Cacá Bueno

Cacá Bueno
Bueno in 2015.
Nationality	Brazilian
Born	(1976-01-24) 24 January 1976 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Related to	Galvão Bueno (father) Popó Bueno (brother)
Stock Car Brasil career
Debut season	2002
Current team	Red Bull Racing
Car no.	0
Former teams	Action Power RS Competições Eurofarma RC
Starts	201
Wins	35
Poles	30
Fastest laps	18
Best finish	1st in 2006–07, 2009, 2011–12
Previous series
1995–1996 1997 1996–1997 1998–1999 2000–2001	Copa Petrobrás de Fórmula Uno Copa Palio Stock Car Light South American Super Touring TC 2000
Championship titles
1997 1999 2006–07, 2009 2010–12 2011–12	Stock Car Light South American Super Touring Stock Car Brasil Trofeo Línea Stock Car Brasil

Carlos Eduardo Santos Galvão Bueno Filho, better known as Cacá Bueno (born 24 January 1976)^[1] is a Brazilian professional racing driver, best known for winning the Stock Car Brasil championship five times.

Career

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Bueno started his karting career in 1988 and won the São Paulo states championship in 1992.

Cacá driving his Mitsubishi Lancer in 2006.

His father, Galvão Bueno is a Brazilian sports commentator, very famous in Brazil as the host of the Formula One races, National football team matches and key Brazilian football matches, and friend with Brazilian sport stars. Therefore, Cacá grew up near Brazilian sports idols such as Ayrton Senna.

Although Formula One champion Senna was a his idol, Bueno preferred touring car racing and debuted to Stock Car Brasil in 2002. He finished third in his first championship and became vice-champion for three consecutive years (2003–2005).

He won the Stock Car Brasil championship in 2006 at last and became double-champion in 2007. He won the championship again in 2009, 2011 and 2012.

He also has competed in the TC2000, an Argentine touring car series, and ended the 2001 season in 3rd place. In recent years, he competed in the 2007 season in parallel with Stock Car Brasil.

He made his World Touring Car Championship debut for Chevrolet at Brands Hatch. He retired from the first race due to an engine fire, which also stopped him from starting the second race.

Bueno after running a Chevrolet Vectra on the Bonneville Salt Flats.

In August 2010, Bueno ran a Chevrolet Vectra on the Bonneville Salt Flats at speeds over 340 km/h (~210 mph).

Racing record

Stock Car Brasil results

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	Rank	Points
2002	Action Power	Chevrolet Vectra	RIO Ret	CTB 2	INT 14	LON Ret	CGD Ret	INT 3	RIO 1	GUA 1	BSB 2	CTB Ret	LON 1	INT 2										3rd	153
2003	RS Competições	Chevrolet Vectra	CTB 3	CGD 15	INT 3	RIO 14	LON 9	INT 15	CTB 3	CGD 2	RIO 1	BSB 11	CTB 3	INT 3										2nd	139
2004	Action Power	Chevrolet Astra	CTB EX	INT 3	TAR 1	LON Ret	RIO 4	INT 1	CTB 11	LON 2	RIO 7	BSB Ret	CGD 1	INT 4										2nd	153
2005	Action Power	Chevrolet Astra	INT 1	CTB 1	RIO 2	INT 5	CTB 4	LON Ret	BSB 1	SCZ 1	TAR 14	ARG 18	RIO 13	INT 4										2nd	155
2006	Eurofarma RC	Mitsubishi Lancer	INT 1	CTB Ret	CGD 1	INT 1	LON 1	CTB 16	SCZ 3	BSB Ret	TAR 5	ARG 7	RIO 14	INT 8										1st	257
2007	Eurofarma RC	Mitsubishi Lancer	INT 7	CTB Ret	CGD 4	INT 2	LON 4	SCZ 1	CTB 1	BSB 26	ARG 1	TAR 2	RIO 10	INT Ret										1st	278
2008	Eurofarma RC	Mitsubishi Lancer	INT 3	BSB Ret	CTB 5	SCZ 1	CGD Ret	INT 3	RIO 9	LON 8	CTB Ret	BSB 17	TAR 1	INT 12										4th	243
2009	Red Bull Racing	Peugeot 307	INT 13	CTB 2	BSB Ret	SCZ 2	INT 3	SAL 1	RIO 2	CGD 9	CTB 3	BSB 3	TAR 3	INT 5										1st	300
2010	Red Bull Racing	Peugeot 307	INT 14	CTB 9	VEL 6	RIO 7	RBP 9	SAL 1	INT 4	CGD DSQ	LON 2	SCZ 12	BSB 1	CTB 7										2nd	264
2011	Red Bull Racing	Peugeot 408	CTB 11	INT 1	RBP 3	VEL 7	CGD 13	RIO 1	INT 22	SAL 11	SCZ 3	LON 1	BSB 3	VEL 11										1st	271
2012	Red Bull Racing	Chevrolet Sonic	INT 1	CTB Ret	VEL 1	RBP 2	LON 1	RIO 8	SAL 5	CGD 25	TAR 5	CUR 5	BRA 9	INT 3										1st	195
2013	Red Bull Racing	Chevrolet Sonic	INT 1	CUR 5	TAR 5	SAL 4	BRA 1	CAS 11	RBP 4	CAS 7	VEL 15	CUR 5	BRA 25	INT 3										3rd	196
2014	Red Bull Racing	Chevrolet Sonic	INT 1 7	SCZ 1 2	SCZ 2 10	BRA 1 20	BRA 2 3	GOI 1 Ret	GOI 2 8	GOI 1 8	CAS 1 4	CAS 2 Ret	CUR 1 5	CUR 2 4	VEL 1 2	VEL 2 8	SCZ 1 15	SCZ 2 14	TAR 1 14	TAR 2 4	SAL 1 Ret	SAL 2 10	CUR 1 4	3rd	191
2015	Red Bull Racing	Chevrolet Sonic	GOI 1 4	RBP 1 1	RBP 2 Ret	VEL 1 5	VEL 2 2	CUR 1 7	CUR 2 5	SCZ 1 6	SCZ 2 3	CUR 1	CUR 2	GOI 1 9	CAS 1 5	CAS 2 5	MOU 1 10	MOU 2 2	CUR 1 13	CUR 2 Ret	TAR 1 9	TAR 2 1	INT 1 20	2nd	214
2016	Red Bull Racing	Chevrolet Sonic	CUR 1 31																					12th*	146*
2016	Red Bull Racing	Chevrolet Cruze		VEL 1 1	VEL 2 11	GOI 1 20	GOI 2 6	SCZ 1 18	SCZ 2 7	TAR 1 20	TAR 2 5	CAS 1 1	CAS 2 12	INT 1 18†	LON 1 7	LON 2 15	CUR 1 8	CUR 2 15	GOI 1 22†	GOI 2 Ret	CRI 1 16	CRI 2 24†	INT 1	12th*	146*

^† Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. ^* Season still in progress.

Complete World Touring Car Championship 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	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	DC	Points
2010	Chevrolet RML	Chevrolet Cruze LT	BRA 1	BRA 2	MAR 1	MAR 2	ITA 1	ITA 2	BEL 1	BEL 2	POR 1	POR 2	GBR 1 Ret	GBR 2 DNS	CZE 1	CZE 2	GER 1	GER 2	ESP 1	ESP 2	JPN 1	JPN 2	MAC 1	MAC 2			NC	0
2011	Chevrolet RML	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T	BRA 1 3	BRA 2 5	BEL 1	BEL 2	ITA 1	ITA 2	HUN 1	HUN 2	CZE 1	CZE 2	POR 1	POR 2	GBR 1	GBR 2	GER 1	GER 2	ESP 1	ESP 2	JPN 1	JPN 2	CHN 1	CHN 2	MAC 1	MAC 2	15th	25

Complete FIA GT Series results

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Points
2013	BMW Sport Trophy Team Brasil	BMW Z4 GT3	Pro	NOG QR 7	NOG CR 9	ZOL QR 11	ZOL CR 8	ZAN QR 5	ZAN CR 7	SVK QR 7	SVK CR DNS	NAV QR 10	NAV CR 12	BAK QR 8	BAK CR Ret	10th	40

Complete Blancpain Sprint Series results

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos.	Points
2014	BMW Sport Trophy Team Brasil	BMW Z4 GT3	Pro	NOG QR 3	NOG CR 5	BRH QR 3	BRH CR 3	ZAN QR Ret	ZAN CR 14	SVK QR 7	SVK CR 2	ALG QR 9	ALG CR 14	ZOL QR 21	ZOL CR 8	BAK QR	BAK CR	6th	55
2015	BMW Sports Trophy Team Brasil	BMW Z4 GT3	Pro	NOG QR	NOG CR	BRH QR 4	BRH CR 4	ZOL QR 7	ZOL CR 4	MOS QR 4	MOS CR Ret	ALG QR 7	ALG CR Ret	MIS QR 6	MIS CR 6	ZAN QR 8	ZAN CR 10	11th	40

Personal life

His brother Paulo Eduardo Popó Bueno is also a racing driver.
Cacá Bueno supports the Brazilian football team Fluminense.^[2]

References

↑ "Cacá Bueno". www.redbull.com. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
↑ "Cacá Bueno proíbe a entrada de rubro-negros em sua casa para ver jogo do Flu". globoesporte.globo.com. 2008-06-25. Retrieved 2008-09-01.

External links

Sporting positions
Preceded by Giuliano Losacco	Stock Car Brasil Champion 2006–2007	Succeeded by Ricardo Maurício
Preceded by Ricardo Maurício	Stock Car Brasil Champion 2009	Succeeded by Max Wilson
Preceded by Max Wilson	Stock Car Brasil Champion 2011–2012	Succeeded by Ricardo Maurício

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