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Key facts
- Born
- Antônio Reginaldo Pizzonia Júnior , ( 1980-09-11 ) 11 September 1980 (age 45) , Manaus , Amazonas , Brazil
- Spouse
- Maurren Maggi ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2003 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2006 )
- Nationality
- Brazilian
- Active years
- 2003 – 2005
- Teams
- Jaguar , Williams
- First entry
- 2003 Australian Grand Prix
- Last entry
- 2005 Chinese Grand Prix
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- Manaus
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Sport
- auto racing
- Image
- Fale F1 Monza 2004 13.jpg
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- Commons category
- Antônio Pizzonia
- date of birth
- 1980-09-11
- birth name
- Antonio Reginaldo Pizzonia Júnior
- points for
- 8
- number of wins
- 0
- pole positions
- 0
- podium finishes
- 0
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 20
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Antônio Reginaldo Pizzonia Júnior (born 11 September 1980) is a Brazilian professional racing driver who has raced in Formula One and the Champ Car World Series. Born in Manaus, he started his car racing career in the Formula Vauxhall Junior series in 1997 and then progressed through various junior formulae, winning the Formula Vauxhall Junior Winter Festival in 1997, the Formula Vauxhall Junior and Formula Renault Winter Festival in 1998, the Formula Renault 2.0 UK in 1999, and the British Formula 3 Championship in 2000.
For 2001 and 2002, Pizzonia entered the Formula 3000, with his best championship finish being sixth in 2001. In 2003, he was signed by the Jaguar Formula One team, but following poor results, was released during the season. In 2004, he replaced the injured Ralf Schumacher at Williams in several events, securing his first Formula One points in the process.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Antônio Pizzonia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.