Gabby Chaves

Gabriel "Gabby" Chaves (born 7 July 1993) is a Colombian-American racing driver, currently competing in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and the Michelin Pilot Challenge. He raced in the IndyCar Series and is the 2014 Indy Lights Champion.[1]

Gabby Chaves
Chaves at Portland in 2018
Nationality	Colombian
Born	Gabriel Chaves 7 July 1993 Bogotá, Colombia
Achievements	2014 Indy Lights Champion
Awards	2015 IndyCar Series Rookie of the Year
IndyCar Series career
31 races run over 4 years
Team(s)	No. 88 (Harding Racing)
2016 position	22nd
Best finish	15th (2015)
First race	2015 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg)
Last race	2018 Grand Prix of Portland (Portland)
Wins Podiums Poles 0 0 0
Statistics current as of April 23, 2018.

Racing career

Early career

After winning several karting titles, Chaves began racing cars in 2007 in 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.[2]

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.[3] In 2011 he signed to race with the Addax Team in the GP3 Series.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6] 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. However, due to a sponsor default, the team was unable to retain him for the next season.[7] The team would confirm former Caterham and Manor Racing driver Alexander Rossi to drive the No. 98 for the season.[8]

The Colombian drove part-time for Dale Coyne Racing in the 2016 season, with a best result of 12th at Detroit race 1. In 2017, Chaves joined Harding Racing for the Indianapolis 500, Texas and Pocono races.[9][10]

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.

In 2020, Chaves joined Bryan Herta Autosport for a full season drive in the Michelin Pilot Challenge as a co-driver with Ryan Norman.[11]

Personal life

Chaves' father is a Colombian JetBlue airline pilot and Chaves has raced under both the American and Colombian flags.[12]

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	17	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
2017	Harding Racing		Chevrolet	STP	LBH	ALA	PHX	IMS	INDY 9	DET	DET	TXS 5	RDA	IOW	TOR	MDO	POC 15	GTW	WGL	SNM	23rd	98
2018				STP 14	PHX 15	LBH 19	ALA 17	IMS 17	INDY 14	DET 18	DET 19	TXS 15	ROA 19	IOW 21	TOR	MDO	POC	GTW 18	POR 13	SNM	21st	187

^* Season still in progress.

Indianapolis 500

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish	Team
2015	Dallara	Honda	26	16	Bryan Herta Autosport
2016	Dallara	Honda	21	20	Dale Coyne Racing
2017	Dallara	Chevrolet	25	9	Harding Racing
2018	Dallara	Chevrolet	22	14	Harding Racing

WeatherTech SportsCar Championship

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Entrant	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Rank	Points
2014	DeltaWing Racing Cars	P	DeltaWing DWC13	Élan (Mazda) 1.9 L I4 Turbo	DAY 16	SEB 15	LBH	LGA	DET	WGL 12	MOS	IMS	ELK	COA	PET 4	25th	82
2015	DeltaWing Racing Cars w/ Claro/TracFone	P	DeltaWing DWC13	Élan (Mazda) 1.9 L I4 Turbo	DAY 15	SEB	LBH	LGA	DET	WGL	MOS	ELK	COA	PET		34th	17
2016	Panoz DeltaWing Racing	P	DeltaWing DWC13	Élan (Mazda) 1.9 L I4 Turbo	DAY	SEB	LBH	LGA	DET	WGL 7	MOS	ELK	COA	PET		30th	25
2018	Mustang Sampling Racing	P	Cadillac DPi-V.R	Cadillac 5.5 L V8	DAY	SEB	LBH	MDO	DET	WGL 6						37th	48
	Whelen Engineering Racing										MOS	ELK	LGA	PET 8
2020	Whelen Engineering Racing	DPi	Cadillac DPi-V.R	Cadillac 5.5 L V8	DAY	DAY 5	SEB	ELK	ATL	MDO	PET	LGA	SEB 6			21st	51
2021	Forty7 Motorsports	LMP3	Duqueine M30 - D08	Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8	DAY 7†	SEB	MDO	WGL	MOS	ELK	PET					*	*

^† Points only counted towards the Michelin Endurance Cup, and not the overall LMP3 Championship. ^* Season still in progress.

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. "Felipe Nasr tests positive for coronavirus, misses Daytona 240 round". autosport.com. 3 July 2020. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
2. Gabriel Chaves - career detail, Driver Database, Retrieved 6 December 2010
3. EFCN One-on-One: Eurointernational's Gabby Chaves Archived 10 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, eFormulaCarNews, 6 December 2010, Retrieved 6 December 2010
4. Addax to run Chaves in GP3, Racer, 28 March 2011, Retrieved 30 March 2011
5. Chaves graduates for '13 to championship team" - IndyCar, 14 February 2013.
6. Glendenning, Mark (3 February 2015). "Indy Lights champion Gabby Chaves gets 2015 BHA IndyCar seat". Autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
7. Pruett, Marshall (18 February 2016). "INDYCAR: Chaves vows to rebound after losing BHA seat". Racer.com. Racer Media & Marketing, Inc. Archived from the original on 19 February 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
8. Reiman, Samuel (23 February 2016). "IndyCar: Alexander Rossi confirmed at Andretti". Foxsports.com. Fox Sports Digital Media. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
9. New Team Harding Racing Enters Chaves for 101st Indianapolis 500, IndyCar, April 10, 2017, Retrieved 2017-04-10
10. Glendenning, Mark (20 May 2017). "Harding Racing to add Texas, Pocono to schedule". Racer.com. Racer Media & Marketing, Inc. Archived from the original on 20 May 2017. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
11. Pruett, Marshall (3 January 2020). "BHA reunites with Chaves in Pilot Challenge; adds Norman". Racer. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
12. Gabby Chaves Biography, Website of Broward County, Florida, Retrieved 30 May 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