Nasr, Felipe

Felipe Nasr
Felipe Nasr
Citizenship	Brazil
Date of Birth	August 21, 1992 (26 years old)
Place of Birth	Brasilia , Brazil
Performances in Formula 1
Seasons	2 ( 2015 - 2016 )
Cars	Sauber
The Grand Prix	45 (39 starts, 5 PT )
Debut	Australia 2015
Last Grand Prix	Abu Dhabi 2016
Place in 2016	17 (2 points)
5 ( Australia 2015 )	8 ( Austria 2015 )

Luis Felipe de Oliveira Nasr (born August 21, 1992 in Brasilia ) is a Brazilian race car driver , Formula 1 driver . He played for the Sauber team in 2015 - 2016 .

Personal Information

Nasr is a racer of Brazilian-Lebanese descent. His Lebanese grandfather emigrated to Brazil in the 1960s ^[1] . Felipe is the nephew of Amir Nasra , who owns one of the most successful racing teams in South American Formula 3 , helping young pilots to develop ^[2] .

Nasr is fond of fishing and mechanics; his favorite racer is Ayrton Senna , his favorite track is Spa Francorchamps ^[2] .

Career

Karting

Nasr in the European Formula BMW in 2009

Nasr began his career at the age of 7 with karting. Between 2000 and 2007, he many times became a champion in karting tournaments, including in the Brazilian Regional Championship ^[3] ^[4] .

BMW Formula

In 2008, Nasr began to perform in open-wheel racing. He made his debut in the American Formula BMW at the stage in Interlagos, the last stage of the season, and in the second race he managed to climb the podium - finished third, behind Alexander Rossi and Daniel Hunkadella ^[3] ^[5] .

In 2009, Felipe spent the full in the European Formula-BMW as part of the EuroInternational team. He climbed the podium in 14 of 16 races, earning 392 points in total, 104 ahead of his teammate and closest pursuer Daniel Hunkadele, and became the champion of the series ^[6] . Also, the Brazilian this season spent three races in the Pacific Formula BMW ^[3] .

Formula 3

In 2010, Nasr made his British Formula 3 debut as part of the Räikkönen Robertson Racing team, along with Carlos Huertas and Daisuke Nakajima. ^[7] For 29 races held, he was once able to climb to first place (on the Rockingham track), scored 136 points in total and took fifth place in the individual competition. In the same year, Felipe competed in the Macao Grand Prix race, where he took 11th place ^[3] .

Nasr in GP2 in 2014

In 2011, Nasr continued to participate in the British F-3, but already in the Carlin Motorsport team. For 30 races, the Brazilian pilot climbed the podium 17 times, seven of them in first place, earned 318 points (123 outstripping his team mate Kevin Magnussen ) and became the champion of the series. This year, Felipe again participated in the Macao Grand Prix race, where he became the second, and in 2012 the fifth. Also in 2012, Felipe took part in the Daytona 24-hour race, in which his crew took third place ^[8] , and two Formula 3 Euroseries races ^[3] .

GP2

In 2012, Felipe, sponsored by Banco do Brasil and the EBX Group , signed a contract with the DAMS team for performances in the GP2 series ^[9] . Once taking second place in the race (on the Spa Francorchamps track) and finishing three more times third, the Brazilian scored 95 points and took tenth place in the individual competition. His results and the championship title of his teammate - David Valsekki - allowed DAMS to win the team event ^[3] ^[10] .

Nasr in Formula 1 in 2015

In the 2013 season, Nasr joined the Carlin team, where Jolyon Palmer became his teammate. Already with six podiums, Felipe scored 154 points and was fourth in the season, ahead of Palmer by three positions ^[11] . In 2014, having improved his results to ten podiums, four victories and 224 points, the Brazilian pilot became the bronze medalist of the series. His replaced teammate - Julian Leal - became the tenth ^[12] , but in 2013 and 2014 , “Carlin” became the second in the team event ^[3] .

Nasr in Formula 1 in 2016

Formula 1

In February 2014, Felipe Nasr was confirmed as a test pilot in the Williams Formula 1 team ^[13] . He first got behind the wheel of a race car during the 2014 Bahrain Grand Prix , where he replaced Valtteri Bottas ^[14] .

In November 2014, it was announced that Nasr will become the main pilot of the Sauber in the season 2015 ^[15] . In his very first race - at Albert Park in Australia - Felipe took fifth place and earned ten points ^[16] . During the season, the Brazilian finished five more times in the points zone, scored 27 points in total and became 13th in the individual competition ^[3] .

In the 2016 season, Nasr continued to play for Sauber. The team’s results fell sharply: for a long time, the pilots did not score points, and in the Monaco Grand Prix , Nasra collided with his team mate Marcus Ericsson . However, in the rain Grand Prix of Brazil, Felipe took ninth place. The scored two points allowed Sauber to get ahead of Manor in the Cup of Designers in the fight for the penultimate tenth place. Nasr took 17th place in the individual competition ^[3] .

