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Gabby Chaves
WHELEN ENGINEERING RACING FINISHES SIXTH IN 68th TWELVE HOURS OF SEBRING
Whelen Engineering drivers Pipo Derani (Brazil), Felipe Nasr (Brazil) and Gabby Chaves (Columbia) finished sixth in yesterday’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring at Sebring International Raceway. Derani qualified the No. 31 Whelen Engineering/Action Express Cadillac DPi-V.R sixth on the DPi grid. From there, Derani, Chaves, and Nasr all initially drove … Continue reading
FIFTH PLACE FOR WHELEN ENGINEERING AT DAYTONA
Whelen Engineering drivers Pipo Derani (Brazil) and Gabby Chaves (Columbia) finished fifth in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship WeatherTech 240 at Daytona International Speedway. After a five-month hiatus, due to the worldwide pandemic, the Whelen Engineering team was excited and set to return to racing. But, a 51-minute rain delay forced the team to wait … Continue reading
WHELEN ENGINEERING TO HAVE GABBY CHAVES REPLACE FELIPE NASR AT DAYTONA
Gabby Chaves will replace Felipe Nasr in the No. 31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac DPi-V.R for this weekend’s running of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship WeatherTech Daytona 240 July 3-4. Nasr tested positive for the COVID-19 virus and is heading back to Miami to quarantine. “I’ve been waiting so long for this weekend to get back … Continue reading
WHELEN ENGINEERING RACING AIMS HIGH FOR ROAD ATLANTA
Whelen Engineering Racing will be heading to the season-ending Motul Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta with its usual goal of winning the 10-hour race on Saturday, Oct. 13. If the team can run up front throughout the race and claim that victory, it will also be able to achieve another accomplishment– capturing the IMSA … Continue reading
GABBY CHAVES JOINS WHELEN ENGINEERING RACING FOR PETIT LE MANS
Gabby Chaves will return to Action Express Racing in the 21st running of Petit Le Mans on October 13th as IMSA stages the season-finale race for the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Chaves will share the driving duties in the No. 31 Whelen Engineering Racing Cadillac DPi. V.R with co-drivers Eric Curran and Felipe Nasr for the … Continue reading
GABBY CHAVES JOINS MUSTANG SAMPLING RACING AT WATKINS GLEN
Young open wheel pilot Gabby Chaves will make his return to IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar competition next weekend as he joins Mustang Sampling Racing for the Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen. Chaves will team up with Filipe Albuquerque and Christian Fittipaldi in the No. 5 Mustang Sampling Cadillac Prototype as the team pursues a third … Continue reading
CHAVES JOINS PANOZ DELTAWING RACING FOR WATKINS GLEN
Following the two-day test at Watkins Glen International, Panoz DeltaWing Racing’s Team Manager Tim Keene decided to add a third driver for the Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen, ushering in the return of DeltaWing veteran Gabby Chaves for this important race. “It was pretty clear straightaway that we would need to add a third … Continue reading
DELTAWING RACING CARS ANNOUNCES 2015 DRIVER LINE-UP
The newly-christened DeltaWing Racing Cars with Claro/TracFone team brings new sponsors and a winning driver lineup to the 2015 TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, as four-time Rolex Sports Car Series champion Guillermo “Memo” Rojas joins DeltaWing veterans Katherine Legge, Gabby Chaves and Andy Meyrick behind the wheel of the revolutionary DeltaWing coupe. In addition to the … Continue reading
MEYRICK, LEGGE AND CHAVES SET FOR DELTAWING COUPE’S FIRST APPEARANCE IN THE 12-HOUR ENDURANCE CLASSIC
Sebring holds a prominent place in the DeltaWing story, as the historic Florida road racing circuit saw not only the public on-track debut of the DeltaWing roadster in 2012, but the first glimpse of the DeltaWing coupe last year. Now the story comes full circle, as the coupe version of the revolutionary prototype competes in … Continue reading
CHAVES JOINS LEGGE AND MEYRICK AT DELTAWING FOR SEBRING ENDURANCE CLASSIC
DeltaWing Racing Cars announced today that emerging young racing star Gabby Chaves will join veterans Katherine Legge and Andy Meyrick for the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. Chaves gained his first sports car racing experience in the DeltaWing coupe at the Rolex 24 at Daytona, recovering from a first lap incident to complete a successful two … Continue reading
