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Esteban Gutiérrez
NationalityMexico Mexican
Born (1991-08-05) August 5, 1991 (age 33)
Monterrey (Mexico)
GP2 Series career
Debut season2011
Current teamLotus ART
Car number6
Starts17
Wins1
Poles0
Fastest laps1
Best finish13th in 2011
Previous series
2011
2010
2009-2010
2009-2010
2008
2007		GP2 Asia Series
GP3 Series
Formula Three Euroseries
British F3
Formula BMW Europe
Formula BMW USA
Championship titles
2008
2010		Formula BMW Europe
GP3 Series
Awards
2007FBMW USA Rookie/Year

Esteban Manuel Gutiérrez Gutiérrez [1] (born August 5, 1991 in Monterrey, Nuevo León) is a Mexican race car driver. He currently competes in the GP2 racing series, and is a reserve driver for the Sauber Formula One team. Previously he won the inaugural 2010 GP3 season. In 2008, he won the Formula BMW Europe championship title,[2] becoming the youngest Mexican driver to win an International Championship at 17 years old.

Career

Karting

Gutiérrez started his career in 2004 in the Mexican Rotax Max Challenge (Karting) when he raced in the last 3 events of the season. In 2005, he again competed in the Mexican Rotax Max Challenge, and also raced in the Grand Nationals in South Bend, Indiana, where he finished third, which earned him a place at the World Finals in Malaysia, where he finished 22nd due to mechanical problems.

In 2006, Esteban won all 5 races in the Camkart Challenge Mexico, and again he raced in the Mexican Rotax Max Challenge. He also finished 4th in the Mexican Grand Nationals in Zacatecas, Mexico. 2007 saw him step up into the single-seater ranks, competing in the Formula BMW USA series. He finished 2nd in the overall championship, with 4 wins, 8 podiums and 9 pole positions, earning him Rookie of the Year honours. Despite finishing second, Gutiérrez finished some 87 points behind runaway champion Daniel Morad.

Formula BMW

Gutiérrez moved across to Europe to compete in the 2008 Formula BMW Europe championship - the championship's maiden season after the merger of the British and German series - and won the championship by 26 points from Marco Wittmann, winning 7 races (including six consecutively) to the German's one. In his final FBMW race, Gutiérrez finished 3rd in the World Final in Mexico City, beaten by Americas champion Alexander Rossi and Michael Christensen.

Formula Three Euroseries

For 2009, Gutiérrez moved up to the Formula Three Euroseries with a seat at reigning champions ART Grand Prix alongside Jules Bianchi, Valtteri Bottas and Adrien Tambay. He finished ninth in the championship, taking two podiums during the season.

GP3 Series

2010 saw Gutiérrez move to the GP3 Series, competing for ART Grand Prix. He joined Pedro Nunes and Alexander Rossi at the team.[3] Gutiérrez won the inaugural season with two races to spare by taking pole position, and the resultant two bonus points that came with it, for the final race weekend in Monza.[4]

GP2 Series

Gutiérrez graduated to the GP2 Series with ART for 2011, paired with Jules Bianchi. He finished eleventh in the Asia series. In the main series, he scored his first points in the Valencia feature race, and followed this up with his first series victory in the sprint race, also setting the fastest lap. He finished 13th in the drivers' championship.

Formula One

Gutiérrez tested a BMW Sauber Formula One car in December 2009 as part of his prize for winning the Formula BMW Europe championship.[5] Despite the team losing its BMW backing for 2010, he joined it as an observer for some race weekends and has been placed on the same training programme as race drivers Pedro de la Rosa and Kamui Kobayashi.[6] Later in the season, he was officially named as the team's test and reserve driver.[7] On 16 November 2010 he took part in the young drivers test in Abu Dhabi setting the 4th fastest time of the day, just over six tenths of a second off the qualifying time set by Kamui Kobayashi.[8]

On 28 July, it was announced that Gutiérrez would remain as Sauber's reserve driver into the 2012 season.[9]

