Igor Fraga

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Igor Fraga
Nationality Brazil Brazilian
Born (1998-09-26) September 26, 1998 (age 25)
Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
FIA Formula 3 Championship career
Debut season 2020
Current team Charouz Racing System
Car no. 24
Starts 16 (16 entries)
Wins 0
Poles 0
Fastest laps 0
Best finish 24th in 2020
Previous series
2020
2019
2018
2017–18
2015–17		 Toyota Racing Series
FR European Championship
U.S. F2000 National Championship
NACAM Formula 4 Championship
Formula 3 Brasil
Championship titles
2020
2017		 Toyota Racing Series
Formula 3 Brasil Academy Class
Fraga in esports
Career highlights and awards

Igor Omura Fraga (born September 26, 1998) is a Japanese-born Brazilian racing driver, esports player, and former member of the Red Bull Junior Team.[1] He was the 2020 Toyota Racing Series champion, winning the title by six points ahead of Liam Lawson.[2] He most recently competed in the 2020 FIA Formula 3 Championship with Charouz Racing System.[3]

He has achieved success in esports as well, winning the inaugural FIA Gran Turismo Nations Cup and McLaren Shadow Project racing series in 2018.[4] He also competed in the 2017 Formula One eSports Series but with limited success. Fraga also serves as the esports ambassador for the Super Formula Championship.[5]

Racing career

In motorsport

Fraga began his career through karting in 2004 at the Biwako SL Series. He won the Kids Karting class championship during consecutive years in 2004 and 2005, and continued to win the Mini ROK class championships in 2006 and 2007. Fraga would later win the 2008 Asian Karting Open Championship in the Mini ROK class the following year.[6]

Fraga raced in Formula 3 Brasil for three years, all with Prop Car Racing. Fraga's first season in 2015 did not start well, retiring in its first three races under Class B. At the following race, he finished eighth overall, and third in class. Fraga would earn a total of two pole positions, four fastest laps, nine podiums, and four class wins in the season and would finish third in Class B with 117 points. In 2016, Fraga was promoted to Class A, but only raced in four races, those being the first event at the Velopark and the last event at Interlagos. He would finish eleventh in the Class A standings, with one podium and 19 points. Fraga would return to the newly renamed Academy class in 2017. Fraga won the class, finishing the season with 190 points, with seven pole positions, seven fastest laps, 13 podiums, and 10 class wins. Simultaneously with Formula 3 Brasil, Fraga also raced in NACAM Formula 4 Championship in 2017. In his only season in 2017–18, Fraga finished second overall and earned 286 points, with five pole positions, seven fastest laps, 12 podiums, and six race wins.

In 2018, Fraga participated in the U.S. F2000 National Championship. He ended the season in fourth overall, with three podiums and 213 points. In 2019, Fraga made his European debut in the inaugural Formula Regional European Championship, winning four races and finishing 3rd and therefore best of the non-Prema drivers.[7]

Fraga competed in the FIA Formula 3 Championship with Charouz Racing System in 2020, partnering Roman Staněk and David Schumacher.[8] Having only scored one point throughout the season, Fraga was set to switch to Hitech Grand Prix at the final round in Mugello, replacing Max Fewtrell, but Charouz would not authorize the move, which would place Fraga on the sidelines for the finale.[9] He would finish the season in 24th.

In March of that year, Fraga was named as a new signing to the Red Bull Junior Team, after winning the Toyota Racing Series championship in 2020, beating out fellow Red Bull Junior Liam Lawson.[1] He was released from the programme following the 2020 season.

At the end of 2022, Fraga partook in a Super Formula test with B-Max Racing.[10] Fraga later took part in the post-season rookie test with Team Impul, driving Yuhi Sekiguchi's #19 car.[11]

In esports

In 2017, Fraga qualified for the first Formula One Esports Series final, having finished 4th and 2nd in his Heat group. His results in the final however weren't as good, finishing the three races 14th, 18th and scored six points in the last race where he finished 15th. He ended the final 18th out of 20 drivers.

Fraga has participated in the FIA-Certified Gran Turismo Championships, and made his first appearance in the series in the inaugural 2018 season, participating in the Nations Cup. On the build-up to the World Final, Igor Fraga won the Americas regional final event in Las Vegas, finishing first overall with 43 points in three races and securing a World Final spot. Fraga would take the inaugural Nations Cup championship in the World Final in Monaco with 54 points.[12] Fraga returned to the series in 2019 for both Nations Cup and Manufacturer Series championships. A first corner spin in Red Bull Ring at the first semi-final of the World Final sent Fraga to last place and he would later be eliminated in the Nations Cup as a result, finishing 10th.[13] He later won that year's Manufacturer Series championship for Toyota with teammates Rayan Derrouiche and Tomoaki Yamanaka. Fraga returned for the rebooted 2020 season in both competitive series. He did not qualify for the World Finals for the Nations Cup, but did finish 4th overall in the World Finals for the Manufacturer Series alongside Shohei Sugimori and Valerio Gallo.[14]

