Brands Hatch GP for the GT Throphy.

The weekend was very eventfull, but it was great to be back at the wheel and drive around  such a great circuit. The GP is a really good, quick track and the porsche a great car to drive. Its very challenging to drive a porsche anywhere. It’s a car that requires a lot from the driver.

This race weekend had to be the race weekend for the mechanics.  At the start Chris Bentley (my team mate) had a accident with a lamborghini which brought us to the pits for a long period and put us down to more than 30 laps behind. Then came the team…What a great job!  There was quite a lot of damage and they did all very well.

Chris went back to the track and we swapped places with 2h and a half to finish. During my stint I had a camera on board on the floor going from place to place, sometimes underneath the accelerator sometimes under the clutch. It was really hard to drive and keep kicking the camera all the time.

It was dificult to deal with some backmarkers, I did loose feel laps behind a Ferrari 430 driven by a gentleman driver. This kind of situation is not easy as the 430 is powerfull and the driver almost stopped on the apex of the corners. I asked the team to talk to his team, but seems like he doesnt care. So I managed to pass.

After an hour my rear tyre blew up. On times like this that I understand how good GOD is. The tyre blowing up on Continue reading →

In 2010 Adriano Medeiros was coaching the driver Chris Bentley at the Gt Cup. The championship is a GT amateur series for the Gentleman drivers, and the series organisers create an endurance race called GT Throphy which became a sister championship.

Then Chris decided to participate in May at Brands Hatch GP, as it is an endurance race, there was a need for the second driver, So Chris gave the oportunity to Adriano Medeiros. The results couldn’t be better. Win in Class and the driver Adriano Medeiros had ocuppied the 3rd place overall at some point during the race.

The success made Chris choose Adriano to race again on two other ocasions in the same championship.

The GT Trophy is a really good idea and has been doing well considering the whole situation of the motorsport industry, after all the crisis in the economy, bringing small numbers to the race track. Despite all of that, Chris and Adriano had been Continue reading →

 

For those Who doesnt know Alex Dias Ribeiro, in 1976 Alex was racing in F1 and was know to be the guy Who aways had a lots of faith in GOD and aways had the message JESUS Saves in his cars and Crash Helmets.

THE MILION BUCKS RACE ministry report‏

The third edition of the Brazilian Million Bucks Race held in Interlagos this year was one of the best races I have seen, with many lead changes and an intense battle among seven drivers, striving for victory. Only two seconds separated the pole position from the back markers at the start. The statisticians recorded 36 overtaking among the competitors battling for three places in the podium.

For me, the weekend began on Wednesday in a meeting with one of the team owners to study the bible and to hear from him about the extraordinary things that God has done in his personal life since he invited Christ to live in his heart.  As he is a guy who is not afraid to read and have a passion for the things from above, his spiritual progress has been remarkable. He has been up to now, the best disciple whom I ever walked together.

 On Friday I was able to address all the competitors at the Drivers Briefing, explaining that in Stock Cars where, all have to use the same engine, chassis, tires, components and the rules do not allow any modification on the cars, the big deal is to “boost” the driver.

But how do you boost a driver?
 By making the prayer from the Apostle Paul our most ardent desire:

 I ask God that with His glorious richness he strengthens your inner man with power by way of the Spirit, so that Christ may live in your hearts by faith, so that you can be filled with the wholeness of God; who is able to do infinitely more than what we ask for or think in accordance with his power that lives in us. Eph 3:16-21.                

Wow!  – The guy, who took this most seriously, drove like a lion and Continue reading →