🇧🇷 Chico Serra

Chico Serra is an established professional driver whose career centres on Formula 1, where he raced for Arrows across three seasons from 1981 to 1983. He made 19 starts in the championship against graded professionals and semi-professionals in a global single-seater field. His sole recent appearance came in 2015, when he started once in Brazil's Stock Car Pro Series.[1]

Serra's Formula 1 record placed him against drivers of the highest calibre. He finished ahead of Alain Prost, a four-time world champion, in at least one race, and beat Nigel Mansell, the 1992 champion, twice across their meetings. Against Riccardo Patrese, an established professional who accumulated 257 Formula 1 starts, Serra usually finished ahead. His most frequent rival was Prost himself; the two were closely matched across their races together. His career with Arrows coincided with a team that did not win races during his tenure, though it fielded established drivers including Keke Rosberg.[2]

Serra's thirty-year gap between his final Formula 1 start and his one Stock Car Pro appearance leaves little basis for judging his standing in his later career, but his Formula 1 record against elite opposition, particularly his results against multiple world champions, stands as the substance of his professional record.