1. Luiz Felipe de Oliveira Nasr was born on 21 August 1992 and is a Brazilian racing driver, who competes in the IMSA SportsCar Championship for Porsche.
30 Facts About Felipe Nasr
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In endurance racing, Nasr has won three IMSA SportsCar Championship titles, and won the 12 Hours of Sebring in 2019 with AXR and in 2025 with Team Penske; he won the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2024 and 2025 with Porsche.
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From 2018, Felipe Nasr has been competing in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for Whelen Engineering Racing, winning the championship with co-driver Eric Curran in his first year in the series and winning another title with countryman Pipo Derani in 2021.
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Felipe Nasr made his open-wheel racing debut in the final round of the 2008 Formula BMW Americas season at Interlagos, which supported the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix, claiming a podium finish in the second race in a championship that was dominated by Alexander Rossi.
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Felipe Nasr moved to the European championship of Formula BMW in 2009 for EuroInternational.
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Felipe Nasr finished 14 of the 16 races in the top two, won 6 races, 5 pole-positions and claimed the title by 104 points from teammate Daniel Juncadella.
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Felipe Nasr finished the 2010 British Formula 3 season in 5th position.
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Felipe Nasr signed with Carlin Motorsport for the 2011 Championship and won the Sunoco Rolex 24 at Daytona Challenge, a special joint racing programme among series in the United Kingdom that use Sunoco Racing Fuel.
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Felipe Nasr claimed the title of the 2011 British Formula 3 season, 123 points ahead of his teammate, Kevin Magnussen.
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Felipe Nasr signed with DAMS to race in the 2012 GP2 Series season with the support of Brazilian sponsors Banco do Brasil and Eike Batista's OGX.
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Felipe Nasr was teamed with the experienced Davide Valsecchi, who won the drivers' championship; Nasr's tenth place in the standings meant DAMS won the teams' championship as well.
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Felipe Nasr took four podium finishes, with a best finish of second at Spa, and was the second highest-placed rookie overall, behind James Calado.
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Felipe Nasr believed that he would be a title contender, alongside James Calado and Marcus Ericsson, and hoped to be driving an F1 car at the end of the year.
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Felipe Nasr finished the 2013 campaign 4th overall in the standings.
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Felipe Nasr remained with Carlin for the 2014 season, partnering Colombian Julian Leal.
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Felipe Nasr took his first GP2 win in the sprint race in Barcelona.
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Felipe Nasr achieved wins at the Red Bull Ring, Silverstone, and Spa-Francorchamps.
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Felipe Nasr finished third overall, after losing second place by five points, to rookie Stoffel Vandoorne at Yas Marina.
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Felipe Nasr made his first appearance in first practice in the Bahrain Grand Prix replacing Valtteri Bottas.
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On 5 November 2014, it was announced that Felipe Nasr would drive for Sauber in 2015.
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Felipe Nasr's finishing streak ended at the British Grand Prix when his gearbox failed on the way to the grid.
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Felipe Nasr finished his debut season with 27 points, finishing 13th in the drivers' championship.
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Ironically, this meant Felipe Nasr was left without a seat for the 2017 season as he was due to swap places with Manor driver Pascal Wehrlein and could not find another seat after the Manor team exited the sport.
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In January 2019, Felipe Nasr joined GEOX Dragon for the rookie test in Marrakesh, but was unable to participate due to contractual issues.
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Felipe Nasr made his debut at the 2019 Mexico City ePrix where he finished in 19th place, having run at the back of the pack for the majority of the race.
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Felipe Nasr has not returned to Formula E since, ending his run at three consecutive races with one non-points finish and two DNFs, as the team opted to continue using Gunther moving forward.
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On 10 March 2020, it was announced Felipe Nasr was scheduled to make his IndyCar debut for Carlin at the Firestone Grand Prix of St Petersburg.
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Felipe Nasr missed the round at Daytona but made a full recovery and returned to race at the next round of Sebring, starting from pole position and taking the race victory.
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Felipe Nasr is of Lebanese ancestry, his grandfather having emigrated to Brazil in the 1960s.
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Felipe Nasr is multilingual with the ability to speak Portuguese, English and Italian.