Luiz Razia
| Luiz Razia | |
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 Razia at Moscow City Racing 2011 |
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| Nationality |  Brazilian |
| Born | April 4, 1989 Barreiras (Brazil) |
| 2012 GP2 Series | |
| Debut season | 2009 |
| Current team | Team Air Asia |
| Car no. | 26 |
| Former teams | Scuderia Coloni Rapax Team |
| Starts | 56 |
| Wins | 1 |
| Poles | 1 |
| Fastest laps | 2 |
| Best finish | 11th in 2010 |
| Previous series | |
| 2005 2005–06 2006 2007–08 2007 2008–09-2011 |
Brazilian Formula Renault SudAm Formula Three F3000 Int. Masters Euroseries 3000 Formula Renault 3.5 Series GP2 Asia Series |
| Championship titles | |
| 2006 | SudAm Formula Three |
Luiz Tadeu Razia Filho (born April 4, 1989 in Barreiras) is a Brazilian racing driver.
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[edit] Career
[edit] Early career
Razia began his single seater career in 2005 in the South American Formula 3 championship. Driving for Dragão Motorsport, Razia finished sixth in the championship taking six podium finishes, including two race wins. During the season he also took part in the Brazilian Formula Renault 2.0 series, finishing the year tenth in the standings.
For 2006, Razia remained in South American Formula 3, taking eleven podium places and seven race wins to win the title ahead of Mario Moraes and Diego Nunes. He also contested three races in the Formula 3000 International Masters series for Charouz Racing, winning all three of them to finish eighth in the championship. He also became a rookie driver for A1 Team Brazil in the 2006–07 A1 Grand Prix season.
The following year, Razia moved to Europe to race in the Euroseries 3000 championship. He began the season with Fisichella Motor Sport, but made a mid-season change to ELK Motorsport following the departure of Alx Danielsson. During the season, he took four podium places to finish third in the Euroseries standings and fourth in the Italian championship, which ran as part of the main series. Razia also contested four races in the World Series by Renault when he replaced Ricardo Risatti at GD Racing.[1]
In 2008, he remained in Euroseries 3000 with ELK Motorsport, partnering Frenchman Nicolas Prost, the son of four-time Formula One World Champion Alain Prost.[2] In the Italian Formula 3000 standings he once again finished the season in fourth place, taking three podiums including his first race win at Misano.
Towards the end of 2006, Razia tested a GP2 car at Jerez for the Racing Engineering team, and in September 2008 he tested again for the team at the Paul Ricard circuit in Southern France.[3] It was confirmed on October 2, 2008 that Razia will race for Trust Team Arden in the 2008–09 GP2 Asia Series season.[4] He scored his first championship points in Qatar, with an 8th in the feature race and a 6th in the sprint race. In the final race of the season in Bahrain, Luiz claimed his first win, having started from the pole – due to the series' reverse-grid system – as he had finished 8th in the feature race the day before.
He signed for Fisichella Motor Sport to compete in the main GP2 Series in 2009.[5] After taking his first point at Autodromo Nazionale Monza during the feature race, Razia led from pole to take his first GP2 win, in a similar way to his win in Bahrain during GP2 Asia.
Razia joined Max Chilton in the Barwa Addax Team for the 2009–10 GP2 Asia Series season,[6] but both drivers were replaced before the second round of the championship, with Chilton moving to Ocean Racing Technology. Razia returned for the final round in Bahrain, replacing Daniel Zampieri at the Rapax Team.[7]
He remained with Rapax for the 2010 GP2 Series season. He started strongly, finishing the first six races in the points (including two podiums), but then endured a barren run until the final round of the season, eventually finishing eleventh in the drivers' championship. His team-mate, Pastor Maldonado, became the series champion, whilst Razia helped Rapax to claim the teams' title.
As part of his Formula One testing deal with the Lotus team, Razia signed to drive for the new AirAsia team in 2011, alongside fellow Lotus tester Davide Valsecchi. He scored no points in the Asia series, but finished sixth in the first race of the main series season, to earn the team three points in its inaugural main series start. He later took his first series pole position at the Hungaroring, and finished 12th in the championship.
[edit] Formula One
Razia made his first appearance in a Formula One team when he joined Virgin Racing, one of the new teams for the 2010 season, as a test driver. [8] Razia drove the car during the Young drivers test at the end of the season,[9] but did not participate in any Formula One sessions. Team Lotus hired him as a reserve and test driver for 2011, in conjunction with competing in the GP2 series with the Fernandes-owned Caterham AirAsia team.[10] Luiz drove in the first Free Practice session at the Chinese Grand Prix, in place of regular driver Jarno Trulli, setting the twenty-third time. Luiz will also compete in the Young Driver test for Team Lotus.
