🇧🇷 Alberto Valério

Alberto Valério is a retired professional driver from Brazil who raced in single-seater championships from 2006 to 2010. He competed in Formula V8 3.5 and the GP2 Series, driving for Scuderia Coloni in his most active years in GP2.[1]

Across four seasons Valério started 39 times in indexed racing, taking one win and one podium finish. His single victory came in GP2 in 2008. The bulk of his career lay in the GP2 Series between 2008 and 2010, where he made 36 starts and finished 23rd in the 2010 championship standings. His earlier experience included three starts in Formula V8 3.5 in 2006 and 2007 with Comtec Racing.[2]

Valério raced regularly against Pastor Maldonado and Davide Valsecchi, both of whom went on to win the GP2 Series; he typically finished behind them both. He beat Nico Hülkenberg, the 2009 GP2 champion and later a Formula 1 driver, on four occasions, and finished ahead of Sergio Pérez, who raced in Formula 1 for a decade, six times across their meetings in GP2. His main team was Durango, which fielded him for 13 of his 39 starts and counted established professional Giorgio Pantano among its drivers across the period.