Formula 3000 ( F3000 ) was a type of open wheel, single seater formula racing , occupying the tier immediately below Formula One and above Formula Three . It was so named because the cars were powered by 3.0 L engines.
19-589: Gianmaria is the name of: Gianmaria Bruni (born 1981), Italian racing driver Gianmaria Dal Maistro (born 1980), Italian skier Gianmaria Potenza (born 1936), Italian artist Gianmaria Testa (1958–2016), Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist Gianmaria Zanandrea (born 1999), Italian footballer Gianmaria (singer) , Italian singer-songwriter and rapper. See also [ edit ] Giammaria , given name Jean-Marie , given name [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share
38-694: A couple of years after the demise of F2 in Europe, but then adopted basically F3000 rules in 1987. Unlike European F3000, the Japanese Championship featured much competition between tyre companies, and tended to feature highly paid drivers (both local and European) in cars tending to be more developed and tested than those in the European series. The Mugen engine dominated this series, and was also competitive in European F3000. Japanese F3000
57-452: A factory Ferrari driver. He won the 2008 FIA GT Championship , 2011 Le Mans Series and 2012 International GT Open and took three class victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans , in 2008 , 2012 and 2014 . He also was successful at the 2009 and 2015 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps , 2010 12 Hours of Sebring and 2011 Petit Le Mans . Born in Rome , at age ten Bruni lied about his age to
76-596: A total of 336 laps (2,845.53 miles) of the Circuit de la Sarthe . Bruni scored three wins and two second places at the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship, so he won the GTE-Pro teams trophy and the GTE drivers and manufacturers cups. In February 2017, Ferrari and Gianmaria Bruni announce that, by mutual consent, they have early terminated their relationship. After a collaboration started in 2007, Bruni will leave Ferrari at
95-517: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Gianmaria Bruni Gianmaria " Gimmi " Bruni (born 30 May 1981) is an Italian Porsche factory auto racing driver who drove in the 2004 Formula One World Championship for Minardi . He is a GP2 Series race winner and is now racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship , in which he gained the 2013 and 2014 GT Drivers' Titles whilst driving as
114-569: The Euro Formula 3000 , finishing third in 2003, he caught the attention of Minardi . Bruni started testing for Minardi in 2003. However the biggest struggle of his career was finding enough sponsorship to compete for them in Formula 1 in 2004. In fact Bruni did join Minardi for the 2004 Formula 1 season, though he struggled in a car which was considerably less developed than the rest of
133-586: The Monza weekend. Joining up with Durango, he started on pole position at Spa-Francorchamps and finished tenth in the Drivers' Classification. In 2006 Bruni competed again in the GP2 Series, this time with the new Trident Racing squad. He scored two victories, the first at Imola and the second at Hockenheim . At the end of the season he was seventh in the Drivers' Classification. For 2007, he switched to
152-665: The British Formula 3000 Championship, the series was renamed the British Formula Two Championship in 1992, but grids diminished quickly and it was ended after the 1994 season. It was restarted in 1996 and cancelled once more the following year, after one race had been held with only three cars. Two other attempts at restarting F3000 racing in the UK failed. An Italian series evolved into a second-level one, Euro Formula 3000 (now Euroseries 3000), running
171-1103: The Michelin Endurance Cup, and not the overall LMP2 Championship. 1991 J. Plato 1992 P. de la Rosa 1993 O. Couvreur 1994 J. Matthews 1995 C. Sauvage 1996 E. Bernoldi 1997 J. van Hooydonk 1998 B. Besson 1999 G. Bruni 2000 F. Massa 2001 A. Farfus 2002 E. Salignon 2003 E. Guerrieri 2004 S. Speed 2005 K. Kobayashi 2006 F. Albuquerque 2007 B. Hartley 2008 V. Bottas 2009 A. Costa 2010 K. Korjus 2011 R. Frijns 2012 S. Vandoorne 2013 P. Gasly 2014 N. de Vries 2015 J. Aitken 2016 L. Norris 2017 S. Fenestraz 2018 M. Fewtrell 2019 O. Piastri 2020 V. Martins Formula 3000#Euro Formula 3000 The most prestigious F3000 series, International Formula 3000 ,
190-863: The director of La Pista d'Oro , a Go kart track in Italy , in order to begin an amateur Karting career (twelve was the minimum age to compete). His first experience with racing cars was in the Italian Formula Renault Campus in 1997; he won the Title in 1998. For the following season he moved on to the European Formula Renault Eurocup 2.0 , taking another Title. Then he entered the British Formula 3 , where he came fifth in 2000 and fourth in 2001. After he had raced in various similar European series like
209-792: The driver's and team's championship in the LM GTE Pro class of the Le Mans Series and helping win the team's championship in the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup . Bruni finished 2nd at the Le Mans 24hrs and won the Petit Le Mans. At the 2012 12 Hours of Sebring , Bruni disqualified his car by attempting to shunt off the BMW M3 GT of Joey Hand on the last lap to help the sister car of Olivier Beretta to win
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#1732776084728228-509: The end of June of this year. Bruni signed a contract with Porsche . As a result of the contract termination settlement he sat out the first half of the 2017 racing season, making his Porsche debut in July at Watkins Glen. In 2018, he raced for Porsche in the WEC replacing Frédéric Makowiecki. ( key ) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) Did not finish
247-621: The grid. He was one of only two drivers to contest the majority of the season without scoring any points. In 2005 Bruni competed in the GP2 Series , the single-seater Championship which is part of the Formula 1 support package and which is intended to be its feeder series. He won Race 1 at Barcelona and took second at Monaco driving for Coloni. The Italian left the Team in September before
266-528: The overall grand touring classification, though the BMW was in a different class and the car would not have classified anyway because it did not make 70% of the race leader's distance. In the 80th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2012 , Bruni and the AF Corse Team scored first place in the GTE-Pro class along with his co-drivers Toni Vilander and Giancarlo Fisichella; their Ferrari 458 Italia covered
285-537: The previous generation of spec Lolas. An Italian national series started in 2005 with the arrival of the GP2 Series , but has now been merged with Euroseries 3000, running both B02/50 and B99/50 cars. As of 2010, it is renamed Auto GP , using old A1 Grand Prix cars and engines in place of F3000 regulations. The American Racing Series , a predecessor of Indy Lights , ran with March F3000 chassis (called Wildcats ) and Buick V6 engines, before turning to Lolas some years later. Japan persisted with Formula Two rules for
304-486: The race, but was classified as he had completed more than 90% of the race distance. ( key ) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) ( key ) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) ( key ) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) ( key ) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Points only counted towards
323-419: The same given name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gianmaria&oldid=1159993356 " Categories : Given names Italian masculine given names Masculine given names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
342-594: The sportscar racing as he joined the FIA GT Championship with Team AF Corse MOTOROLA in a Ferrari 430 GT3 . He and his teammate Stéphane Ortelli finished the season 2nd in the GT2 class with 3 wins. After competing in the American Le Mans Series for Risi Competizione, Bruni shifted focus to Europe for 2011, teaming with Giancarlo Fisichella in an AF Corse Ferrari F458 Italia, winning
361-569: Was introduced by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) in 1985 to replace Formula Two , and was itself replaced by the GP2 Series in 2005. While the International series is usually synonymous with F3000, other series racing to F3000 specification have existed. A small British Formula 3000 series ran for several years in the late 1980s and early 1990s, usually using year-old cars. Founded in 1989 as
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