Raphael Matos | |
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Nationality | Brazilian |
Born | Belo Horizonte, Brazil | August 28, 1981
IndyCar Series career | |
Debut season | 2009 |
Current team | AFS Racing |
Racing licence | FIA Gold |
Car number | 17 |
Former teams | de Ferran Dragon Racing |
Starts | 34 |
Wins | 0 |
Poles | 0 |
Best finish | 13th in 2009 |
Previous series | |
2008 2006-2007 2004-2005 2002-2003 | Firestone Indy Lights Champ Car Atlantic Series A1 Grand Prix Star Mazda Series Skip Barber Formula Dodge Series |
Championship titles | |
2008 2007 2005 2003 | Firestone Indy Lights Series Champ Car Atlantic Series Star Mazda Series Skip Barber Formula Dodge |
Awards | |
2009 | IndyCar Series Rookie of the Year |
Raphael Matos (born August 28, 1981) is a Brazilian professional racing driver. He was the 2008 Firestone Indy Lights Series champion and the 2007 Champ Car Atlantic Series champion. He lives in Miami.
Born in Belo Horizonte, Matos came to the United States in 2002 after karting in Brazil and began competing in Skip Barber Formula Dodge, winning the championship in 2003. In 2004, he moved up to the Star Mazda Series and in 2005 he won the Star Mazda championship. In 2006 he moved up the Champ Car Atlantic Championship Series where he drove for the Sierra Sierra team and captured one victory on his way to 4th place in the points standings.
He also competed in 4 Indy Pro Series races for Guthrie Racing and swept the two races held in March at St. Petersburg, Florida. During the fall he was named a driver for A1 Team Brazil in the A1 Grand Prix series and made his debut at the series' race in Beijing in the 2006–2007 season. He raced a Lola B07/40-Mazda in the 2007 12 Hours of Sebring and the 2007 Petit Le Mans. [1]
Matos continued with the Sierra Sierra team in Atlantics in 2007 and clinched the championship with several races remaining in the season, securing for himself the $2 million "scholarship" for a ride in Champ Car for the 2008 season.
However, Matos decided to pass on the scholarship and sign with Andretti Green Racing to drive in the Indy Racing League's Firestone Indy Lights Series in 2008, where he won the series championship. [2]
Prior to the 2008 Indy Lights season, he drove a Mazda RX-8 for the SpeedSource team in the Rolex 24 at Daytona, taking first in the GT class and a 9th place overall finish, sharing the car with Nick Ham, David Haskell and Sylvain Tremblay. After the season, he drove for Michael Shank Racing on the winning team in the DP class (with Ian James and John Pew) at the SunRichGourmet.com 1000 at Miller Motorsports Park.
Matos competed in the full 2009 IndyCar Series season for Luczo-Dragon Racing. [3] He qualified third in his second race, the Long Beach Grand Prix and finished eight. He was the fastest rookie qualifier in his first Indy 500 and ran in the lead pack, but had a crash with Vítor Meira in which Meira was injured. Matos finished 22nd. Matos captured seasonal Rookie of the Year honors by a wide margin over former F1 driver Robert Doornbos. Matos' best finish was 6th at the Milwaukee Mile. He was running at the finish of each of the last ten races of the season, consistency that led to 13th in the championship despite few top ten finishes. Raphael qualified 12th in both the 2009 and 2010 Indy 500 and he also crashed in both races in roughly the same location at the exit of turn 1. He failed to qualify the AFS entry for the 2011 Indianapolis 500. He was also the fastest Rookie during the 2009 Indy 500 qualifying.
Matos raced full-time in Stock Car Brasil between 2013 and 2015, claiming a race win in 2014, and a best of 13th overall in 2015. [4] At the end of 2015, he failed a drug test, and was suspended for two years. [5] Matos claimed that he used the undisclosed substance in question in order to treat several tumors he had since he was 18. [6]
In 2018, Matos started racing in the Trans-Am Series, and won the TA2 class championship at his first attempt. He won the class championship again in 2021, after finishing in first place in six out of twelve races. [7]
