Filipe Albuquerque

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Filipe Albuquerque
2007 World Series by Renault driver
Nationality Flag of Portugal Portuguese
Current team Epsilon Euskadi
Car No. 21
Former teams None
Starts 0
Wins 0
Podium finishes 0
Poles 0
Fastest laps 0
Debut season 2007
Best season N/A
2006 position N/A

Filipe Miguel Albuquerque (born March 1, 1985 in Coimbra) is a Portuguese race car driver, currently driving in the World Series by Renault championship.

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Filipe Albuquerque started his motor racing career in karting in 1993, "I started out karting as a joke, but it quickly became more and more serious" Albuquerque recalled, "It's really hard to get sponsorship to go racing. Without Red Bull I would probably be at home studying" he added.[1] The young Portuguese driver went onto win two national karting titles before moving up to Spanish Formula Three with the help of Red Bull. But later, Albuquerque was moved up to the Formula Renault, "a driver was fired from Red Bull" The Portuguese commented, "and I was told I would do the Renault 2.0-litre race in Zolder."[1] Albuquerque was the fastest driver for the team during the race and so became the pernament replacement and was also called into the Formula Renault German series.

The Portuguese driver finished sixth in the Spanish Formula Three championship, fifth in the Formula Renault Eurocup and third in the Formula Renault Germany series, collecting the Rookie of the Year award in all three championships.[1] In 2006, Albuquerque race in two championships, the Formula Renault Eurocup championship and the North European Formula Renault championship, where he won the Drivers' title in both series. For 2007, Albuquerque will be entering the World Series by Renault championship with the Epsilon Euskadi team.

Season Series Team Name Races Poles Wins Points Final Placing
2005 Spanish F3 Racing Engineering 14 1 1 52 6th
Formula Renault Eurocup Motopark Academy 14 3 0 63 5th
Formula Renault Germany Motopark Oschersleben 14 6 4 273 3rd
2006 Formula Renault Eurocup Motopark Academy 14 4 4 99 1st
Formula Renault NEC Motopark Academy 14 2 4 312 1st
2007 World Series by Renault Epsilon Euskadi 0 0 0 0 N/A


  1. ^ a b c Interview with Filipe Albuquerque. Autosport Magazine, Vol. 187, No. 11, pp. 55, Haymarket Publications. March 15, 2007.


Sporting positions
Preceded by
Kamui Kobayashi
Formula Renault Eurocup
Drivers' Champion

2006
Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
None
North European Formula Renault
Drivers' Champion

2006
Succeeded by
Incumbent
Awards
Preceded by
?
Red Bull Junior of the Year
2006
Succeeded by
Incumbent
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