The young Brazilian driver with Minardi Management heads to the opening race of the Italian F.4 Championship powered by Abarth, scheduled for May 3rd at Vallelunga, having set a new lap record in testing at Monza.

Joao continued development work on the car set up by Antonelli Motorsport covering over 500 kilometres,“It was a very intense and positive working day. We raced many kilometres, collecting various data that will be useful for the race weekend. We made some small changes in set-up which resulted in setting the astest tim." said Vieira, says.

Giovanni Minardi

“I’m really very happy with the work done by Joao. He was able to completemore than 90 laps, improving constantly, until the fastest lap time of the day among other Tatuus F.4 on track, as well as beating the lap time of 2014 pole.

Track conditions were optimal and thus affected his performance, but we are talking about a superb result, which proves Joao’s maturity and his excellent relationship with car, track and team."