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| Gianmaria Bruni | |||||||||||
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 Gianmaria Bruni in 2012 | |||||||||||
| Born | (1981-05-30)30 May 1981 (age 44) Rome, Italy | ||||||||||
| Racing licence |  FIA Platinum | ||||||||||
| Formula One World Championship career | |||||||||||
| Nationality |  Italian | ||||||||||
| Active years | 2004 | ||||||||||
| Teams | Minardi | ||||||||||
| Entries | 18 | ||||||||||
| Championships | 0 | ||||||||||
| Wins | 0 | ||||||||||
| Podiums | 0 | ||||||||||
| Careerpoints | 0 | ||||||||||
| Pole positions | 0 | ||||||||||
| Fastest laps | 0 | ||||||||||
| First entry | 2004 Australian Grand Prix | ||||||||||
| Last entry | 2004 Brazilian Grand Prix | ||||||||||
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Gianmaria "Gimmi"Bruni (born 30 May 1981) is an ItalianPorsche factoryauto racing driver who drove in the2004 Formula One World Championship forMinardi. He is aGP2 Series race winner and is now racing in theFIA World Endurance Championship, in which he gained the2013 and2014 GT Drivers' Titles whilst driving as a factoryFerrari driver.[1] He won the2008 FIA GT Championship,2011 Le Mans Series and2012 International GT Open and took three class victories at the24 Hours of Le Mans, in2008,2012 and2014. He also was successful at the2009 and2015 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps,2010 12 Hours of Sebring and2011 Petit Le Mans.
Born inRome, at age ten Bruni lied about his age to the director of La Pista d'Oro, ago kart track inItaly, in order to begin an amateurkarting career (twelve was the minimum age to compete). His first experience withracing cars was in the ItalianFormula Renault Campus in 1997; he won the championship in 1998. For the following season, he moved on to the EuropeanFormula Renault Eurocup 2.0, taking another title. Then he entered theBritish Formula 3, where he came fifth in 2000 and fourth in 2001. After he had raced in various similar European series like theEuro Formula 3000, finishing third in 2003, he caught the attention ofMinardi.
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Bruni started testing for Minardi in 2003. However, the biggest struggle of his career was finding enough sponsorship to compete for them inFormula 1 in 2004.
In fact, Bruni did join Minardi for the2004 Formula 1 season, though he struggled in a car which was considerably less developed than the rest of the grid. He was one of only two drivers to contest the majority of the season without scoring any points.
In 2005, Bruni competed in theGP2 Series, the single-seater Championship which is part of the Formula 1 support package and which is intended to be its feeder series. He won the first race atBarcelona and took second atMonaco, driving for Coloni. The Italian left the team in September before theMonza weekend. Joining up with Durango, he started on pole position atSpa-Francorchamps and finished tenth in the Drivers' Classification.
In 2006, Bruni competed again in the GP2 Series, this time with the newTrident Racing squad. He scored two victories, the first atImola and the second atHockenheim. At the end of the season, he was seventh in the Drivers' Classification.
For 2007, he switched to sports car racing as he joined theFIA GT Championship with Team AF Corse Motorole in aFerrari 430 GT3. He and his teammateStéphane Ortelli finished the season 2nd in the GT2 class with 3 wins.
After competing in theAmerican Le Mans Series for Risi Competizione, Bruni shifted focus to Europe for 2011, teaming withGiancarlo Fisichella in anAF Corse Ferrari F458 Italia, winning the driver's and team's championship in the LM GTE Pro class of theLe Mans Series and helping win the team's championship in theIntercontinental Le Mans Cup. Bruni finished 2nd at the Le Mans 24hrs and won the Petit Le Mans.
At the 201212 Hours of Sebring, Bruni disqualified his car by attempting to shunt off the BMW M3 GT of Joey Hand on the last lap to help the sister car of Olivier Beretta to win the overall grand touring classification, though the BMW was in a different class and the car would not have classified anyway because it did not make 70% of the race leader's distance.
In the 80th edition of the24 Hours of Le Mans in 2012, Bruni and the AF Corse Team scored first place in the GTE-Pro class along with his co-driversToni Vilander and Giancarlo Fisichella; theirFerrari 458 Italia covered a total of 336 laps (2,845.53 miles) of theCircuit de la Sarthe.[2][3]
Bruni scored three wins and two second places at the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship, so he won the GTE-Pro teams trophy and the GTE drivers and manufacturers cups.