American Le Mans Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Entrant | Class | Chassis | Engine | Tyres | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Rank | Points | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2006 | B-K Motorsports | LMP2 | Courage C65 | Mazda R20B 2.0L 3-rotor | G | SEB ovr:Ret cls:Ret | TEX | MID | LIM | UTA | POR | AME | MOS | PET | MON | 23rd | 14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007 | B-K Motorsports Mazdaspeed | LMP2 | Lola B07/46 | Mazda MZR-R 2.0L Turbo I4 | K | SEB ovr:NC cls:NC | STP | LNB | TEX | UTA | LIM | MID | AME | MOS | DET | PET ovr:Ret cls:Ret | MON | 28th | 10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008 | B-K Motorsports | LMP2 | Lola B07/46 | Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4 (E85 ethanol) | Y | SEB ovr:DNS cls:DNS | STP | LNB | UTA | LIM | 33rd | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lola B08/86 | D | MON ovr:30 cls:10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Andretti Green Racing | Acura ARX-01b | Acura 3.4L V8 | M | MID ovr:14 cls:7 | AME | MOS | DET | PET | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2011 | Risi Competizione | GT | Ferrari 458 Italia GTC | Ferrari 4.5 L V8 | M | SEB | LNB | LIM | MOS | MID | AME | BAL | MON | PET ovr:DNS cls:DNS | NC | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012 | Performance Tech Motorsports | PC | Oreca FLM09 | Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 | M | SEB ovr:49 cls:6 | LNB | MON | LIM | MOS | MID | AME | BAL ovr:Ret cls:Ret | VIR | PET | 28th | 10 |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
A1 Grand Prix results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | DC | Points | |||||||||||||||||||
2006–07 | Brazil | NED SPR | NED FEA | CZE SPR | CZE FEA | BEI SPR 6 | BEI FEA 7 | MYS SPR 19 | MYS FEA 18 | IDN SPR | IDN FEA | NZL SPR 16 | NZL FEA 14 | AUS SPR | AUS FEA | RSA SPR | RSA FEA | MEX SPR | MEX FEA | SHA SPR | SHA FEA | GBR SPR | GBR SPR | 18th | 9 |
(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 | Rank | Points |
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2006 | Sierra Sierra Enterprises | LBH 2 | HOU 11 | MTY 23 | POR 6 | CLE1 5 | CLE2 Ret | TOR 9 | EDM Ret | SJO 1 | DEN 2 | MTL 7 | ROA 2 | 4th | 205 |
2007 | Sierra Sierra Enterprises | LVG 1 | LBH 1 | HOU 1 | POR1 4 | POR2 6 | CLE 1 | MTT 2 | TOR 3 | EDM1 1 | EDM2 1 | SJO 4 | ROA 2 | 1st | 341 |
Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Rank | Points |
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2006 | Guthrie Racing | HMS | STP1 1 | STP2 1 | INDY | WGL 13 | IMS 4 | NSH | MIL | KTY | SNM1 | SNM2 | CHI | 10th | 154 | ||||
2008 | AGR-AFS Racing | HMS 8 | STP1 1 | STP2 12 | KAN 19 | INDY 10 | MIL 3 | IOW 7 | WGL1 1 | WGL2 2 | NSH 5 | MDO1 1 | MDO2 18 | KTY 6 | SNM1 2 | SNM2 6 | CHI 3 | 1st | 510 |
IndyCar Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | Chassis | No. | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Rank | Points | Ref | |||||||||||||||||||
2009 | Luczo Dragon Racing | Dallara IR-05 | 2 | Honda HI7R V8 | STP 20 | LBH 8 | KAN 20 | INDY 22 | MIL 6 | TXS 12 | IOW 16 | RIR 8 | WGL 12 | TOR 10 | EDM 18 | KTY 16 | MDO 9 | SNM 9 | CHI 9 | MOT 9 | HMS 14 | 13th | 312 | [8] | ||||||||||||||||||||
2010 | de Ferran Dragon Racing | SAO 4 | STP 8 | ALA 14 | LBH 20 | KAN 16 | INDY 29 | TXS 16 | IOW 14 | WGL 4 | TOR 21 | EDM 13 | MDO 7 | SNM 21 | CHI 29 | KTY 16 | MOT 18 | HMS 17 | 14th | 290 | [9] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
2011 | AFS Racing | 17 | STP 7 | ALA 20 | LBH 11 | SAO 25 | INDY DNQ | TXS1 | TXS2 | MIL | IOW | TOR | EDM | MDO | NHM | SNM | BAL | MOT | KTY | LSV | 30th | 67 | [10] |
Years | Teams | Races | Poles | Wins | Podiums (Non-win) | Top 10s (Non-podium) | Indianapolis 500 Wins | Championships |
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3 | 2 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
Year | Chassis | Engine | Start | Finish | Team |
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2009 | Dallara | Honda | 12 | 22 | Luczo Dragon Racing |
2010 | Dallara | Honda | 12 | 29 | de Ferran Dragon Racing |
2011 | Dallara | Honda | DNQ | AFS Racing |
Stock Car Brasil results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | Rank | Points | |||||||||||||||||||
2012 | RC3 Bassani | Peugeot 408 | INT | CTB | VEL | RBP | LON | RIO | SAL | CAS | TAR | CTB | BSB 23 | INT 9 | NC† | 0† | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013 | Bardahl Hot Car | Chevrolet Sonic | INT 10 | CUR 26 | TAR 16 | SAL 26 | BRA 10 | CAS 19 | RBP 6 | CAS 8 | VEL 16 | CUR 18 | BRA 10 | INT 18 | 13th | 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014 | Bardahl Hot Car | Chevrolet Sonic | INT 1 17 | SCZ 1 7 | SCZ 2 23 | BRA 1 2 | BRA 2 26 | GOI 1 17 | GOI 2 Ret | GOI 1 DSQ | CAS 1 Ret | CAS 2 27 | CUR 1 22 | CUR 2 12 | VEL 1 Ret | VEL 2 Ret | SCZ 1 10 | SCZ 2 1 | TAR 1 15 | TAR 2 8 | SAL 1 10 | SAL 2 2 | BRA 1 Ret | 16th | 104 |
† Ineligible for championship points.
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