Pedro Chaves

Pedro Matos Chaves

Born	27 February 1965 Porto, Portugal
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	Portuguese
Active years	1991
Teams	Coloni
Entries	13 (0 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First entry	1991 United States Grand Prix
Last entry	1991 Portuguese Grand Prix

Pedro António Matos Chaves (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpeðɾu ˈmatuʃ ˈʃavɨʃ]; born in Oporto, 27 February 1965) is a Portuguese racing driver.

Chaves was the second Portuguese Formula Ford Champion, in 1986, starting an international career in 1987 in the British Formula Ford Championship. In 1990 he won the British F3000 Championship with the Madgwick Motorsport outfit, also racing in a few rounds of the FIA F3000 series.

In 1991, he suffered a disastrous season in Formula One, failing to pre-qualify for 13 Grands Prix with an under-financed and uncompetitive Coloni. After failing to pre-qualify for the Portuguese Grand Prix, Chaves left the team, taking the remainder of his sponsorship money with him.

At the end of that year Chaves had an agreement with Leyton House (which would be renamed to March F1) to compete in 1992, however the sponsorship money came too late, and Karl Wendlinger took the place.^[1]

In 1992, Chaves returned to F3000, first with GJ Racing and later in the season moving to the more competitive Il Barone Rampante, with no results. Chaves then spent three years in the American Indy Lights series with Brian Stewart Racing, winning one race, in Vancouver in 1995. Chaves and Robbie Buhl were the only drivers to win that season other than Greg Moore, who won the rest of the events. In 1996, he moved to touring car racing and was second in the Spanish Touring Car Championship in a BMW, before racing a Porsche in the FIA GT Championship.

Chaves moved to the Portuguese Rally Championship in 1998, winning the title in 1999 and 2000, with his co-driver Sérgio Paiva, in a works-supported Toyota Corolla WRC. In 2001, he took the Spanish GT Championship title, in a Saleen S7-R co-driven by Miguel Ramos. He has also gone back to drive in the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the FIA GT Championship, for Graham Nash Motorsport.

In 2005 and 2006, he returned to the Portuguese Rally Championship to drive a works Renault Clio S1600.

Chaves has since retired from racing and in 2006 became driver coach to A1 Team Lebanon. In 2008 he took over managerial duties in A1 Team Portugal. He is also managing the career of his son David.

Racing record

Complete International Formula 3000 results

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

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pos.	Pts
1989	Cobra Motorsports	Reynard 88D	Cosworth	SIL 15	VAL DNQ	PAU DNQ	JER Ret	PER Ret	BRH 11	BIR Ret	SPA DNQ	BUG 17	DIJ DNQ		NC	0
1990	Madgwick Motorsport GB	Reynard 90D	Cosworth	DON	SIL	PAU	JER	MNZ	PER	HOC	BRH 4	BIR Ret	BUG DNQ	NOG 14	16th	3
1992	GJ Motorsports	Lola T92/50	Mugen Honda	SIL Ret	PAU 9	CAT Ret	PER 7	HOC 13	NÜR 13						NC	0
	Il Barone Rampante	Reynard 92D	Cosworth							SPA DNQ	ALB 11	NOG 10	MAG Ret

Complete Formula One results

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

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Pts
1991	Coloni Racing Srl	Coloni C4	Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8	USA DNPQ	BRA DNPQ	SMR DNPQ	MON DNPQ	CAN DNPQ	MEX DNPQ	FRA DNPQ	GBR DNPQ	GER DNPQ	HUN DNPQ	BEL DNPQ	ITA DNPQ	POR DNPQ	ESP	JPN	AUS	NC	0

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2002	Ray Mallock Ltd.	Miguel Ramos Gavin Pickering	Saleen S7-R	GTS	312	23rd	5th
2003	Graham Nash Motorsport Ray Mallock Ltd.	Thomas Erdos Mike Newton	Saleen S7-R	GTS	292	28th	6th

References

1. "Pedro Matos Chaves: "O Piquet fazia sempre uma balbúrdia nos drive meetings"". Archived from the original on 15 March 2011. Retrieved 6 March 2016. (Portuguese)

External links

• Profile at F1 Rejects
• Pedro Matos Chaves at Giant Bomb