[edit] Racing record
[edit] Career summary
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | South American Formula Three | Dragão Motorsport | 18 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 52 | 6th |
| Brazilian Formula Renault 2.0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 10th | ||
| 2006 | South American Formula Three | Razia Sports | 16 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 99 | 1st |
| F3000 International Masters | Charouz Racing System | 3 | 3 | 0 | ? | 3 | 30 | 8th | |
| 2007 | Euroseries 3000 | Fisichella Motor Sport | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 57 | 3rd |
| ELK Motorsport | |||||||||
| Italian Formula 3000 | Fisichella Motor Sport | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 26 | 4th | |
| ELK Motorsport | |||||||||
| Formula Renault 3.5 Series | GD Racing | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38th | |
| 2008 | Euroseries 3000 | ELK Motorsport | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 52 | 4th |
| Italian Formula 3000 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 32 | 4th | ||
| 2008–09 | GP2 Asia Series | Trust Team Arden | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 13th |
| 2009 | GP2 Series | Fisichella Motor Sport | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 19th |
| Scuderia Coloni | |||||||||
| 2009–10 | GP2 Asia Series | Barwa Addax | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26th |
| Rapax Team | |||||||||
| 2010 | GP2 Series | Rapax Team | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 28 | 11th |
| Formula One | Virgin Racing | Test driver | |||||||
| 2011 | GP2 Asia Series | Team AirAsia | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25th |
| GP2 Series | Team AirAsia | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 12th | |
| Formula One | Team Lotus | Test driver | |||||||
[edit] Complete GP2 Series 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 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Fisichella Motor Sport | ESP FEA 16 |
ESP SPR 12 |
MON FEA 13 |
MON SPR 10 |
TUR FEA Ret |
TUR SPR 20 |
GBR FEA 20 |
GBR SPR Ret |
GER FEA Ret |
GER SPR 14 |
HUN FEA Ret |
HUN SPR Ret |
19th | 8 | ||||||||
| PartyPokerRacing.com Scuderia Coloni |
VAL FEA Ret |
VAL SPR 13 |
BEL FEA |
BEL SPR |
ITA FEA 8 |
ITA SPR 1 |
POR FEA 10 |
POR SPR 17 |
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| 2010 | Rapax Team | ESP FEA 7 |
ESP SPR 2 |
MON FEA 7 |
MON SPR 5 |
TUR FEA 5 |
TUR SPR 2 |
VAL FEA Ret |
VAL SPR Ret |
GBR FEA Ret |
GBR SPR 15 |
GER FEA Ret |
GER SPR 13 |
HUN FEA 10 |
HUN SPR Ret |
BEL FEA 16 |
BEL SPR 10 |
ITA FEA Ret |
ITA SPR 10 |
ABU FEA 7 |
ABU SPR 2 |
11th | 28 |
| 2011 | Team AirAsia | TUR FEA 6 |
TUR SPR 18 |
ESP FEA Ret |
ESP SPR Ret |
MON FEA Ret |
MON SPR 20 |
VAL FEA 6 |
VAL SPR 2 |
GBR FEA 17 |
GBR SPR 14 |
GER FEA Ret |
GER SPR 14 |
HUN FEA 3 |
HUN SPR 7 |
BEL FEA Ret |
BEL SPR Ret |
ITA FEA 10 |
ITA SPR 9 |
12th | 19 |
[edit] Complete GP2 Asia Series 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008–09 | Trust Team Arden | CHN FEA Ret |
CHN SPR 17 |
DUB FEA 10 |
DUB SPR C |
BHR1 FEA 14 |
BHR1 SPR 9 |
QAT FEA 8 |
QAT SPR 6 |
MYS FEA Ret |
MYS SPR Ret |
BHR2 FEA 8 |
BHR2 SPR 1 |
13th | 9 |
| 2009–10 | Barwa Addax Team | ABU1 FEA Ret |
ABU1 SPR 11 |
ABU2 FEA |
ABU2 SPR |
BHR1 FEA |
BHR1 SPR |
26th | 0 | ||||||
| Rapax Team | BHR2 FEA Ret |
BHR2 SPR 13 |
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| 2011 | Team AirAsia | ABU FEA Ret |
ABU SPR 16 |
ITA FEA Ret |
ITA SPR 14 |
25th | 0 |
[edit] Complete Formula One results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | WDC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Team Lotus | Lotus T128 | Renault RS27 2.4 V8 | AUS | MAL | CHN TD |
TUR | ESP | MON | CAN | EUR | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | SIN | JPN | KOR | IND | ABU | BRA TD |
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[edit] References
- ^ "Razia takes Risatti's place at GD". crash.net. 2007-09-07. http://www.crash.net/motorsport/renault/news/154082-0/razia_takes_risattis_place_at_gd.html. Retrieved 2008-10-07.
- ^ "Luiz Razia extends contract with Elk Motorsport". italiaracing.net. 2008-02-10. http://www.italiaracing.net/notizia.asp?id=17954&cat=33. Retrieved 2008-10-01.
- ^ "Champion team to test trio at Ricard". crash.net. 2008-09-24. http://www.crash.net/motorsport/gp2/news/169454-0/champion_team_to_test_trio_at_ricard.html. Retrieved 2008-10-01.
- ^ "Razia joins Arden, Villa to Super Nova". GPUpdate.net. 2008-10-02. http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/199903/razia-joins-arden-villa-to-super-nova/. Retrieved 2011-01-30.
- ^ "Razia joins Fisichella for GP2 season". autosport.com. 2009-02-27. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73454. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ O'Leary, Jamie (2009-10-21). "Razia joins Barwa Addax for Asia". autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/79649. Retrieved 2009-10-23.
- ^ "Luiz Razia set to join Rapax in Bahrain's finale". GP2 Series (GP2 Motorsport Limited). 2010-03-08. http://paddock.gp2series.com/index.php?post/2010/03/08/Luiz-Razia-set-to-join-Rapax-in-Bahrain-s-finale. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
- ^ Elizalde, Pablo; Glendenning, Mark (2009-12-15). "Parente, Razia join Virgin as testers". Autosport.com (Haymarket Publications). http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/80579. Retrieved 2009-12-15.
- ^ "Ricciardo still on top on session 3 in Abu Dhabi". Racer.com. 17 November 2010. http://www.racer.com/ricciardo-still-on-top-in-abu-dhabi/article/191024/. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
- ^ "2011 Test Driver Line-up". Teamlotus.co.uk (Team Lotus). 11 March 2011. http://www.teamlotus.co.uk/news/2011/raziavalsecchiteixeira. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
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| Preceded by Alberto Valerio |
Formula Three Sudamericana Champion 2006 |
Succeeded by Clemente de Faria, Jr. |
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