Bruno Junqueira
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| Nationality |  Brazil |
| Car # | 2 |
| Current team | Newman/Haas Racing |
| Race starts | 84 |
| Series Championships | 0 |
| Wins | 8 |
| Podium finishes | 30 |
| Pole positions | 9 |
| First Champ Car race | 2001 Tecate Telmex Monterrey Grand Prix Presented by Herdez (Monterrey) |
| First win | 2001 Motorola 220 (Elkhart Lake) |
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Bruno Junqueira (born November 4, 1976) is a Brazilian racecar driver and veteran of the Champ Car World Series.
Junqueira started racing go-karts in Brazil and dominated South American Formula 3 championship before moving to Formula 3000. He tested for the Williams Formula 1 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.
In 2001 Junqueira joined the Champ Car World Series driving for Chip Ganassi, he has raced in champ car ever since, joining Newman-Haas in 2003 when Ganassi moved to the IRL series. Junqueira is considered a top driver in the series, although his success is also attributed to always being with a top team. Junqueira is known for his consistency. He has won races every year he has been in the series, and finished second in the championship standings for three years in a row, from 2002-2004. Junqueira has competed in the Indianapolis 500 four times. In 2002, he qualified for the pole position, and he has twice finished 5th in the race.
In 2005, Junqueira was injured in an accident in the Indianapolis 500, while lapping A.J. Foyt IV. Due to his injuries, he 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.
[edit] Indy 500 results
| Year | Chassis | Engine | Start | Finish |
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| 2001 | G-Force | Oldsmobile | 20th | 5th |
| 2002 | G-Force | Chevrolet | 1st | 31st |
| 2004 | G-Force | Honda | 4th | 5th |
| 2005 | Panoz | Honda | 12th | 30th |
[edit] Complete Champ Car results
| Yr | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | Rank | Points |
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| 2001 | Ganassi | MTY Ret |
LBH 9 |
FTW Canc |
NAZ 7 |
MOT Ret |
MIL 4 |
DET Ret |
POR Ret |
CLE Ret |
TOR 13 |
MIC 9 |
CHI 17 |
MID 13 |
ROA 1 |
VAN 12 |
LAU 11 |
ROC Ret |
HOU Ret |
LAG 7 |
SUR Ret |
FON 4 |
16th | 68 |
| 2002 | Ganassi | MTY 11 |
LBH Ret |
MOT 1 |
MIL 10 |
LAG 4 |
POR 2 |
CHI 2 |
TOR Ret |
CLE Ret |
VAN 9 |
MID 4 |
ROA 3 |
MTL Ret |
DEN 1 |
ROC 5 |
MIA 5 |
SUR 14 |
FON 9 |
MEX 3 |
2nd | 164 | ||
| 2003 | Newman/Haas | STP 3 |
MTY 5 |
LBH 3 |
BRH 2 |
LAU 4 |
MIL Ret |
LAG 2 |
POR 4 |
CLE 3 |
TOR 3 |
VAN 2 |
ROA 1 |
MID 13 |
MTL 13 |
DEN 1 |
MIA 9 |
MEX 7 |
SUR Ret |
FON Canc |
2nd | 199 | ||
| 2004 | Newman/Haas | LBH 2 |
MTY 2 |
MIL 6 |
POR 2 |
CLE 2 |
TOR Ret |
VAN 4 |
ROA 15 |
DEN 3 |
MTL 1 |
LAG 2 |
LAS 2 |
SUR 1 |
MEX 2 |
2nd | 341 | |||||||
| 2005 | Newman/Haas | LBH 3 |
MTY 1 |
MIL Inj |
POR Inj |
CLE Inj |
TOR Inj |
EDM Inj |
SAN Inj |
DEN Inj |
MTL Inj |
LAS Inj |
SUR Inj |
MEX Inj |
19th | 59 | ||||||||
| 2006 | Newman/Haas | LBH Ret |
HOU 10 |
MTY 10 |
MIL Ret |
POR 4 |
CLE 2 |
TOR 8 |
EDM Ret |
SAN Ret |
DEN 2 |
MTL 12 |
ROA 2 |
SUR 6 |
MEX 4 |
5th | 219 |
| Preceded by: Nick Heidfeld |
International Formula 3000 Champion 2000 |
Succeeded by: Justin Wilson |
[edit] External links
| 2006 Champ Car World Series | |||||||||
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| Newman/Haas | Forsythe | CTE-HVM | Australia | PKV | Rocketsports | RuSPORT | Coyne | Conquest | |
| 1 Bourdais 2 Junqueira |
3 Tracy 7 Rice |
4 Philippe 14 Clarke |
5 Power 15 Tagliani |
6 Servia 20 Legge |
8 Dominguez 18 Pizzonia |
9 Wilson 10 Briscoe |
11 Heylen 19 Wirth |
27 Ranger 34 Zwolsman |
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