Luís Sá Silva

{{Infobox racing driver

| name = Luís Sá Silva

| image = Luis Sa Silva.JPG

| imagesize =

| caption = Sá Silva in 2010

| nationality = {{flagicon|ANG}} Angolan

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1990|08|23|df=y}}

| birth_place = Benguela, Angola

| current series = GP3 Series

| first year = 2013

| current team = Carlin

| car number = 12

| former teams =

| starts = 34

| wins = 0

| poles = 0

| fastest laps = 0

| best finish = 19th

| year = 2014

| prev series = Formula 3 Euro Series
Macau Grand Prix
British Formula 3 Championship
Formula Pilota China
German Formula 3 Championship
Austria Formula 3 Cup
Formula Renault 2.0 NEC
Asian Formula Renault Challenge

| prev series years = 2012
2012
2012
2011
2010
2010
2009
2007-2008

}}

Luís Jorge Sá Silva (born 23 August 1990 in Benguela){{cite web|title=The racing career of Luís Jorge Sá Silva — in detail|url=http://www.driverdb.com/drivers/luis-jorge-sa-silva/career/|work=DriverDB.com|accessdate=23 February 2013}} is a former Angolan racing driver.

He competed under a Macanese competition licence, as the Angolan motorsport federation (FADM — Federação Angolana de Desportos Motorizados) Is not recognised by the FIA to issue the Grade A competition license that he required.

Career

=Asian Formula Renault=

Luís Sá Silva contested the Asian Formula Renault Challenge series from 2007 until 2009. During the 2009 season, he won six races and started from pole four times, ultimately finishing in second place overall.

=Formula Pilota China=

After a short spell contesting Formula Three championships in Europe throughout 2010, Sá Silva returned to Asia for the Formula Pilota China series in 2011. Sá Silva recorded two wins and three podiums to finish second overall, some sixty-five points behind series winner Mathéo Tuscher.

=Formula 3=

In 2012, Sá Silva returned to Europe to begin a widespread Formula Three campaign that included the Formula 3 Euro Series, the Macau Grand Prix and Masters of Formula 3, and guest appearances in the British Formula 3 Championship. Driving a Dallara chassis powered by a Mercedes-Benz engine that was prepared by the Prema Powerteam, Sá Silva endured a difficult season, in which he scored just fourteen points in the Euro Series, with a best result of seventh place at the Nürburgring.

At the Masters of Formula 3 in July, Sá Silva qualified eighteenth, and went on to finish the race in the same position, four laps behind race winner Daniel Juncadella. His appearance at the Macau Grand Prix was equally difficult; after qualifying twenty-seventh out of thirty drivers, he went on to finish the Qualifying Race in twenty-third position, and was involved in a collision with Dennis van de Laar on the final lap of the Main Race. As he had completed 90% of the race winner's distance at the time of the collision, Sá Silva was considered to have completed the race, and was classified in twenty-third place.

As a guest driver in the British Formula 3 championship, Sá Silva was ineligible to score championship points when he raced at the Norisring and Spa-Francorchamps. However, his results—with a best place of fifteenth in the first race at the Norisring—would not have seen him score points had he been eligible to record them.

=GP3 Series (2013/2014)=

Sá Silva competed at the GP3 Series with Carlin in 2013 and 2014.{{cite news|url=http://www.gp3series.com/News/2013/02_February/Carlin/ |title=Carlin join forces with Luis Sa Silva |date=14 February 2013 |work=GP3 Series |publisher=GP2 Motorsport Limited |access-date=14 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109041030/http://www.gp3series.com/News/2013/02_February/Carlin/ |archive-date=9 November 2013 }}{{cite news|url=http://www.gp3series.com/News/2014/March/Sa-Silva-remains-with-Carlin-for-2014-GP3-Series/ |title=Sa Silva remains with Carlin for 2014 GP3 Series |work=GP3 Series |publisher=GP2 Motorsport Limited |date=20 March 2014 |access-date=20 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402155128/http://www.gp3series.com/News/2014/March/Sa-Silva-remains-with-Carlin-for-2014-GP3-Series/ |archive-date=2 April 2015 }} In 2013, he finished the season in 23rd, with three 12th-place finishes as his best results. In 2014, he finished nineteenth, scoring points in two races.

Racing record

=Career summary=

class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%; text-align:center" ! Season ! Series ! Team ! Races ! Wins ! Poles ! F/Laps ! Podiums ! Points ! Position
2007 \|align=left\| Asian Formula Renault Challenge \|align=left rowspan=2\| Champ Motorsports \| 12 \| 0 \| 0 \| 0 \| 1 \| 64 \| 14th
2008 \|align=left\| Asian Formula Renault Challenge \| 13 \| 0 \| 0 \| 0 \| 3 \| 193 \| 4th
rowspan=2\| 2009 \|align=left\| Asian Formula Renault Challenge \|align=left\| Asia Racing Team \| 12 \| 6 \| 2 \| 4 \| 7 \| 287 \|style="background:#DFDFDF;" \| 2nd
align=left\| Formula Renault 2.0 NEC \|align=left\| Krenek Motorsport \| 14 \| 0 \| 0 \| 0 \| 0 \| 44 \| 21st
rowspan=2\| 2010 \|align=left\| ATS Formel 3 Cup \|align=left\| China Sonangol \| 5 \| 0 \| 0 \| 0 \| 0 \| 0 \| 19th
align=left\| Austria Formula 3 Cup \|align=left\| Sonangol Motopark \| 4 \| 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 2 \| 35 \| 9th
2011 \|align=left\| Formula Pilota China \|align=left\| Asia Racing Team \| 12 \| 2 \| 0 \| 0 \| 3 \| 124 \|style="background:#DFDFDF;" \| 2nd
rowspan=4\| 2012 \|align=left\| Formula 3 Euro Series \|align=left rowspan=4\| Angola Racing Team \| 21 \| 0 \| 0 \| 0 \| 0 \| 14 \| 14th
align="left" \| British Formula 3 International Series \| 5 \| 0 \| 0 \| 0 \| 0 \|0 \|NC†
align="left" \| Macau Grand Prix \| 2 \| 0 \| 0 \| 0 \| 0 \|N/A \| 23rd
align="left" \| Masters of Formula 3 \| 1 \| 0 \| 0 \| 0 \| 0 \|N/A \| 18th
2013 \|align=left\| GP3 Series \|align=left\| Carlin \| 16 \| 0 \| 0 \| 0 \| 0 \| 0 \| 23rd
rowspan=2\| 2014 \|align=left\| GP3 Series \|align=left\| Carlin \| 18 \| 0 \| 0 \| 0 \| 0 \| 6 \| 19th
align=left\| Auto GP \|align=left\| Zele Racing \| 2 \| 0 \| 0 \| 0 \| 1 \| 21 \| 16th
2015 \|align=left\| Auto GP \|align=left\| Zele Racing \| 4 \| 1 \| 0 \| 0 \| 2 \| 53 \|style="background:#FFDF9F;" \| 3rd
2016 \|align=left\| Auto GP Formula Open \|align=left\| Zele Racing \| 2 \| 0 \| 0 \| 1 \| 1 \| 29 \| 6th

class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%; text-align:center"

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2007