Enrique Bernoldi

Enrique Bernoldi Bernoldi in 2007, as a Stock Car Brasil driver Nationality Brazilian Born October 19, 1978 (1978-10-19) Curitiba, Brazil 2012 FIA GT1 World Championship Debut season 2010 Current team Sumo Power GT Car no. 20 Starts 24 Wins 1 Poles 1 Fastest laps 0 Best finish 15th in 2010 Previous series 2009 2009 2008 2007, 2009 2005 2003–04 2001–02 1999–2000 1997–98 1995–96 1995–96 FIA GT Championship Superleague Formula IndyCar Series Stock Car Brasil TC 2000 World Series by Nissan Formula One Formula 3000 British Formula Three Championship British Formula Renault Championship Formula Renault Eurocup Championship titles 1996 1996 British Formula Renault Formula Renault Eurocup Born 19 October 1978 (1978-10-19) Formula One World Championship career Active years 2001–2002 Teams Arrows Races 29 (28 starts) Championships 0 Wins 0 Podiums 0 Career points 0 Pole positions 0 Fastest laps 0 First race 2001 Australian Grand Prix Last race 2002 German Grand Prix

Enrique Antônio Langue e Silvério de Bernoldi (born 19 October 1978 in Curitiba) is a Brazilian racing driver who raced for the Arrows Formula One team. He currently drives in the FIA GT1 World Championship for Vitaphone Racing.

Racing career

Early career

Bernoldi started out in karting in 1987 at age nine and won many regional and national titles before heading to Europe at age 17 to try out car racing. He entered Formula Alfa Boxer in Italy, where he finished fourth in his first attempt. He then entered the British Formula Renault Championship and was immediately successful, winning the final round of the series. The following year he took in nine victories and the title, before entering British Formula Three with the Promatecme team in 1997. Bernoldi took his first victory at Spa en route to fifth in the championship. He remained with Promatecme during the following year to take six more victories, but ultimately fell short of beating compatriot Mario Haberfeld to the title.

In 1999, Bernoldi progressed to the Formula 3000 championship with the Red Bull Junior Team. In spite of only scoring two points, he was retained by the team for 2000. His points tally of five didn't reflect his pace, as various mechanical issues cost him two victories at Catalunya and the Nurburgring as well as a fourth place at Imola. Had he scored those points, he would have finished third in the championship, ahead of Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso, a fact reflected in Red Bull's desire to see their protégé promoted to Formula One in 2001 with the Sauber team. When Peter Sauber eschewed Bernoldi in favour of the then-unknown Kimi Raikkonen, Red Bull reduced their funding of the Swiss cars, and in turn their sponsorship presence, and instead negotiated with the Arrows team to secure Bernoldi a seat.

Formula One

Bernoldi follows Arrows team-mate Heinz-Harald Frentzen at the 2002 French Grand Prix.

During 2001, Bernoldi did a respectable job for the Arrows team, sometimes matching vastly more experienced teammate Jos Verstappen. However, he gained notoriety for his efforts at the Monaco Grand Prix, where he held up the much faster David Coulthard for 35 laps. The Scot had qualified on pole position and was a championship contender at that stage of the season, but had suffered launch control failure on the grid and had to start from last place. After the race, Bernoldi was unjustly slandered by irritated McLaren Mercedes executives that he was never going to make a good racing driver, whilst Coulthard himself labelled Bernoldi an idiot, though he was not obliged to let Coulthard pass because both drivers were running on the same lap.

However, he was retained by Arrows for 2002. At Sepang he notably overtook Michael Schumacher, having been passed by the German as he attempted to fight through the field after a first-lap incident with Juan Pablo Montoya. However, his efforts in 2002 against Heinz-Harald Frentzen were not perceived as impressive and so there was little demand for him when Arrows closed down three-quarters of the way into the 2002 season. He subsequently switched to the Nissan World Series.

2003-2007

Without an F1 ride for the 2003 season, Bernoldi stepped down to the World Series by Nissan and finished 6th in points with two wins. He continued in the series in 2004 and finished 3rd in points with another pair of wins. In mid-2004 he was named a test driver for BAR. He was largely inactive in 2005, aside from a single race in Argentina's TC 2000 Touring Car series, but in 2007 he drove in Stock Car Brasil, competing in 11 of the 12 races and finishing 13th in the championship with a pair of podium finishes.

Bernoldi practicing for the 2008 Indianapolis 500

IndyCar Series

For 2008 Bernoldi chased a drive in the USA, and signed with Rocketsports for the 2008 Champ Car World Series. However, after the announcement of unification between Champ Car and the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series, Rocketsports chose not to compete in the merged series. It was later announced that Bernoldi would drive for Conquest Racing in the newly combined series' 2008 season. He shone at the first road-course event at St. Pete's, and also finished in the top 5 of the final ChampCar sanctioned race at Long Beach.

However, his best result since then has been a 15th place, as he has had to adjust to open-wheel oval racing. A collision with team-mate Jamie Camara at Watkins Glen lead him to publicly criticize the team, leading to speculation that he might leave them. A thumb injury put him out of the final two races of the season, so he was replaced by Alex Tagliani.

Bernoldi did not return for the 2009 IndyCar season

2009-present

For 2009, Bernoldi was the full time driver of Flamengo and also he ran a partial schedule in Stock Car Brasil. He also competed in the FIA GT Championship for Sangari Team Brazil.

In 2010, he raced in the new FIA GT1 World Championship for Vitaphone Racing.

