Gianmaria
Bruni

Gianmaria Bruni was born in Rome on 30 May 1981. At the age of ten he gave a false age to the management of the La Pista d'Oro kart track so that he could race, as the minimum age was twelve. He moved into Italian Formula Renault Campus in 1997 and won the title there in 1998. The Formula Renault Eurocup 2.0 title followed in 1999. In British Formula 3 he finished fifth in 2000 and fourth in 2001, and he took third place in Euro Formula 3000 in 2003.

Bruni tested for Minardi in 2003 and contested his only Formula 1 season with the team in 2004. He started all 18 races and finished 25th in the World Championship. In 2005 he moved to GP2. Driving for Coloni, he won the first race at Barcelona and was second in Monaco. Later in the year he switched to Durango, started from pole position at Spa-Francorchamps and ended the season tenth overall. In 2006 he won at Imola and Hockenheim for Trident Racing and finished seventh.

Bruni turned to GT racing in 2007, driving a Ferrari for AF Corse in the FIA GT Championship. With Stéphane Ortelli he finished second in the GT2 class. In 2008 he won the FIA GT Championship and his class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 2011 he and Giancarlo Fisichella took the LM GTE Pro title in the Le Mans Series, and he won Petit Le Mans. In 2012 he won the GTE-Pro class at Le Mans again with Fisichella and Toni Vilander, and also took the International GT Open title. As a Ferrari factory driver he won the GT drivers' world title in the World Endurance Championship in 2013 and 2014, and added a third Le Mans class win in 2014. In 2018 he raced for Porsche in the World Endurance Championship.

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