🇧🇷 Antonio Pizzonia

Antonio Pizzonia is an established professional, FIA Gold-graded, who raced single-seater and endurance championships across thirteen seasons from 2001 to 2018. He drove for Williams in Formula 1, competing in twenty starts between 2003 and 2005, and spent five seasons in Brazil's Stock Car Pro Series with Prati-Donaduzzi Racing, where he took three wins and four podiums across eighty starts. He also raced in International Formula 3000, GP2, WEC, and IndyCar, with a win and podium in three WEC starts for Manor between 2013 and 2016.[1]

Pizzonia's career began in single-seaters. He took one win and three podiums across twenty-four starts in International Formula 3000 from 2001 to 2002, then moved to Formula 1 with Williams for three seasons. His results in GP2 were limited to three starts in 2007. After a gap from single-seater racing, he returned to competition in 2008 with one IndyCar start, then shifted to endurance racing. His five career wins came across these championships: one in International Formula 3000, three in Stock Car Pro, and one in WEC. His last indexed activity came in 2016 in the WEC, where he finished twenty-fifth in the championship standings across one round.[2]

In Stock Car Pro, where he spent most of his later career, Pizzonia raced regularly against Rubens Barrichello, a four-time series champion and former Formula 1 driver with over five hundred starts across single-seaters and stock cars, and Ricardo Maurício, the 2020 Stock Car Pro champion. He typically finished behind Barrichello but was closely matched with Maurício. In the WEC, Pizzonia finished ahead of Mark Webber, the 2016 LMP1 champion and a 217-start Formula 1 veteran, across their meetings, and beat Laurens Vanthoor, an FIA Platinum-graded driver and multiple IMSA and WEC champion.