The duo Cacá Bueno and Sérgio Jimenez will divide the BMW Z4 #0 of the BMW Team Brazil with one of the young promises of the Brazilian motorsport in the 2015 Blancpain GT Series. Felipe Fraga, 19, will be the teammate of them in the five rounds of the GT Endurance Series, including the famous 24 Hours of Spa, Belgium.
Cacá and Jimenez will also compete in the seven races of the GT Sprint Series, where they got four podiums last year.
The team, led by Antonio Hermann and Washington Bezerra, also has another car in the championship, the BMW Z4 #77. The drivers Valdeno Brito and Átila Abreu are already confirmed in the Sprint and Endurance Series. Their teammate in the endurance will be announced soon.
Fraga will make his debut with the team on 12nd of April, at Monza circuit (Italy), in a race of 3 hours. But he will already feel your new car this weekend (14th and 15th) in a private test of the BMW Team Brazil in Portimao circuit in Algarve (Por). Cacá and Átila will also participate in the test program. The Brazilian team will still have the German Dirk Müller, factory BMW driver, in the track. He was invited to the tests and can be a substitute for the holders in the case of coincidence of the Blancpain GT Series dates and Stock Car in Brazil.
With a lot of tittles in go-karting, Fraga raced in Europe in 2012 in Formula Renault 2.0 Alps, which provided him know most of the tracks where he will race this year. The driver returned to Brazil in 2013 and was the champion in the Brazilian Tourism Championship. He debuted in Stock Car Brazil last year and became the youngest driver to win a race in the category, precisely in his debut race. Now, the driver celebrates this new challenge and the chance to return to Europe.
“I am very happy. To race alongside Cacá, who is my manager and mentor, and Jimenez will be very good and I am sure that we will form a very strong trio. I am also happy to return to race in Europe. Of all the calendar tracks, the only one I don´t know is Silverstone, so I think that this point will help my adaptation. The car is different, has more power than a stock car, so I hope to learn a lot in testing and I look forward to start working with the team”, said Fraga.