Gustavo Menezes

Karting

Menezes began karting in 2001, and took his first championship in 2005 in the IKF Region 7 Sprint - HPV 1 Cadet. He additionally won the SKUSA SuperNationals in both the 2003 and 2004 editions. In 2007, he was the Stars of Tomorrow Juniors champion. In 2008, he began karting outside the United States. In Asia he competed in the CIK-FIA Asia-Pacific Championship becoming fifth in the championship in 2008.^[4] That same year, Carlos Sainz, Jr. won the championship. In Europe, he competed in championship in among others Monaco, Sweden and Belgium. He competed in the world karting championship from 2009 to 2010, but he started his single-seater career in 2011.

German Formula Three

In 2013, Menezes competed in the German Formula Three. He drove the full season with Van Amersfoort Racing and won two races.^[5][6] He became fourth in the championship with 241 points.

American Le Mans Series/United SportsCar Championship

Menezes began his endurance racing career in 2013, driving for RSR Racing in the American Le Mans Series in the Prototype Challenge class. He only entered the Petit Le Mans with co-drivers Bruno Junqueira and Duncan Ende and finished 29th overall and sixth in class.

Both in 2014 and 2015, Menezes competed again with RSR Racing and again in the Prototype Challenge class. In those two seasons he entered three races. In 2014 he only entered the 24 Hours of Daytona, but he and his co-drivers were unable to finish and were classified in a disappointing 63rd position. In 2015, he entered the first two races of the season: the 24 Hours of Daytona, where he finished 34th overall and fourth in class,^[7] and the 12 Hours of Sebring, where he finished 31st overall and sixth in class.^[8]

FIA European Formula 3 Championship

After he had finished fourth in the championship in the German Formula Three, Menezes graduated to the FIA European Formula 3 Championship in 2014 and drove again with Van Amersfoort Racing. He finished 11th in the championship and managed to take two third-place finishes at Spa-Francorchamps. In 2015, he joined Jagonya Ayam with Carlin.^[9]

Career summary

^† As Menezes was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.

Complete Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

† As Menezes was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points

Complete Formula Renault 2.0 Alps Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete German Formula Three Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete FIA Formula 3 European Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete IMSA SportsCar Championship results

(key)(Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class)

Complete Global RallyCross Championship results

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

More information Year, Team ...

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2016	Signatech Alpine	Nicolas Lapierre Stéphane Richelmi	Alpine A460	LMP2	357	5th	1st
2017	Signatech Alpine Matmut	Romain Dumas Matt Rao	Alpine A470-Gibson	LMP2	351	10th	8th
2018	Rebellion Racing	Mathias Beche Thomas Laurent	Rebellion R13-Gibson	LMP1	376	3rd	3rd
2019	Rebellion Racing	Nathanaël Berthon Thomas Laurent	Rebellion R13-Gibson	LMP1	370	5th	5th
2020	Rebellion Racing	Norman Nato Bruno Senna	Rebellion R13-Gibson	LMP1	382	2nd	2nd
2023	Peugeot TotalEnergies	Loïc Duval Nico Müller	Peugeot 9X8	Hypercar	312	27th	12th

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Complete Asian Le Mans Series results

(Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete European Le Mans Series results

^‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.