Luciano Burti

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Luciano Burti
Born	5 1975 (1975-Template:Pad2digit-Template:Pad2digit) São Paulo, Brazil
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Formula One career
Nationality	Brazilian
Years	2000–2001

Luciano Pucci Burti (born 5 March 1975 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian racing driver who briefly raced in Formula One. He is now a commentator for TV Globo.

Career

His early career saw him graduate through the usual channels and he found himself in British Formula 3 driving for the crack Stewart Racing team. In his second season of F3 in 1999 he finished runner-up to Marc Hynes, but it was third-placed Jenson Button who would go on to achieve stardom in F1. Burti impressed when testing the Stewart grand prix car that season and became Jaguar's tester for 2000, mainly down to the lobbying of Jackie Stewart, the outgoing team-boss.

A surprise grand prix debut came on July 16, 2000, at the Austrian Grand Prix, as a replacement for the ill Eddie Irvine. Having tested consistently well for Jaguar in the 2000 Formula One season and with a race start already under his belt, he was promoted to the race team alongside Irvine in 2001, replacing Johnny Herbert. However, after just four races, he fell out of favour and was replaced by ex-Arrows driver Pedro de la Rosa.

Luckily Burti found a seat at Prost, where the underperforming Gastón Mazzacane had been sacked. Burti raced competently for Prost and recorded his highest finish - eighth place - at the Canadian Grand Prix. There was also the odd time when he would qualify ahead of team-mate Jean Alesi. However, a spectacular accident at the German Grand Prix, where he collided with the hobbled Ferrari of Michael Schumacher which launched his car to destruction, and then an almost fatal crash at the Belgian Grand Prix later on in the year saw him having to sit out the rest of the season with facial bruising and concussion. His seat was taken by Czech rookie Tomáš Enge.

Burti subsequently signed to test for the Ferrari team, but that came to an end at the end of his contract in 2004. Over the course of his Formula One career, he scored no championship points. He has since returned to Brazil, where he competes in Stock Car Brasil and commentates on Formula One races for TV Globo.

Racing results

Complete Formula One results

(key)

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	WDC	Points
2000	Jaguar Racing	Jaguar R1	Cosworth CR2 V10	AUS	BRA	SMR	GBR	ESP	EUR	MON	CAN	FRA	AUT 11	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	USA	JPN	MAL	23rd	0
2001	Jaguar Racing	Jaguar R2	Cosworth CR3 V10	AUS 8	MAL 10	BRA Ret	SMR 11														20th	0
	Prost Grand Prix	Prost AP04	Acer V10					ESP 11	AUT 11	MON Ret	CAN 8	EUR 12	FRA 10	GBR Ret	GER Ret	HUN Ret	BEL Ret	ITA	USA	JPN

Complete Stock Car Brasil results

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Rank	Points
2005	Eurofarma RC	Chevrolet Astra	INT 3	CTB Ret	RIO 7	INT 6	CTB Ret	LON 6	BSB Ret	SCZ Ret	TAR Ret	ARG 3	RIO 8	INT 6	5th	79
2006	Action Power	Volkswagen Bora	INT Ret	CTB 17	CGD 19	INT 20	LON 14	CTB 17	SCZ 24	BSB 23	TAR Ret	ARG 3	RIO DSQ	INT 23	25th	18
2007	Action Power	Volkswagen Bora	INT 14	CTB 7	CGD 9	INT Ret	LON Ret	SCZ 2	CTB 21	BSB 24	ARG 27	TAR 9	RIO Ret	INT Ret	17th	45
2008	Action Power	Peugeot 307	INT Ret	BSB 11	CTB 15	SCZ DSQ	CGD 6	INT Ret	RIO 2	LON 29	CTB 21	BSB 15	TAR 7	INT 8	12th	52
2009	Boettger Competições	Chevrolet Vectra	INT Ret	CTB 15	BSB 8	SCZ 11	INT 2	SAL 4	RIO 13	CGD 8	CTB 8	BSB 7	TAR 1	INT 7	5th	257
2010	Itaipava Racing Team	Peugeot 307	INT Ret	CTB Ret	VEL 7	RIO Ret	RBP Ret	SAL 21	INT 14	CGD 7	LON 7	SCZ 5	BSB Ret	CTB Ret	18th	41
2011	Itaipava Racing Team	Peugeot 408	CTB 5	INT 12	RBP Ret	VEL Ret	CGD 1	RIO 20	INT Ret	SAL 4	SCZ 10	LON 7	BSB 13	VEL 16	9th	226
2012	Itaipava Racing Team	Peugeot 408	INT 14	CTB 7	VEL Ret	RBP 8	LON 2	RIO Ret	SAL 3	CGD 24	TAR 13	CUR 16	BRA 5	INT 15	11th	117
2013	Boettger Competições	Peugeot 408	INT 8	CUR 23	TAR 12	SAL 8	BRA DSQ	CAS 15	RBP Ret	CAS 6	VEL 11	CUR Ret	BRA Ret	INT 7	12th	94

• Season in progress

Sources

• Profile at www.grandprix.com

External links

• Luciano Burti official website

Preceded by: Gabriel Ponce de León Patricio Di Palma

Winner of the 200 km de Buenos Aires 2005 (with Diego Aventín)

Succeeded by: Matías Rossi Alain Menu

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