| António Félix da Costa | ||
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| File:Antonio Felix da Costa.png | ||
| Driver Details | ||
| Nationality |  Portuguese
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| P.o.B. | Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal
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| D.o.B. | 31 August 1991 | |
| Début |  2014 Hockenheim Opening Race
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| Final Race | 2016 Hockenheim Finale Race 2
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| Best | 11th (2015) | |
| Previous Teams |  Team MTEK; Schnitzer Motorsport
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| DTM Career | ||
| Total Entries | 46 (46 Starts) | |
| No. | 13 | |
| Wins | Points | Poles |
| 1 | 128 | 3 |
| Fastest Laps | 2 | |
| Podiums | 4 | |
| First Win | 2015 Zandvoort Race 2
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António Maria de Mello Breyner Félix da Costa (born 31 August 1991 in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal), better known simply as the António Félix da Costa, is a Portuguese racing driver, who competed in the DMSB Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters Championship between 2014 and 2016.[1] A former factory BMW driver throughout his time in the DTM, da Costa would claim one race victory during his three-year stint in the series, claiming a best Championship finish of eleventh.[1]
da Costa began his DTM career with Team MTEK, as BMW placed him in the Series after finishing third in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series.[2] The Portuguese racer would go on to finish 21st in the Championship, after claiming two points finishes during the campaign.[3]
Moved to Team Schnitzer for 2015, da Costa would have a quiet start for the season, before claiming his first podium, and then race victory, at Zandvoort.[4] The Portuguese racer would go on to finish the campaign in eleventh in the Championship, having only claimed one more podium finish.[5]
Retained for a third DTM season in 2016, da Costa would have a more difficult season, with the Portuguese racer having to balance his DTM and FIA Formula E Championship commitments across the season.[1] As a result da Costa would only claim one podium finish, and hence slipped to seventeenth in the Championship.[6]
da Costa left the BMW DTM programme at the end of the 2016 season, although he would remain as a BMW factory driver, racing in both the FIA World Endurance Championship and Formula E for the Bavarian marque.[7]
Background[]
Da Costa's career began in go-karts in the year 2000, becoming renowned in the sport for taking second in the World Series Karting Championship by 2006.[8] In 2008, da Costa was promoted to single seat racing, competing in Formula Renault, winning the series a year later.[8] He was rewarded with a test drive for Force India in Formula One, putting the car third on the time sheets in the young driver test of 2010.[8]
2012 saw da Costa take the Macau GP, a renowned Formula Three race around the streets of Macau.[8] He was spotted by Red Bull Racing , who signed da Costa to their young driver development programme, and named him as a test driver for the 2013 (and later 2014) Formula One season.[8] After winning the GP3 championship in 2013, da Costa entered the DTM Championship in 2014, while also competing in Formula-e.[8]
DTM History[]
BMW first announced that da Costa would be driving for them in 2014 in December 2013, heading, with Red Bull sponsorship, to the BMW Team MTEK pair of cars.[2] After retiring at the opening race, da Costa clinched his first points at the Oschersleben meeting a few weeks later. Unfortunately for da Costa, he would only score once more during his début season, finishing ninth at the Season Finale at Hockenheim. He finished the season 21st overall, with six points to his name.
Da Costa was retained by BMW for the 2015 season among seven drivers from 2014, although he was moved to the Schnitzer Motorsport effort.[4] He achieved a thirteenth place finish in the first race of the DTM Festival, after contact with Miguel Molina on the opening lap dropped him to the back.[9]
Full DTM Record[]
Da Costa's full results from his 46 starts in the DTM are outlined in a series of tables below.