Racing record

Career summary

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2007 Formula BMW USA Team Autotecnica 14 4 9 2 8 436 2nd
Formula BMW World Final 1 0 0 0 0 N/A 25th
Formula BMW ADAC Esteban Gutiérrez 2 0 0 1 0 46 26th
2008 Formula BMW Europe Josef Kaufmann Racing 16 7 3 9 12 353 1st
Formula BMW World Final 1 0 1 0 1 N/A 3rd
German Formula Three 2 0 0 0 0 N/A NC†
International Formula Master Trident Racing 2 0 0 0 1 8 19th
2009 Formula Three Euroseries ART Grand Prix 20 0 0 0 2 26 9th
British Formula Three 4 0 0 1 1 N/A NC†
Masters of Formula 3 1 0 0 0 0 N/A 17th
2010 GP3 Series ART Grand Prix 16 5 3 7 9 88 1st
Formula Three Euroseries 2 0 0 0 0 N/A NC†
British Formula Three 3 0 0 0 0 N/A NC†
2011 GP2 Asia Series Lotus ART 4 0 0 0 0 3 11th
GP2 Series Lotus ART 18 1 0 1 2 15 13th
Formula One Sauber F1 Team Test driver

† - As Gutiérrez was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.

Complete Formula Three Euroseries results

(key)

Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 DC Points
2009 ART Grand Prix Dallara F308/070 Mercedes HOC1
1
16 		HOC1
2
Ret 		LAU
1
24 		LAU
2
11 		NOR
1
4 		NOR
2
12 		ZAN
1
5 		ZAN
2
7 		OSC
1
9 		OSC
2
9 		NÜR
1
3 		NÜR
2
6 		BRH
1
7 		BRH
2
5 		CAT
1
Ret 		CAT
2
9 		DIJ
1
12 		DIJ
2
3 		HOC2
1
11 		HOC2
2
6 		9th 26
2010 ART Grand Prix Dallara F308/049 Mercedes LEC
1 		LEC
2 		HOC1
1
6 		HOC1
2
Ret 		VAL
1 		VAL
2 		NOR
1 		NOR
2 		NÜR
1 		NÜR
2 		ZAN
1 		ZAN
2 		BRH
1 		BRH
2 		OSC
1 		OSC
2 		HOC2
1 		HOC2
2 		NC† N/A

† - As Gutiérrez was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.

Complete GP3 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 DC Points
2010 ART Grand Prix ESP
FEA
3 		ESP
SPR
3 		TUR
FEA
1 		TUR
SPR
7 		VAL
FEA
1 		VAL
SPR
7 		GBR
FEA
1 		GBR
SPR
3 		GER
FEA
4 		GER
SPR
1 		HUN
FEA
2 		HUN
SPR
5 		BEL
FEA
16 		BEL
SPR
7 		ITA
FEA
1 		ITA
SPR
Ret 		1st 88

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 DC Points
2011 Lotus ART TUR
FEA
Ret 		TUR
SPR
11 		ESP
FEA
Ret 		ESP
SPR
12 		MON
FEA
12 		MON
SPR
DNS 		VAL
FEA
7 		VAL
SPR
1 		GBR
FEA
10 		GBR
SPR
8 		GER
FEA
12 		GER
SPR
Ret 		HUN
FEA
Ret 		HUN
SPR
2 		BEL
FEA
14 		BEL
SPR
7 		ITA
FEA
9 		ITA
SPR
6 		13th 15

Complete GP2 Asia Series results

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

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 DC Points
2011 Lotus ART ABU
FEA
Ret 		ABU
SPR
12 		ITA
FEA
12 		ITA
SPR
4 		11th 3

References

  1. ^ "Esteban Gutiérrez". Escudería Telmex. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
  2. ^ BMW Motorsport "Formula BMW Europe Results - Driver's Championship". September 2008. Retrieved on October 30, 2008.
  3. ^ "ART Grand Prix announces complete GP3 Series 2010 Line-up". gp2series.com. GP2 Series. 2010-01-13. Retrieved 2010-01-13. [dead link]
  4. ^ "Gutiérrez claims GP3 title with pole position". gpupdate.net. GPupdate. 11 September 2010. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
  5. ^ "BMW confirms tests for Rossi and Gutierrez". grandprix.com. Inside F1. 2009-07-31. Retrieved 2009-08-02.
  6. ^ Beer, Matt (2010-02-26). "Gutierrez to work with Sauber". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 2010-02-26.
  7. ^ "Gutierrez promoted to Sauber reserve driver". en.espnf1.com. ESPN. 2010-09-20. Retrieved 2010-09-20.
  8. ^ Straw, Edd (16 November 2010). "Ricciardo tops day one of rookie test". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 17 November 2010.
  9. ^ "Kobayashi and Perez to stay at Sauber in 2012". formula1.com. Formula One Administration. 28 July 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
Sporting positions
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Champion
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