Ni Amorim

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Nuno Amorim, better known as Ni Amorim, is a racing driver born in Porto, Portugal on March 1, 1962.

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National career

Amorim started competing in circuit racing and rallying in 1982, but in the mid-1980s he was almost exclusively a touring car racing driver, becoming a mainstay in various one-make cups and the Portuguese Touring Car Championship.

He was Group N Champion in 1987, and later won the Group A Championship in 1989 and 1990 driving the Poligrupo Ford Sierra RS500, and 1993 with the works Opel Astra (Gr. N). [1]

He returned to the Portuguese Touring Car Championship in 2007 in a semi-works BMW 320si, his first full season in Portugal since 1994.

International career

After a few outings as a Mercedes-AMG driver in the Macau Grand Prix's Guia Race, he began an international career in 1995, first in the International Touring Car Championship and in the following year in the Spanish Touring Car Championship.

In 1997 he lost Opel backing and moved to endurance racing, competing on-and-off in the FIA GT Championship and the American Le Mans Series, as well as the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The high point of his career was at the wheel of the Oreca-run works Chrysler team, with the Chrysler Viper GTS-R and the Chrysler LMP, in 1999 and 2000.

He has also driven in the Spanish and British GT Championship, where he was class champion in 2004. For 2005, he moved to the Le Mans Endurance Series, where he drove a Courage C65.

In 2006, he partnered Manuel Gião to second place in the Spanish GT Championship, in a Ferrari 360 Modena. [2] In 2007, while maintaining a full-time national schedule, he drove a Ferrari 430 in the Spanish GT Championship and the International GT Open.

24 Hours of Le Mans results

YearTeamCo-DriversCarClassLapsPos.Class
Pos.
1998 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Chamberlain Engineering Flag of Portugal.svg Gonçalo Gomes
Flag of Portugal.svg Manuel Mello-Breyner
Chrysler Viper GTS-R GT226521st7th
1999 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Chamberlain Engineering Flag of the Netherlands.svg Hans Hugenholtz
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Toni Seiler
Chrysler Viper GTS-R GTS31414th3rd
2000 Flag of France.svg Viper Team Oreca Flag of the United States.svg David Donohue
Flag of France.svg Anthony Beltoise
Chrysler Viper GTS-R GTS3289th2nd
2001 Flag of France.svg Viper Team Oreca Flag of Japan.svg Seiji Ara
Flag of Japan.svg Masahiko Kondo
Chrysler LMP LMP900243DNFDNF
2005 Flag of France.svg Noël del Bello Racing Flag of France.svg Romain Iannetta
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Christophe Pillon
Courage C65-Mecachrome LMP299DNFDNF

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References

  1. Biography at the FIA GT Championship site
  2. GT SPORT - International GTOPEN - España Archived 2008-05-06 at the Wayback Machine