Motorsport
Forty-one people, twenty-six of them in the composites shop. The engineer who designs a part takes it to the track and, when it fails, explains why. Listed below by what each is responsible for.
Drivers
Race and development driver
Two seasons in a customer GT4 R in the GT4 European Series, fourth then second in the Silver Cup. Promoted to the factory GT3 programme for 2026, taking the third stint in the No. 42 car. Continues to run the 2027 aerodynamic package in testing.
Competes in: Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS - Endurance Cup
Lead driver, No. 42
Eight seasons of GT endurance racing before joining Vantera in 2022. Has started the 24 Hours of Spa six times. Runs the opening and closing stints on the No. 42 car and sets the reference for the development programme.
Competes in: Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS - Endurance Cup
Lead driver, No. 43
Joined for the 2025 season from a customer GT3 programme. Runs the No. 43 car in the Endurance Cup and the development car at selected Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie rounds, where most of the car's durability data comes from.
Competes in: Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS - Endurance Cup · ADAC RAVENOL Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie (NLS)
Engineering and crew
Technical director
Six seasons running customer GT cars across European endurance events before joining as technical director in 2014. Responsible for the conviction the company is built on: in customer racing the car that wins is the one the team can fix.
Founder, composite structures
Eleven years building composite structures to other people's drawings in Marinha Grande, watching them come back from races broken in ways the drawings had not anticipated. Founded Vantera in 2013 on the conviction that the people who build a chassis should be the people who draw it.
Chief race engineer
Runs the No. 42 car at the track and draws its rear suspension at the factory. The engineers who operate the cars are the engineers who designed the parts — when something fails, the person who explains why is the person who drew it.
Customer programmes
The number customer teams call. Handles spare parts, homologation paperwork and race-weekend support for every GT3 R and GT4 R in customer hands, including the two cars now running in North America.