Performance Results

General statistics

Season	Series	Team	Race	Victory	Poles	L / Circles	Catwalks	Glasses	A place
2008	American Formula BMW	Amir nasr racing	2	0	0	0	one	25	ten
2009	European Formula BMW	Euro international	sixteen	five	6	6	14	392	one
2009	Pacific Formula BMW	Euro international	3	2	2	2	2	0	-
2010	British Formula 3	Räikkönen Robertson Racing	thirty	one	one	3	four	136	five
2010	Macau Grand Prix	Räikkönen Robertson Racing	one	0	0	0	0	-	eleven
2011	British Formula 3	Carlin motorsport	thirty	7	four	eight	17	318	one
2011	Macau Grand Prix	Carlin motorsport	one	0	0	0	one	-	2
2012	24 hours daytones	Michael Shank Racing	one	0	0	0	one	-	3
2012	GP2	Dams	24	0	0	0	four	95	ten
2012	Euro Series Formula 3	Carlin	2	0	0	0	0	-	-
2012	Macau Grand Prix	Carlin	one	0	0	0	0	-	five
2013	GP2	Carlin	22	0	0	0	6	154	four
2014	Formula 1	Williams Martini Racing	test / backup pilot
2014	GP2	Carlin	22	four	one	2	ten	224	3
2015	Formula 1	Sauber F1 Team	nineteen	0	0	0	0	27	13
2016	Formula 1	Sauber F1 Team	21	0	0	0	0	2	17
2017	Brazilian Porsche GT3 Cup	-	3	0	0	0	0	73	15
2018	Stock Car Brasil	Full time sports	one	0	0	0	one	0	-
2018	24 hours daytones	Whelen Engineering Racing	one	0	0	0	one	-	2

GP2 Results

Legend to the table

The table lists the results of all Formula 1 Grand Prix in which the pilot participated. The rows of the table are the seasons, the columns are the stages of the Grand Prix. In each cell, the abbreviated name of the stage and the result of the rider, additionally indicated in color, are indicated. Decoding of symbols and colors is presented in the table below.

Example	Description
one	Winner
2	Second place
3	Third place
five	Finished in the spectacle zone
12	Finished out of the spectacle zone
NKL	Finished but not classified
15	Participated outside the standings, or according to a separate classification
18	Not finished, but classified
Gathering	Not finished and not classified
NKV	Not qualified
NPKV	Not prequalified
DSC	Disqualified
SUIT	Excluded from the protocol
test	Fridays Tester
NA	Participated in the Grand Prix as a combat pilot, but did not start the race
T	Injured or sick
QC	Opt out
NTR	Arrived at the Grand Prix, but did not even participate in training
NPR	It was announced among the participants of the Grand Prix, but did not arrive at the start of the competition
ABOUT	Race canceled
	Did not participate
Pole position
Fast lap

Year	Participant	one	2	3	four	five	6	7	eight	9	ten	eleven	12	13	14	15	sixteen	17	18	nineteen	20	21	22	23	24	A place	Score
2012	Dams	MAL Fea 6	MAL SPR 3	BAH1 Fea gathering	BAH1 SPR 6	BACH2 Fea eleven	BACH2 SPR five	COI Fea eleven	COI SPR 9	MON Fea 17	MON SPR gathering	SHAFT Fea Ret	SHAFT SPR 14	Led Fea 6	Led SPR 3	GER Fea four	GER SPR 3	VEN Fea 25	VEN SPR eight	BEL Fea eight	BEL SPR 2	ITA Fea gathering	ITA SPR 21	SYN Fea 6	SYN SPR 7	ten	95
2013	Carlin	MAL Fea four	MAL SPR 2	BACH Fea four	BACH SPR 2	COI Fea 2	COI SPR 3	MON Fea four	MON SPR four	Led Fea Ret	Led SPR 7	GER Fea 9	GER SPR four	VEN Fea 3	VEN SPR five	BEL Fea gathering	BEL SPR eight	ITA Fea gathering	ITA SPR 12	SYN Fea 2	SYN SPR sixteen	ABU Fea 7	ABU SPR 18			four	154
2014	Carlin	BACH Fea eight	BACH SPR four	COI Fea 3	COI SPR one	MON Fea 3	MON SPR gathering	ABC Fea one	ABC SPR gathering	Led Fea 7	Led SPR one	GER Fea five	GER SPR 2	VEN Fea 6	VEN SPR 3	BEL Fea four	BEL SPR one	ITA Fea 6	ITA SPR 6	ROS Fea 17	ROS SPR 3	ABU Fea	ABU SPR			2	200

Formula 1 Results

Season	Team	Chassis	Engine	W	one	2	3	four	five	6	7	eight	9	ten	eleven	12	13	14	15	sixteen	17	18	nineteen	20	21	A place	Glasses
2014	Williams Martini Racing	Williams Fw36	Mercedes Hybrid PU106A 1.6 V6 T	P	ABC	MAZ	BACH test	WHALE test	COI test	MON	CAN	ABT	Led	GER	VEN	BEL	ITA	SYN	Jap	ROF	USA test	BRA test	ABU			-	0
2015	Sauber F1 Team	Sauber C34	Ferrari 059/3 1.6 V6 T	P	ABC five	MAZ 12	WHALE eight	BACH 12	COI 12	MON 9	CAN sixteen	ABT eleven	Led NA	VEN eleven	BEL eleven	ITA 13	SYN ten	Jap 20	ROF 6	USA 9	MEK Gathering	BRA 13	ABU 15			13	27
2016	Sauber F1 Team	Sauber C35	Ferrari 059/5 1.6 V6 T	P	ABC 15	BACH 14	WHALE 20	ROF sixteen	COI 14	MON Gathering	CAN 18	EUR 12	ABT 13	Led 15	VEN 17	GER Gathering	BEL 17	ITA Gathering	SYN 13	MAZ Gathering	Jap nineteen	USA 15	MEK 15	BRA 9	ABU sixteen	17	2