Portugal with 12 representatives at the FIA Motorsport Games — DNOTICIAS.PT
Portugal will be on the Olympic Committee for today’s 12th edition of the FIA Motorsport Games at the Portugal headquarters (COP) in Lisbon.
The FIA Motors Olympic Games bring together different sports disciplines participating in their country, leading drivers to compete as winners with an example of gold medals, an example of competition that awards the Olympic Games Gold, and Bronze.
In the first edition, which took place in 2019 in Vallelunga, Italy, the Portuguese delegation registered the presence of six athletes in four different categories, doubling its representation on the return of the competition three years of absence due to the covid-19 pandemic. .
In 2022, Portugal will participate with 12 drivers in eight categories – seven male and five female – in the Cross Car Junior, Drifting, Esports, Formula 4, Rally 4, Karting Sprint Junior and Karting Sprint Senior disciplines, with the new to present the first team composed exclusively of women to participate in the Karting Endurance discipline.
Sofia Correia, Mariana Machado, Rita Teixeira and Anastácia Khomyn will be present, runners who best allow this opportunity together “an asset” in the sense of “working as a team and achieving results”.
In addition to this quartet, Francisca Queirós will also participate in the Karting Sprint Senior and, to the five female drivers, will be joined by Manuel Espírito Santo, who will participate in Formula 4, Ricardo Sousa (usual presence in the Portuguese Rally Championship) and Luís Marques. in Rally 4, João ‘Janita’ Vieira in the Drifting discipline, Guilherme Matos in Cross Car Junior, Rodrigo Seabra in the Karting Sprint Junior category and finally João Cavaca in Esports.
The presentation by Ni Amorim, president of the Portuguese Automobile and Karting Federation (FPAK), was guaranteed in the Portuguese performance.
The FIA Motorsport Games will take place from the 29th to the 31st of October in Marseille, France, at the Paul Ricard circuit.