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‘Two cars were battling for position and jostling each other, one spun, ending up in the path of the field and was hit in the driver’s door.’Īccident De Stock Car Light Rafael Sperafico ‘We had a fatal accident,’ explains Giaffone. Ten years ago, it was all gentleman racers, now it’s all professionals.’ For nine years, though, the same cars had been used the design was becoming an issue and there were questions about its safety.
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‘Right now, the drivers can make money that in the past was not possible in this country. ‘We got live television coverage on one of the biggest channels in Brazil, and after that, the sponsors came,’ Giaffone says.
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Performance increased, as did the professionalism. Over the years, the cars morphed into spaceframe silhouettes, vaguely aping the body styles of various manufacturers’ models. As well as the main series, known as the Copa Caixa, there is a ‘First Division’ championship, using similar specification cars, known as the Copa Vicar, as well as a pick-up series. Only Peugeot and Chevrolet remain for the 2009 season. Every car competing in the championship wore a Chevrolet name plate until 2005, when Mitsubishi joined the series, followed two years later by Volkswagen and Peugeot. The series was launched in 1979, and over the years, it evolved from road car-based vehicles to spaceframe specials. Today, however, the Giaffones do little racing as drivers, as their family business, JL Motorsport, has become one of the largest race car manufacturers in South America, and they only supply one series: Brazilian Stockcars. Giaffone comes from a racing family his father won the famous Mil Milhas race on five occasions, his brother raced in Indy Lights and Ind圜ar, and he himself has raced in F3000. Brazil is well enough known for producing great racing drivers, with names like Senna and Fittipaldi springing instantly to mind, but it is not known for producing competition cars of any sort. ‘We are not a rich nation and that means that we have to keep the costs very low,’ explains Zeca Giaffone.