car for the 500 in nineteenth position, only to once again have to give up his chance to drive in the actual race. Foyt sold the unsponsored car's entry to Andretti Autosport, whose driver Ryan Hunter-Reay had been the final car bumped from the field.INDYCAR: Junqueira Out, Hunter-Reay In At Indy by Robin Miller, May 23, 2011 for SpeedTV.com In 2012, he entered in for an injured Josef Newgarden at the first Grand Prix of Baltimore.

Racing record

Career summary Season Series Team name Races Poles Wins Points Position 1997 Formula Three Sudamericana PropCar Racing 12 4 7 171 1st 1998 Intl. Formula 3000 Draco Racing 12 0 0 3 14th 1999 Intl. Formula 3000 Den Blå Avis 10 1 1 20 5th Petrobras Junior Team Formula One Williams-Supertec Test driver 2000 Intl. Formula 3000 Petrobras Junior Team 10 2 4 48 1st 2001 CART World Series Ganassi 20 1 1 68 16th Indy Racing League 1 0 0 30 37th 2002 CART World Series Ganassi 19 4 2 164 2nd Indy Racing League 1 1 0 1 51st 2003 CART World Series Newman/Haas 18 2 2 199 2nd 2004 Champ Car World Series Newman/Haas 14 1 2 341 2nd IndyCar Series 1 0 0 30 28th 2005 Champ Car World Series Newman/Haas 2 0 1 59 19th IndyCar Series 1 0 0 10 36th 2006 Champ Car World Series Newman/Haas 14 1 0 219 5th 2006–07 A1 Grand Prix A1 Team Brazil 6 0 0 9 18th 2007 Champ Car World Series Dale Coyne 14 0 0 233 7th 2007–08 A1 Grand Prix A1 Team Brazil 4 0 0 44 14th 2008 IndyCar Series Dale Coyne 17 0 0 256 20th 2010 IndyCar Series FAZZT Race Team 1 0 0 13 39thFórmula TruckDF Motorsport10002217th2011American Le Mans Series - GTRSR Racing800626thStock Car BrasilBassani200229th2012American Le Mans Series - PCRSR Racing1001118 3rdStock Car BrasilBassani100234st2013American Le Mans Series - PCRSR Racing901957th2014United SportsCar Championship - PCRSR Racing100020110thStock Car BrasilFull Time Sports1000NC2015United SportsCar Championship - PCRSR Racing1012301 3rd2016IMSA SportsCar Championship - PCBAR1 Motorsports2005621st2017IMSA SportsCar Championship - PCBAR1 Motorsports1003218thNASCAR Whelen Euro Series - Elite 1Mishumotors2005737th2018 IMSA SportsCar Championship - GTD3GT Racing1001659th2026Michelin Pilot Challenge - TCRBaker Racing * Includes points scored by other Team Brazil drivers.

Complete International Formula 3000 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 DC Points 1998 Draco Engineering OSCRet IMO16 CAT16 SIL9 MONRet PAURet A1R6 HOC5 HUNRet SPARet PER18 NÜRRet 18th 3 1999 Den Blå Avis Petrobras Junior Team IMORet MON6 CAT4 MAGRet SIL2 A1RDNQ HOC1 HUN15 SPARet NÜR16 5th 20 2000 Petrobras Junior Team IMO2 SIL5 CAT1 NÜR1 MON1 MAG13 A1R7 HOCRet HUN1 SPA9 1st 48

American open–wheel racing results (key)