Fraga competed in the inaugural McLaren Shadow Project in 2018 and won the series, beating runners-up Nuno Pinto and Miguel Ballester in the grand final.[15][16]

In 2021, Fraga would compete in the inaugural Olympic Virtual Series, participating in the 'Motor Sport' event in the Gran Turismo Sport game.[17][18] Fraga scored a 2nd-place finish in the first race, but would not be able to complete the following two races due to a network problem, which he later clarified on his Twitter.[19]

In 2022, Fraga won the Toyota GR GT Cup championship in the Gran Turismo World Series.[2] Fraga was also appointed as the esports ambassador for the Super Formula Championship later that year.[5]

Personal life

Fraga was born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan to Brazilian parents.[20] He previously resided in Ipatinga, Brazil, but later moved back to Japan in 2022, which he had announced on his Twitter account.[15][21] Fraga is a multilinguist, capable of speaking Portuguese, English, Japanese, and Spanish.[22]

Karting record

Karting career summary

Season Series Team Position
2004 Biwako SL Series — Kids Karting Peter Pan 1st
2005 Nishi Nihon Challenge — Kids Karting Peter Pan 1st
Biwako SL Series — Kids Karting 1st
2006 Biwako SL Series — Mini ROK CRG Japan 1st
2007 Biwako SL Series — Mini ROK CRG Japan 1st
Asian Karting Open Championship — Mini ROK NC
2008 Asian Karting Open Championship — Mini ROK CRG Japan 1st
Biwako SL Series — Mini ROK NC

Career summary

Career summary

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2015 Fórmula 3 Brasil - Class B Prop Car Racing 16 4 2 4 9 117 3rd
2016 Fórmula 3 Brasil Prop Car Racing 4 0 0 0 1 19 11th
2017 Fórmula 3 Brasil - Academy Class Prop Car Racing 16 10 7 7 13 190 1st
2017–18 NACAM Formula 4 Championship Prop Car Racing 18 6 5 7 12 280 2nd
2018 U.S. F2000 National Championship Exclusive Autosport 14 0 0 0 3 213 4th
2019 Formula Regional European Championship DR Formula RP Motorsport 24 4 4 3 11 300 3rd
2020 FIA Formula 3 Championship Charouz Racing System 16 0 0 0 0 1 24th
Toyota Racing Series M2 Competition 15 4 3 3 9 362 1st
2023 Super GT - GT300 Anest Iwata Racing with Arnage

Complete U.S. F2000 National Championship results

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Rank Points
2018 Exclusive Autosport STP
8		 STP
2		 IMS
8		 IMS
17		 LOR
7		 ROA
8		 ROA
5		 TOR
7		 TOR
2		 MDO
17		 MDO
3		 MDO
5		 POR
15		 POR
4		 4th 213

Complete Formula Regional European Championship 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 24 25 DC Points
2019 DR Formula RP Motorsport LEC
1
3		 LEC
2
3		 LEC
3
7		 VLL
1
7		 VLL
2
8		 VLL
3
C		 HUN
1
5		 HUN
2
DNS		 HUN
3
4		 RBR
1
2		 RBR
2
9		 RBR
3
1		 IMO
1
1		 IMO
2
3		 IMO
3
2		 IMO
4
3		 CAT
1
10		 CAT
2
4		 CAT
3
7		 MUG
1
5		 MUG
2
5		 MUG
3
5		 MNZ
1
1		 MNZ
2
1		 MNZ
3
3		 3rd 300

Complete Toyota Racing 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 DC Points
2020 M2 Competition HIG
1
2		 HIG
2
7		 HIG
3
3		 TER
1
3		 TER
2
6		 TER
3
2		 HMP
1
1		 HMP
2
4		 HMP
3
1		 PUK
1
2		 PUK
2
5		 PUK
3
8		 MAN
1
1		 MAN
2
4		 MAN
3
1		 1st 362

Complete FIA Formula 3 Championship 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 DC Points
2020 Charouz Racing System RBR
FEA
16		 RBR
SPR
25		 RBR
FEA
26		 RBR
SPR
14		 HUN
FEA
15		 HUN
SPR
Ret		 SIL
FEA
15		 SIL
SPR
Ret		 SIL
FEA
18		 SIL
SPR
10		 CAT
FEA
24		 CAT
SPR
18		 SPA
FEA
19		 SPA
SPR
27		 MNZ
FEA
24		 MNZ
SPR
17		 MUG
FEA
 MUG
SPR
 24th 1

Notes

  1. ↑ Known as SK Telecom T1 from 2014 to 2019.

References

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Sporting positions
Preceded by Toyota Racing Series
Champion
2020		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by New Zealand Grand Prix
Winner
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