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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with the slowest being Alex Yoong's 1'17.34; Several weeks later, CristianodaMatta won pole position in a Champ Car race with a lap time of 1'18.959...
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to severe leg and ankle injuries. During a test session in 2006, CristianodaMatta hit a deer, suffering a subdural hematoma. Katherine Legge suffered...
finished 1st–2nd, with CristianodaMatta finishing 19.087 seconds ahead of teammate Christian Fittipaldi. CristianodaMatta led 82 of the 87 laps, giving...
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...
the session. Both the BAR of Jacques Villeneuve and the Toyota of CristianodaMatta failed on the grid, causing them to start from the pit lane; however...
impressive 6th, with Räikkönen taking two points for seventh and Toyota's CristianodaMatta taking the final point for 8th. After the race, however, both Toyota's...
Dario Franchitti won the 211-lap race starting from fifth position. CristianodaMatta finished second for Newman/Haas Racing, and Forsythe Racing's Patrick...
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Castroneves led all 82 laps from pole position ahead of Monterrey winner CristianodaMatta and Penske teammate Gil de Ferran to win his fourth career race. While...
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...
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...
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fourth and final running of the event. 26,000 attended the race. CristianodaMatta of Newman/Haas Racing, the championship leader going into the event...
Formula 3000, resurrecting Pacific Racing with Patrick Lemarié and CristianodaMatta as drivers, but was unable to recapture the success of the pre-F1...
Trulli, Montoya, Barrichello, the Toyota pair of Olivier Panis and CristianodaMatta, Fisichella and Heinz-Harald Frentzen of Sauber. Seconds after Räikkönen...