In February 2017, Ferrari and Gianmaria Bruni announced that, by mutual consent, they had early terminated their relationship. After a collaboration that started in 2007, Bruni will leave Ferrari at the end of June of that year. Bruni signed a contract withPorsche.
As a result of the contract termination settlement, he sat out the first half of the 2017 racing season, making his Porsche debut in July at Watkins Glen. In 2018, he raced for Porsche in the WEC, replacing Frédéric Makowiecki.[4]
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position; races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | Class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | DC | Points |
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| 2000 | Fortec Motorsport | Dallara F399 | Mugen-Honda | Championship | THR 7 | CRO 4 | OUL 6 | DON 7 | DON Ret | SIL 5 | BRH 8 | DON 2 | DON 4 | CRO 19 | SIL 3 | SNE Ret | SPA 4 | SIL 5 | 5th | 95 | |||||||||||||
| 2001 | Fortec Motorsport | Dallara F301 | Renault Sodemo | Championship | SIL 1 5 | SIL 2 2 | SNE 1 3 | SNE 2 10 | DON 1 3 | DON 2 6 | OUL 1 2 | OUL 2 9 | CRO 1 Ret | CRO 2 5 | ROC 1 DNS | ROC 2 Ret | CAS 1 8 | CAS 2 11 | BRH 1 8 | BRH 2 10 | DON 1 1 | DON 2 7 | KNO 1 6 | KNO 2 C | THR 1 Ret | THR 2 3 | THR 3 11 | BRH 1 7 | BRH 2 8 | SIL 1 5 | SIL 2 3 | 5th | 156 |
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position; races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Scuderia Coloni | VLL 6 | NÜR C | PER 3 | MNZ | DON | 12th | 5 | |||||
| ADM Motorsport | SPA 9 | BRN | DIJ | JER | CAG | ||||||||
| 2003 | ADM Motorsport | NÜR 1 | MAG 1 | PER Ret | MNZ Ret | SPA 9 | DON 1 | BRN Ret | JER | CAG | 3rd | 30 | |
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position; races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | WDC | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Trust Minardi Cosworth | MinardiPS03 | Cosworth CR-3 3.0V10 | AUS | MAL | BRA | SMR | ESP | AUT | MON | CAN | EUR | FRA | GBR | GER TD | HUN TD | ITA TD | USA TD | JPN TD | – | – | ||
| 2004 | Wilux Minardi Cosworth | MinardiPS04B | Cosworth CR-3L 3.0V10 | AUS NC | MAL 14 | BHR 17 | SMR Ret | ESP Ret | MON Ret | EUR 14 | CAN Ret | USA Ret | FRA 18† | GBR 16 | GER 17 | 25th | 0 | ||||||
| Minardi Cosworth | HUN 14 | BEL Ret | ITA Ret | CHN Ret | JPN 16 | BRA 17 | |||||||||||||||||
| Source:[5] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
† Did not finish the race, but was classified as he had completed more than 90% of the race distance.
