Ricardo Zonta
Brazilian · 1999–2001, 2004–2005
Photo: Mark McArdle from Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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3 official points · best championship finish: 14th in 2000
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Ricardo Zonta arrived in Formula 1 with two titles to his name: Formula 3000 champion in 1997 and FIA GT champion with Mercedes in 1998. A Brazilian born in 1976, he made his debut in 1999 with BAR, Jacques Villeneuve's new team, and in his second race, at home, he injured a foot in a practice crash and missed three Grands Prix.
His best year was 2000, still at BAR and with Villeneuve beside him: three sixth places, in Australia, Italy and the United States, and the 3 points of his whole career. For 2001 BAR did without him.
From then on he was a luxury stand-in. He raced twice for Jordan in 2001 in place of Heinz-Harald Frentzen and spent years as a Toyota test driver, which put him in the race seat for the last races of 2004 and one in 2005. That made 36 Grands Prix and 3 points.
Ver en españolRating by season
- First season
- 70 1999
- Peak
- 70 1999
- 2001
- 70 BAR
3 seasons in the database, from 1999 to 2001. Our own rating, from 50 to 99.
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3 team-mates across 5 seasons. When both finished the race, Zonta was ahead in 0 of 8; on the grid he started ahead in 4 of 37.
| Year | Team-mate | In the race | On the grid |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Jacques VilleneuveBAR · 12 races | 0-1 | 1-11 |
| 2000 | Jacques VilleneuveBAR · 17 races | 0-6 | 2-15 |
| 2001 | Jarno TrulliJordan · 2 races | · | 0-2 |
| 2004 | Olivier PanisToyota · 4 races | · | 1-3 |
| 2004 | Jarno TrulliToyota · 1 race | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| 2005 | Jarno TrulliToyota · 1 race | · | 0-1 |
The first number is always Zonta's. A team-mate is whoever started the same race for the same team. "In the race" only counts races both finished, because a retirement says nothing about who was quicker. "On the grid" is the starting position, with penalties already applied.
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