Alberto Valerio

Alberto Valério
Valério driving for Durango at the Silverstone round of the 2008 GP2 Series season.
Nationality	Brazilian
Born	(1985-09-06) 6 September 1985 (age 39) Ipatinga, Brazil
GP2 Series career
Debut season	2008
Current team	Scuderia Coloni
Car number	20
Former teams	Piquet GP Durango
Starts	53
Wins	1
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	15th in 2009
Previous series
2008–2009–10 2006–07, 2009 2006–07 2004–05 2003–05	GP2 Asia Series Formula Renault 3.5 Series British Formula 3 Brazilian Formula Renault Formula Three Sudamericana
Championship titles
2005	Formula Three Sudamericana

Alberto "Betinho" Valério (Ipatinga, 6 September 1985) is a former Brazilian racing driver.^[1]

Career

Formula Three

Valerio drove in the Formula Three Sudamericana championship from 2003 to 2005, winning the title in his final year of the category.^{[clarification needed]} For 2006 he moved to the British championship, finishing 11th in the championship. 2007 saw him move to the Carlin Motorsport team and improve to eighth place in the standings.

Formula Renault

In 2004 and 2005, Valerio also drove at selected races in the Brazilian Formula Renault series. In 2006 and 2007, he drove in four races overall in the more prestigious Formula Renault 3.5 Series.

GP2 Series

For 2008, Valerio signed to drive for the Durango team in both the GP2 Series and the inaugural GP2 Asia Series.

He returned to the GP2 Asia Series for the second round onwards of the 2008–09 season by replacing Giacomo Ricci in the Trident Racing team.^[2] But he himself was replaced for the third round by Frankie Provenzano.^[3]

For 2009, he returned to the GP2 Series but moved to the Piquet GP squad as team-mate to Roldán Rodríguez. Valerio took his first win with the team, as he dominated the feature race at Silverstone. He finished fifteenth in the championship.

Valerio moved to Coloni for the 2010 season, but was dropped in favour of Álvaro Parente.^[4]

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Poles	Wins	Points	Final Placing
2003	Formula Three Sudamericana	Dragão Motorsport	4	0	0	11	18th
2004	Formula Three Sudamericana	Cesário Junior	18	0	0	58	6th
	Formula Renault 2000 Brazil	Dragão Motorsport	3	0	0	0	NC
2005	Formula Three Sudamericana	Cesário F3	18	4	4	113	1st
	Formula Renault 2.0 Brazil	Cesário FRenault	4	0	0	22	15th
2006	British Formula 3	Cesário Formula UK	22	0	0	42	11th
	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	EuroInternational	2	0	0	0	NC
2007	British Formula 3	Carlin Motorsport	20	0	0	114	8th
	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Victory Engineering	2	0	0	0	NC
	Masters of Formula Three		1	0	0	N/A	29th
2008	GP2 Series	Durango	19	0	0	0	26th
	GP2 Asia Series		10	0	0	2	19th
2008–09	GP2 Asia Series	Trident Racing	1	0	0	0	37th
2009	GP2 Series	Piquet GP	20	0	1	16	15th
	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Comtec Racing	2	0	0	0	36th
2009–10	GP2 Asia Series	Scuderia Coloni	2	0	0	0	32nd
2010	GP2 Series	Scuderia Coloni	14	0	0	4	22nd

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Pos	Points
2006	Eurointernational	ZOL 1	ZOL 2	MON 1	IST 1	IST 2	MIS 1	MIS 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	DON 1	DON 2	LMS 1	LMS 2	CAT 1 19	CAT 2 Ret	44th	0
2007	Victory Engineering	MNZ 1	MNZ 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	MON 1>	HUN 1	HUN 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	DON 1	DON 2	MAG 1	MAG 2	EST 1	EST 2	CAT 1 Ret	CAT 2 Ret	NC	0
2009	Comtec Racing	CAT 1	CAT 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	MON 1	HUN 1	HUN 2	SIL 1	SIL 2	BUG 1	BUG 2	ALG 1 17	ALG 2 16	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	ALC 1	ALC 2	36th	0

Complete GP2 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	DC	Points
2008	Durango	CAT FEA 13	CAT SPR Ret	IST FEA 18	IST SPR 7	MON FEA Ret	MON SPR Ret	MAG FEA 18	MAG SPR 17	SIL FEA 21	SIL SPR 9	HOC FEA 9	HOC SPR 15	HUN FEA DNS	HUN SPR 17	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR 12	SPA FEA Ret	SPA SPR Ret	MNZ FEA 12	MNZ SPR 15	26th	0
2009	Piquet GP	CAT FEA 15	CAT SPR 13	MON FEA Ret	MON SPR Ret	IST FEA 4	IST SPR 6	SIL FEA 1	SIL SPR 7	NÜR FEA Ret	NÜR SPR 17	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR 21	VAL FEA 17	VAL SPR 10	SPA FEA Ret	SPA SPR 12	MNZ FEA Ret	MNZ SPR 11	ALG FEA Ret	ALG SPR 7	15th	16
2010	Scuderia Coloni	CAT FEA 14	CAT SPR Ret	MON FEA 5	MON SPR Ret	IST FEA 17	IST SPR 19	VAL FEA 9	VAL SPR Ret	SIL FEA 14	SIL SPR 22	HOC FEA 11	HOC SPR 12	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR 12	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	YMC FEA	YMC SPR	22nd	4

Complete GP2 Asia Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	DC	Points
2008	Durango	DUB1 FEA 9	DUB1 SPR 5	SEN FEA Ret	SEN SPR Ret	SEP FEA Ret	SEP SPR 17	BHR FEA DNS	BHR SPR 17	DUB2 FEA 13	DUB2 SPR 15			19th	2
2008–09	Trident Racing	SHI FEA	SHI SPR	DUB FEA 16	DUB SPR C	BHR1 FEA	BHR1 SPR	LSL FEA	LSL SPR	SEP FEA	SEP SPR	BHR2 FEA	BHR2 SPR	37th	0
2009–10	Scuderia Coloni	YMC1 FEA	YMC1 SPR	YMC2 FEA 15	YMC2 SPR 18	BHR1 FEA	BHR1 SPR	BHR2 FEA	BHR2 SPR					32nd	0

References

• "Career statistics". driverdb.com. Archived from the original on 9 November 2006. Retrieved 17 February 2008.

1. Alberto Valério Birth date September 6, 1985 Birthplace Ipatinga, Minas Gerais, BrazilLuiz Razia e Alberto Valério são os representantes do país na principal categoria de acesso
2. "Driver changes aplenty in Dubai". crash.net. 4 December 2008. Retrieved 4 December 2008.
3. "Trident names new pairing". crash.net. 21 January 2009. Retrieved 24 January 2009.
4. "Parente rejoins GP2 with Coloni". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. 25 August 2010. Retrieved 30 August 2010.

Sporting positions
Preceded by Alexandre Sarnes Negrão	Formula Three Sudamericana Champion 2005	Succeeded by Luiz Razia