Raphael Matos at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on the first day of qualifying for the 2011 500
Nationality
Brazilian
Born
(1981-08-28) August 28, 1981 (age 42) Belo Horizonte, Brazil
IndyCar Series career
Debut season
2009
Current team
AFS Racing
Racing licence
FIA Gold
Car number
17
Former teams
de Ferran Dragon Racing
Starts
34
Wins
0
Poles
0
Best finish
13th in 2009
Previous series
2008 2006-2007
2004-2005 2002-2003
Firestone Indy Lights Champ Car Atlantic Series A1 Grand Prix Star Mazda Series Skip Barber Formula Dodge Series
Championship titles
2008 2007 2005 2003
Firestone Indy Lights Series Champ Car Atlantic Series Star Mazda Series Skip Barber Formula Dodge
Awards
2009
IndyCar Series Rookie of the Year
Raphael Matos (born August 28, 1981) is a Brazilian professional racing driver. He was the 2008 Firestone Indy Lights Series champion and the 2007 Champ Car Atlantic Series champion. He lives in Miami.
RaphaelMatos (born August 28, 1981) is a Brazilian professional racing driver. He was the 2008 Firestone Indy Lights Series champion and the 2007 Champ...
IndyCar-Champ Car unification, RaphaelMatos won the Indy Lights championship driving for Andretti Green/AFS Racing. Matos reached the finale at Chicagoland...
Alex Lloyd Linus Lundqvist Arie Luyendyk Jr. David Malukas Pippa Mann RaphaelMatos Hiro Matsushita Casey Mears Thiago Medeiros Chris Menninga Dr. Jack...
Luczo-Dragon has signed 2008 Firestone Indy Lights Champion RaphaelMatos to a multi-year contract. Matos will race a full-time entry for the team in 2009. Roth...
a full-time entrant in 2009, fielding 2008 Indy Lights champion RaphaelMatos. Matos and the Dragon Racing team went on to win the Rookie of Year honors...
He was followed by surprising runs by Ed Carpenter, and RaphaelMatos. At 223.492 mph, Matos was the seventh-fastest car overall in the field, the fastest...
to sports cars for 2012, racing in the World Endurance Championship. RaphaelMatos would only race until the Indy 500 and for 2012 he would switch to Stock...
April 8, 2007 and ended on August 12 after 12 races. The champion was RaphaelMatos driving for Sierra Sierra Enterprises. The following teams and drivers...
Car in 2007 to race for Walker Racing. The series champion for 2007, RaphaelMatos, also won the $2 million prize towards a Champ Car ride. However, he...
full-time entries for reigning Atlantic Championship champion RaphaelMatos and Arie Luyendyk Jr. Matos won three races on his way to the series championship...
of the season, the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, after clashing with RaphaelMatos while in ninth place. Patrick recovered to finish fourth and fifth in...
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Camara (2006–2007) Wade Cunningham (2007) Arie Luyendyk Jr. (2008) RaphaelMatos (2008) J. R. Hildebrand (2009) Charlie Kimball (2010) Martin Plowman...
in Malaysia, and finishing 11th overall. Drivers: Bruno Junqueira, RaphaelMatos, Vítor Meira, Tuka Rocha The team suffered a bad season, scoring points...
Touring Car Series Victor Martins France 2023 FIA Formula 2 Championship RaphaelMatos Brazil 2022 GT4 America Series Kosuke Matsuura Japan 2023 Super GT...
3rd 3rd 2010 Brumos Racing David Donohue Darren Law Butch Leitzinger RaphaelMatos Riley Mk XI Porsche DP 582 DNF DNF 2011 Brumos Racing Andrew Davis Leh...
advanced to the second qualifying session were Franchitti, Wilson, and RaphaelMatos. Simona de Silvestro set her fastest lap of the day in the second group...
Championship made successful cameos during the year, with Brazilian rookie RaphaelMatos sweeping the race weekend at St. Petersburg and Graham Rahal getting...
Patrizi (R) 11-12 15 Simon Pagenaud (R) All Sierra Sierra Enterprises 6 RaphaelMatos (R) All Brooks Associates Racing 8 Luis Schiavo (R) 1-3 Carlos Mastretta...