CART/Champ Car Series Year Team No. Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Rank Points Ref 2001 Chip Ganassi Racing 4 Lola B01/00 Toyota RV8EMTY22LBH9TXSNHNZR7MOT24MIL4DET19POR23CLE23TOR13MIS9CHI17MDO13ROA1VAN12LAU11ROC25HOU23LS7SRF21FON4 16th 68 2002 Target Chip Ganassi Racing Lola B02/00 ToyotaMTY11LBH17MOT1MIL10LS4POR2CHI2TOR14CLE13VAN9MDO4ROA3MTL13DEN1ROC5MIA5SRF14FON9MXC3 2nd 164 2003 Newman/Haas Racing 1 Lola B02/00 Ford XFESTP3MTY5LBH3BRH2LAU4MIL17LS2POR4CLE3TOR3VAN2ROA1MDO13MTL13DEN1MIA9MXC7SRF15FONNH 2nd 199 2004 6LBH2MTY2MIL6POR2CLE2TOR18VAN4ROA15DEN3MTL1LS2LSV2SRF1MXC2 2nd 341^ 2005 2LBH3MTY1MILPORCLETOREDMSJODENMTLLSVSRFMXC 19th 59 2006LBH15HOU10MTY10MIL15POR4CLE2TOR8EDM15SJO17DEN2MTL12ROA2SRF6MXC4 5th 219 2007 Dale Coyne Racing 19 Panoz DP01 Cosworth XFELSV7LBH6HOU7POR13CLE16MTL17TOR5EDM7SJO7ROA9ZOL2ASN3SRF3MXC7 7th 233

^ New points system implemented in 2004.

IndyCar Series Year Team No. Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Rank Points Ref 2001Chip Ganassi Racing 50G-Force OldsmobilePHXHMSATLINDY5TXSPPIRRIRKANNSHKTYSTLCHITX2 37th 30 2002 33 ChevroletHMSPHXFONNZRINDY31TXSPPIRRIRKANNSHMISKTYSTLCHITX2 51st 1 2004Newman/Haas Racing 36HondaHMSPHXMOTINDY5TXSRIRKANNSHMILMISKTYPPIRNZRCHIFONTX2 28th 30 2005 PanozHMSPHXSTPMOTINDY30TXSRIRKANNSHMILMISKTYPPIRSNMCHIWGLFON 36th 10 2008 Dale Coyne Racing 18 DallaraHMS23STP24MOT1DNPKAN15INDY20MIL18TXS15IOWDNSRIR23WGL6NSH15MDO13EDM14KTY14SNM17DET7CHI20SRF21520th256 Panoz DP01 Cosworth XFELBH112 2009 Conquest Racing 36DallaraHondaSTPLBHKANINDYRplMILTXSIOWRIRWGLTOREDMKTYMDOSNMCHIMOTHMS NC - 2010 FAZZT Race Team 33SAOSTPALALBHKANINDY32TXSIOWWGLTOREDMMDOSNMCHIKTYMOTHMS 39th 13 2011 A. J. Foyt Enterprises 41STPALALBHSAOINDYRplTXS1TXS2MILIOWTOREDMMDONHMSNMBALMOTKTYLVS47th4 2012 Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing 67 Dallara DW12STPALALBHSAOINDYDETTXSMILIOWTOREDMMDOSNMBAL19FON35th12 1 Races run on same day. 2 Non-points-paying, exhibition race.

Years Teams Races Poles Wins Podiums(Non-win) Top 10s(Non-podium) Indianapolis 500Wins Championships9726100400

Indianapolis 500 Year Chassis Engine Start Finish Team 2001 G-Force Oldsmobile 20 5 Chip Ganassi Racing 2002 G-Force Chevrolet 1 31 Chip Ganassi Racing 2004 G-Force Honda 4 5 Newman/Haas Racing 2005 Panoz Honda 12 30 Newman/Haas Racing 2008 Dallara Honda 15 20 Dale Coyne Racing 2009 Dallara HondaReplaced byA. Tagliani Conquest Racing 2010 Dallara Honda 25 32 FAZZT Race Team 2011 Dallara HondaReplaced byR. Hunter-Reay A. J. Foyt Enterprises

