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Gil de Ferran

Brazilian racecar driver and team owner (1967–2023)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Gil de Ferran was a Brazilian professional racing driver and team owner. De Ferran was the 2000 and 2001 Champ Car champion driving for Team Penske and the winner of the 2003 Indianapolis 500. He also finished runner-up in the American Le Mans Series LMP1 class in 2009, with his own de Ferran Motorsports.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Gil de Ferran” as brazilian racecar driver and team owner (1967–2023). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 2001, 2003, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ferran, Brazilian and racecar can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Gil de Ferran” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.