eRacing Magazine Vol 1. Issue 10 | Page 29

FR: There is no formal agreement, but I know more or less things that don't make sense for me to say. It's not about an opinion. I try to get away from certain topics like political stuff and not much about being a vegetarian. I have reasons to not eat meat but I never post about it. Some things that may cause division that I decide not to go in to it.

DC: It's not worth starting a division when they seem to be so happy to see your posts.

FR: When you post something, it always causes an immediate response. Sometimes you say something without thinking, it becomes part of the whole. You can post and say sorry, but it will never fix the whole thing. You have to be careful - thinking twice.

DC: You do have to think twice when you're already posting in two languages! (English and Brazilian Portuguese)

FR: I wanted to post in French - I was racing in a french team, and I used to live in Paris so I wanted to post in French as well - but it takes long to make sure it's a proper translation. I have a friend in China who posts my posts in Chinese on a social network and a Fernando Rees network there.

DC

How was it leaving Brazil? Did you still have a lot of support when leaving to Europe?

FR

In Brazil, you have stock car racing, it's the most famous kind of racing. Because I'm doing something else, elsewhere, Brazil tends to focus more on what is happening in Brazil. I'm not so well known in my home country. I was racing before at the Le Mans series in Europe, we didn't have many races in South America. Now with the WEC, we have a race in Brazil, so people start to know this type of race better, who's racing there, so things have changed in the last couple of years. People that follow only what's happening in Brazil, they start to follow me and get to know what I'm doing in other races. They get to know me, things I did in the past - this Brazilian guy, raced for 15 years abroad, and all kinds of racing, never heard about him and how come?