NEWSPEED

NEWSPEED, A STORY OF SPORTS SUCESS

The Newspeed’s sports success is directly associated to its pilot Ricardo Leal dos Santos sports history, having together achieved a long and wide list of Race results that include the following details:

•  The 1st Portuguese pilot to ever finish the Dakar Rally in a Quad, in 2003
•  Winner of the Quad’s World Cup in 2005
•  Winner of the Solo category at the Lisboa-Dakar 2006

Ricardo Leal dos Santos is nowadays an off-road world certainty, with reliability and a successful history with more than 75.000 km in international races. This massive number of kilometres has never once recorded a single drop out and includes the Word Cup and four Dakar rallies in the harshest conditions – in a quad, in an old Pajero with no assistance and twice in a Pajero DID with no navigator.

In the year of 2007 a new phase on the national off-road championship arose, when the pilot raced solo ending up six seconds from the podium in the Baja Portalegre and leading the RTP Off-road Trophy. It was, beyond doubt, a remarkable performance for a pilot going solo.

In the beginning of 2008, in the Dakar Series – Central Europe Rally, Ricardo Leal dos Santos was in the 15th position in the last stage. With only three private teams keeping the solo pilot away from the official teams, throughout more than 100 teams, a mechanical problem made him drop to the 26th position. Then came the Transibérico Rally, where he managed another amazing result going solo, the 7th overall, the 3rd Portuguese, the 2nd private team behind the official three Mitsubishi and two BMW.

At the age of 35, and with an outstanding worldwide off-road career, Ricardo Leal dos Santos in only at his third year of car racing but challenging, solo, the best and most experienced international racing duos.

THE TEAM AND ITS MEANS:
The Newspeed team has seven elements working on a permanent basis, seldom reinforced by occasional staff in some events. The management is assured by Ricardo Leal dos Santos, backed up by Andreia Pereira. The design and advertising department is assured by the designer João Mendes.
At the Odivelas shop work the mechanics Eugenio Rodrigues, Evaristo Machado e Inácio Carmona, assistance truck’s driver, and all work is supervised by Gonçalo Ferreira. Along with the human resources, it gathers a wide range of vehicles and means, such as the MITSUBISHI RACING LANCER EX-FACTORY , an assistance 6x6 MAN Kat 1 truck, three 4x4 back up vehicles, quads, motorbikes and trailers, as well as lots of spare parts, 
machinery, events tents and promo material, all Newspeed’s property


CONTACTS:
ADRESS
Newspeed - Consultoria de Marketing, Eventos e Sponsoring, Lda    
Rua Biarritz, 4, Edifício S. Rafael 1.º andar escritório A 
2765-200 Estoril
PORTUGAL
 
TELEPHONES:
+351 215 903 417    

INTERNET
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Website: www.newspeed.pt
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/R.LealdosSantos/?ref=ts 

Director:
Ricardo Leal dos Santos
Phone:+351 932 799 660 
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Comercial contact:         
João Pedro Barros
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