Rodrigo Vilela is a Brazilian race driver for Demon Racing. He started his GPGSL career in Season 3 as a test driver for Martini Paddock Racing. Formerly the team owner for One Racing.
He was born in Sep. 28th, 1983, in Santos. He is GPGSL-3 race director and race driver / One Racing team owner in the same championship, as he won three times (2007, 2013 and 2014).
He also placed 6th in 2018's 'Brazil Bake-Off'. He was voted out for his poor but widely applauded Technical Challenge of a '19 foot long hotdog crust stuffed pizza folded 7 ways' which presenter Carlos Diaz Santos Cruz de Silva de Iglesias Martin Sosa de Alonso-Torres (also known as 'Carl' - South America's answer to Paul 'Handshake' Hollywood) gave a famous Carlos thumbs up for.
Driving[]
Tafuro Grand Prix (Season 5)[]
After an excellent debut season as MPR test-driver, Vilela joined to TafuroGP At the first race, a podium, on Melbourne. But, during the season, he suffered with a limited car, and only finished the season in 18th with 31 points.
Alpha Racing Team (Seasons 6-7)[]
For next two seasons, Rodrigo Vilela was hired by Alpha Racing Team, but suffered from many mistakes and numerous comparisons with his teammates, John Maverick and Carlos Rodriguez. Three second places was all he got in two years.
One Racing (Seasons 8-11)[]
After that, the Brazilian decided to put his team on the run, while he ran the test drivers championship. With four victories in the three years he had shared attentions with running and managing (he didn't race in season 9), Rodrigo Vilela took the WTC title in season 11, with a dramatic seventh place in Emmeloord at the penultimate corner.
Demon Racing (Seasons 12-14)[]
With his great performance as a test driver and after withdrawing the team from the championship, Vilela returned to dispute the drivers' championship. However, the victories disappeared again and the performance deteriorated with each season. As best results, only two second places, in Sepang (Season 13) and Fuji (Season 14). And countless problems, dropouts and poor performances.
Team Ownership[]
Vilela is team manager of One Racing, which debut on championship in 8th Season, replacing Alpha Racing Team. Their drivers on S8 was Carlos Rodriguez, Stefan Van Renselaar (race drivers), Tim Roedl (test driver on S8) Ricardo van Smirren and Marcus de Bruyker (test drivers on S9). For season 10, drivers was Carlos Rodriguez and Marcus de Bruyker, with Connor Steer (replacing by John Warrington) as test driver.
For season 11, Marcus de Bruyker continued on team and had John Warrington as new driver. Brazilian Erick Von Draxeler begins in championship as main test driver.
GPGSL-3 resume[]
On Grand Prix 3 (2007-2017) version of championship, named GPGSL-3 (according GPGSL members, that authorized the change of name on 2010 - before this, the official name was "GP32K Offline Championship"), Rodrigo Vilela is One Racing race driver and team owner. He is only driver who runs all seasons.
On 1st season, he won the championship, and One Racing won in Constructors. In the next two seasons, the brazilian couldn't do anything, but on last two (2010 and 2011), he fighted to title until last race. In 2012 season, Rodrigo Vilela finished again in 3rd place. In 2010, One Racing won again the Constructors championship.
On 2011 and 2012, Vilela watched Marcus de Bruyker (2011) and Erick Von Draxeler (2012) won championships, but in the two seasons after, Rodrigo won in both years and became first driver to win three championships.
Racing record[]
Complete Grandprixgames Super League results[]
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap; underlined races indicate most places gained)