Diego Nunes (racing driver)

Diego Nunes
Nationality	Brazilian
Born	(1986-07-12) July 12, 1986 Curitiba (Brazil)
Previous series
2008–09 2008–2009–10 2006–07, 2009 2005–06 2002–06	GP2 Series GP2 Asia Series Euro/Italian Formula 3000 Formula Three Sudamericana Formula Renault 2.0 Brazil

This page is about the racecar driver. For the mixed martial arts fighter, see Diego Nunes (fighter).

Diego Nunes (born July 12, 1986 in Curitiba) is a Brazilian racing driver.

Career

Formula Renault

Nunes began his car racing career by driving full-time in the Formula Renault 2.0 Brazil championship in 2003 and 2004, having competed in selected events in 2002. With a best result of ninth in the drivers' championship in 2004, Nunes moved on to concentrate on different motorsport series from 2005, but still returned to Brazilian FRenault for the occasional race in that year and the next.

Formula Three

Nunes switched to Formula Three Sudamericana for 2005, finishing fourth in the championship at his first attempt. In 2006 he took pole position for half of the races but was only able to win one, restricting him to third in the championship.

Formula 3000

In 2006, Nunes competed in two races of the Euroseries 3000. For 2007, he moved to Europe full-time to drive a full season in the series. Employed by the former Formula One team, Minardi, he finished as runner-up in the championship.

GP2 Series

Nunes driving for David Price Racing at the Valencia round of the 2008 GP2 Series season.

Nunes leading Álvaro Parente and Romain Grosjean at the Turkish round of the 2009 GP2 Series season.

Nunes was recruited by Adrián Campos to drive for his team in the inaugural GP2 Asia Series season in 2008, but switched to David Price Racing after the first round of the championship. This was because Price had fired his driver Andy Soucek, who had himself signed for the rival FMS International team for the GP2 Series proper that year. Nunes scored two points and finished nineteenth in the championship.

Nunes continued with DPR for the 2008 GP2 Series season, where he was partnered by Michael Herck and Giacomo Ricci on his way to 22nd in the championship. For the 2009 championship, he switched to frontrunners iSport International alongside rookie Giedo van der Garde. He finished the championship in 20th place.

For the 2009–10 GP2 Asia Series season, Nunes partnered Luca Filippi at Team Meritus for the first round in Abu Dhabi, but was replaced by Alexander Rossi for the second Abu Dhabi round.

Stock Car Brasil

With his single-seater career petering out, Nunes returned to Brazil for 2010 to compete in the Stock Car Brasil championship, driving for the Bassani team once more. In his first year, driving a Peugeot 307 alongside first Rodrigo Sperafico and then Willian Starostik, he scored 43 points to finish 15th in the championship, capping his season with a win in the final race at Curitiba. He remained with the team for 2011 as the Peugeot teams upgraded to the 408 model, and was partnered by Denis Navarro, but was dropped in favour of Bruno Junqueira after scoring only 13 points in nine races.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Poles	Wins	Points	Final Placing
2002	Formula Renault 2.0 Brazil	Bassani Racing	3	0	0	0	NC
2003	Formula Renault 2.0 Brazil	Pop Car Racing	12	0	0	26	18th
2004	Formula Renault 2.0 Brazil	Full Time Sports	10	1	0	76	9th
2005	Formula Three Sudamericana	Bassani Racing	18	1	3	72	4th
	Formula Renault 2.0 Brazil	Gramacho Racing	3	0	0	44	12th
2006	Formula Three Sudamericana	Bassani Racing	16	8	1	78	3rd
	Formula Renault 2.0 Brazil		1	1	1	32	16th
	Euroseries 3000	Minardi Team	2	0	0	6	15th
2007	Euroseries 3000	Team Minardi by GP Racing	16	1	4	77	2nd
2008	GP2 Series	David Price Racing	20	0	0	3	22nd
	GP2 Asia Series	Campos Racing	1	0	0	0	19th
		David Price Racing	8	0	0	2
2008–09	GP2 Asia Series	Piquet GP	11	0	2	24	8th
2009	GP2 Series	iSport International	20	0	0	8	20th
2009–10	GP2 Asia Series	MalaysiaQi-Meritus.com	2	0	0	0	28th
2010	Copa Caixa Stock Car	RC3 Bassani Racing	12	0	1	43	15th
2011	Copa Caixa Stock Car	Bassani Racing	9	0	0	13	23rd

