Gabby Chaves

Gabby Chaves
Nationality	Colombian
Born	Gabriel Chaves July 3, 1993 Bogotá, Colombia
Achievements	2014 Indy Lights Champion
Awards	2015 IndyCar Series Rookie of the Year
IndyCar Series career
16 races run over 1 year
Team(s)	No. 98 (Bryan Herta Autosport)
First race	2015 Grand Prix of St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg)
Last race	2016 GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma (Sonoma Raceway)
Wins Podiums Poles 0 0 0
Statistics current as of September 3, 2015.

Gabriel "Gabby" Chaves (born July 7, 1993) is a Colombian-American racecar driver.

Racing career

Early career

After winning numerous karting titles, Chaves began racing cars in 2007 in various Skip Barber series in the United States. In 2008 he made his pro debut in Formula BMW Americas and finished 4th in Formula BMW Pacific and finished 14th in the Formula BMW World Finals. In 2009 he competed in a full season of Formula BMW Americas for Eurointernational and won the title, capturing 5 wins and 3 poles.^[1]

Chaves brought his career to Europe in 2010, where he raced in the Italian Formula Three Championship with Eurointernational. He finished 10th in points and captured rookie of the year honors.^[2] In 2011 he signed to race with the Addax Team in the GP3 Series.^[3] Chaves finished 19th in points with a best finish of fourth at the Valencia Street Circuit.

American open-wheel racing

In 2012, Chaves return to the United States and signed with JDC Motorsports to race in the Star Mazda Championship. Chaves finished second in points with wins at the final two races of the season at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and Road Atlanta. The driver climbed to the Indy Lights in 2013, having signed for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports.^[4] He was runner-up with one win and ten podiums, and was part of the closest finish in the history of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (when Peter Dempsey grabbed the Freedom 100 victory as part of a four-wide photo finish. Dempsey finished ahead of Chaves by a mere 0.0026 seconds).

He signed on with Belardi Auto Racing for the 2014 Indy Lights season and won the championship, capturing four wins (including the Freedom 100) and 11 podiums in 14 races.

Chaves signed with Bryan Herta Autosport to race full-time at the IndyCar Series in 2015.^[5] Chaves led 31 laps at Pocono Raceway and had assumed the lead after leader and fellow rookie Sage Karam crashed, fatally injuring Justin Wilson in the process. Chaves led when the race was restarted with six laps to go but was passed for the lead. He was still on pace for his first podium finish when his engine let go with three laps remaining, bringing out a caution flag and effectively ending the race. The race was both Chaves' first laps led and only DNF of the season. Chaves captured the Rookie of the Year title by 78 points over Stefano Coletti.

Sports car racing

Chaves joined the DeltaWing entry at the four endurance races of the United SportsCar Championship in 2014. He led 15 laps of the 10-hour finale at Road Atlanta, the Petit Le Mans, helping the team to a season-high fourth-place finish.

Personal life

Chaves' father is a Colombian JetBlue airline pilot and Chaves has raced under both the American and Colombian flags.^[6]

Racing record

Complete GP3 Series results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	DC	Points
2011	Addax Team	IST FEA 10	IST SPR 12	CAT FEA 13	CAT SPR 6	VAL FEA 4	VAL SPR 5	SIL FEA Ret	SIL SPR 14	NÜR FEA 27†	NÜR SPR 17	HUN FEA 23	HUN SPR Ret	SPA FEA 16	SPA SPR 16	MNZ FEA 17	MNZ SPR 7	19th	8

Star Mazda Championship

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Rank	Points
2012	JDC Motorsports	STP 3	STP 4	BAR 3	BAR 5	IND 9	IOW 5	TOR 3	TOR 4	EDM 3	EDM 3	TRO 5	TRO 2	BAL 3	BAL 8	LAG 2	LAG 1	ATL 1	2nd	360

Indy Lights

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Rank	Points
2013	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	STP 8	ALA 3	LBH 2	INDY 2	MIL 4	IOW 2	POC 3	TOR 3	MDO 1*	BAL 3	HOU 2	FON 2			2nd	449
2014	Belardi Auto Racing	STP 2	LBH 1	ALA 6	ALA 1	IND 11	IND 8	INDY 1	POC 1	TOR 2	MDO 2	MDO 3	MIL 3	SNM 2	SNM 2	1st	547

IndyCar Series

(key)

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Rank	Points
2015	Bryan Herta Autosport	Dallara DW12	Honda	STP 17	NLA 15	LBH 16	ALA 16	IMS 15	INDY 16	DET 18	DET 9	TXS 10	TOR 15	FON 20	MIL 11	IOW 16	MDO 12	POC 11	SNM 14	15th	281
2016	Dale Coyne Racing			STP	PHX	LBH	ALA	IMS 17	INDY 20	DET 12	DET 13	RDA 19	IOW 17	TOR	MDO	POC	TXS 14	WGL	SNM	22nd	121

Indianapolis 500

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish	Team
2015	Dallara	Honda	26	16	Bryan Herta Autosport
2016	Dallara	Honda	21	20	Dale Coyne Racing

^* Season still in progress.

United SportsCar Championship

(key)

24 Hours of Daytona

24 Hours of Daytona results
Year	Class	No	Team	Car	Co-drivers	Laps	Position	Class Pos.
2014	P	0	DeltaWing Racing Cars	DeltaWing DWC13	Katherine Legge Alexander Rossi Andy Meyrick	288	61 ^DNF	17 ^DNF

References

1. Gabriel Chaves - career detail, Driver Database, Retrieved 2010-12-6
2. EFCN One-on-One: Eurointernational's Gabby Chaves, eFormulaCarNews, December 6, 2010, Retrieved 2010-12-6
3. Addax to run Chaves in GP3, Racer, March 28, 2011, Retrieved 2011-03-30
4. Chaves graduates for '13 to championship team" - IndyCar, 14 February 2013.
5. Glendenning, Mark (February 3, 2015). "Indy Lights champion Gabby Chaves gets 2015 BHA IndyCar seat". Autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
6. Gabby Chaves Biography, Website of Broward County, Florida, Retrieved May 30, 2016

External links

• Gabby Chaves official website
• Gabby Chaves on Twitter
  
• Gabby Chaves career summary at DriverDB.com
• Gabby Chaves driver statistics at Racing-Reference