Hugo Valente

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Hugo Valente
Nationality France French
Born (1992-06-17) June 17, 1992 (age 32)
Choisy-le-Roi, France
World Touring Car Championship career
Debut season 2012
Current team Lada Sport Rosneft
Car no. 7
Former teams SUNRED Engineering, Campos Racing
Starts 68
Wins 0
Poles 0
Fastest laps 2
Best finish 9th in 2015
Previous series
2012
2010
2009–2010
2009
2008		 French SEAT León Supercopa
Formula Renault 2.0 UK
Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0
Formula Renault 2.0 WEC
Formul'Academy Euro Series

Hugo Valente (born 17 June 1992, Choisy-le-Roi) is a French auto racing driver. He currently races in the World Touring Car Championship for Lada having made his debut in the series at the 2012 FIA WTCC Race of China.

Racing career

Formula Renault Eurocup

For 2009 Valente moved into car racing and into the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 series with SG Formula. He finished the season 24th in the standings with a best result of 8th at the Nürburgring. He stayed in the series for 2010, moving to the new Tech 1 Racing team alongside Arthur Pic and Aaro Vainio.[1] He scored a single podium finish, of second place, on the first weekend at Motorland Aragón and he went on to finish the season 12th on 28 points.

French SEAT León Supercopa

After taking a sabbatical in 2011, Valente returned to racing for 2012 in the French SEAT León Supercopa. He led the championship going into the final round at the Circuit Paul Ricard but ultimately lost out to Jimmy Antunes in the final race.[2]

World Touring Car Championship

SUNRED Engineering (2012)

Valente made his debut in the WTCC at the 2012 FIA WTCC Race of China, driving the SUNRED SR León 1.6T previously driven in the 2012 season by Tiago Monteiro and Hiroki Yoshimoto.[3] He qualified 23rd for the race with the only SR León on the grid. His car was found to be over-boosting later on in Q1 but his best time was set prior to the change being made so his grid slot was unaffected.[4] His best result of the weekend was fifteenth in race one, but he was later dropped to sixteenth in the classification when he was one of five drivers issued with a 30-second penalty for cutting a chicane to avoid a separate incident.[5]

File:Hugo Valente 2014 WTCC Race of Japan (Race 1).jpg
Valente competing in the 2014 World Touring Car Championship

Campos Racing (2013–)

Valente would stay the WTCC full-time in 2013 season, joining Campos Racing alongside Fernando Monje in a SEAT León WTCC.[6] The start of his season was delayed until the Race of Hungary when Campos introduced their second car.[7] He skipped the Russian and Portuguese rounds of the championship and his car was taken over by European Touring Car Cup driver Nikolay Karamyshev.[8]

Racing record

Complete World Touring Car Championship results

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

Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 DC Points
2012 SUNRED Engineering SUNRED SR León 1.6T ITA
1		 ITA
2		 ESP
1		 ESP
2		 MAR
1		 MAR
2		 SVK
1		 SVK
2		 HUN
1		 HUN
2		 AUT
1		 AUT
2		 POR
1		 POR
2		 BRA
1		 BRA
2		 USA
1		 USA
2		 JPN
1		 JPN
2		 CHN
1
16		 CHN
2
18		 MAC
1		 MAC
2		 NC 0
2013 Campos Racing SEAT León WTCC ITA
1		 ITA
2		 MAR
1		 MAR
2		 SVK
1		 SVK
2		 HUN
1
12		 HUN
2
19		 AUT
1
Ret		 AUT
2
DNS		 RUS
1		 RUS
2		 POR
1
18		 POR
2
14		 ARG
1
13		 ARG
2
8		 USA
1
13		 USA
2
14		 JPN
1
 JPN
2
 CHN
1
Ret		 CHN
2
12		 MAC
1
Ret		 MAC
2
Ret		 21st 4
2014 Campos Racing Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 MAR
1
8		 MAR
2
3		 FRA
1
6		 FRA
2
10		 HUN
1
10		 HUN
2
3		 SVK
1
11		 SVK
2
C		 AUT
1
NC		 AUT
2
Ret		 RUS
1
Ret		 RUS
2
9		 BEL
1
12		 BEL
2
9		 ARG
1
Ret		 ARG
2
Ret		 BEI
1
12		 BEI
2
11		 CHN
1
9		 CHN
2
8		 JPN
1
5		 JPN
2
Ret		 MAC
1
NC		 MAC
2
3		 12th 85
2015 Campos Racing Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 ARG
1
Ret		 ARG
2
DNS		 MAR
1
15		 MAR
2
9		 HUN
1
3		 HUN
2
8		 GER
1
Ret		 GER
2
DNS		 RUS
1
12		 RUS
2
8		 SVK
1
5		 SVK
2
5		 FRA
1
Ret		 FRA
2
6		 POR
1
Ret		 POR
2
7		 JPN
1
10		 JPN
2
2		 CHN
1
8		 CHN
2
Ret		 THA
1
Ret		 THA
2
DNS		 QAT
1
3		 QAT
2
6		 9th 120
2016 Lada Sport Rosneft Lada Vesta WTCC FRA
1
5		 FRA
2
7		 SVK
1
12		 SVK
2
Ret		 HUN
1
6		 HUN
2
9		 MAR
1
Ret		 MAR
2
7		 GER
1
 GER
2
 RUS
1
 RUS
2
 POR
1
 POR
2
 ARG
1
 ARG
2
 JPN
1
 JPN
2
 CHN
1
 CHN
2
 THA
1
 THA
2
 QAT
1
 QAT
2
 11th* 32*

* Season still in progress.

Complete TCR International Series results

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

Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 DC Points
2015 Campos Racing Opel Astra OPC MYS
1
 MYS
2
 CHN
1
 CHN
2
 ESP
1
 ESP
2
 POR
1
 POR
2
 ITA
1
 ITA
2
 AUT
1
 AUT
2
 RUS
1
 RUS
2
 RBR
1
 RBR
2
 SIN
1
 SIN
2
 THA
1
21†		 THA
2
Ret		 MAC
1
 MAC
2
 NC 0

† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

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External links

Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons

  • Hugo Valente on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
  • Hugo Valente career summary at DriverDB.com
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