Andreas Zuber

Andreas "Andi" Zuber is a former motor racing driver. An Austrian by birth, he is based in Dubai and once raced under a licence issued by the United Arab Emirates.

Career

Formula König

Despite beginning his karting career in 1998, 2000 saw his debut in the Formula König championship with Team Böhm Sport. Zuber finished twelfth in the championship with 39 points.

Formula Renault

The following season, Zuber competed in both the Formula Renault 2.0 Germany and Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 championships for Motopark Academy. He finished sixth in the German series standings. In the Eurocup, he took 54th place in the championship, with a best finish of seventeenth at the A1-Ring.
For 2002, the Austrian driver remained in the German championship with Motopark Academy. He finished second behind Dutch driver Ferdinand Kool in final standings. Also he was a guest driver at the Oschersleben round of the Eurocup.

Formula Three

Zuber moved on to new-for-2003 [Formula 3 Euro Series season|2003] Formula 3 Euro Series with Team Rosberg. He finished in 24th place in the standings with two points scored for seventh place in the first race at Le Mans.
He continued in the F3 Euroseries in 2004 with Team Rosberg, finishing 21st without scoring a point, with a ninth place at Brno being his best result.

Formula Renault 3.5 Series

Zuber drove for Carlin Motorsport in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series in 2005, finishing sixth in the championship with one win at Estoril and pole position at Valencia apiece.

GP2 Series

He switched to the GP2 Series for 2006 for the new Trident Racing team, where he partnered Gianmaria Bruni. After a slow start to his championship, he took his first race victory in the formula at the penultimate race meeting of the season at the Istanbul Park track, in which he was the only driver to hold off Lewis Hamilton, after the eventual champion spun early in the race but climbed back up to second position. This win complemented Bruni's two triumphs earlier in the year and established Zuber in fourteenth position in the championship.
Zuber moved to iSport International for 2007, where he was paired with Timo Glock. He took a perfect result of pole position, win and fastest lap at the Silverstone feature race, but his overall season was inconsistent and he finished ninth in the championship, compared to Glock's championship-winning campaign. The team-mates also collided with one another when accelerating away from the grid at the start of the Magny-Cours feature race, after starting from the front row.
For 2008, Zuber switched to the Piquet Sports team alongside Pastor Maldonado. Four podium finishes saw him repeat his ninth place in the championship of the previous year, but he failed to achieve a race victory for the first time in the category. He was also outperformed by Maldonado, who finished fifth overall with almost double the number of points. He was not helped by failing to score any points in the final seven races of the season, a run which included disqualification from third place at the Spa-Francorchamps for a technical infringement that both he and the team considered to be particularly unfair. Zuber also drove in the first two rounds of the 2008–09 [GP2 Asia Series season] for the FMS International team, after which he was replaced by Rodolfo González.
Zuber returned to FMS for the 2009 GP2 Series season, where he was partnered by Luiz Razia. Despite scoring more podium finishes, the year was unstable off-track: first Giancarlo Fisichella's stake in the team was bought back by the Coloni family, its original founder and owner; then the outfit missed the eighth round of the championship after its cars were impounded as a result of court proceedings initiated by driver Andy Soucek, who had briefly been employed by FMS. Zuber eventually wound up in thirteenth place overall.

Superleague Formula

Zuber has also represented Al Ain in the Superleague Formula, a championship in which the cars represent different football teams.

Racing record

Complete Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup results

Year

Entrant

Points

2001

Motopark Academy

MNZ
Ret

BRN
Ret

A1R
17

NÜR
20

54th

OSC
Ret

Complete Italian Formula Three Championship results

Year

Entrant

Chassis

Engine

Points

2002 [Italian Formula Three Championship|2002]

MAG
4

13th

Complete Formula 3 Euro Series results

Year

Entrant

Chassis

Engine

Points

2003

Team Rosberg

Dallara F303/006

Spiess-Opel

HOC1
1
17

HOC1
2
9

ADR
1
18

ADR
2
23

PAU
1
20

PAU
2
DNS

NOR
1
Ret

NOR
2
13

LMS
1
7

LMS
2
13

NÜR
1
22

NÜR
2
Ret

A1R
1
9

A1R
2
Ret

ZAN
1
13

ZAN
2
12

HOC2
1
Ret

HOC2
2
21

MAG
1
25

MAG
2
Ret

24th

2004

Team Rosberg

Dallara F303/005

Spiess-Opel

HOC1
1
19

HOC1
2
Ret

EST
1
21

EST
2
Ret

ADR
1
20

ADR
1
Ret

PAU
1
Ret

PAU
2
Ret

NOR
1
Ret

MAG
1
20

MAG
2
Ret

NÜR
1
19

NÜR
2
16

ZAN
1
23

ZAN
2
Ret

BRN
1
12

BRN
2
9

HOC2
1
Ret

HOC2
2
10

21st

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	DC	Points
2005	Carlin Motorsport	ZOL 1 2	ZOL 2 2	MON 1 DNS	VAL 1 Ret	VAL 2 10	LMS 1 7	LMS 2 8	BIL 1 22	BIL 2 16	OSC 1 3	OSC 2 10	DON 1 19	DON 2 Ret	EST 1 1	EST 2 7	MNZ 1 Ret	MNZ 2 5	6th	73

Complete GP2 Series results

Complete GP2 Asia Series results

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	DC	Points
2008–09	Fisichella Motor Sport	SHI FEA Ret	SHI SPR Ret	DUB FEA Ret	DUB SPR C	BHR1 FEA	BHR1 SPR	LSL FEA	LSL SPR	SEP FEA	SEP SPR	BHR2 FEA	BHR2 SPR	NC	0

Superleague Formula

* Al Ain FC overall standing. There is no drivers' championship in the Superleague Formula.