Alberto Valerio

Alberto Valerio

Valerio driving for Durango at the Silverstone round of the 2008 GP2 Series season.
Nationality Brazilian
Born September 6, 1985 (1985-09-06) (age 26)
2012 GP2 Series
Debut season 2008
Current team Scuderia Coloni
Car no. 20
Former teams Piquet GP
Durango
Starts 53
Wins 1
Poles 0
Fastest laps 0
Best finish 15th in 2009
Previous series
20082009–10
200607, 2009
200607
2004–05
2003–05
GP2 Asia Series
Formula Renault 3.5 Series
British Formula Three
Brazilian Formula Renault
Formula Three Sudamericana
Championship titles
2005 Formula Three Sudamericana

Alberto Valerio (born September 6, 1985) is an Brazilian racing driver.

Contents

Career

Formula Three

Valerio drove in the Formula Three Sudamericana championship from 2003 to 2005, winning the title in his final year of the category. For 2006 he moved to the British championship, finishing 11th in the championship. 2007 saw him move to the Carlin Motorsport team and improve to eighth place in the standings.

Formula Renault

In 2004 and 2005, Valerio also drove at selected races in the Brazilian Formula Renault series. In 2006 and 2007, he drove in four races overall in the more prestigious Formula Renault 3.5 Series.

GP2 Series

For 2008, Valerio signed to drive for the Durango team in both the GP2 Series and the inaugural GP2 Asia Series. He crashed in three successive GP2 races up to the Monaco Sprint Race, leading Lucas di Grassi to comment on ITV4 that "he always crashes". He finished 26th in the championship, with no points.

He returned to the GP2 Asia Series for the second round onwards of the 2008–09 season by replacing Giacomo Ricci in the Trident Racing team.[1] But he himself was replaced for the third round by Frankie Provenzano.[2]

For 2009, he returned to the GP2 Series but moved to the Piquet GP squad as team-mate to Roldán Rodríguez. Valerio took his first win with the team, as he dominated the feature race at Silverstone. That was his last points-scoring finish however, as he finished fifteenth in the championship.

Valerio moved to Coloni for the 2010 season, but was dropped in favour of Álvaro Parente after scoring only four points in fourteen races.[3]

Racing record

Career summary

Season Series Team Name Races Poles Wins Points Final Placing
2003 Formula Three Sudamericana Dragão Motorsport 4 0 0 11 18th
2004 Formula Three Sudamericana Cesário Junior 18 0 0 58 6th
Formula Renault 2000 Brazil Dragão Motorsport 3 0 0 0 NC
2005 Formula Three Sudamericana Cesário F3 18 4 4 113 1st
Formula Renault 2.0 Brazil Cesário FRenault 4 0 0 22 15th
2006 British Formula Three Cesário Formula UK 22 0 0 42 11th
Formula Renault 3.5 Series EuroInternational 2 0 0 0 NC
2007 British Formula Three Carlin Motorsport 20 0 0 114 8th
Formula Renault 3.5 Series Victory Engineering 2 0 0 0 NC
Masters of Formula Three 1 0 0 N/A 29th
2008 GP2 Series Durango 19 0 0 0 26th
GP2 Asia Series 10 0 0 2 19th
2008–09 GP2 Asia Series Trident Racing 1 0 0 0 37th
2009 GP2 Series Piquet GP 20 0 1 16 15th
Formula Renault 3.5 Series Comtec Racing 2 0 0 0 36th
2009–10 GP2 Asia Series Scuderia Coloni 2 0 0 0 32nd
2010 GP2 Series Scuderia Coloni 14 0 0 4 22nd

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 Durango ESP
FEA

13
ESP
SPR

Ret
TUR
FEA

18
TUR
SPR

7
MON
FEA

Ret
MON
SPR

Ret
FRA
FEA

18
FRA
SPR

17
GBR
FEA

21
GBR
SPR

9
GER
FEA

9
GER
SPR

15
HUN
FEA

DNS
HUN
SPR

17
EUR
FEA

Ret
EUR
SPR

12
BEL
FEA

Ret
BEL
SPR

Ret
ITA
FEA

12
ITA
SPR

15
26th 0
2009 Piquet GP ESP
FEA

15
ESP
SPR

13
MON
FEA

Ret
MON
SPR

Ret
TUR
FEA

4
TUR
SPR

6
GBR
FEA

1
GBR
SPR

7
GER
FEA

Ret
GER
SPR

17
HUN
FEA

Ret
HUN
SPR

21
VAL
FEA

17
VAL
SPR

10
BEL
FEA

Ret
BEL
SPR

12
ITA
FEA

Ret
ITA
SPR

11
POR
FEA

Ret
POR
SPR

7
15th 16
2010 Scuderia Coloni ESP
FEA

14
ESP
SPR

Ret
MON
FEA

5
MON
SPR

Ret
TUR
FEA

17
TUR
SPR

19
VAL
FEA

9
VAL
SPR

Ret
GBR
FEA

14
GBR
SPR

22
GER
FEA

11
GER
SPR

12
HUN
FEA

Ret
HUN
SPR

12
BEL
FEA
BEL
SPR
ITA
FEA
ITA
SPR
ABU
FEA
ABU
SPR
22nd 4

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 Durango DUB1
FEA

9
DUB1
SPR

5
IDN
FEA

Ret
IDN
SPR

Ret
MYS
FEA

Ret
MYS
SPR

17
BHR
FEA

Ret
BHR
SPR

17
DUB2
FEA

13
DUB2
SPR

15
19th 2
2008–09 Trident Racing CHN
FEA
CHN
SPR
DUB
FEA

16
DUB
SPR

C
BHR1
FEA

BHR1
SPR

QAT
FEA

QAT
SPR

MYS
FEA

MYS
SPR

BHR2
FEA

BHR2
SPR

37th 0
2009–10 Scuderia Coloni ABU1
FEA

ABU1
SPR

ABU2
FEA

15
ABU2
SPR

18
BHR1
FEA

BHR1
SPR

BHR2
FEA

BHR2
SPR

32nd 0

References

Sporting positions
Preceded by
Alexandre Sarnes Negrão
Formula Three Sudamericana
Champion

2005
Succeeded by
Luiz Razia