Alexandre Sarnes Negrão

Alexandre Sarnes Negrão (born October 14, 1985), better known as Xande Negrão and nicknamed Xandinho, is a Brazilian entrepreneur[1] and race car driver. He raced in the first three seasons of the GP2 Series, all with the Piquet Sports team, having won the Formula Three Sudamericana championship in 2004.

Alexandre Sarnes Negrão
Nationality	Brazilian
Born	October 14, 1985
FIA GT1 World Championship career
Debut season	2010
Current team	Vitaphone Racing Team
Starts	2
Wins	1
Poles	1
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	24th in 2010
Previous series
2005–2007 2003–2004	GP2 Series Formula Three Sudamericana
Championship titles
2004	Formula Three Sudamericana

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	2008
Teams	Vitaphone Racing Team
Best finish	DNF (2008)

Career

Negrão's career started in karting in 1998, where he continued to race until he joined the Piquet team in Formula Three Sudamericana for the 2003 season. The team had been put together primarily to help Nelson Piquet, Jr.'s run through the lower series, his goal to make Formula One, but nevertheless Negrao would stay with team in 2004. He ended the 2004 season as the champion, and also got a taste of British Formula Three that year, in the form of two races for the Carlin Motorsport team.

Negrão moved up to the GP2 Series for its inaugural season in 2005, alongside Piquet in his family-sponsored team. He scored only four points, but improved to thirteen in 2006, as Piquet unsuccessfully fought with Lewis Hamilton for the championship. Piquet moved to the Renault F1 team in for 2007 as the outfit's test driver, so Negrão was expected to lead his former GP2 team. However, Negrão had a very disappointing season, scoring fewer points than the previous year and being outscored by his rookie teammate Roldán Rodríguez. He was not retained for 2008. At the time of his departure from GP2, he was the only driver to have entered every GP2 race thus contested. He also held the record for most GP2 starts, which has subsequently been surpassed by Giorgio Pantano.

Negrão competed in four races for A1 Team Brazil in the 2007–08 A1 Grand Prix season, and is now concentrating on sports car racing for 2008. He is driving for the Vitaphone Racing Team in the FIA GT Championship, and has also participated in the 2008 Le Mans 24 Hours race.

Personal life

Xande is married to Brazilian actress, Marina Ruy Barbosa, since October 2017.[2]

Racing record

Complete GP2 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	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	DC	Points
2005	HiTech/Piquet Racing	IMO FEA Ret	IMO SPR 13	CAT FEA 8	CAT SPR 15	MON FEA 12†	NÜR FEA Ret	NÜR SPR Ret	MAG FEA Ret	MAG SPR 13	SIL FEA 19	SIL SPR 16†	HOC FEA Ret	HOC SPR 18	HUN FEA 8	HUN SPR 15	IST FEA 12	IST SPR 19	MNZ FEA Ret	MNZ SPR 13	SPA FEA 7	SPA SPR 7	BHR FEA 12	BHR SPR 9	19th	4
2006	Piquet Sports	VAL FEA 13	VAL SPR 7	IMO FEA Ret	IMO SPR 11	NÜR FEA 7	NÜR SPR 7	CAT FEA 7	CAT SPR 18	MON FEA Ret	SIL FEA Ret	SIL SPR 12	MAG FEA 5	MAG SPR Ret	HOC FEA 16	HOC SPR 9	HUN FEA 5	HUN SPR Ret	IST FEA 8	IST SPR Ret	MNZ FEA Ret	MNZ SPR Ret			13th	13
2007	Minardi Piquet Sports	BHR FEA Ret	BHR SPR 15	CAT FEA Ret	CAT SPR DNS	MON FEA 15	MAG FEA Ret	MAG SPR Ret	SIL FEA Ret	SIL SPR 18	NÜR FEA 12	NÜR SPR 10	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR 13	IST FEA 7	IST SPR 2	MNZ FEA 14	MNZ SPR Ret	SPA FEA 19†	SPA SPR 16	VAL FEA 15	VAL SPR 18			20th	8

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2008	Vitaphone Racing Team Strakka Racing	Peter Hardman Nick Leventis	Aston Martin DBR9	GT1	82	DNF	DNF

Complete Stock Car Brasil 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	Pos	Points
2009	Medley-A.Mattheis	Chevrolet Vectra	INT 10	CTB 8	BSB Ret	SCZ 9	INT Ret	SAL 5	RIO 6	CGD 10	CTB Ret	BSB 12	TAR 15	INT 5	12th	66
2010	A.Mattheis Motorsport	Chevrolet Vectra	INT 15	CTB Ret	VEL 8	RIO 13	RBP 14	SAL 22	INT DNS	CGD DSQ	LON Ret	SCZ 7	BSB 7	CTB 2	13th	52
2011	Medley Full Time	Peugeot 408	CTB Ret	INT Ret	RBP 7	VEL 18	CGD 10	RIO Ret	INT 6	SAL 21	SCZ 16	LON 23	BSB DSQ	VEL 19	18th	25
2012	Medley Full Time	Peugeot 408	INT 20	CTB 25	VEL Ret	RBP Ret	LON 23	RIO 23	SAL 12	CGD 15	TAR 22	CTB 20	BSB 15	INT 18	26th	37

References

1. http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/life-style/itsy-bitsy/marina-to-tie-the-knot/399641.html
2. "Marina Ruy Barbosa and Xande Negrão Get Married In Campinas". Revista Quem. October 7, 2017. Retrieved January 5, 2019.

• Alexandre Sarnes Negrão career summary at DriverDB.com Retrieved on July 10, 2008.

External links

• Official website (in Portuguese)