In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Monteiro and the second or paternal family name is da Matta.
Cristiano da Matta
Da Matta at the 2006 Grand Prix of Long Beach
Nationality
Brazilian
Born
(1973-09-19) 19 September 1973 (age 50) Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Achievements
2002 CART FedEx Championship Series Champion
Champ Car career
101 races run over 6 years
Years active
1999–2002, 2005–2006
Team(s)
Arciero-Wells PPI Motorsports Newman-Haas PKV Racing Dale Coyne Racing RuSPORT
Best finish
1st - 2002
First race
1999 Marlboro Grand Prix of Miami (Homestead)
Last race
2006 Grand Prix of San Jose (Streets of San Jose)
First win
2000 Target Grand Prix of Chicago (Chicagoland)
Last win
2005 Grand Prix of Portland (Portland Raceway)
Wins
Podiums
Poles
12
20
7
Formula One World Championship career
Active years
2003–2004
Teams
Toyota
Entries
28
Championships
0
Wins
0
Podiums
0
Career points
13
Pole positions
0
Fastest laps
0
First entry
2003 Australian Grand Prix
Last entry
2004 German Grand Prix
Cristiano Monteiro da Matta (born 19 September 1973) is a Brazilian former professional racing driver. He won the CART Championship in 2002, and drove in Formula One with the Toyota team from 2003 to 2004.
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who finished second at Portland for the second year in a row. 2002: CristianodaMatta started from the pole, but Kenny Bräck grabbed the lead at the start...
champion CristianodaMatta who moved over from Dale Coyne Racing. Allmendinger would win the next 3 races in a row for his new team. CristianodaMatta was...
fourth and final running of the event. 26,000 attended the race. CristianodaMatta of Newman/Haas Racing, the championship leader going into the event...
race by one lap. This was the final Grand Prix for Brazilian driver CristianodaMatta, and the final time Williams used the "Walrus" front wing. Marc Gené...
winner Hélio Castroneves, and Champ Car champion and former F1 driver CristianodaMatta. The series was replaced for 2014 by the Brazilian Formula Three Championship...
partially helped by a big crash in turn two. A gear selection issue for CristianodaMatta meant that he lost momentum, and an unsighted Christian Klien ploughed...
CristianodaMatta and Felipe Massa became the first drivers to pit on lap 7, Massa dropping from 11th to 14th, but taking a position from daMatta due...
the position in 2004. Toward the end of the season, the team sacked CristianodaMatta from a race seat, and Zonta drove in four Grands Prix. In Belgium...
was scheduled for October 29, but during a caution on lap 22 for CristianodaMatta crashing, rain began to fall and the remainder of the race was postponed...
leading wire-to-wire, Castroneves did not run away with the race, with CristianodaMatta and Kenny Bräck in close pursuit most of the day. After Brack dropped...
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