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics 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 | 21 | 22 | 23 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Coloni Motorsport | IMO FEA 4 | IMO SPR 4 | CAT FEA 1 | CAT SPR Ret | MON FEA 2 | NÜR FEA 8 | NÜR SPR Ret | MAG FEA 18 | MAG SPR 11 | SIL FEA 7 | SIL SPR 11 | HOC FEA NC | HOC SPR 14 | HUN FEA 10 | HUN SPR 8 | IST FEA Ret | IST SPR 9 | MNZ FEA | MNZ SPR | 10th | 35 | ||||
| Durango | SPA FEA Ret | SPA SPR 16 | BHR FEA Ret | BHR SPR 14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | Trident Racing | VAL FEA 6 | VAL SPR 5 | IMO FEA 1 | IMO SPR Ret | NÜR FEA Ret | NÜR SPR 16 | CAT FEA Ret | CAT SPR 17 | MON FEA Ret | SIL FEA Ret | SIL SPR 15 | MAG FEA Ret | MAG SPR Ret | HOC FEA 1 | HOC SPR 6 | HUN FEA Ret | HUN SPR 8 | IST FEA Ret | IST SPR 15 | MNZ FEA Ret | MNZ SPR 9 | 7th | 33 | ||
| Source:[5] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position; races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | Class | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Pos. | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Virgo Motorsport | GT2 | Ferrari F430GT | Ferrari 4.0 L V8 | MNZ | VAL | NÜR | SPA | SIL 1 | INT | 12th | 10 |
| 2008 | Virgo Motorsport | GT2 | Ferrari F430GT | Ferrari 4.0 L V8 | CAT 1 | MNZ Ret | SPA 1 | NÜR 1 | SIL | 3rd | 30 | |
| 2009 | JMW Motorsport | GT2 | Ferrari F430 GT2 | Ferrari 4.0 L V8 | CAT 2 | SPA 2 | ALG 1 | NÜR 9 | SIL 1 | 2nd | 35 | |
| 2010 | AF Corse | GT2 | Ferrari F430 GT2 | Ferrari 4.0 L V8 | LEC Ret | SPA 2 | ALG 1 | HUN | SIL 1 | 4th | 50 | |
| 2011 | AF Corse | GTE Pro | Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 | Ferrari 4.5 L V8 | LEC 2 | SPA 1 | IMO 2 | SIL 1 | EST Ret | 1st | 60 | |
| 2012 | Pecom Racing | LMP2 | Oreca 03 | NissanVK45DE 4.5 L V8 | LEC 7 | DON | PET | 14th | 6 | |||
| 2018 | Proton Competition | LMGTE | Porsche 911 RSR | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | LEC | MNZ 5 | RBR | SIL | SPA | ALG | 12th | 10 |
| 2021 | WeatherTech Racing | LMGTE | Porsche 911 RSR-19 | Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6 | CAT 2 | RBR | LEC 4 | MNZ 9 | SPA | ALG 5 | 12th | 43 |
| 2022 | Proton Competition | LMGTE | Porsche 911 RSR-19 | Porsche 4.2 L Flat-6 | LEC 2 | IMO Ret | MNZ 2 | CAT 1 | SPA 5 | ALG 5 | 1st | 82 |
| 2023 | Proton Competition | LMP2 Pro-Am | Oreca 07 | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | CAT 6 | LEC 6 | ARA 5 | SPA Ret | ALG | ALG | 15th | 26 |
| 2025 | JMW Motorsport | LMGT3 | Ferrari 296 GT3 | Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Turbo V6 | CAT 12 | LEC 10 | IMO 6 | SPA 11 | SIL 9 | ALG 11 | 18th | 11 |
| Source:[5] | ||||||||||||
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position; races initalics indicate fastest lap)
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)
† Points only counted towards the Michelin Endurance Cup, and not the overall LMP2 Championship.
| Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 |  Risi Competizione |  Olivier Beretta Giancarlo Fisichella Matteo Malucelli | Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 | GTLM | 88 | DNF | DNF |
| 2015 | AF Corse |  Emmanuel CollardFrançois Perrodo Toni Vilander | Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 | GTLM | 211 | DNF | DNF |
| 2016 |  SMP Racing | Andrea Bertolini James CaladoViktor Shaytar | Ferrari 488 GTE | GTLM | 557 | DNF | DNF |
| 2018 | Porsche GT Team |  Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor | Porsche 911 RSR | GTLM | 774 | 17th | 6th |
| 2021 | WeatherTech Racing | Kévin Estre Richard LietzCooper MacNeil | Porsche 911 RSR-19 | GTLM | 760 | 17th | 6th |
| 2023 |  Proton Competition |  James AllenFrancesco Pizzi Fred Poordad | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 761 | 7th | 1st |
| 2024 | Proton Competition Mustang Sampling | Romain Dumas Neel JaniAlessio Picariello | Porsche 963 | GTP | 791 | 5th | 5th |
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| Preceded by | Eurocup Formula Renault Champion 1999 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Le Mans Series LMGTE Pro Champion 2011 With:Giancarlo Fisichella | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | International GT Open Champion 2012 With:Federico Leo | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by Inaugural | FIA World Endurance Cup for GT Drivers 2013–2014 With:Toni Vilander (2014) | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | European Le Mans Series LMGTE Champion 2022 With:Christian Ried & Lorenzo Ferrari | Succeeded by |