In 2011, he continues to race in the revised FIA GT1 World Championship, campaigning a Nissan GT-R for the Sumo Power GT team.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	Points	Final Placing
1995	Formula Renault Europe	?	?	1	?	?	?
	Formula Alfa Boxer	?	?	?	?	?	4th
	France Formule Renault	?	1	?	1	?	?
1996	Renault Spider Europe	Team Ghinzani	?	0	1	38	12th
	Formula Renault Europe	Tatuus JD Motorsport	11	8	?	218	1st
1997	Macau Grand Prix	Promatecme	1	0	0	N/A	3rd
	Masters of Formula 3	?	1	0	0	N/A	NC
	British F3 Championship	Promatecme	14	1	0	127	5th
1998	Macau Grand Prix	?	1	0	0	N/A	3rd
	Masters of Formula 3	Promatecme	1	0	0	N/A	2nd
	British F3 Championship	Promatecme	15	6	4	163	2nd
1999	Formula One	Sauber	Test Driver
	International Formula 3000	Red Bull Junior	8	0	0	2	18th
2000	Formula One	Sauber	Test Driver
	International Formula 3000	Red Bull Junior	10	0	1	5	16th
2001	Formula One	Arrows	17	0	0	0	21st
2002	Formula One	Arrows	11	0	0	0	22nd
2003	World Series by Nissan	GD Racing	18	2	2	112	6th
2004	World Series by Nissan	GD Racing	18	2	2	113	3rd
	Formula One	British American Racing	Test Driver
2005	Formula One	British American Racing	Test Driver
2006	Formula One	Honda F1	Test Driver
	TC 2000	Honda Petrobras Lubrax	1	0	0	0	NC
2007	Stock Car Brasil	Biosintética	11	0	0	58	13th
2008	Champ Car World Series	Conquest Racing	1	0	0	0	4th
	IndyCar Series	Conquest Racing	14	0	0	220	22nd
2009	Stock Car Brasil	RCM Motorsport	4	0	0	1	30th
	FIA GT	Sangari Team Brazil	5	1	1	25	11th
	Superleague Formula	CR Flamengo	10	0	0	191	16th

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	DC	Points
1999	Red Bull Junior	IMO 9	MON 15	CAT Ret	MAG 12	SIL 20	A1R Ret	HOC 5	HUN 8	SPA DNQ	NÜR DNQ	18th	2
2000	Red Bull Junior	IMO Ret	SIL 4	CAT Ret	NÜR Ret	MON Ret	MAG 23	A1R 14	HOC 6	HUN 6	SPA 10	16th	5

Complete Formula One results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	WDC	Points
2001	Orange Arrows Asiatech	Arrows A22	Asiatech V10	AUS Ret	MAL Ret	BRA Ret	SMR 10	ESP Ret	AUT Ret	MON 9	CAN Ret	EUR Ret	FRA Ret	GBR 14	GER 8	HUN Ret	BEL 12	ITA Ret	USA 13	JPN 14	21st	0
2002	Orange Arrows	Arrows A23	Cosworth V10	AUS DSQ	MAL Ret	BRA Ret	SMR Ret	ESP Ret	AUT Ret	MON 12	CAN Ret	EUR 10	GBR Ret	FRA DNQ	GER Ret	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	JPN	22nd	0

American open–wheel racing results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

IndyCar

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Rank	Points
2008	Conquest Racing	HMS Ret	STP 5	MOT1 DNP	LBH1 4	KAN Ret	INDY 15	MIL 16	TXS Ret	IOW 17	RIR Ret	WGL Ret	NSH Ret	MDO Ret	EDM 16	KTY Ret	SNM 21	DET DNP	CHI DNP	SRF2	22nd	220

¹ Run on same day.

² Non-points paying, exhibition race.

Years	Teams	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums (Non-win)	Top 10s (Non-podium)	Indianapolis 500 Wins	Championships
1	1	15	0	0	0	2	0	0

Indy 500 results

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish	Team
2008	Dallara	Honda	29	15	Conquest

Superleague Formula

(Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Operator	1		2		3		4		5		6		Position	Points
2009	Flamengo	Delta Motorsport	MAG		ZOL		DON		EST		MOZ		JAR		16th	191
			6	8	7	18	18	14	13	3			11	12

Super Final Results

Year	1	2	3	4	5	6
2009	MAG DNQ	ZOL N/A	DON DNQ	EST DNQ	MOZ	JAR

Complete GT1 World Championship results

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pos	Points
2010	Vitaphone Racing Team	Maserati	ABU QR Ret	ABU CR 6	SIL QR 9	SIL CR 15	BRN QR 7	BRN CR 6	PRI QR 5	PRI CR Ret	SPA QR 11	SPA CR 4	NÜR QR 7	NÜR CR 12	ALG QR 13	ALG CR Ret	NAV QR Ret	NAV CR 12	INT QR 4	INT CR 1	SAN QR 16	SAN CR 4	15th	53
2011	Sumo Power GT	Nissan	ABU QR 4	ABU CR Ret	ZOL QR 12	ZOL CR Ret	ALG QR 8	ALG CR 7	SAC QR 4	SAC CR 4	SIL QR 4	SIL CR 7	NAV QR Ret	NAV CR 12	PRI QR 10	PRI CR 7	ORD QR 5	ORD CR Ret	BEI QR 10	BEI CR 6	SAN QR 4	SAN CR 4	12th	64

External links

• Official website
• IndyCar.com Profile

Sporting positions
Preceded by Guy Smith	British Formula Renault UK series champion 1996	Succeeded by Marc Hynes
Preceded by Cyrille Sauvage	Eurocup Formula Renault champion 1996	Succeeded by Jeffrey van Hooydonk