Esteban Gutiérrez | |
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Nationality | Mexican |
Born | August 5, 1991 Monterrey (Mexico) |
2012 GP2 Series | |
Debut season | 2011 |
Current team | Lotus ART |
Car no. | 6 |
Starts | 17 |
Wins | 1 |
Poles | 0 |
Fastest laps | 1 |
Best finish | 13th 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 | |
2007 | FBMW USA Rookie/Year |
Esteban Manuel Gutiérrez Gutiérrez [1] (born August 5, 1991 in Monterrey, Nuevo León) is a Mexican race car driver. He is the reigning GP3 Champion, having won the title in the series' inaugural 2010 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.
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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 (Karting), 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.
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.
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.
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]
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.
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]
Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | Position |
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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.
(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 |
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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.
(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 |
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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 |
(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 |
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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 |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | DC | Points |
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2011 | Lotus ART | ABU FEA Ret |
ABU SPR 12 |
ITA FEA 12 |
ITA SPR 4 |
11th | 3 |
Sporting positions | ||
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Preceded by new championship |
Formula BMW Europe Champion 2008 |
Succeeded by Felipe Nasr |
Preceded by new championship |
GP3 Series Champion 2010 |
Succeeded by Valtteri Bottas |
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