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| Álvaro Parente | |
| Nationality |  Portuguese |
| Date of Birth | October 4, 1984 |
| Place of Birth | Porto (Portugal) |
| 2009 GP2 Series | |
| Debut season | 2008 |
| Current team | Super Nova Racing |
| Car No. | 8 |
| Starts | 20 |
| Wins | 1 |
| Poles | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 1 |
| Best finish | 8th in 2008 |
| Previous series | |
| 2001-2002 2003 2004-2005 2006-2007 |
Spanish F3 Championship F3 Euroseries Championship British F3 Championship World Series by Renault |
| Championship titles | |
| 2005 2007 |
British F3 Champion World Series by Renault |
Álvaro Parente (born October 4, 1984 in Porto) is a Portuguese racecar driver. Parente's father was also a race driver.
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Career
After winning the Karting European Junior Championship in 1998, Parente made his debut in auto racing in 2001 at the age of 16, driving in the Spanish F3 Championship. In the following year, he was integrated into the Team Portugal project and scored a win on his way to 4th place in the series.
Parente than began a more international career in 2003, moving to the F3 Euroseries with Team Ghinzani, but the Mugen-Honda engine proved to be inferior to the Mercedes and he scored a single point. He did better with one-off entries in Italian Formula 3 and at Spa in a round of the British Formula 3 Championship, his first association with Carlin Motorsport, which was repeated that year in the Macau Grand Prix.
This brief contact paved the way for a contract with Carlin for the 2004 season, where he took part in the British series, scoring another win and finishing 7th in the championship standings. He also took part in Marlboro Masters and at Macau, but in the former the Mugen-Honda could not take the fight to the Mercedes drivers and in the latter he was taken out in the first lap.
Parente stayed in the British Formula 3 for another season, and his experience helped him to win the championship with four races to go, scoring a total of 11 wins. This result made him the natural candidate to represent A1 Team Portugal for the new A1 Grand Prix series.
For 2006, Parente joined the World Series by Renault with the Victory Engineering team, and achieved his first win at Istanbul in only his fifth race in the category. He took two further wins at the Nürburgring and Circuit de Catalunya to finish fifth in the final standings. He had hoped to progress onto the GP2 Series in 2007, but a lack of sponsorship scuppered his plans. He did, however, return to the World Series with the French Tech 1 Racing team, having signed a contract on the eve of the first pre-season test.1
During the 2007 season Parente took five podium finishes, including two race victories at Monaco and Spa, and was crowned World Series by Renault champion at the final round in Barcelona on October 27.2
As a prize for winning the World Series, Parente has tested for the Renault F1 team on January 17, 2008, at Jerez de la Frontera.3 For 2008 Parente will race with the Super Nova Racing team in the GP2 Series,4 widely regarded as the primary feeder series to Formula One.
Alvaro Parente made a stunning start to his GP2 career in the opening round of the season at the Circuit de Catalunya, Parente won the feature race making him the first Portuguese driver to win in GP2 Series.5 Alvaro Parente led from start to finish, to claim victory ahead of Senna and Zuber. He eventually finished eighth in the drivers' championship.
Super Nova team nicknamed Parente as "Chachi", due to his likeness to the famous character in Happy Days6
Racing record
Career summary
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 | Super Nova Racing | ESP FEA 1 |
ESP SPR 7 |
TUR FEA Ret |
TUR SPR 8 |
MON FEA 5 |
MON SPR 3 |
FRA FEA 9 |
FRA SPR Ret |
GBR FEA 16 |
GBR SPR Ret |
GER FEA 3 |
GER SPR 6 |
HUN FEA 16 |
HUN SPR Ret |
EUR FEA 16 |
EUR SPR Ret |
BEL FEA 2 |
BEL SPR Ret |
ITA FEA Ret |
ITA SPR 12 |
8th | 34 |
A1 Grand Prix record
| Year | Team |  NLD |
 CZE |
 CHN |
 MYS |
 IDN |
 NZL |
 AUS |
 RSA |
 MEX |
CHN |
 GBR |
Pos | Pts | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| spr | fea | spr | fea | spr | fea | spr | fea | spr | fea | spr | fea | spr | fea | spr | fea | spr | fea | spr | fea | spr | fea | ||||
| 2006-07 | Portugal |
8 | 5 | 14 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 17th | 10 | ||||||||||||||||
| Year | Team | UK |
 GER |
POR |
AUS |
MYS |
 UAE |
RSA |
IDN |
MEX |
 USA |
CHN |
Pos | Pts | |||||||||||
| spr | fea | spr | fea | spr | fea | spr | fea | spr | fea | spr | fea | spr | fea | spr | fea | spr | fea | spr | fea | spr | fea | ||||
| 2005-06 | Portugal |
8 | Ret | Ret | 11 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 19 | Ret | Ret | 10 | 3 | 4 | 9th | 66 | ||
Racing career
- 1998 - Karting European Championship, Champion
- 2001 - Spanish F3, 12th place
- 2002 - Spanish F3, 4th place
- 2003 - F3 Euroseries, 25th place (also one-offs in Italian F3 and British F3)
- 2004 - British F3 Championship, 7th place (also Macau GP and Marlboro Masters)
- 2005 - British F3 Championship, Champion (also Marlboro Masters); A1 Grand Prix with A1 Team Portugal
- 2006 - World Series by Renault with Victory Engineering, 5th Place
- 2007 - World Series by Renault with Tech 1 Racing, Champion
- 2008 - GP2 Series with Super Nova Racing Team
References
- ^ "Parente secures Tech 1 seat", crash.net (2007-03-15). Retrieved on 15 March 2007.
- ^ "Parente podium enough to take title", crash.net (2007-10-27). Retrieved on 28 October 2007.
- ^ "Parente completes Renault test at Jerez", autosport.com (2008-01-17). Retrieved on 6 March 2008.
- ^ "Super Nova confirm Parente, Bakkerud", autosport.com (2008-02-07). Retrieved on 6 March 2008.
- ^ "Parente romps to win on debut", crash.net (2008-04-26). Retrieved on 26 April 2008.
- ^ Buxton, Will (April 2008). "GP2: Happy Days for Chachi". GPWeek.com 1 (8): pp.26.
- ^ F3 Macau 2003 results driverdb.com
- ^ F3 Korea Super Prix 2003 results driverdb.com
- ^ F3 European Cup 2004 results driverdb.com
- ^ F3 Macau 2004 results driverdb.com
External links
- Official Blog
- Alvaro Parente career statistics at Driver Database
| Sporting positions | ||
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| Preceded by Nelson Angelo Piquet |
British Formula Three Champion 2005 |
Succeeded by Mike Conway |
| Preceded by Alx Danielsson |
World Series by Renault Champion 2007 |
Succeeded by Giedo van der Garde |
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