Enrique Bernoldi

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Enrique Bernoldi Bernoldi in 2007, as a Stock Car Brasil driver Nationality Brazilian Date of Birth October 19, 1978 (1978-10-19) (age 29) Place of Birth Curitiba 2008 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series Debut season 2008 Current team Conquest Racing Car No. 36 Starts 7 Wins 0 Poles 0 Formula One World Championship career Active years 2001 - 2002 Teams Arrows Races 29 (28 starts) Championships 0 Wins 0 Podium finishes    0 Career points 0 Pole positions 0 Fastest laps 0 First race 2001 Australian Grand Prix Last race 2002 German Grand Prix

Enrique Antônio Langue e Silvério de Bernoldi (born 19 October 1978 in Curitiba, Brazil) is a racing driver who raced for the Arrows Formula One team. He currently drives in the IRL IndyCar Series for Conquest Racing.

Contents 1 Racing career 1.1 Early career 1.2 Formula One 1.3 2003-2007 1.4 IndyCar Series 2 Motorsports Career Results 2.1 Complete Formula One results 2.2 American Open-Wheel 2.2.1 IndyCar 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Racing career

[edit] Early career

Bernoldi started out in karting in 1987 at age nine and won many regional and national titles before heading to Europe at age 17 to try out car racing. He entered Formula Alfa Boxer in Italy, where he finished fourth in his first attempt. He then entered the British Formula Renault Championship and was immediately successful, winning the final round of the series. The following year he took in nine victories and the title. After that he entered British Formula 3 and got his first victory at Spa and finished fifth in the championship. The following year he got six victories.

In 1999 Bernoldi moved to Formula 3000 and began to do some testing for Sauber, in the hopes of earning a Formula One drive with them. At this time, he was a member of the Red Bull Junior Team. However, in 2000 Sauber signed up Kimi Räikkönen for the 2001 season and Bernoldi's hopes went down.

[edit] Formula One

In 2001 he was able to get a drive with Arrows and did a respectable job, sometimes matching Jos Verstappen. However, he gained notoriety for his efforts at the Monaco Grand Prix when he held up David Coulthard for 35 laps. The Scot had qualified on pole position and was a championship contender at that stage of the season, but had suffered launch control failure on the grid and had to start from last place, so they were fighting for position. After the race, Bernoldi was unjustly slandered by irritated McLaren Mercedes executives that he was never going to make a good racing driver, and Coulthard called him an idiot,^[1] though Bernoldi did not have to let Coulthard pass because both were running on the same lap.

However, he was retained by Arrows for 2002. But his efforts in 2002 against Heinz-Harald Frentzen were less impressive and thus, there was little demand for him when Arrows closed down three-quarters of the way into the 2002 season, and he ended up racing in the Nissan World Series.

[edit] 2003-2007

Without an F1 ride for the 2003 season, Bernoldi stepped down to the World Series by Nissan and finished 6th in points with two wins. He continued in the series in 2004 and finished 3rd in points with another pair of wins. In mid-2004 he was named a test driver for BAR. 2005 brought Bernoldi back to South America and the popular Argentine TC 2000 series where he made a single start. He was largely inactive in 2006, but in 2007 he drove in Stock Car Brasil, competing in 11 of the 12 races and finishing 13th in the championship with a pair of podium finishes.

[edit] IndyCar Series

Shortly after the announcement of unification between Champ Car and the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series, it was announced that Bernoldi would drive for Conquest Racing in the newly combined series' 2008 season. Through 3 races he has 2 Top-five finishes.

[edit] Motorsports Career Results

[edit] Complete Formula One results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	WDC	Points
2001	Orange Arrows Asiatech	Arrows A22	Asiatech V10	AUS Ret	MAL Ret	BRA Ret	SMR 10	ESP Ret	AUT Ret	MON 9	CAN Ret	EUR Ret	FRA Ret	GBR 14	GER 8	HUN Ret	BEL 12	ITA Ret	USA 13	JPN 14	21st	0
2002	Orange Arrows	Arrows A23	Cosworth V10	AUS DSQ	MAL Ret	BRA Ret	SMR Ret	ESP Ret	AUT Ret	MON 12	CAN Ret	EUR 10	GBR Ret	FRA DNQ	GER Ret	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	JPN	22nd	0

[edit] American Open-Wheel

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

[edit] IndyCar

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Rank	Points
2008	Conquest	HMS Ret	STP 5	MOT1 DNP	LBH1 4	KAN Ret	INDY 15	MIL 16	TXS Ret	IOW	RIR	WGL	NSH	MDO	EDM	KTY	SNM	DET	CHI	SRF2	17th*	125*

* 2008 season in progress

¹ Run on same day.

² Non-points paying, exhibition race.

Years	Teams	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums (Non-win)	Top 10s (Non-podium)	Indianapolis 500 Wins	Championships
1	1	7	0	0	0	2	0	0

[edit] References

1. ^ Nigel Mansell (ed), 2001 Formula One Annual, European Press Ltd (2001)

[edit] External links

• IndyCar.com Profile

Sporting positions
Preceded by Guy Smith	British Formula Renault UK series champion 1996	Succeeded by Marc Hynes
Preceded by Cyrille Sauvage	Eurocup Formula Renault champion 1996	Succeeded by Jeffrey van Hooydonk

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