Andreas Zuber

Andreas Zuber
Nationality	Austrian
Born	(1983-10-09) 9 October 1983 Judenburg (Austria)
Previous series
2008–09 2008 2006–09 2005 2003–04 2001–02 2001–02 2000	GP2 Asia Series Superleague Formula GP2 Series Formula Renault 3.5 Series Formula 3 Euro Series Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 FR 2.0 Germany Formula König

Andreas "Andi" Zuber (born 9 October 1983 in Judenburg, Austria) is a motor racing driver. An Austrian by birth, he once raced under a licence issued by the United Arab Emirates.

Career

Formula König

Despite beginning his karting career in 1998, 2000 saw his debut in the Formula König championship with Team Böhm Sport. Zuber finished twelfth in the championship with 39 points.

Formula Renault

The following season, Zuber competed in both the Formula Renault 2.0 Germany and Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 championships for Motopark Academy. He finished sixth in the German series standings. In the Eurocup, he took 54th place in the championship, with a best finish of seventeenth at the A1-Ring.

For 2002, the Austrian driver remained in the German championship with Motopark Academy. He finished second behind Dutch driver Ferdinand Kool in final standings. Also he was a guest driver at the Oschersleben round of the Eurocup.

Formula Three

Zuber moved on to new-for-2003 Formula 3 Euro Series with Team Rosberg. He finished in 24th place in the standings with two points scored for seventh place in the first race at Le Mans.

He continued in the F3 Euroseries in 2004 with Team Rosberg, finishing 21st without scoring a point, with a ninth place at Brno being his best result.

Formula Renault 3.5 Series

Zuber drove for Carlin Motorsport in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series in 2005, finishing sixth in the championship with one win at Estoril and pole position at Valencia apiece.

GP2 Series

He switched to the GP2 Series for 2006 for the new Trident Racing team, where he partnered Gianmaria Bruni. After a slow start to his championship, he took his first race victory in the formula at the penultimate race meeting of the season at the Istanbul Park track, in which he was the only driver to hold off Lewis Hamilton, after the eventual champion spun early in the race but climbed back up to second position. This win complemented Bruni's two triumphs earlier in the year and established Zuber in fourteenth position in the championship.

Zuber moved to iSport International for 2007, where he was paired with Timo Glock. He took a perfect result of pole position, win and fastest lap at the Silverstone feature race, but his overall season was inconsistent and he finished ninth in the championship, compared to Glock's championship-winning campaign. The team-mates also collided with one another when accelerating away from the grid at the start of the Magny-Cours feature race, after starting from the front row.

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Zuber at Silverstone in 2008.

For 2008, Zuber switched to the Piquet Sports team alongside Pastor Maldonado. Four podium finishes saw him repeat his ninth place in the championship of the previous year, but he failed to achieve a race victory for the first time in the category. He was also outperformed by Maldonado, who finished fifth overall with almost double the number of points. He was not helped by failing to score any points in the final seven races of the season, a run which included disqualification from third place at the Spa-Francorchamps for a technical infringement that both he and the team considered to be particularly unfair. Zuber also drove in the first two rounds of the 2008–09 GP2 Asia Series season for the FMS International team, after which he was replaced by Rodolfo González.

Zuber returned to FMS for the 2009 GP2 Series season, where he was partnered by Luiz Razia. Despite scoring more podium finishes, the year was unstable off-track: first Giancarlo Fisichella's stake in the team was bought back by the Coloni family, its original founder and owner; then the outfit missed the eighth round of the championship after its cars were impounded as a result of court proceedings initiated by driver Andy Soucek, who had briefly been employed by FMS. Zuber eventually wound up in thirteenth place overall.

Superleague Formula

Zuber has also represented Al Ain in the Superleague Formula, a championship in which the cars represent different football teams.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2000	Formula König	Team Böhm Sport	8	0	0	0	0	39	12th
2001	Formula Renault 2.0 Germany	Motopark Academy	8	0	0	0	0	81	6th
	Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup		4	0	0	0	0	0	54th
2002	Formula Renault 2.0 Germany	Motopark Academy	14	0	0	0	2	120	11th
	Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup		1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	Italian Formula Three	Team Ghinzani	1	0	1	?	0	3	12th
2003	Formula 3 Euro Series	Team Rosberg	20	0	0	0	0	2	24th
	Masters of Formula 3		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	26th
2004	Formula 3 Euro Series	Team Rosberg	20	0	0	0	0	0	21st
	Masters of Formula 3		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	25th
2005	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Carlin Motorsport	16	1	1	4	4	73	6th
2006	GP2 Series	Trident Racing	21	1	0	1	1	12	14th
2007	GP2 Series	iSport International	21	1	1	2	3	30	9th
2008	GP2 Series	Piquet Sports	20	0	0	2	4	32	9th
	Superleague Formula	Al Ain	4	0	0	0	0	244	12th
2008–09	GP2 Asia Series	Fisichella Motor Sport	3	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2009	GP2 Series	Fisichella Motor Sport	18	0	0	0	3	21	13th
		PartyPokerRacing.com Scuderia Coloni

