Mário de Araújo Cabral
Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Portuguese name {{#invoke:Infobox|infobox}}Template:Template other{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters | check | ignoreblank = y | unknown = Template:Main other | preview = Page using Template:Infobox F1 driver with unknown parameter "_VALUE_" | embed | child | subbox | name | Name | image | Image | image_size | upright | image_upright | alt | caption | birth_name | birth_date | birth_place | death_date | death_place | relations | relatives | nationality | Nationality | years | Years | teams | Teams | Team(s) | team | Team | engines | Engines | current_team | current team | Current team | 2025 Team | 2026 Team | car_number | car number | Car number | races | Races | championships | Championships | wins | Wins | podiums | Podiums | points | Points | poles | Poles | fastest_laps | fastest laps | Fastest laps | first_race | first race | First race | first_win | first win | First win | last_win | last win | Last win | last_race | last race | Last race | last_position | last position | Last position | last_season | last season | Last season | bf1_years | bf1 years | BF1 Years | bf1_races | bf1 races | BF1 Races | bf1_championships | bf1 championships | BF1 Championships | bf1_wins | bf1 wins | BF1 Wins | bf1_podiums | bf1 podiums | BF1 Podiums | bf1_points | bf1 points | BF1 Points | bf1_poles | bf1 poles | BF1 Poles | bf1_fastest_laps | bf1 fastest laps | BF1 Fastest laps | signature | signature_size | signature alt | signature_alt | website | module | module1 | module2 | module3 | module4 | module5 | record template1 | record template2 | record template3 | record template4 | record template5 | career template1 | career template2 | career template3 | career template4 | career template5 | updated | Updated }} Mário Manuel Veloso de Araújo Cabral ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; 15 January 1934 – 17 August 2020), commonly known by the nickname "Nicha" Cabral ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}), was a racing driver from Portugal. He participated in five Formula One World Championship Grands Prix (four starts), debuting on 23 August 1959. He did not score any championship points. In 2009, at the age of 75, Cabral came out as bisexual.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Racing career
Son of the second marriage of the 1st Count of Vizela, Cabral was regarded as Portugal's outstanding driver of the late 1950s<ref name="Small">Template:Cite book</ref> and competed in the Portuguese Grand Prix in 1959 and 1960 finishing in tenth place and retiring respectively.<ref name="Small"/>
In the 1959 Grand Prix at the Circuito de Monsanto, Jack Brabham claimed Cabral was responsible for causing the accident which left future triple world champion lucky to escape with his life. According to Brabham, Cabral collided with the Australian while he was being lapped, causing Brabham to spin and then somersault into a telegraph post. Brabham was thrown out of the car, which landed in the middle of the circuit, but was avoided by the other drivers. Cabral, in his biography "Nicha - Mário de Araújo Cabral", made it very clear that he kept his racing line and it was Brabham that tried to overtake at a dangerous place. Cabral's car was not damaged and finished the race in 10th place, 4 laps down. He was the first Portuguese driver to start a Formula One race.
Cabral did not pursue a full-time racing career but drove for Scuderia Centro Sud in the 1961 Pau Grand Prix.<ref name="Small"/> His career was then interrupted by National Service which he spent as a paratrooper in Angola.<ref name="Small"/> He returned to Formula One with Centro Sud in 1963 retiring from the German Grand Prix and failing to qualify at Monza.<ref name="Small"/> His Formula One career ended with a retirement from the 1964 Italian Grand Prix in the Derrington-Francis-ATS.
Cabral was seriously injured in the 1965 Formula Two Rouen-Les-Essarts Grand Prix and was absent from competition until 1968 when he returned to race sportscars and occasionally in Formula Two before retiring in 1975.<ref name="Small"/>
Complete Formula One World Championship results
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| Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | WDC | Points |
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| 1959 | Scuderia Centro Sud | Cooper T51 | Maserati Straight-4 |
MON | 500 | NED | FRA | GBR | GER | POR Template:Small |
ITA | USA | NC | 0 | |
| 1960 | Scuderia Centro Sud | Cooper T51 | Maserati Straight-4 |
ARG | MON | 500 | NED | BEL | FRA | GBR | POR Template:Small |
ITA | USA | NC | 0 |
| 1963 | Scuderia Centro Sud | Cooper T60 | Climax V8 | MON | BEL | NED | FRA | GBR | GER Template:Small |
ITA Template:Small |
USA | MEX | RSA | NC | 0 |
| 1964 | Derrington-Francis Racing Team | Derrington-Francis | ATS V8 | MON | NED | BEL | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | ITA Template:Small |
USA | MEX | NC | 0 |
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