Racing drivers from Brazil

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Below are the top Brazilian racing drivers according to the currently available data on Driver Database. The drivers are displayed in different categories.

Race wins

The Brazilian drivers with the biggest number of wins.

1.	Ingo Hoffmann	112
2.	Ayrton Senna	91
3.	Xandy Negrão	88
4.	Cacá Bueno	81
5.	Emerson Fittipaldi	76
6.	Thiago Camilo	66
	Daniel Serra	66
8.	Chico Serra	65
	João Paulo de Oliveira	65
10.	Ricardo Maurício	63
11.	Paulo Gomes	60
12.	Nelson Piquet	59
13.	Hélio Castroneves	57
	Felipe Giaffone	57
	Luiz Pereira Bueno	57
16.	Chico Landi	53
17.	Rubens Barrichello	51
18.	Renan Guerra	50
	Gil de Ferran	50
20.	Jaime Melo, Jr.	48

Number of races

The Brazilian drivers with the biggest number of race starts.

1.	Rubens Barrichello	660
2.	Cacá Bueno	600
3.	Ingo Hoffmann	588
4.	Ricardo Maurício	581
5.	Tony Kanaan	543
6.	Emerson Fittipaldi	533
7.	Chico Serra	525
8.	Allam Khodair	523
9.	Hélio Castroneves	519
10.	Daniel Serra	501
11.	Max Wilson	496
12.	Ricardo Zonta	481
13.	Christian Fittipaldi	480
14.	Adalberto Jardim	459
	Augusto Farfus	459
16.	Nelson Piquet Jr.	454
17.	Paulo Gomes	447
18.	Thiago Camilo	443
19.	Flávio Figueiredo	437
20.	Valdeno Brito	422

Race win percentage

The Brazilian drivers with the highest race win percentage.
A minimum of 30 race starts is need to make it into this list.

1.	Gabriel Imagawa	65%
2.	Maurício Gallian	54.8%
3.	Jonas Simon	48.1%
4.	João Pedro Maia	47.2%
5.	Clóvis de Moraes	46.7%
6.	Marcio Imagawa	46.5%
7.	Gabriel Silva	46.2%
8.	Moacir Fighera	45.3%
9.	Guto Rotta	42.2%
10.	Arthur Caleffi	42%
11.	Mauricio Reuter	41.9%
12.	Luciano Gomide	40.5%
13.	Ivan Utrera	40%
14.	Ayrton Senna	39.6%
15.	Yago Cesario	39.4%
16.	Fernando Stédile	38.8%
17.	Ismael Toresan	38.7%
	Guilherme Scheer	38.7%
19.	Adriano Medeiros	38.3%
20.	Sergio Koffes jr.	38%

Pole positions

The Brazilian drivers with the biggest number of pole positions.
Only pole positions from timed qualifying sessions.

1.	Ayrton Senna	97
2.	Cacá Bueno	91
3.	Ingo Hoffmann	86
4.	Hélio Castroneves	71
5.	Daniel Serra	67
6.	João Paulo de Oliveira	62
7.	Rubens Barrichello	59
8.	Emerson Fittipaldi	58
9.	Nelson Piquet Jr.	56
10.	Gil de Ferran	55
11.	Luiz Pereira Bueno	52
12.	Nelson Piquet	51
13.	Chico Serra	49
14.	Felipe Giaffone	48
15.	Xandy Negrão	45
16.	Bruno Junqueira	44
	Thiago Camilo	44
18.	Wellington Cirino	43
	André Bragantini Jr.	43
20.	Rafa Matos	41

Fastest race laps

The drivers with the biggest number of fastest laps set in races.

1.	Ingo Hoffmann	91
2.	João Paulo de Oliveira	78
	Daniel Serra	78
4.	Cacá Bueno	67
	Ayrton Senna	67
6.	Emerson Fittipaldi	66
7.	Ricardo Maurício	63
8.	Rubens Barrichello	59
9.	Thiago Camilo	58
	Chico Serra	58
11.	Luiz Pereira Bueno	52
12.	Paulo Gomes	51
	Felipe Giaffone	51
	Alan Hellmeister	51
15.	Allam Khodair	50
16.	Nelson Piquet Jr.	48
17.	Lucas Inoue	47
	Rafa Matos	47
19.	Xandy Negrão	46
	Renan Guerra	46

Driver Database Ranking

Ratings of the top Brazilian drivers in the Driver Database Ranking.

1.	Gil de Ferran	1643.05
2.	Hélio Castroneves	1627.9
3.	Rubens Barrichello	1621
4.	Cristiano da Matta	1598.5
5.	Christian Fittipaldi	1584.85
6.	Tony Kanaan	1576.3
7.	Antônio Pizzonia	1571.4
8.	Felipe Giaffone	1560.85
9.	Max Wilson	1558.55
10.	Bruno Junqueira	1554.5
11.	Luciano Burti	1553.45
12.	Ricardo Zonta	1552.45
13.	Nilton Rossoni	1552.3
14.	Airton Daré	1522.2
15.	Alexandre Sperafico	1518.65
16.	Fábio Carbone	1512.6
17.	Enrique Bernoldi	1510.9
	André Nicastro	1510.9
19.	Augusto Farfus	1510.65
20.	Maurício Gugelmin	1510.45