Complete Formula 3 Euro Series results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	DC	Points
2003	Team Rosberg	Dallara F303/006	Spiess-Opel	HOC1 1 17	HOC1 2 9	ADR 1 18	ADR 2 23	PAU 1 20	PAU 2 DNS	NOR 1 Ret	NOR 2 13	LMS 1 7	LMS 2 13	NÜR 1 22	NÜR 2 Ret	A1R 1 9	A1R 2 Ret	ZAN 1 13	ZAN 2 12	HOC2 1 Ret	HOC2 2 21	MAG 1 25	MAG 2 Ret	24th	2
2004	Team Rosberg	Dallara F303/005	Spiess-Opel	HOC1 1 19	HOC1 2 Ret	EST 1 21	EST 2 Ret	ADR 1 20	ADR 1 Ret	PAU 1 Ret	PAU 2 Ret	NOR 1 Ret	NOR 1 Ret	MAG 1 20	MAG 2 Ret	NÜR 1 19	NÜR 2 16	ZAN 1 23	ZAN 2 Ret	BRN 1 12	BRN 2 9	HOC2 1 Ret	HOC2 2 10	21st	0

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 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	DC	Points
2005	Carlin Motorsport	ZOL 1 2	ZOL 2 2	MON 1 DNS	VAL 1 Ret	VAL 2 10	LMS 1 7	LMS 2 8	BIL 1 22	BIL 2 16	OSC 1 3	OSC 2 10	DON 1 19	DON 2 Ret	EST 1 1	EST 2 7	MNZ 1 Ret	MNZ 2 5	6th	73

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	DC	Points
2006	Trident Racing	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR 13	SMR FEA Ret	SMR SPR 8	EUR FEA 14	EUR SPR Ret	ESP FEA Ret	ESP SPR 11	MON FEA 5	GBR FEA Ret	GBR SPR Ret	FRA FEA Ret	FRA SPR 18	GER FEA Ret	GER SPR 14	HUN FEA 14	HUN SPR 9	TUR FEA 7	TUR SPR 1	ITA FEA Ret	ITA SPR Ret	14th	12
2007	iSport International	BHR FEA 3	BHR SPR Ret	ESP FEA DNS	ESP SPR 9	MON FEA Ret	FRA FEA Ret	FRA SPR 15	GBR FEA 1	GBR SPR 6	GER FEA Ret	GER SPR 21	HUN FEA 3	HUN SPR 6	TUR FEA Ret	TUR SPR 14	ITA FEA Ret	ITA SPR 5	BEL FEA 18	BEL SPR 12	VAL FEA 12	VAL SPR 12	9th	30
2008	Piquet Sports	ESP FEA 3	ESP SPR Ret	TUR FEA 3	TUR SPR Ret	MON FEA 11	MON SPR 17	FRA FEA 5	FRA SPR 8	GBR FEA 7	GBR SPR 11	GER FEA 11	GER SPR 2	HUN FEA 2	HUN SPR 7	EUR FEA Ret	EUR SPR Ret	BEL FEA DSQ	BEL SPR Ret	ITA FEA Ret	ITA SPR 10		9th	32
2009	Fisichella Motor Sport	ESP FEA Ret	ESP SPR Ret	MON FEA 3	MON SPR 5	TUR FEA 9	TUR SPR 19	GBR FEA 8	GBR SPR 2	GER FEA 3	GER SPR Ret	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR 17										13th	21
	PartyPokerRacing.com Scuderia Coloni													VAL FEA 16	VAL SPR Ret	BEL FEA	BEL SPR	ITA FEA 12	ITA SPR Ret	POR FEA 8	POR SPR 12

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
2008–09	Fisichella Motor Sport	CHN FEA Ret	CHN SPR Ret	DUB FEA Ret	DUB SPR C	BHR1 FEA	BHR1 SPR	QAT FEA	QAT SPR	MYS FEA	MYS SPR	BHR2 FEA	BHR2 SPR	NC	0

Superleague Formula

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Rank	Pts
2008	Al Ain Azerti Motorsport	DON 6	DON 15	NÜR 11	NÜR 11	ZOL	ZOL	EST	EST	VAL	VAL	JER	JER	12th*	244*

• * Al Ain FC overall standing. There is no drivers' championship in the Superleague Formula.

FIA GT competition results

GT1 World Championship results

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pos	Points
2010	Phoenix Racing/Carsport	Corvette	ABU QR 1	ABU CR 2	SIL QR 11	SIL CR Ret	BRN QR	BRN CR	PRI QR	PRI CR	SPA QR	SPA CR	NÜR QR	NÜR CR	ALG QR	ALG CR	NAV QR	NAV CR	INT QR	INT CR	SAN QR	SAN CR	23rd	26
2011	Exim Bank Team China	Corvette	ABU QR	ABU CR	ZOL QR	ZOL CR	ALG QR	ALG CR	SAC QR	SAC CR	SIL QR 3	SIL CR 3	NAV QR	NAV CR	PRI QR Ret	PRI CR Ret	ORD QR	ORD CR	BEI QR	BEI CR	SAN QR	SAN CR	20th	19
2012	Valmon Racing Team Russia	Aston Martin	NOG QR 13	NOG CR 13	ZOL QR Ret	ZOL CR 15	NAV QR 15	NAV QR 13															27th	1
	Exim Bank Team China	Porsche							SVK QR DNS	SVK CR DNS	ALG QR 9	ALG CR 10
	Sunred	Ford											SVK QR DNS	SVK CR Ret	MOS QR	MOS CR	NUR QR	NUR CR	DON QR	DON CR

FIA GT Series results

Year	Class	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Points
2013	Pro	Sébastien Loeb Racing	McLaren MP4-12C GT3	NOG QR 10	NOG CR 11	ZOL QR 4	ZOL CR 4	ZAN QR 6	ZAN QR 15	SVK QR 4	SVK CR 7	NAV QR 5	NAV CR 2	BAK QR Ret	BAK CR Ret	8th	61

External links

• Official site (English) (German)
• Andreas Zuber career statistics at Driver Database