Child prodigy Gil Menvlad, 14-year-old Latvian junior runner-up

Gil Membrad completed this weekend, becoming a junior runner-up Latviaa campaign that has already led to the integration of early sports projects As a rally driver from the middle of 2021, when he was only 13.

The Catalan, one of the most precocious talents on the international stagefaced the final and decisive test of the Baltic Games with experienced Canary Islands co-driver Rogelio Peñate using mathematical options. Unfortunately, luck was not on their side. A mechanical failure en route to their first win left no chance of sealing the title. But the Barcelona driver’s superb performance on the tough and muddy roads of perhaps the most selective event of the entire season, the Samsonas Rally Utena The Qualitative Leap That Gil Membrad Has Experienced This Yearin the course of a training program re-established by his mentor, Daniel Barash.

“It was a pity that we weren’t able to win the championship due to mechanical problems.”

Gil Membrad

“It’s a shame we didn’t win the Samsonas Rally Utena and the Latvian Junior Championship due to mechanical problems, but these situations are part of rallying and part of my learning as a driver. We have surpassed the expectations we set for ourselves at the beginning of the year, so I am happy with what Rogelio and I have achieved since our debut in the Ford Fiesta Rally 4. The most important thing for me is ‘This season The extra mileage and experience, everything I’ve learned in the last few months makes me feel like a completely different rider than I did a year ago, that’s the basics, the lines we have to follow I will continue working next season.”

constant growth

Sponsored by Blackmount, Setrum and the RACC Mobility Club, the youngster will put his potential behind the wheel of the latest generation vehicle, the M-Sport Polish-built Ford Fiesta Rally 4, which began competing at the beginning of the season. I’m narrowing it down. It was he who enabled the first participation on a surface as unique as snow and at the same time increased his learning on land, alternating different types of sections in Latvia and Estonia and Lithuania, a country with a calendar. is useful for End date.

Not only will it be this summer, The youngest Spanish rookie in the WRC (World Rally Championship) when he took part in the Estonian RallyGil Membrad has strengthened his experience and maturity enough throughout this first season to focus 100% on the rallying discipline.

Orost pilot.It is supported by CSD (Superior Sports Council), RFEDA (Royal Spanish Automobile Federation) and FCA (Federació Catalana d’Automobilisme).which shows a clear evolution in terms of both driving and technical knowledge and notes, showing that it is more consistent in all kinds of terrain and conditions.

Evidence of this can be seen in the pace increase marked this weekend on the rutted, wet and muddy roads traversed by the Samsonas Rally Utena. Gil his menblad deftly managed the first half of the race before picking up speed to climb into the lead, before a shaft remained and he broke in the fifth section and was in danger of winning.

ASRT team riders even got to take part in some specials in front of higher performance mounts. Gil Membrad’s performance out of the Baltic competition therefore shows a more-than-positive balance at the end of his first full campaign as a rally driver, while at the same time the best possible for the 2023 season. The young Catalan will start preparing immediately, with the aim of continuing to strengthen the learning curve they have been experiencing at sporting level since the middle of last year.