Following on from his podium at Mugello, Joao Vieira is ready to return to the wheel of his Tatuus #28 for two days of tests at Vallelunga (today) and Magione (tomorrow).

For the 16-year-old Brazilian driver of Antonelli Motorsport, it will be the first time at the “Piero Taruffi” and “Autodromo dell’Umbria” Circuits that will host the next two (out of seven)rounds of the Italian F.4 Championship powered by Abarth.

Joao is ready for the second part of the season, continuing the hard work at the Driver Program Center of Forlì and galvanized by the important result achieved in Tuscany, crowned by the podium finish in Race-3 that launched him in the Top Eight of the overall standings with the same points of his team-mate and friend Matteo Cairoli.

“Thanks to these days of tests I will have the chance to discover the next two circuits of race, Vallelunga and Magione. For me, every track is a discovery and challenge. Thanks to the simulator of the Driver Program Center, I had the chance to try the layout of the ‘Piero Taruffi’ and the first impressions are really good, similarly to what happened with Mugello. It would be great to repeat the result, with another podium. At each session, I take more and more confidence with the car and this helps me to get closer to the limit”, the pilot of Minardi Management says.

Giovanni Minardi:“After the good work at Mugello, it’s now time to get to know two other circuits in the Championship calendar. For Joao, these will be two days of apprenticeship ahead of the weekend of race, since he doesn’t know the tracks. I hope he will like them as much as Mugello, as the results have demonstrated”