The history of Campos Racing goes back to 1998 when Adrian Campos, after having successfully competed for more than 18 years in motor racing, decided that it was time to launch his own racing team.
Adrián Campos is one of the most experienced players in the motor sports industry. More than 30 years of experience in all fronts; F1 driver, identifying talent (Fernando Alonso, Marc Gené, Roldán Rodriguez, Antonio García...), and founder of various teams in F3 and the GP2 Series.
Campos Grand Prix presently holds the GP2 Series 2008 World Championship Title.
“Campos holds 6 driver championships and 5 Team Championships in the GP2 Series, Nissan Series and Euro F3.”
New driver: Bruno Senna
Bruno had just begun kart racing as an eight years old when Ayrton died. A year later Bruno lost his father in a motorcycle accident. Racing activities were halted. Apparently permanently.
However, 11 years later, a bright, intelligent guy decides to follow his passion to motor racing and totally immerses himself in racing, moves to UK in 2004 and begins learning his first steps in racing in some tests and races of Formula BMW before making the big jump into F3. Since then, fuelled by an explosive mixture of passion and talent, Bruno’s career has evolved at an astonishing pace.
In 2005, he competed in British F3 for his first full season in motor sport very much ‘in at the deep end’ Bruno raced against a field of vastly more experienced and accomplished drivers. He instantly demonstrated both his raw talent and his impressive capacity to learn which has been the trademark of his brief but successful career.
As this first full season progressed, Bruno’s pace, consistency and race craft improved so much so that into the second half of the season he was scoring regular podium finishes. Building on this experience from year one, Bruno remained in F3. While still learning and developing on and off track at a great rate, Bruno’s further increased speed and consistency earned him 3rd position in the Championship. Very impressive indeed if you consider that every one of the guys he was racing against there had a decade or more of racing experience.
Having finished F3 at a very competitive level, Bruno made the step up to GP2. This level proved to be a similar ‘in at the deep end’ experience, once again driving against a field of more seasoned, championship winning drivers from around the world. After a short winter test programme, Bruno won the feature race at only his second event, the ‘least experienced’ driver ever to have achieved this.
For his second season in GP2, Bruno moved to the iSport team and started a crucial phase of his personal development during winter testing and the Asian GP2 series. In the 2008 GP2 main championship he was always a front runner, fighting for the championship , and despite having to overcome two maximum scores lost through no fault of his or his team, he finished in 2nd place in the Championship.
Bruno has developed at a faster rate than those around him. On a steep learning curve he’s already one of the fastest drivers in international motorsport and after just four seasons of racing of any kind he proved in his first ever test that he can lap an F1 car very competitively indeed.
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