Lance Stroll's driver coach is swapping coaching for competing in the WRC this weekend, and he's doing it for charity. Here's the full story:
He’s coached the likes of Formula 1 drivers Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll but this weekend Nuno Pinto is swapping coaching for competing in the World Rally Championship.Miami Grand Prix to Rally Portugal isn't a usual back-to-back but this is the reality for the 45-year-old former racing driver turned driver coach. The last 10 years have seen Pinto become part of Stroll's support team travelling to every grand prix acting as the Canadian's driver coach.
"Honestly my passion has always been rallying," he says."I fell in love with motorsport through rallying and part of the story of me being here is that it is 20 years since I first did Rally Portugal in 2003, but more than that it is 40 years since my first memory of rallying which was Rally Portugal in 1983.
A fresh-faced Verstappen benefitted from Pinto's help at the 2014 Florida Winter Series, while Alpine's Esteban Ocon, Formula E driver Robin Frijns, Macau Grand Prix winner and reigning GT World Challenge Europe champion Dani Juncadella and F2 driver turned sportscar pilot Sean Gelael are among the drivers to have worked with the Portuguese. But it is Stroll that has become his longest-serving client having worked with the Canadian since his karting days.
Forty years on from his first glimpse of the famous Martini liveried Lancias and 20 years since he last competed Rally Portugal as a driver, Pinto is back competing on the famous gravel stages competing this weekend in the hotly contend WRC2 class, including WRC rally winners Andreas Mikkelsen and Kris Meeke.
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