Alberto Valerio

Alberto Valério
Valério driving for Durango at the Silverstone round of the 2008 GP2 Series season.
Nationality	Brazilian
Born	(1985-09-06) September 6, 1985
GP2 Series career
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
2008–2009–10 2006–07, 2009 2006–07 2004–05 2003–05	GP2 Asia Series Formula Renault 3.5 Series British Formula 3 Brazilian Formula Renault Formula Three Sudamericana
Championship titles
2005	Formula Three Sudamericana

Alberto Valério (Ipatinga, 6 September 1985) is a Brazilian racing driver.^[1][2]

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.Template:Ckarify 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.^[3] But he himself was replaced for the third round by Frankie Provenzano.^[4]

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.^[5]

Racing record

Career summary

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

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

Complete GP2 Series results

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

Complete GP2 Asia Series results

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

References

• Career statistics from driverdb.com. Retrieved on February 17, 2008.