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
2008	David Price Racing	ESP FEA 15	ESP SPR 16	TUR FEA 13	TUR SPR 10	MON FEA 15	MON SPR 9	FRA FEA 11	FRA SPR Ret	GBR FEA 17	GBR SPR Ret	GER FEA Ret	GER SPR Ret	HUN FEA 12	HUN SPR 15	EUR FEA 10	EUR SPR 4	BEL FEA 12	BEL SPR Ret	ITA FEA Ret	ITA SPR 16	22nd	3
2009	iSport International	ESP FEA 11	ESP SPR 8	MON FEA Ret	MON SPR 14	TUR FEA 11	TUR SPR 11	GBR FEA 11	GBR SPR Ret	GER FEA Ret	GER SPR 11	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR 15	VAL FEA 11	VAL SPR 5	BEL FEA 9	BEL SPR 3	ITA FEA 10	ITA SPR Ret	POR FEA 12	POR SPR 5	20th	8

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	Campos Grand Prix	DUB1 FEA 12	DUB1 SPR DNS											20th	2
	David Price Racing			IDN FEA Ret	IDN SPR 10	MYS FEA 10	MYS SPR 13	BHR FEA 7	BHR SPR Ret	DUB2 FEA 17	DUB2 SPR 12
2008–09	Piquet GP	CHN FEA 12	CHN SPR Ret	DUB FEA Ret	DUB SPR C	BHR1 FEA 13	BHR1 SPR 22	QAT FEA 11	QAT SPR 12	MYS FEA 1	MYS SPR 4	BHR2 FEA 1	BHR2 SPR 6	8th	24
2009–10	MalaysiaQi-Meritus.com	ABU1 FEA Ret	ABU1 SPR 13	ABU2 FEA	ABU2 SPR	BHR1 FEA	BHR1 SPR	BHR2 FEA	BHR2 SPR					28th	0

Complete Stock Car Brasil results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	Pos	Points
2010	RC3 Bassani	Peugeot 307	INT 12	CTB 18	VEL 5	RIO 21	RBP Ret	SAL Ret	INT 17	CGD Ret	LON Ret	SCZ 14	BSB Ret	CTB 1										15th	43
2011	Bassani Racing	Peugeot 408	CTB 18	INT 18	RBP 18	VEL 9	CGD 23	RIO 10	INT Ret	SAL Ret	SCZ Ret	LON	BSB	VEL										23rd	13
2012	Hot Car Competições	Chevrolet Sonic	INT 22	CTB 15	VEL 10	RBP 9	LON 16	RIO Ret	SAL DSQ	CAS 11	TAR 19	CTB 15	BSB 12	INT Ret										20th	61
2013	RC3 Bassani	Peugeot 408	INT 16	CUR Ret	TAR Ret	SAL 20	BRA 22	CAS 4	RBP 15	CAS 11	VEL 7	CUR 11	BRA 13	INT Ret										17th	71
2014	C2 Team	Chevrolet Sonic	INT 1	SCZ 1	SCZ 2	BRA 1	BRA 2	GOI 1	GOI 2	INT 1	CAS 1	CAS 2	CUR 1	CUR 2	VEL 1	VEL 2	SAL 1	SAL 2	CUR 1	CUR 2	TAR 1	TAR 2	BRA 1	NC	N/A

References

• Diego Nunes career summary at DriverDB.com Retrieved on May 6, 2008.

External links

• Official website