Miguel Amaral

Miguel Amaral at Le Mans in 2009

Miguel Maria de Sá Pais do Amaral, 4th Count of Alferrarede (born July 31, 1954 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese nobleman, entrepreneur and racing car driver .

Entrepreneur

Miguel Amaral comes from a Portuguese aristocratic family and studied mechanical engineering at Insead . In 1995 he founded Media Capital , a media company owned by broadcasters . These included the television station Televisão Independente as well as the radio stations Rádio Comercial and M80 Radio, among others . In 2005, the entrepreneurs, which also includes the sale of rights was by the 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had for Portugal, the media group PRISA sold.

In 2007 he founded the Quifel Group , an investment company that operates in different segments in Europe and South America .

Racing career

Miguel Amaral's driving career began in 2004 in the Spanish GT Championship . He also made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans that year . From 2006 he became a regular starter in the European Le Mans Series . His best placings in this racing series were second overall in the 1000 km race in Jarama in 2006 and in the 1000 km race at the Hungaroring in 2010 , where he drove a Ginetta-Zytek 09S together with Olivier Pla . In 2009 he won the LMP2 final of the series.

In six outings at the Le Mans 24-hour race , the best placings were 20th overall positions in 2008 and 2010 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2006	Chamberlain-Synergy Motorsport	Lola B05 / 40	Miguel Ángel de Castro	Warren Hughes	failure	malfunction
2007	Quifel ASM Team Racing for Portugal	Lola B05 / 40	Miguel Ángel de Castro	Warren Hughes	failure	accident
2008	Quifel ASM team	Lola B05 / 40	Olivier Pla	Guy Smith	Rank 20
2009	Quifel ASM team	Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S / 2	Olivier Pla	Guy Smith	failure	Brake defect
2010	Quifel ASM team	Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S / 2	Olivier Pla	Warren Hughes	Rank 20
2011	Quifel ASM team	Zytek 09SC	Olivier Pla	Warren Hughes	failure	accident

Web links

Commons : Miguel Amaral  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Miguel Amaral at the Driver Database
• Miguel Amaral at Racing Sports Cars
• Official website of the Quifel Group

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jarama 1000 km race in 2006
2. ↑ Le Mans Series 2009