DTM Entries[]
The list below includes all of the teams and cars, as well as overall finishing positions for da Costa during his DTM career:
| António Félix da Costa's Overall DTM Record | ||||||
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| Year | Entrant | No. | Car | Pos. | Pts. | Livery |
| 2014 | BMW Team MTEK[2]
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18 | BMW M4 DTM | 21st | 6 | File:DAC 14 Livery.png |
| 2015 | BMW Team Schnitzer[4]
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13 | BMW M4 DTM | 11th | 79 | 
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| 2016 | BMW Team Schnitzer[1]
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13 | BMW M4 DTM | 17th | 43 | File:DAC 16 Livery.png |
Career Results[]
Below is a table showing António Félix da Costa's full DTM record:
| António Félix da Costa's DTM Championship Record | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Rounds | Pos. | Pts. | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | |||
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21st | 6 | ||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |||||||||||
| 21st | 11th | 8th | 20th | 11th | Ret | 13th | Ret | 14th | 9th | |||||||||||
| 2015 |
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11th | 79 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | |||
| 13th | 20th | 19th | 14th | 12th | 12th | 2nd | 1st | 13th | 10th | 11th | 23rd | 3rd | 4th | 9th | 15th | 11th | 7th | |||
| 2016 |
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17th | 43 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | |||
| 7th | Ret | 22nd | 21st | 15th | 14th | 9th | DSQ | 6th | 17th | 20th | 19th | 20th | 19th | 16th | 3rd | 4th | Ret | |||
| Results Key | ||||
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| Symbol | Meaning | Symbol | Meaning | |
| 1st | Winner | Ret | Retired | |
| 2nd | Second | DSQ | Disqualified | |
| 3rd | Third | DNS | Did Not Start | |
| 7th | Points Scorer | NC | Not Classified | |
| Italics | Fastest Lap | CAN | Race Cancelled | |
| 16th | Non-points finish | † | Non-Championship Race | |
| Bold | Pole Position | 3 | Points for Qualifying | |
References[]
Images and Videos:
- Liveries: byggxx, 'Rennwagen (2002)', dtm.fandom.com/de, (DTM Wiki/de, 2015), https://dtm.fandom.com/de/wiki/Kategorie:Rennwagen_(2002), (Accessed 29/05/2020)
References:
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedADac16A - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 'Martin and Félix da Costa line up in the DTM', bmw-motorsport.com, (BMW, 06/13/2013), http://www.bmw-motorsport.com/en/news/current-news/2013/12/neue_fahrer.html, (Accessed 03/05/2015)
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedHocF14R - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Aller, Tamara, 'BMW retains seven drivers for 2015, drops Joey Hand', TouringCarTimes, (Mediaempire Stockholm AB, 06/12/2014), (Accessed 03/05/2015)
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedADacFEA - ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 'Antonio Felix da Costa', dtm.com, (DTM, 2015), http://www.dtm.com/node/358?language=en-gb, (Accessed 03/05/2015)
- ↑ 'Lights-to-flag win for Jamie Green in an action-packed race', dtm.com, (DTM, 02/05/2015), http://www.dtm.com/en/news/lights-flag-win-jamie-green-action-packed-race-2015-05-02.html?language=en-gb, (Accessed 03/02/2015)
| 2014 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters Championship |
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| Manufacturers |
| Audi • AMG-Mercedes • BMW |
| Car/engine |
| Audi RS5 DTM 2014 • Audi 4.0l V8 • Mercedes-AMG C-Coupé DTM 2014 • AMG 4.0l V8 • BMW M4 DTM 2014 • P66 4.0l V8 |
| Teams |
| Audi Sport Team Abt • Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline • Audi Sport Team Phoenix • Audi Sport Team Rosberg • BMW Team MTEK • BMW Team RBM • BMW Team RMG • BMW Team Schnitzer • Euronics/Free Man's World AMG Mercedes • gooix AMG Mercedes • Original-Teile AMG Mercedes • Petronas AMG Mercedes |
| Drivers |
