| Luciano Burti | |
| Nationality: |  Brazilian |
| Birth Date: | 5 March 1975 |
| Birth Place: | São Paulo, Brazil |
| Years: | – |
| Team(S): | Jaguar, Prost |
| Races: | 15 (14 starts) |
| Championships: | 0 |
| Wins: | 0 |
| Podiums: | 0 |
| Points: | 0 |
| Poles: | 0 |
| Fastest Laps: | 0 |
| First Race: | 2000 Austrian Grand Prix |
| Last Race: | 2001 Belgian Grand Prix |
Luciano Pucci Burti (born 5 March 1975) is a Brazilian racing driver who briefly raced in Formula One. He is now a commentator for TV Globo.
Burti's early career saw him graduate through the usual channels and he found himself in British Formula 3 driving for the crack Stewart Racing team. In his second season of F3 in 1999 he finished runner-up to Marc Hynes, but it was third-placed Jenson Button who would go on to achieve stardom in Formula One. Burti impressed when testing the Stewart F1 car that season and became Jaguar's tester for 2000, mainly down to the lobbying of Jackie Stewart, the outgoing team-boss.
A surprise Grand Prix début came on 16 July 2000 at the Austrian Grand Prix, when he was called up at short notice as a replacement for the ill Eddie Irvine. Having tested consistently well for Jaguar in the 2000 Formula One season and with a race start already under his belt, he was promoted to the race team alongside Irvine in 2001, replacing the retiring Johnny Herbert. However, he fell out of favour after just four races, and was replaced by ex-Arrows driver Pedro de la Rosa.
Burti found a seat immediately at Prost, where the underperforming Gastón Mazzacane had been sacked. Burti raced competently for Prost and recorded his highest finish - eighth place - at the Canadian Grand Prix; he also occasionally qualified ahead of his highly experienced teammate Jean Alesi. However, his most notable moment in the first half of the season was an accident at the German Grand Prix - unable to avoid the slowing Ferrari of Michael Schumacher, whose gearbox had failed seconds after the race start, Burti struck the back of Schumacher's car, launching his Prost into a destructive cartwheel over the Arrows of Enrique Bernoldi. None of the three drivers were injured and all took the restarted race, from which Burti spun out on the 23rd lap.
Two races later he had a more serious crash at the Belgian Grand Prix when his car touched with Eddie Irvine as he attempted to overtake the Northern Irishman. The front wing became lodged under Burti's front wheels, leaving him unable to brake or steer into the 190 mph Blanchimont corner; the impact with the tire barrier was so great that segments of the barrier were thrown into the air, landing on Burti's cockpit and knocking him unconscious. Irvine, after suffering a sizeable impact himself, subsequently helped the marshals in their attempt to extract Burti from his car.[1] The crash forced him to sit out the rest of the season with facial bruising and a concussion. His seat was taken by Czech rookie Tomáš Enge.
Burti subsequently signed to test for the Ferrari team, but that came to an end at the end of his contract in 2004. Over the course of his Formula One career, he scored no championship points. He has since returned to Brazil, where he competes in Stock Car Brasil and commentates on Formula One races for TV Globo.
| Season | Series | Position | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | World Championship — Formula A | 8th | |
| 2006 | Desafio Internacional das Estrelas | 10th | |
| 2007 | Desafio Internacional das Estrelas | 2nd | |
| 2008 | Desafio Internacional das Estrelas | 18th | |
| 2009 | Desafio Internacional das Estrelas | 23rd | |
| 2010 | Desafio Internacional das Estrelas | 12th | |
| 2011 | Desafio Internacional das Estrelas | 8th |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Formula Vauxhall Junior | Martin Donnelly Racing | 15 | 4 | ? | ? | 4 | 116 | 3rd |
| Formula Vauxhall Winter Series | Paul Stewart Racing | 2 | 1 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
| 1997 | Formula Vauxhall | PSR | 12 | 4 | ? | ? | 7 | 84 | 1st |
| 1998 | British Formula Three Championship | Stewart Racing | 15 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 132 | 3rd |
| Masters of Formula 3 | Paul Stewart Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 9th | |
| Macau Grand Prix | Paul Stewart Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | NC† | |
| Formula One | HSBC Stewart Ford | Test driver | |||||||
| 1999 | Formula One | HSBC Stewart Ford | Test driver | ||||||
| British Formula Three Championship | Stewart Racing | 15 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 209 | 2nd | |
| Macau Grand Prix | Paul Stewart Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 19th | |
| Korea Super Prix | Stewart Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 8th | |
| 2000 | Formula One | Jaguar Racing F1 Team | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC† |
| 2001 | Formula One | Prost Acer | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20th |
| 2002 | Formula One | Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro | Test driver | ||||||
| 2003 | Formula One | Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro | Test driver | ||||||
| FIA GT Championship - N-GT | JMB Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 33rd | |
| 2004 | Formula One | Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro | Test driver | ||||||
| 2005 | Formula One | BMW Williams F1 Team | Test driver | ||||||
| Stock Car Brasil | Eurofarma RC | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 79 | 5th | |
| TC2000 Argentina | Ford-YPF | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | NC† | |
| Maserati Trofeo World Finals | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC† | ||
| 2006 | TC2000 Argentina | Toyota Team Argentina | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC† |
| Stock Car Brasil | Petrobras-Action Power | 12 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 25th | |
| Porsche Supercup | Morellato Stars Team | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |
| 2007 | GT3 Brasil Championship | Boni Sports | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC† |
| Stock Car Brasil | Cimed Racing | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 45 | 17th | |
| 2008 | Stock Car Brasil | Sky Racing | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 52 | 12th |
| 2009 | Stock Car Brasil | Boettger Competições | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 258 | 5th |
| 2010 | Stock Car Brasil | Itaipava Racing Team | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 18th |
| 2011 | Stock Car Brasil | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 226 | 9th | |
| 2012 | Stock Car Brasil | 12 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 117 | 11th | |
| 2013 | Stock Car Brasil | Boettger Competições | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 94 | 12th |
| 2014 | Stock Car Brasil | Vogel Motorsport | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 91 | 19th |
| 2015 | Stock Car Brasil | RZ Motorsport | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 93 | 19th |
| 2016 | Stock Car Brasil | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 33rd | |
| Porsche Endurance Series - Challenge | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 21st | ||
| 2018 | Copa Truck | RM Competições | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 34 | 22nd |
| Stock Car Brasil | Texaco Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC† | |
† As Burti was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.
(key)
| Year | Team | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | WDC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Jaguar Racing | Jaguar R1 | Cosworth CR2 V10 | AUS | BRA | SMR | GBR | ESP | EUR | MON | CAN | FRA | AUT | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | USA | JPN | MAL | NC | 0 |
| 2001 | Jaguar Racing | Jaguar R2 | Cosworth CR3 V10 | AUS | MAL | BRA | SMR | 20th | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Prost Grand Prix | Prost AP04 | Acer V10 | ESP | AUT | MON | CAN | EUR | FRA | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | USA | JPN |