| Alberto Valério | |
| Nationality: |  Brazilian |
| Birth Date: | 6 September 1985 |
| Current Series: | GP2 Series |
| First Year: | 2008 |
| Current Team: | Scuderia Coloni |
| Car Number: | 20 |
| Former Teams: | Piquet GP Durango |
| Starts: | 53 |
| Wins: | 1 |
| Poles: | 0 |
| Fastest Laps: | 0 |
| Best Finish: | 15th |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Prev Series: | GP2 Asia Series Formula Renault 3.5 Series British Formula 3 Brazilian Formula Renault Formula Three Sudamericana |
| Prev Series Years: | 2008–2009–10 2006–07, 2009 2006–07 2004–05 2003–05 |
| Titles: | Formula Three Sudamericana |
| Title Years: | 2005 |
Alberto "Betinho" Valério (Ipatinga, 6 September 1985) is a former Brazilian racing driver.[1]
Valerio drove in the Formula Three Sudamericana championship from 2003 to 2005, winning the title in his final year of the category. For 2006 he moved to the British championship, finishing 11th in the championship. 2007 saw him move to the Carlin Motorsport team and improve to eighth place in the standings.
In 2004 and 2005, Valerio also drove at selected races in the Brazilian Formula Renault series. In 2006 and 2007, he drove in four races overall in the more prestigious Formula Renault 3.5 Series.
For 2008, Valerio signed to drive for the Durango team in both the GP2 Series and the inaugural GP2 Asia Series.
He returned to the GP2 Asia Series for the second round onwards of the 2008–09 season by replacing Giacomo Ricci in the Trident Racing team.[2] But he himself was replaced for the third round by Frankie Provenzano.[3]
For 2009, he returned to the GP2 Series but moved to the Piquet GP squad as team-mate to Roldán Rodríguez. Valerio took his first win with the team, as he dominated the feature race at Silverstone. He finished fifteenth in the championship.
Valerio moved to Coloni for the 2010 season, but was dropped in favour of Álvaro Parente.[4]
| Season | Series | Team Name | Races | Poles | Wins | Points | Final Placing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Formula Three Sudamericana | Dragão Motorsport | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 18th | |
| 2004 | Formula Three Sudamericana | Cesário Junior | 18 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 6th | |
| Formula Renault 2000 Brazil | Dragão Motorsport | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | ||
| 2005 | Formula Three Sudamericana | Cesário F3 | 18 | 4 | 4 | 113 | 1st | |
| Formula Renault 2.0 Brazil | Cesário FRenault | 4 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 15th | ||
| 2006 | British Formula 3 | Cesário Formula UK | 22 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 11th | |
| Formula Renault 3.5 Series | EuroInternational | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | ||
| 2007 | British Formula 3 | Carlin Motorsport | 20 | 0 | 0 | 114 | 8th | |
| Formula Renault 3.5 Series | align=left rowspan=2 | Victory Engineering | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |
| Masters of Formula Three | 1 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 29th | |||
| 2008 | GP2 Series | align=left rowspan=2 | Durango | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26th |
| GP2 Asia Series | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19th | |||
| 2008–09 | GP2 Asia Series | Trident Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37th | |
| 2009 | GP2 Series | Piquet GP | 20 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 15th | |
| Formula Renault 3.5 Series | Comtec Racing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36th | ||
| 2009–10 | GP2 Asia Series | Scuderia Coloni | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32nd | |
| 2010 | GP2 Series | Scuderia Coloni | 14 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 22nd |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Pos | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Eurointernational | ZOL 1 | ZOL 2 | MON 1 | IST 1 | IST 2 | MIS 1 | MIS 2 | SPA 1 | SPA 2 | NÜR 1 | NÜR 2 | DON 1 | DON 2 | LMS 1 | LMS 2 | CAT 1 | CAT 2 | 44th | 0 | ||
| 2007 | nowrap | Victory Engineering | MNZ 1 | MNZ 2 | NÜR 1 | NÜR 2 | MON 1> | HUN 1 | HUN 2 | SPA 1 | SPA 2 | DON 1 | DON 2 | MAG 1 | MAG 2 | EST 1 | EST 2 | CAT 1 | CAT 2 | NC | 0 | |
| 2009 | nowrap | Comtec Racing | CAT 1 | CAT 2 | SPA 1 | SPA 2 | MON 1 | HUN 1 | HUN 2 | SIL 1 | SIL 2 | BUG 1 | BUG 2 | ALG 1 | ALG 2 | NÜR 1 | NÜR 2 | ALC 1 | ALC 2 | 36th | 0 |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
(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 | DC | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Durango | DUB1 FEA | DUB1 SPR | SEN FEA | SEN SPR | SEP FEA | SEP SPR | BHR FEA | BHR SPR | DUB2 FEA | DUB2 SPR | 19th | 2 | |||||
| nowrap | 2008–09 | nowrap | Trident Racing | SHI FEA | DUB FEA | DUB SPR | BHR1 FEA | BHR1 SPR | LSL FEA | LSL SPR | SEP FEA | SEP SPR | BHR2 FEA | BHR2 SPR | 37th | 0 | ||
| nowrap | 2009–10 | nowrap | Scuderia Coloni | YMC1 FEA | YMC1 SPR | YMC2 FEA | YMC2 SPR | BHR1 FEA | BHR1 SPR | BHR2 FEA | BHR2 SPR | 32nd | 0 |