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Profiles tagged “Macau driver”.
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Filipe de Souza: the first local driver to win the Macau Guia Race
Filipe de Souza
Filipe de Souza (full name Filipe Clemente de Souza; also spelled "de Sousa") is a Macanese touring car driver, born 26 October 1976 in Macau. On 19 November 2022 he won race 1 of the Macau Guia Race (TCR Asia Challenge) in an Audi RS3 LMS, becoming the first Macanese/local driver to win the Macau Guia Race; he led an Audi 1-2-3 ahead of Hu Heng and Cheong Chi On. He competed in the Asian rounds of the FIA World Touring Car Championship (2011–2014 and 2017) and in 2014 won the WTCC Asia Trophy in a Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320 TC. He has been a long-time competitor in the Macau Touring Car Championship since 2003 (best result third in 2009).
André Couto: the first Macanese driver to win the Macau Grand Prix F3 race
André Couto
André Couto (安德烈·高度) is a Macanese racing driver, born 14 December 1976 in Lisbon, Portugal, and moved to Macau aged four. In 2000 he won the Macau Grand Prix Formula 3 race, becoming the first Macanese driver to win the event — after pole-sitters Narain Karthikeyan and Takuma Sato crashed in leg one, Couto, driving for Opel Team BSR, took the lead and the win. In 2015 he won the Japanese Super GT GT300 drivers' championship with Katsumasa Chiyo, the first foreign driver to take the GT300 title. He also contested the International Formula 3000 series (1998–2000) and the FIA World Touring Car Championship (2005–2012), and in 2024 won the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia Pro-Am title.
Rodolfo Ávila: the Macau driver who won the 2021 TCR China title
Rodolfo Ávila
Rodolfo Ávila is a Macanese racing driver representing Macau, born 19 February 1987 in Lisbon. In 2021 he won the TCR China Touring Car Championship with Team MG XPower, having been runner-up in the series the previous year (2020). He has a strong early record: he won the Asian Formula Renault Challenge in 2003 and the Asia SuperCar Challenge in 2008. He made his Macau Grand Prix F3 debut in 2004 and in 2007 was the top-finishing Macau driver in the F3 race. In Porsche Carrera Cup Asia he recorded several strong finishes (second in 2011). Note: he has not won the Macau Grand Prix outright; his best Macau result was as the top-finishing Macau driver in F3.
Andy Chang: 2022 Macau Grand Prix F4 winner, completing a three-year local sweep
Andy Chang
Andy Chang (鄭頴聰; full name Wing Chung Chang) is a retired Macau racing driver, born 26 October 1996 in Macau. On 20 November 2022 he won the Macau Grand Prix Formula 4 race in a Mygale M14-F4, beating Hong Kong's 16-year-old Gerrard Xie and two-time champion Charles Leong. He had previously finished second in the Macau Grand Prix F4 race in both 2020 and 2021 (behind Charles Leong), meaning local Macau drivers won the Macau Grand Prix single-seater main event three years running from 2020 to 2022. In 2021 he won the F4 Chinese Championship. Earlier he raced in the British F3 International Series (2014) and the FIA Formula 3 European Championship (2015–2016).
Charles Leong: the only local driver to win the Macau Grand Prix twice
Charles Leong
Charles Leong (梁瀚昭; registered name Hon Chio Leong) is a Macau racing driver, born 12 September 2001 in Macau. He won the Macau Grand Prix Formula 4 race in both 2020 and 2021, making him the only local driver to win the Macau Grand Prix twice (both in F4). In 2020 he took pole, the qualifying race and the main race. At the 2022 Macau Grand Prix F4 race he finished third (the winner was Andy Chang). In 2017 he was champion of both the F4 Chinese Championship and the Asian Formula Renault Series, and he previously competed in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship. In 2025 he won the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia Pro title with SJM Theodore Racing.
Tiago Rodrigues: the young Macau driver who won the 2023 F4 Chinese Championship
Tiago Rodrigues
Tiago Rodrigues (帝雅戈·洛迪古斯; full name Tiago Golovko Rodrigues) is a Macanese racing driver, born 19 June 2007 in Macau. In 2023 he won the F4 Chinese Championship with Champ Motorsport (7 race wins, 2 poles) and was invited to the FIA Prize Giving Ceremony held that year in Baku. He made his Macau Grand Prix debut in the 2023 Formula 4 race, finishing sixth in the final; in 2024 he contested the Macau Grand Prix Formula Regional race and retired (DNF) after a collision at Lisboa bend. He credits his early inspiration to fellow Macau driver André Couto, whose racing simulator he first tried at age 13. In 2025 he is competing in the F4 Middle East Championship with Evans GP. Note: he has not won the Macau Grand Prix (best result sixth, F4 2023); his title is the F4 Chinese Championship, a separate series.