Gianmaria Bruni

Gianmaria Bruni

Gianmaria Bruni in 2012
Born	(1981-05-30) 30 May 1981 (age 35) Rome, Italy
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	Italian
Active years	2004
Teams	Minardi
Entries	18
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First entry	2004 Australian Grand Prix
Last entry	2004 Brazilian Grand Prix
24 Hours of Le Mans career Participating years 2008 - Teams Risi Competizione, AF Corse Best finish 13th (2011) Class wins 3 (2008, 2012, 2014)

Gianmaria "Gimmi" Bruni (born 30 May 1981) is an Italian Ferrari factory auto racing driver who drove in the 2004 Formula One World Championship for Minardi. He is a GP2 Series race winner and is now racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship, in which he gained the 2013 and 2014 GT Drivers' Titles. He won the 2008 FIA GT Championship, 2011 Le Mans Series and 2012 International GT Open and took three class victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, in 2008, 2012 and 2014. He also was successful at the 2009 and 2015 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, 2010 12 Hours of Sebring and 2011 Petit Le Mans.

Born in Rome, at age ten Bruni lied about his age to the director of La Pista d'Oro, a Go kart track in Italy, in order to begin an amateur Karting career (twelve was the minimum age to compete). His first experience with racing cars was in the Italian Formula Renault Campus in 1997; he won the Title in 1998. For the following season he moved on to the European Formula Renault Eurocup 2.0, taking another Title. Then he entered the British Formula 3, where he came fifth in 2000 and fourth in 2001. After he had raced in various similar European series like the Euro Formula 3000, finishing third in 2003, he caught the attention of Minardi.