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Bruno Junqueira
Junqueira at theIndianapolis Motor Speedway, May 2009
Nationality	Brazilian
Born	(1976-11-04)November 4, 1976 (age 49) Belo Horizonte, Brazil
IRLIndyCar Series career
Debut season	2001
Current team	FAZZT Race Team
Car number	33
Former teams	Dale Coyne Racing Chip Ganassi Racing Newman/Haas Racing
Starts	23
Wins	0
Poles	1
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	20th in 2008
CART/Champ Car World Series
Years active	2001–2007
Teams	Chip Ganassi Racing Newman/Haas Racing Dale Coyne Racing
Starts	101
Wins	8
Poles	9
Best finish	2nd in 2002, 2003, 2004
Previous series
1998–2000 1995–1997	International Formula 3000 Formula Three Sudamericana
Championship titles
2000 1997	International Formula 3000 Formula Three Sudamericana

Bruno Junqueira (born November 4, 1976) is a Brazilian former professional racing driver who most recently competed in theIRL IndyCar Series. He is a formerFormula 3000 champion and three-time runner-up in theChamp Car World Series.

Junqueira started racingkarts in Brazil and dominatedFormula Three Sudamericana before moving toFormula 3000. He tested for theWilliamsFormula One team for many years, and came close to landing a race drive in 2000, losing out toJenson Button. He rebounded from this setback, winningthat year's International Formula 3000 Championship.

In 2001 Junqueira joined theCARTChampionship Car series driving forChip Ganassi Racing where he had immediate success, capturing a win in his fourteenth race and finished second in points with two wins the following year. In 2003 Ganassi left to the rivalIndy Racing League and Junqueira joinedNewman/Haas Racing, the top team remaining in what was now theChamp Car World Series. He captured series runner up honors in both 2003 and 2004, capturing two wins in each of those seasons. He also drove in theIndianapolis 500 four times for both Ganassi and Newman/Haas in one-off appearances. In2002, he qualified for thepole position, and he twice finished fifth in the race.

In the 2005 Indianapolis 500 Junqueira crashed head-on into the turn two wall after he passed backmarkerA. J. Foyt IV, but Foyt inattentively did not see Junqueira's car under him and struck his right-rear corner. He suffered a concussion and a fractured vertebrae and 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 inMonterrey, Mexico. VeteranOriol Servia took his place and finished runner-up in the standings.

In 2006, Junqueira returned to the cockpit at Newman/Haas but for the first time in his career he did not win a race and only finished fifth in the championship while his teammateSébastien Bourdais won his third straight title. He was replaced in the second Newman/Haas car in 2007 by rookieGraham Rahal and Junqueira signed to drive forDale Coyne Racing as teammate to the inexperiencedKatherine Legge. Junquiera finished seventh in the championship including three consecutive podium finishes late in the season.

Prior to the2008 Indycar Series Season, Champ Car unified with the rivalIndy Racing League. Junqueira drove the No. 18 car for the Coyne team's first season in the new series, alongside Brazilian rookie countrymanMario Moraes. His Indianapolis 500 was ruined by a mirror falling off, causing him to lose three laps during repairs. His season was not a great success, as he finished twentieth overall with only two top ten finishes, both on road courses.

Junqueira was out of a drive for 2009. He made a deal withConquest Racing for the Indianapolis 500 and qualified the car on Bump Day, but was asked to withdraw for the team's regular driverAlex Tagliani, who had failed to qualify his car due to a technical failure.

In 2011, driving forA. J. Foyt, he qualified his car for the 500 in nineteenth position, only to once again have to give up his chance to drive in the actual race. Foyt sold the unsponsored car's entry toAndretti Autosport, whose driverRyan Hunter-Reay had been the final car bumped from the field.^[1] In 2012, he entered in for an injuredJosef Newgarden at the firstGrand Prix of Baltimore.

* Includes points scored by other Team Brazil drivers.

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position; races initalics indicate fastest lap.)

(key)

^New points system implemented in2004.

¹Races run on same day.

²Non-points-paying, exhibition race.

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)

† Ineligible for championship points.

† Did not complete sufficient laps in order to score points.

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