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    Cristiano Monteiro da Matta (born 19 September 1973) is a Brazilian former professional racing driver. He won the CART Championship in 2002, and drove...
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    Panis. Panis joined Formula One debutant, and reigning CART champion, Cristiano da Matta at the Japanese team, in an all-new lineup for 2003. Allan McNish...
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  • Italian Grand Prix. Schumacher returned for the Chinese Grand Prix. Cristiano da Matta was replaced by test driver Ricardo Zonta from the Hungarian Grand...
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    injured, with the worst injury being a broken arm. On August 3, 2006, Cristiano da Matta, driver of Champ Car's RuSPORT team and 2002 series champion, was...
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    November 17. The FedEx Championship Series Drivers' Champion was Cristiano da Matta. Rookie of the Year was Mario Domínguez. Sports television channel...
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    initially driven by the same pairing as in 2003; Olivier Panis and Cristiano da Matta. However, by the time the season came to a conclusion, both drivers...
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    circuit, its drivers were the Frenchman Olivier Panis and Brazilian Cristiano da Matta, the reigning CART FedEx Championship Series Champion from 2002. The...
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  • politician Cristiano Cordeiro (born 1973), Brazilian-born Hong Kong footballer Cristiano da Matta (born 1973), Brazilian racing driver Cristiano da Silva (born...
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    drivers Cristiano da Matta and Olivier Panis, who had elected not to pit, leading the field until Räikkönen assumed the lead on lap 30 when Da Matta pitted...
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  • Edmonton. On August 3 Cristiano da Matta was seriously injured after colliding with a deer during testing at Road America. While da Matta would eventually...
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    Castroneves called the track "physical," due to the banking, and Cristiano da Matta echoed the sentiment. The first serious concerns about driver safety...
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    leading wire-to-wire, Castroneves did not run away with the race, with Cristiano da Matta and Kenny Bräck in close pursuit most of the day. After Brack dropped...
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  • race seat for 2003. For the 2003 season, Toyota signed Brazilian Cristiano da Matta, who had won the American ChampCar series the previous year using...
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    with the slowest being Alex Yoong's 1'17.34; Several weeks later, Cristiano da Matta won pole position in a Champ Car race with a lap time of 1'18.959...
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    Montoya 0 0 1 0 0 1 Greg Ray 0 0 0 0 1 1 Buddy Lazier 0 0 0 0 1 1 Cristiano da Matta 0 0 1 0 0 1 Paul Tracy 0 0 1 0 0 1 Tony Kanaan 0 0 0 0 1 1 Dan Wheldon...
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    the session. Both the BAR of Jacques Villeneuve and the Toyota of Cristiano da Matta failed on the grid, causing them to start from the pit lane; however...
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    included Mario Andretti, Michael Andretti, Nigel Mansell, Paul Tracy, Cristiano da Matta, Sébastien Bourdais, Justin Wilson, and Graham Rahal. At its inception...
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    champion Cristiano da Matta who moved over from Dale Coyne Racing. Allmendinger would win the next 3 races in a row for his new team. Cristiano da Matta was...
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    race by one lap. This was the final Grand Prix for Brazilian driver Cristiano da Matta, and the final time Williams used the "Walrus" front wing. Marc Gené...
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  • Formula 3000, resurrecting Pacific Racing with Patrick Lemarié and Cristiano da Matta as drivers, but was unable to recapture the success of the pre-F1...
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    who finished second at Portland for the second year in a row. 2002: Cristiano da Matta started from the pole, but Kenny Bräck grabbed the lead at the start...
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  • consisted of 14 races. Future 2002 CART champion and Formula One driver Cristiano da Matta captured four wins on his way to the championship. The following drivers...
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    Cristiano da Matta and Felipe Massa became the first drivers to pit on lap 7, Massa dropping from 11th to 14th, but taking a position from da Matta due...
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  • years but only a managed a best finish of 4th in 1999 with rookie Cristiano da Matta. In 1996, they began the CART season with Jeff Krosnoff driving, but...
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  • J. Allmendinger at RuSPORT. PKV Racing brought 2002 CART champion Cristiano da Matta back to the Champ Car series after he spent two years driving for...
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    Castroneves led all 82 laps from pole position ahead of Monterrey winner Cristiano da Matta and Penske teammate Gil de Ferran to win his fourth career race. While...
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    broke this rule, and so Webber received a 10-second stop/go penalty. Cristiano da Matta had a faulty launch control, which caused 2 aborted starts, reducing...
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    fourth and final running of the event. 26,000 attended the race. Cristiano da Matta of Newman/Haas Racing, the championship leader going into the event...
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    Trulli, Montoya, Barrichello, the Toyota pair of Olivier Panis and Cristiano da Matta, Fisichella and Heinz-Harald Frentzen of Sauber. Seconds after Räikkönen...
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    winner Hélio Castroneves, and Champ Car champion and former F1 driver Cristiano da Matta. The series was replaced for 2014 by the Brazilian Formula Three Championship...
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