#racing drivers

[magnetosbf]

ANYONE HERE IS INTO THE FEEDER SERIES????? 'CAUSE IM OBSSESSED WITH BRAZILIAN F4 OKAY?

Lemme introduce y'all to my team: Cavaleiro Sports 🐎⭐️

From right to left, we got: Alceu Feldmann Neto (car #95), Ethan Nobels (car #12), Rogério Grotta (car #7), Enricco Abreu (car #29) and Bernardo Gentil (car #88)

The name that probably caught your attention is Ethan Nobels. He's Aurelia Nobels' younger brother. Also, last year, on his rookie season of F4, he was fighting for the title fiercely against veteran drivers. Ethan ended the 2024 championship in third, plus the rookie trophy.

Now, talking more about each driver!

Alceu Feldmann Neto also raced last year with Cavaleiro and another team called Bassani Racing, just a few races, tho. Alceu was racing in another category simultaneously last year, where he won the endurance and rookie championships. (And yeah, his car in Porsche Cup Brazil was themed after Lightning McQueen. ⚡️⚡️)

Bernardo Gentil is also a very promising driver racing for Cavaleiro this year. He's 15 years old, an official CRG karting driver (same team Max Verstappen raced in his karting days), has won a lot of championships in Brazil and outside (too many to even count). 2025 is his first year in Brazilian F4, and he's making a great debut during the training sessions, staying within the top 10 in most of them.

Enricco Abreu is also a rookie. Last year, he got very impressive results in important championships in Brazil. He was São Paulo Vice-Champion, sixth place in Copa São Paulo de Kart LIGHT and fourth place in the Brazilian Karting Championship. He's been pretty consistent in the training sessions for the F4 season this year!

And last but not least, Rogério Grotta! The oldest of the four, and if I'm not wrong, the oldest driver on the grid. Grotta had an amazing season with Cavaleiro last year. If I'm not wrong, he got 5 podiums and 2 wins. I believe he's a contestant for the title this year.

And that's it! This is my favorite team in Brazilian F4. 🐎⭐️

If anyone read this far, and is curious about any other team, I'd love to talk about the drivers!

You can follow them on ig!!

Cavaleiro Sports: @ cavaleiro_sports

Ethan Nobels: @ ethan.nobels12

Alceu Neto: @ alceufeldmann.n

Bernardo Gentil: @ b.gentil88

Enricco Abreu: @ enriccoabreu_

Rogério Grotta: @ rogeriogrotta

[thepotentialof2007]

Myles Rowe takes the USF Pro 2000 title

Rowe, who seems almost impervious to most pressure, indeed hung on to the third place he needed to win IndyCar’s F3-equivalent USF Pro 2000 series – it made the young New Yorker the first African-American in history to win a single-seater title. Not just a landmark achievement for black athletes, the championship triumph is a watershed moment for the Roger Penske-backed Force Indy (FI) project, with even Lewis Hamilton posting his congratulations on social media.

“I think it is extremely important that we represent, in a very positive way, people like us around the world, for young people to see it and think: ‘I can do this’,” says Reid.

“Certainly Lewis Hamilton has had that impact. Even here in this country, when a lot of kids – especially black kids – don’t know anything about racing, when they see Myles, it means something.”

Rowe says part of his adoration for his hero Hamilton has been upon the trail he’s blazed, giving the achievement extra poignance.“It’s extremely important for me, because when I was a kid, looking at Lewis, he was breaking all the records,” said Rowe.

“In the back of my mind, that was something I wanted to do too, inspiring that kind of energy.“Lewis does his thing for blacks in Europe, in F1, and all over the world, but it’s really cool that Americans seem to be really proud of this title. “It’s still only just sinking in, but it means a lot, and I hope I can do more.”

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This was what Lewis's Thursday Silverstone fit reminded me of: the white cotton twill racing overalls of the 1920s-1940s that were made visibly race worn by the both the very open seat exposed to petrol exhaust and road dirt and by racer-mechanics attending to the car, esp in distance races.

[invisibleicewands]

Are you a fan of any other pilot apart from Kimi?

Hi, Anon!

I've been - and always will be - a fan of: Jean Alesi, Mika Hakkinen and Kimi Raikkonen. I know, they're from the past, but they always give me good memories. No one else from the present drivers.

[thepotentialof2007]

Racecar driver die due to blunt force trauma, penetrating trauma, spinal cord injury, internal organ disruption, fire and more.

Race car drivers die because of lethal injuries caused by 6 different mechanisms which are examined here in detail. Much has been done, but much more must be done as most of racer deaths in the past few years are preventable with changes to track design.

Has the time come for a universal driver's group to come forward to provide a louder and unified voice advocating change in the name of safety?

CW for frank medical discussion of racing driver deaths and injuries by name, including at least one that happened due to off track activities. Earliest incidents discussed are from the 1960s. Article was last updated in 2014.

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And then they ask why Brazil is rooting for Hamilton. - Tony Kanaan

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Speed Demon: Miss Marion Martin, champion woman race driver of Illinois will meet the winner of the elimination tests at the North Shore speedway this afternoon. Miss Martin has not only defeated all women rivals for speedway honors but has also scored victories over speedy men drivers. 📷  Chicago Sunday Tribune June 14, 1925 via clamshack

November 7, 1929 — Joan LaCosta, prominent woman auto racer, was held by police in Chicago, Illinois for attempted robbery in a Chicago hotel, with chloroform and a toy pistol. When first arrested she refused to reveal her identity. 

Joan LaCosta was a flamboyant French driver (apparently), mostly noted as a daredevil and speed triallist in the USA in the 1920s. Her usual car seems to have been a Miller special. 

Joan LaCosta was almost certainly not her birth name. On her arrest for robbery, she was named as Marion Carver. Reports of her trial mention parents living in Memphis, and a former husband named Waldo Martins. There was a racing driver named Marion Martin or Martins active in Canada in the summer of 1925, just before Joan LaCosta appeared.

In 1926, Joan entered a match race on a half-mile dirt track, as part of an IMCA (International Motor Competition Association) event in Toronto, Canada. IMCA was the only sanctioning body that allowed women to race at all. She won, beating Louis Disbrow. The two had considerable history, having raced against each other twice, in Canada and Mississippi. 

The same year as their Toronto battle, Disbrow apparently led a protest against Joan’s inclusion in a Lakewood starting grid. His objection was overturned, partly because her speed-trial times proved that she was faster than several of the male entrants.  Disbrow’s position on female drivers was also rather puzzling; his own career had been launched in the 1900s, as a riding mechanic to Joan Newton Cuneo, the first notable American female racer.

More on LaCosta / Martin’s career and life at Vintage Everyday

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