21 Facts About Henrique Chaves

Henrique Chaves was born on 21 March 1997 and is a Portuguese racing driver.

Henrique Chaves raced in karting until the 2015, collecting further titles in the Rotax Mini Class, Kf3, X30 and X30 Shifter classes of the Portuguese Championship, double title in the X30 class of the Spanish Championship, while his most notable karting achievement was the second place in the KZ2 category of the Spanish championship as well as the second place in the Iame X30 Finals in 2015.

Henrique Chaves made his single seaters debut on the 2-litre Formula Renault machinery, competing in the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup full-time with AVF.

Henrique Chaves had twelve point-scoring finishes, while his highest-finishing position was the final race of the season at Hockenheim, where he finished fifth.

Henrique Chaves has competed in the three round of the 2015 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0.

Henrique Chaves stayed for another season with AVF for double full-time campaign in both Eurocup and NEC.

Henrique Chaves had seven point-scoring finishes in Eurocup and finished the season eleventh.

Henrique Chaves managed to score his first podium in the Formula Renault category, when he finished second in the first race at Silverstone.

Henrique Chaves expanded his collaboration with AVF into the World Series Formula V8 3.5, joining them for the finale at Bahrain International Circuit.

Henrique Chaves won his debut race, starting from the front row of the grid.

Henrique Chaves was the seventh driver to achieve a debut win in this series since it started in 1998.

Henrique Chaves decided to switch to sports car racing, joining the LMP2 class with AVF in the 2018 European Le Mans Series.

On his first season in this championship, Henrique Chaves showed good race craft and maturity for someone his age, although the results don't demonstrate his true performance on track.

Henrique Chaves started the season by setting the fastest overall lap during the European Le Mans Series Prologue.

Henrique Chaves went on to put his LMP2 car in the podium positions for the first half of the race in Monza before the team withdraw with electrical issues.

Henrique Chaves continued to show his pace in Silverstone with a comeback from tenth on the grid to second place over a triple stint effort and in Portimao he was able to pass the car over in third place, just before his teammate run into LMP3 cars and forced the team to withdraw the car with irreparable damage.

Henrique Chaves switched to Teo Martin Motorsport, another Spanish team that has been racing GT3 machinery for several years.

Henrique Chaves teamed up with the Croatian Martin Kodric in the debutant McLaren 720S GT3 for the season.

Henrique Chaves started the season well with a second place in Paul Ricard on his first ever race with GT3 cars.

Henrique Chaves left no doubt about his capabilities in 2020 and clinched the title after a dramatic season finale where their most direct competitor has thrown the McLaren number 59 off track, leaving the car stranded on the gravel on the last lap of the last race of the championship.

Henrique Chaves won two times, stood on the podium six times and was seven times the fastest on track.