Alexandre Sarnes Negrão

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Alexandre Sarnes Negrão
Nationality	Brazilian
Date of Birth	October 14, 1985 (1985-10-14) (age 22)
Related to	Xandi Negrão
2008 GP2 Series
Debut season	2005
Current team	Minardi Piquet Sports
Car No.	3
Starts	62
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	1
Best finish	13th in 2006

Alexandre Sarnes Negrão (born October 14, 1985), nicknamed Xandinho, is a Brazilian race car driver. He raced in the 2005 and 2006 GP2 Series seasons for the HiTech/Piquet Sports team, an outfit funded mostly by former Formula One world champion Nelson Piquet.

Negrão's career started in karting in 1998, where he continued to race until he joined the Piquet team in Formula Three Sudamericana for the 2003 season. The team had been put together primarily to help Nelson Angelo Piquet's run through the lower series, his goal to make Formula One, but nevertheless Negrao would stay with team in 2004. He ended the 2004 season as the champion, and also got a taste of British Formula Three that year, in the form of two races for the Carlin Motorsport team.

Negrão continued his alignment with the Piquet team in 2007.

For 2008 Negrão still a pay-driver. Driving for the brazillian team in A1GP

[edit] GP2 Series record

Season	Team Name	No.	Races	Poles	Wins	Points	Final Placing
2005	HiTech/Piquet Racing	04	23	2	0	4	19th
2006	Piquet Sports	12	21	0	0	13	13th
2007	Minardi Piquet Sports	03	21	0	0	8	20th