Complete American Le Mans Series results Year Entrant Class Chassis Engine Tyres 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rank Points 2006 Multimatic Motorsports Team Panoz GT2 Panoz Esperante GT-LM Ford (Élan) 5.0L V8 SEBovr:Retcls:Ret TEX MID LIM UTA POR AME MOS PET MON NC - 2011 Jaguar RSR GT Jaguar XKR GT2 Jaguar 5.0 L V8 SEBovr:Retcls:Ret LNBovr:12cls:6 LIMovr:Retcls:Ret MOSovr:29cls:15 MIDovr:21cls:12 AMEovr:Retcls:Ret BALovr:DNScls:DNS MONovr:Retcls:Ret PETovr:Retcls:Ret 26th 6 2012 RSR Racing PC Oreca FLM09 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 SEBovr:51cls:7LNBovr:30cls:7MONovr:4cls:2LIMovr:27cls:5MOSovr:6cls:1MIDovr:10cls:4AMEovr:8cls:4BALovr:10cls:2VIRovr:12cls:4PETovr:8cls:2 3rd 118 2013 RSR Racing PC Oreca FLM09 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 SEBovr:12cls:4 LNBovr:5cls:3 MONovr:29cls:7 LIMovr:5cls:1 MOSovr:21cls:5 AMEovr:3cls:1 BALovr:Retcls:Ret COTAovr:12cls:6 VIR PETovr:Retcls:Ret 7th 95

Complete A1 Grand Prix 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 18 19 20 21 22 DC Points 2006–07 Brazil NEDSPR NEDFEA CZESPR CZEFEA BEISPR BEIFEA MYSSPR MYSFEA IDNSPR IDNFEA NZLSPR NZLFEA AUSSPR AUSFEA RSASPR17 RSAFEA7 MEXSPRRet MEXFEA13 SHASPR SHAFEA GBRSPR12 GBRSPRRet 18th 9 2007–08 NEDSPR NEDFEA CZESPR CZEFEA MYSSPR MYSFEA ZHUSPR ZHUFEA NZLSPR NZLFEA AUSSPR AUSFEA RSASPRRet RSAFEA9 MEXSPR10 MEXFEA8 SHASPR SHAFEA GBRSPR GBRSPR 11th 44

Complete Stock Car Brasil results Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Rank Points 2011 RC3 Bassani Peugeot 408 CTB INT RBP VEL CGD RIO INT SAL SCZ LON BSB14 VEL22 30th 2 2012 RC3 Bassani Peugeot 408 INT CTB VEL RBP LON RIO SAL19 CAS TAR CTB BSB INT 34th 2 2014 Full Time Sports Chevrolet Sonic INT1Ret SCZ1 SCZ2 BRA1 BRA2 GOI1 GOI2 GOI1 CAS1 CAS2 CUR1 CUR2 VEL1 VEL2 SCZ1 SCZ2 TAR1 TAR2 SAL1 SAL2 CUR1 NC† 0† † Ineligible for championship points.

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results Year Team Class Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Rank Points 2014 RSR Racing PC Oreca FLM09 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 DAY9† SEB2 LGA3 KAN6 WGL9 IMS2 ELK9† VIR4 AUS11† ATL9 10th 201 2015 RSR Racing PC Oreca FLM09 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 DAY4 SEB6 LGA1 BEL5 WGL6 MOS4 LIM2 ELK1 AUS2 ATL6 3rd 301 2016 BAR1 Motorsports PC Oreca FLM09 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 DAY SEB LBH LGA BEL WGL MOS LIM ELK5 AUS4 ATL 21st 56 2017 BAR1 Motorsports PC Oreca FLM09 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 DAY SEB AUS BEL2 WGL MOS ELK ATL 18th 32 2018 3GT Racing GTD Lexus RC F GT3 Lexus 5.0 L V8 DAY15 SEB MOH BEL WGL MOS LIM ELK VIR LGA ATL 59th 16 † Did not complete sufficient laps in order to score points.

References

External links

Official Website IndyCar Driver Page