Luiz Bueno

Luiz Pereira Bueno ( born January 16, 1937 in São Paulo, † February 8, 2011 ) was a Brazilian racing driver.

Career

Bueno, in the 1960s, a two-time Brazilian touring car champion in 1969 came to the UK to enter there in the British Formula Ford Championship. The talented Bueno, who together with Luiz Terra Smith won the 1967 1000 km of Brazil with a Renault Alpine A110, won five races, but returned in 1970 to his home back to back to go touring car races there.

In Brazil, Bueno was the beginning of the 1970s as the second great new hope alongside Emerson Fittipaldi and a successful future seemed open to him to stand. But he steadfastly refused to come to Europe again. So he was denied an international career.

Bueno participated in two Formula 1 races. He made his debut at the Grand Prix of Brazil in 1972, a race that had no world championship status. Bueno launched alongside Ronnie Peterson for the March factory team in a March 721 He qualified for the tenth starting position and came in sixth place.

Buenos second Formula 1 race was the Grand Prix of Brazil 1973. The race was, unlike the previous year, a round of the Formula 1 World Championship. Bueno was driving a Surtees TS09 of the factory teams. Going into the race from 20th and last place on the grid, he has been with four laps behind the winner Emerson Fittipaldi and his Lotus 72 twelfth.