Alexandre Sarnes Negrão

Alexandre Sarnes Negrão Nationality Brazilian Born October 14, 1985 FIA GT1 World Championship career Debut season 2010 Current team Vitaphone Racing Team Starts 2 Wins 1 Poles 1 Fastest laps 0 Best finish 24th in 2010 Previous series 2005–2007 2003–2004 GP2 Series Formula Three Sudamericana Championship titles 2004 Formula Three Sudamericana 24 Hours of Le Mans career Participating years 2008 Teams Vitaphone Racing Team Best finish DNF (2008)

Alexandre Sarnes Negrão (born October 14, 1985), nicknamed Xandinho, is a Brazilian race car driver. He raced in the first three seasons of the GP2 Series, all with the Piquet Sports team, having won the Formula Three Sudamericana championship in 2004.

Career

Negrão's career started in karting in 1998, where he continued to race until he joined the Piquet team in Formula Three Sudamericana for the 2003 season. The team had been put together primarily to help Nelson Piquet, Jr.'s run through the lower series, his goal to make Formula One, but nevertheless Negrao would stay with team in 2004. He ended the 2004 season as the champion, and also got a taste of British Formula Three that year, in the form of two races for the Carlin Motorsport team.

Negrão moved up to the GP2 Series for its inaugural season in 2005, alongside Piquet in his family-sponsored team. He scored only four points, but improved to thirteen in 2006, as Piquet unsuccessfully fought with Lewis Hamilton for the championship. Piquet moved to the Renault F1 team in for 2007 as the outfit's test driver, so Negrão was expected to lead his former GP2 team. However, Negrão had a very disappointing season, scoring fewer points than the previous year and being outscored by his rookie team-mate Roldán Rodríguez. He was not retained for 2008. At the time of his departure from GP2, he was the only driver to have entered every GP2 race thus contested. He also held the record for most GP2 starts, which has subsequently been surpassed by Giorgio Pantano.

Negrão competed in four races for A1 Team Brazil in the 2007–08 A1 Grand Prix season, and is now concentrating on sports car racing for 2008. He is driving for the Vitaphone Racing Team in the FIA GT Championship, and has also participated in the 2008 Le Mans 24 Hours race.

Racing record

Complete GP2 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics 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	HiTech/Piquet Racing	SMR FEA Ret	SMR SPR 13	ESP FEA 8	ESP SPR 15	MON FEA 12	EUR FEA Ret	EUR SPR Ret	FRA FEA Ret	FRA SPR 13	GBR FEA 19	GBR SPR 16	GER FEA Ret	GER SPR 18	HUN FEA 8	HUN SPR 15	TUR FEA 12	TUR SPR 19	ITA FEA Ret	ITA SPR 13	BEL FEA 7	BEL SPR 7	BHR FEA 12	BHR SPR 9	19th	4
2006	Piquet Sports	VAL FEA 13	VAL SPR 7	SMR FEA Ret	SMR SPR 11	EUR FEA 7	EUR SPR 7	ESP FEA 7	ESP SPR 18	MON FEA Ret	GBR FEA Ret	GBR SPR 12	FRA FEA 5	FRA SPR Ret	GER FEA 16	GER SPR 9	HUN FEA 5	HUN SPR Ret	TUR FEA 8	TUR SPR Ret	ITA FEA Ret	ITA SPR Ret			13th	13
2007	Minardi Piquet Sports	BHR FEA Ret	BHR SPR 15	ESP FEA Ret	ESP SPR DNS	MON FEA 15	FRA FEA Ret	FRA SPR Ret	GBR FEA Ret	GBR SPR 18	EUR FEA 12	EUR SPR 10	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR 13	TUR FEA 7	TUR SPR 2	ITA FEA 14	ITA SPR Ret	BEL FEA 19	BEL SPR 16	VAL FEA 15	VAL SPR 18			20th	8

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2008	Vitaphone Racing Team Strakka Racing	Peter Hardman Nick Leventis	Aston Martin DBR9	GT1	82	DNF	DNF

Complete Stock Car Brasil results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos	Points
2009	Medley-A.Mattheis	Chevrolet Vectra	INT 10	CTB 8	BSB Ret	SCZ 9	INT Ret	SAL 5	RIO 6	CGD 10	CTB Ret	BSB 12	TAR 15	INT 5	12th	66
2010	A.Mattheis Motorsport	Chevrolet Vectra	INT 15	CTB Ret	VEL 8	RIO 13	RBP 14	SAL 22	INT DNS	CGD DSQ	LON Ret	SCZ 7	BSB 7	CTB 2	13th	52
2011	Medley Full Time	Peugeot 408	CTB Ret	INT Ret	RBP 7	VEL 18	CGD 10	RIO Ret	INT 6	SAL 21	SCZ 16	LON 23	BSB DSQ	VEL 19	18th	25
2012	Medley Full Time	Peugeot 408	INT 20	CTB 25	VEL Ret	RBP Ret	LON 23	RIO 23	SAL 12	CGD 15	TAR 22	CTB 20	BSB 15	INT 18	26th	37

Complete GT1 World Championship results

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pos	Points
2010	Vitaphone Racing Team	Maserati	ABU QR	ABU CR	SIL QR	SIL CR	BRN QR	BRN CR	PRI QR	PRI CR	SPA QR	SPA CR	NÜR QR	NÜR CR	ALG QR	ALG CR	NAV QR	NAV CR	INT QR 4	INT CR 1	SAN QR	SAN CR	24th	25

References

• Alexandre Sarnes Negrão career summary at DriverDB.com Retrieved on July 10, 2008.

External links

• Official website (Portuguese)