The current season has been, for Gil Freitas, “almost to be forgotten. In this season, technically our first with the Porsche 99, we had punctured tires in two rallies, which, in one of them, forced us to leave early; in another, a distraction made us turn late on a curve and hit, and, in Machico, a problem at the gas station caused damage to our engine which, since then, has been running 40 to 50 horses under what it should. At Rally Vinho Madeira we have not been that successful either, since in five participations we only concluded one. In this context, we hope to finish the race, in 2019, by adopting a faster tone an trying to win in our group. An excellent result would be finishing amongst the top ten”.

Gil Freitas debuted in rallies only in 2013, but has been notice-worthy from the very start. After debuting on an Opel Kadett GT/E, the racer piloted an Opel Ascona 400 and a Citroën DS3 R5, but it has been at the wheel of the two Porsche 911 GT3 versions that he has achieved his best results. Freitas was the RGT group’s national champion in 2015 and has won, at the general level, two legs of the Coral Rally Championship of Madeira.