Early career
Innate around Curitiba, Brazil, Zonta began karting in 1987, winning his first race. A as punishment month he was runner-second best for the Curitiba Karting Championship, & around 1991, he won the title. He continued karting around 1992, finishing 4th in the São Paulo Karting Championship before reach only-seaters for 1993. He finished Sixth within the Brazilian Formula Chevrolet Championship, and so in 1994, came Fifth in the Brazilian Formula Iii Championship. A year late, Zonta won each a Brazilian & South American Formula 3 Championships.

Moving to Europe in 199?, Zonta competed in the International Formula 3000 Championship, winning two races & finishing Fourth overall. within a equivalent season, he became the number 1 Brazilian to compete in International Touring Cars, using Mercedes. Inside 1997, he won three races & became champion, winning a "Golden Helmet" award for better international driver. A Jordan Formula One team signed him when their official trial driver. Within 1998, he was signed by McLaren boss Ron Dennis, and tested by having a McLaren F1 team, along using winning a FIA GT1 Championship and a "Golden Helmet" award in the "world prominence" category.

Formula One career
Inside 1999, Zonta started as an F1 racer alongside 1997 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve at new team B.A.R. Zonta injured his foot in an accident during practice for the Brazilian Grand Prix, and was forced to miss three races. He likewise experienced the big accident at Spa-Francorchamps, and finished a year sustaining there are no championship points. Zonta remained by using B.The.R for the 2000 season, scoring his first globe championship point by using the Sixth place in the opening race. He experienced a second big accident whilst his front suspension broke during researching at Silverstone, but continued a year, scoring points within two a Italian and United States Grands Prix, to finish 13th in the championship. Replaced by Olivier Panis for the 2001 season, Zonta became a third driver for the Jordan team, replacing the wounded Heinz-Harald Frentzen for one race, and so over again after Frentzen was sacked, however was overlooked to replenish him for the remainder of the year. Around 2002, he decided to focus on the Telefonica World Series, which he won. Zonta wwhen so hired as line 2 text driver for the Toyota F1 team in 2003, retaining the position around 2004. Towards a prevent of a year, the team sacked Cristiano da Matta from a race seat, & Zonta drove around quadruplet grands prix until a team hired Jarno Trulli. Still, a team allowed Zonta to compete inside his page race, a Brazilian Grand Prix, which he finished in Thirteenth. He continued as a end line text driver for Toyota inside 2005, alongside veteran French pilot Olivier Panis. At a Me Grand Prix down the road that season, he substitute for an hurt Ralf Schumacher and took his place on a grid, only for Toyota, prefer a more 6 Michelin-shod teams, to withdraw from either the race due to safety concerns.

Complete Formula One results
(Note: grands prix inside bold denote points scoring races.)