| 1 Mike Rockenfeller • 2 Timo Scheider • 3 Augusto Farfus • 4 Joey Hand • 5 Christian Vietoris • 6 Paul di Resta • 7 Mattias Ekström • 8 Miguel Molina • 9 Bruno Spengler • 10 Martin Tomczyk • 11 Gary Paffett • 12 Robert Wickens • 15 Edoardo Mortara • 16 Adrien Tambay • 17 Timo Glock • 18 António Félix da Costa • 19 Daniel Juncadella • 20 Vitaly Petrov • 21 Jamie Green • 22 Nico Müller • 23 Marco Wittmann • 24 Maxime Martin • 25 Pascal Wehrlein |
| Races |
| Hockenheim Opening • Oschersleben • Hungaroring • Norisring • Moscow Raceway • Speilberg • Nürburgring • Lausitzring • Zandvoort • Hockenheim Finale |
| Related Content |
| 2013 DTM Season • 2015 DTM Season • FIA Formula 3 European Championship • Porsche Carrera Cup Germany • Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup |
| 2015 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters Championship |
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| Manufacturers |
| Audi • BMW • Mercedes-Benz |
| Car/engine |
| Audi RS5 DTM • Audi 4.0l V8 • BMW M4 DTM • P66/1 4.0l V8 • Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM • AMG 4.0l V8 |
| Teams |
| Audi Sport Team Abt • Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline • Audi Sport Team Phoenix • Audi Sport Team Rosberg • BMW Team MTEK • BMW Team RBM • BMW Team RMG • Euronics/BWT Mercedes-AMG • gooix/Original-Teile Mercedes-AMG • Petronas Mercedes-AMG • SILBERPFEIL Energy Mercedes-AMG |
| Drivers |
| 1 Marco Wittmann • 2 Gary Paffett • 3 Paul di Resta • 5 Mattias Ekström • 6 Robert Wickens • 7 Bruno Spengler • 8 Christian Vietoris • 10 Timo Scheider • 12 Daniel Juncadella • 13 António Félix da Costa • 16 Timo Glock • 17 Miguel Molina • 18 Augusto Farfus • 22 Lucas Auer • 27 Adrien Tambay • 31 Tom Blomqvist • 36 Maxime Martin • 48 Edoardo Mortara • 51 Nico Müller • 53 Jamie Green • 77 Martin Tomczyk • 84 Maximilian Götz • 94 Pascal Wehrlein • 99 Mike Rockenfeller |
| Races |
| Hockenheim Opening 1 • Hockenheim Opening 2 • Lausitzring 1 • Lausitzring 2 • Norisring 1 • Norisring 2 • Zandvoort 1 • Zandvoort 2 • Spielberg 1 • Spielberg 2 • Moscow Raceway 1 • Moscow Raceway 2 • Oschersleben 1 • Oschersleben 2 • Nürburgring 1 • Nürburgring 2 • Hockenheim Finale 1 • Hockenheim Finale 2 |
| Tests |
| 2015 Pre-season Test • 2015 Rookie Test |
| Related Content |
| 2014 DTM Season • 2016 DTM Season • Audi Sport TT Cup • FIA Formula 3 European Championship • Porsche Carrera Cup Germany |
| 2016 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters Championship |
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| Manufacturers |
| Audi • BMW • Mercedes-Benz |
| Car/engine |
| Audi RS5 DTM • Audi 4.0l V8 • BMW M4 DTM • P66/1 4.0l V8 • Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM • AMG 4.0l V8 |
| Teams |
| Audi Sport Team Abt • Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline • Audi Sport Team Phoenix • Audi Sport Team Rosberg • BMW Team MTEK • BMW Team RBM • BMW Team RMG • BMW Team Schnitzer • Mercedes DTM Team ART • Mercedes DTM Team HWA I • Mercedes DTM Team HWA II • Mercedes DTM Team Mücke BWT |
| Drivers |
| 2 Gary Paffett • 3 Paul di Resta • 5 Mattias Ekström • 6 Robert Wickens • 7 Bruno Spengler • 8 Christian Vietoris • 10 Timo Scheider • 11 Marco Wittmann • 12 Daniel Juncadella • 13 António Félix da Costa • 16 Timo Glock • 17 Miguel Molina • 18 Augusto Farfus • 22 Lucas Auer • 27 Adrien Tambay • 31 Tom Blomqvist • 34 Esteban Ocon • 36 Maxime Martin • 48 Edoardo Mortara • 51 Nico Müller • 53 Jamie Green • 84 Maximilian Götz • 99 Mike Rockenfeller • 100 Martin Tomczyk |
| Races |
| Hockenheim Opening 1 • Hockenheim Opening 2 • Spielberg 1 • Spielberg 2 • Lausitzring 1 • Lausitzring 2 • Norisring 1 • Norisring 2 • Zandvoort 1 • Zandvoort 2 • Moscow Raceway 1 • Moscow Raceway 2 • Nürburgring 1 • Nürburgring 2 • Hungaroring 1 • Hungaroring 2 • Hockenheim Finale 1 • Hockenheim Finale 2 |
| Tests |
| 2016 Pre-season Test • 2016 Rookie Test |
| Related Content |
| 2015 DTM Season • 2017 DTM Season • FIA Formula 3 European Championship |
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