Rocketsports to test Alexandre Negrao

UPDATE This rumor is upgraded to 'fact' with today's announcement.

11/26/07 Rumor has it that Rocketsports will test Alexandre Negrao. The test is scheduled for this week at Houston Motorsports Park.

Alexandre Negrão

22-year old Alexandre Sarnes Negrão, nicknamed Xandinho, is a Brazilian race car driver. He raced in the 2005 and 2006 GP2 Series seasons for the HiTech/Piquet Sports team, an outfit funded mostly by former Formula One world champion Nelson Piquet.

Negrão's career started in karting in 1998, where he continued to race until he joined the Piquet team in Formula Three Sudamericana for the 2003 season. The team had been put together primarily to help Nelson Angelo Piquet's run through the lower series, his goal to make Formula One, but nevertheless Negrao would stay with the team in 2004. He ended the 2004 season as the champion, and also got a taste of British Formula Three that year, in the form of two races for the Carlin Motorsport team.

Negrão continued his alignment with the Piquet team in 2007.

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