OAK Racing on show in Sao Paulo
The OAK Racing team is exhibiting one of its LMP2 Morgans, surrounded by images from the DPPI Media agency, in a São Paulo shopping centre as part of the build up to the 6-hour race in the city, fifth round of the FIA World Endurance Championship. A cocktail reception was held on Wednesday in the JK Iguatemi Centre attended by the team’s drivers and several Brazilian celebrities such as Emerson Fittipaldi, former F1 World Champion.
Brazilian fans can admire the car and the photographs depicting great moments in endurance racing until 16th September, the day after the 6 Hours of São Paulo.
Emerson Fittipaldi, after making a presentation on the 6 Hours of Sao Paulo and speaking about the various Brazilian drivers involved in the event, spoke in French: “I would also like to welcome all our French friends! We are very pleased to be staging for the first time the World Endurance Championship in Brazil. We thank the OAK Racing team and its drivers who are with us tonight for this great exhibition in the mall.”
Jacques Nicolet, OAK Racing President: “Our passion for endurance racing is the reason we are here in a country that displays the same appetite for motorsport. It’s one reason why we have organised this exhibition in Brazil. I want to add that the car is not a show car; it is a real LMP2. If you add the engine it will start! I would like to pay particular tribute to Emerson Fittipaldi. It’s drivers like Emerson who helped to maintain my passion until contesting my first race at the age of 42.”
Fiona Miller (quotes from team press release)
Photo: JK IGUATEMI CENTRE (SAO PAULO, BRAZIL), 14TH SEPTEMBER 2012. OAK Racing is exhibiting one of its LMP2 Morgans in the centre until 16th September.