18 Facts About Hugo Valente

Hugo Mario Valente was born on 17 June 1992 and is a French former auto racing driver.

Hugo Valente raced in the World Touring Car Championship for SUNRED Engineering, Campos Racing and the Lada factory team having made his debut in the series at the 2012 FIA WTCC Race of China.

Hugo Valente was born in Choisy-le-Roi and is of Italian descent.

For 2009 Valente moved into car racing and into the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 series with SG Formula.

Hugo Valente finished the season 24th in the standings with a best result of 8th at the Nurburgring.

Hugo Valente stayed in the series for 2010, moving to the new Tech 1 Racing team alongside Arthur Pic and Aaro Vainio.

Hugo Valente scored a single podium finish, of second place, on the first weekend at Motorland Aragon and he went on to finish the season 12th on 28 points.

Hugo Valente led the championship going into the final round at the Circuit Paul Ricard but ultimately lost out to Jimmy Antunes in the final race.

Hugo Valente made his debut in the WTCC at the 2012 FIA WTCC Race of China, driving the SUNRED SR Leon 1.6T previously driven in the 2012 season by Tiago Monteiro and Hiroki Yoshimoto.

Hugo Valente's car was found to be over-boosting later on in Q1 but his best time was set prior to the change being made so his grid slot was unaffected.

Hugo Valente would stay the WTCC full-time in 2013 season, joining Campos Racing alongside Fernando Monje in a SEAT Leon WTCC.

Hugo Valente skipped the Russian and Portuguese rounds of the championship and his car was taken over by European Touring Car Cup driver Nikolay Karamyshev.

Hugo Valente made his debut in the new for 2015, TCR International Series, at the penultimate round in Thailand.

Hugo Valente started the second race from pole position as a result of it being a reversed grid race.

At the first round in Georgia, Hugo Valente retired from the first race of the season, but finished in ninth place in the second and scoring his first TCR points.

Hugo Valente took his first podium of the season in the second round at Bahrain, with a second place finish.

Hugo Valente followed this up with a third place in the second race of the weekend.

Shortly before the round at the Salzburgring, it was announced that Hugo Valente would retire from motorsport with immediate effect, citing the need to be closer to his family, in particular his young daughter.