After several race seasons engineering with factory GT3 teams, Pinto's Racing has been providing motorsport engineering consulting since 2018 to teams competing in championships around the world.
The strong partership with USA based Inception Racing, ran by Optimum Motorsport, continues in 2025.
We're currently tackling the IMSA GTD championship with the Ferrari 296 GT3.
A return to the American sportscar paddock, a full season in IMSA GT Daytona category with Inception Racing/ Optimum Motorsport.
A great collaboration with McLaren and later Ferrari and Oreca.
In June we headed to the Circuit de La Sarthe to enter the 24h of Le Mans, getting the first pole position for McLaren in more than 2 decades.
A third season with HRT and Mercedes AMG, mainly focused in DTM, NLS, and Creventic 24h.
The partenership with HRT and Mercedes AMG continues into 2022, now with extended involvement over 4 race series.
DTM, NLS, GTWC and Creventic 24h.
A very busy year with sprint and endurance challenges, in both Pro and Pro-Am classes.
Various projects were on the table for 2021, but with intercontinental travel still being an issue in the midst of the ongoing pandemic, Europe continues being the main racing arena for this season.
A new championship, a new car and a new team materialized in the DTM championship with Haupt Racing Team and the Mercedes AMG GT, which is the main focus of the race engineering consultancy effort this season.
Several test events in southeast Asia with the Porsche GT3R, in preparation for the Bathurst 12h, marked the first months of the year.
The Covid19 pandemic disrupted everyone's plans and racing seasons became second priority, with most of the planned Asian championships being cancelled.
A late re-start in June saw most of the race engineering happening in European soil, following the British GT championship with a McLaren 720s GT3 and LMP3 testing with the Duqueine D08.
The racing season kicked off in early January at Sepang, Malaysia.
It then went into one of the most spectacular circuits in the world, Mount Panorama, at Bathurst, Australia, for the first endurance race of the season.
In 2019 Pinto's Racing provided engineering support to 4 different teams and cars, racing across 17 countries and over 5 continents, in both sprint and endurance classes.
Absolute Racing
Audi R8 LMS GT3
Sepang, Malaysia
Suzuka, Japan
Fuji, Japan
Yeongam, Korea
Shanghai, China
Buriram, Thailand
Lanan Racing
Norma M30 LMP3
Paul Ricard, France
Monza, Italy
Le Mans, France
Barcelona, Spain
Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium
Portimão, Portugal
Team Bentley M-Sport
Bentley Continental GT3 Gen 2
Bathurst 12h, Australia
Laguna Seca 8h, United States
Spa 24h, Belgium
Suzuka 10h, Japan
Kyalami 9h, South Africa
McLaren Motorsport
Mclaren 570S GT4
Portimão, Portugal
Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium
Hungaroring, Hungary
Hockenheim, Germany
Silverstone, UK
Sakhir, Bahrain
The first operational season of Pinto's Racing, building on the experience and knowledge gathered in the previous decade, was varied and marked by challenges and successes.
Together with several teams, we achieved podiums, race wins, championship titles and solidified our racing experience.
AAS Motorsport entered a privateer Bentley Continental GT3 in the Thailand Super Series GT championship and the thai round of Japanese Super GT300.
After 8 hard fought rounds in southeast Asia, we took the Thai championship title.
Absolute Racing, one of the most successful race teams in Asia, integrated our race engineering services in their Blancpain Asia and Audi LMS cup efforts, with both the Audi R8 LMS GT3 and the new Audi R8 LMS GT4.
From the GT circuits to the gravel tracks in Portugal, we supported Matos Sport on their rallycross championship assault, working closely on the chassis tuning of their Citroën DS3 Supercar, claiming several race wins and clinching the national championship title.
Pinto's Racing provided engineering support to the inaugural McLaren Pure GT race series, taking the McLaren 570S GT4 to various european circuits.