| Guilherme Samaia | |
| Nationality: |  Brazilian |
| Birth Date: | 2 October 1996 |
| Birth Place: | São Paulo, Brazil |
| Current Series: | FIA Formula 2 Championship |
| Former Teams: | Campos Racing, Charouz Racing System |
| Starts: | (entries) |
| Best Finish: | 24th |
| Year: | , |
| Prev Series: | Euroformula Open Formula 3 A Brasil British F3 Championship Formula 3 Brazil Light Fórmula Junior Brazil |
| Prev Series Years: | 2017-2019 2016-2017 2017 2015 2014 |
| Titles: | Formula 3 A Brasil Formula 3 Brazil Light |
| Title Years: | 2017 2015 |
Guilherme de Abreu Sampaio Samaia (born 2 October 1996 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian former racing driver. He has competed in the 2021 Formula 2 Championship with Charouz, and in 2020 racing for Campos. In 2017 he won the Brazilian Formula 3 season with Cesário F3.[1]
Samaia began his racing career in karting in 2012, competing the Florida Winter Tour - Rotax Junior championship. His only season in the championship resulted in Samaia finishing 47th out of 63 competitors. The championship was won by Oliver Askew and had Kyle Kirkwood and Juan Manuel Correa also competing.
In 2013, Samaia competed in 2 of the 16 races in the Fórmula Junior Brazil championship for Satti Racing Team, gaining 10 points and finishing 16th.
For 2015, he switched to the Formula 3 Brazil Light series racing for Cesário. He scored thirteen podiums in sixteen races, including six wins and took the championship title with 171 points, thirty points ahead of 2nd place Matheus Muniz.[2]
Sticking with Cesário, Samaia jumped up to Formula 3 Brazil for the 2016 season. He finished 2nd in the first round of the season at Velopark, behind Carlos Cunha Filho. Samaia didn't win his first race until the 1st race at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace Circuit in the forth round of the season, he would go on to win two more races meaning he finished the season with three wins and ten podiums. Samaia finished 2nd with 140 points, sixty-five points behind eventual champion Matheus Iorio.
In 2017 Samaia dominated the Formula 3 A Brasil championship, winning all but three of the sixteen races finishing fifth, eighth and second respectively in the races that he did not win. This ultimately led to him winning the championship by 87 points.[3]
In 2017, Samaia competed in the British F3 championship with Double R Racing. Samaia finished the season 13th with two podiums at Spa-Francorchamps and Snetterton. He finished behind current Williams F1 development driver and 2019 W Series champion Jamie Chadwick along with the 20 year old season champion Enaam Ahmed.[4]
Samaia made his début in the Euroformula Open Championship in 2017 with Carlin at the fifth round in Silverstone where he finished 14th. Samaia would continue to race for the remaining races where he would finish the season in seventeenth with seven points behind fellow Brazilian Christian Hahn.[5]
In 2018 Samaia made the switch to the Italian team RP Motorsport. His highest finish was his only podium when he finished third at the first race of the third round in Belgium. He ended the season 6th with 94 points. Teammate, fellow compatriot and 2020 Formula 2 competitor Felipe Drugovich won the championship with 405 points.[6]
For 2019, Samaia switched to Spanish outfit Teo Martín Motorsport where he would race in the first four rounds. He achieved one podium at Le Castellet in the second race of the season which helped him to a sixteenth-place finish.[7]
On 17 February 2020, Campos announced that Samaia would race for them after a successful post season test in Abu Dhabi in . His teammate was also announced on the same day to be the Brit Jack Aitken.[8] Throughout the year the Brazilian did not score any points, with a 14th-place finish at Monza being his best result of the year. Samaia finished 24th in the drivers' standings, the lowest of the drivers who competed full-time.
Despite his performance, he made an appearance for Charouz Racing System at the post-season test in Bahrain and was soon confirmed to be partnering David Beckmann at the Czech team for the 2021 season.[9] Samaia's results did not improve, failing to score points for a second year in a row; his best results for the year was a pair of 11th-places in Bahrain. He finished 24th in the drivers' standings for a second year in a row. Samaia left the team and the series at the end of the season.
On February 23, 2022, Samaia announced that he was retiring from motorsport. He left open the possibility of returning in the future.[10]
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | Position | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Fórmula Junior Brazil | Satti Racing Team | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 16th | |
| 2015 | Formula 3 Brazil Light | Cesário F3 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 171 | 1st | |
| 2016 | Formula 3 Brasil | 16 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 140 | 2nd | ||
| 2017 | Formula 3 Brasil | 16 | 13 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 219 | 1st | ||
| BRDC British Formula 3 | Double R Racing | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 195 | 13th | ||
| Euroformula Open Championship | Carlin | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 17th | ||
| Spanish Formula 3 Championship | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC† | |||
| 2018 | Euroformula Open Championship | RP Motorsport | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 94 | 6th | |
| Spanish Formula 3 Championship | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 5th | |||
| 2019 | Euroformula Open Championship | Teo Martín Motorsport | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 26 | 16th | |
| Euroformula Open Winter Series | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 6th | |||
| 2020 | FIA Formula 2 Championship | Campos Racing | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24th | |
| 2021 | FIA Formula 2 Championship | Charouz Racing System | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24th |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | DC | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | nowrap | Carlin | EST 1 | EST 2 | SPA 1 | SPA 2 | LEC 1 | LEC 2 | HUN 1 | HUN 2 | SIL 1 | SIL 2 | MNZ 1 | MNZ 2 | JER 1 | JER 2 | CAT 1 | CAT 2 | 17th | 7 | |||
| 2018 | nowrap | RP Motorsport | EST 1 | EST 2 | LEC 1 | LEC 2 | SPA 1 | SPA 2 | HUN 1 | HUN 2 | SIL 1 | SIL 2 | MNZ 1 | MNZ 2 | JER 1 | JER 2 | CAT 1 | CAT 2 | 6th | 94 | |||
| 2019 | nowrap | Teo Martín Motorsport | LEC 1 | LEC 2 | PAU 1 | PAU 2 | HOC 1 | HOC 2 | SPA 1 | SPA 2 | HUN 1 | HUN 2 | RBR 1 | RBR 2 | SIL 1 | SIL 2 | CAT 1 | CAT 2 | MNZ 1 | MNZ 2 | 16th | 26 |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)
| 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 | 24 | DC | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nowrap | Campos Racing | RBR FEA | RBR SPR | RBR FEA | RBR SPR | HUN FEA | HUN SPR | SIL FEA | SIL SPR | SIL FEA | SIL SPR | CAT FEA | CAT SPR | SPA FEA | SPA SPR | MNZ FEA | MNZ SPR | MUG FEA | MUG SPR | SOC FEA | SOC SPR | BHR FEA | BHR SPR | BHR FEA | BHR SPR | 24th | 0 | ||
| nowrap | Charouz Racing System | BHR SP1 | BHR SP2 | BHR FEA | MCO SP1 | MCO SP2 | MCO FEA | BAK SP1 | BAK SP2 | BAK FEA | SIL SP1 | SIL SP2 | SIL FEA | MNZ SP1 | MNZ SP2 | MNZ FEA | SOC SP1 | SOC SP2 | SOC FEA | JED SP1 | JED SP2 | JED FEA | YMC SP1 | YMC SP2 | YMC FEA | 24th | 0 |