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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)

Season Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 WDC Points
3 Martini Paddock Racing AUS GER USA CAN EUR SAM NED BEL
TD
MAL
TD
ENG
TD
HUN
TD
ITA
TD
JPN
TD
SMR
TD
BRA
TD
MON
TD
GBR
TD
4 Martini Paddock Racing AUS
5
ITA
20
BEL
9
JPN
10
EUR
4
MON
2
PAC
5
RSA
6
HUN
2
GER
12
BRA
4
UAE
3
MAL
4
USA
5
CAN
5
NED
9
GBR
7
3rd
(WTC)
118
5 TafuroGP AUS
3
FRA
18
JPN
12
BEL
19
ESP
8
BRA
19
GER
8
NED
9
EUR
20
ITA
13
CAN
7
UAE
18
PAC
13
USA
18
MON
Ret
TUR
22
GBR
16
18th 31
6 Alpha Racing Team AUS
8
ITA
9
CAN
12
HUN
6
USA
Ret
NED
2
SMR
13
GER
17
JPN
2
SAM
11
ATL
11
AUT
16
MON
14
FRA
12
BEL
4
BRA
Ret
GBR
9
11th 61
7 Alpha Racing Team AUS
16
GCO
2
JPN
6
CAN
21
USA
4
FRA
9
NED
4
BEL
7
SUI
12
ITA
13
SMR
Ret
BRA
5
OCE
Ret
AUT
11
HUN
11
GER
20
GBR
12
8th 62
8 One Racing AUS
8
SOA
21
SIN
10
MAL
16
JPN
12
CAN
9
SAM
Ret
BRA
2
BEL
10
GER
1
AUT
18
SMR
16
ITA
1
MON
11
FRA
9
LUX
12
GBR
Ret
6th
(WTC)
209
10 One Racing AUS
10
PAC
12
MAL
16
JPN
9
UAE
5
ITA
12
AUT
7
EUR
2
CAN
7
USA
1
BRA
2
RSA
10
OCE
8
GER
2
BEL
15
NED
5
GBR
16
FLE
10
2nd
(WTC)
99
11 One Racing AUS
8
MAL
2
JPN
12
ITA
14
ESP
13
RSA
17
BRA
1
USA
4
CAN
3
GER
17
AUT
5
BEL
5
GBR
14
NED
7
1st
(WTC)
74
12 Demon Racing AUS
Ret
JPN
7
USA
5
CAN
16
SAM
7
BRA
3
RSA
4
AUT
5
GER
Ret
BEL
11
TUR
16
ITA
16
GBR
14
NED
5
10th 58
13 Demon Racing AUS
19
MAL
2
ITA
Ret
BEL
12
AUT
9
CAN
17
USA
5
BRA
13
NED
3
AZE
10
GER
Ret
EUR
17
POR
3
GBR
8
11th 55
14 Demon Racing AUS
13
JPN
16
MAL
21
PAC
2
ITA
Ret
NED
Ret
UAE
5
RSA
8
BRA
15
CAN
18
USA
9
GER
13
BEL
16
GBR
9
14th 34
15 Mist Racing Team AUS
19
JPN
6
RSA
17
AUT
18
EUR
1
POR
5
BRA
15
CAN
5
TUR
5
NED
22
GER
4
BEL
22
ITA
19
GBR
16
10th 55
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