About Filipe Albuquerque
Filipe Miguel Delgadinho Araújo Albuquerque is a Portuguese professional racing driver, currently driving an Cadillac V-Series.R in the IMSA SportsCar Championship for Wayne Taylor Racing, and an Oreca 07 in the European Le Mans Series for Nielsen Racing. He has claimed a LMP2 class title at the 2019–20 FIA World Endurance Championship, an LMP2 class win at the 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans, and overall wins at the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2018 and 2021. In 2006, Albuquerque raced in two championships, the Formula Renault Eurocup championship and the North European Formula Renault championship, where he won the Drivers' title in both series. He won the class as part of an Audi 1–2 finish. Albuquerque started his motor racing career in karting in 1993, "I started karting as a joke, but it quickly became more and more serious" Albuquerque recalled, "It's really hard to get sponsorship to go racing.
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