Gianmaria Bruni

Gianmaria Bruni

Gianmaria Bruni in 2012
Born	(1981-05-30) 30 May 1981 Rome, Italy
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	Italian
Active years	2004
Teams	Minardi
Entries	18
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First entry	2004 Australian Grand Prix
Last entry	2004 Brazilian Grand Prix
24 Hours of Le Mans career Participating years 2008 - Teams Risi Competizione, AF Corse Best finish 13th (2011) Class wins 3 (2008, 2012, 2014)

Gianmaria "Gimmi" Bruni (born 30 May 1981) is an Italian Ferrari factory auto racing driver who drove in the 2004 Formula 1 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. 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 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, 2010 12 Hours of Sebring and 2011 Petit Le Mans.

Career

First wins in single-seaters

Born in Rome, at age ten Bruni lied about his age to 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 the Euro Formula 3000, finishing third in 2003, he caught the attention of Minardi.

Formula 1

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 the grid. He was one of only two drivers to contest the majority of the season without scoring any points.

GP2 Series

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 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.

GT competitions

For 2007, he switched to 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 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 the overall grand touring classification, though the BMW was in a different class and the car would not have classified anyways 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 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.

Racing record

Complete Formula One results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	WDC	Points
2003	European Minardi Cosworth	Minardi PS03	Cosworth V10	AUS	MAL	BRA	SMR	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	FRA	GBR	GER TD	HUN TD	ITA TD	USA TD	JPN TD			-	-
2004	Minardi Cosworth	Minardi PS04B	Cosworth V10	AUS NC	MAL 14	BHR 17	SMR Ret	ESP Ret	MON Ret	EUR 14	CAN Ret	USA Ret	FRA 18	GBR 16	GER 17	HUN 14	BEL Ret	ITA Ret	CHN Ret	JPN 16	BRA 17	25th	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	21	22	23	DC	Points
2005	Coloni Motorsport	SMR FEA 4	SMR SPR 4	ESP FEA 1	ESP SPR Ret	MON FEA 2	EUR FEA 8	EUR SPR Ret	FRA FEA 18	FRA SPR 11	GBR FEA 7	GBR SPR 11	GER FEA NC	GER SPR 14	HUN FEA 10	HUN SPR 8	TUR FEA Ret	TUR SPR 9	ITA FEA	ITA SPR					10th	35
	Durango																				BEL FEA Ret	BEL SPR 16	BHR FEA Ret	BHR SPR 14
2006	Trident Racing	VAL FEA 6	VAL SPR 5	SMR FEA 1	SMR SPR Ret	EUR FEA Ret	EUR SPR 16	ESP FEA Ret	ESP SPR 17	MON FEA Ret	GBR FEA Ret	GBR SPR 15	FRA FEA Ret	FRA SPR Ret	GER FEA 1	GER SPR 6	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR 8	TUR FEA Ret	TUR SPR 15	ITA FEA Ret	ITA SPR 9			7th	33

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2008	Risi Competizione	Mika Salo Jaime Melo	Ferrari F430 GT2	GT2	326	19th	1st
2009	AF Corse	Luís Pérez Companc Matías Russo	Ferrari F430 GT2	GT2	317	26th	6th
2010	Risi Competizione	Jaime Melo Pierre Kaffer	Ferrari F430 GT2	GT2	116	DNF	DNF
2011	AF Corse	Giancarlo Fisichella Toni Vilander	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	GTE Pro	314	13th	2nd
2012	AF Corse	Giancarlo Fisichella Toni Vilander	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	GTE Pro	336	17th	1st
2013	AF Corse	Giancarlo Fisichella Matteo Malucelli	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	GTE Pro	311	22nd	6th
2014	AF Corse	Giancarlo Fisichella Toni Vilander	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	GTE Pro	339	13th	1st
2015	AF Corse	Giancarlo Fisichella Toni Vilander	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	GTE Pro	330	25th	3rd

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

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

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Rank	Points
2012	AF Corse	LMGTE Pro	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Ferrari 4.5L V8	SEB EX	SPA 2	LMS 1	SIL 1	SÃO 1	BHR	FUJ 2	SHA Ret	1st †	136
2013	AF Corse	LMGTE Pro	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Ferrari 4.5L V8	SIL 5	SPA 1	LMS 5	SÃO 1	COA 2	FUJ 2	SHA 4	BHR 1	1st	145
2014	AF Corse	LMGTE Pro	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Ferrari 4.5 L V8	SIL 4	SPA 1	LMS 1	COA 3	FUJ 1	SHA Ret	BHR 1	SÃO 4	1st	168
2015	AF Corse	LMGTE Pro	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Ferrari 4.5 L V8	SIL 1	SPA 4	LMS 4	NÜR 14	COA 7	FUJ 1	SHA 2	BHR 2	2nd	131.5

† There was no drivers championship that year, the result indicates rank in the LMGTE Pro Trophy.

External links

• Official website (Italian)

Sporting positions
Preceded by Bruno Besson	Eurocup Formula Renault champion 1999	Succeeded by Felipe Massa
Preceded by Soheil Ayari	International GT Open champion 2012 with Federico Leo	Succeeded by Andrea Montermini
Preceded by none	FIA World Endurance Cup for GT Drivers 2013–2014 with Toni Vilander (in 2014)	Succeeded by Richard Lietz