Alline Cipriani

Alline Cipriani is a Brazilian driver who races in both her home country and the USA. She won her class in the 2013 Brazilian Endurance Championship and the 2018 Chase for the Trigon Trophy. 

She began racing in 2011, after a serious injury ended her jetski racing career. She competed in the Audi DTCC (Driver Touring Car Cup) for two rounds, as well as trying out single-seaters in the shape of Formula Vee. 

She entered the whole DTCC Cup in 2012 and had two top-ten finishes, the best of these being an eighth place at Interlagos. She was eleventh in the championship. 

In 2013, she moved away from Audi power and acquired a Ford Focus, in which she competed in the Brazilian Endurance Championship. Partnering Adolpho Rossi Neto, she won the Class V championship outright. Had she had entered all four rounds, she would have helped her team-mates to a Class IV championship as well. As it stood, she was second in that class, with her team-mates as winners. She also raced in some rounds of the single-make Sprint Race series, finishing 19th in the championship.

In 2012, she and Adolpho, who are a couple, had shared a Volvo C30 for the Tarumã 12 Hours, which they managed to finish. Driving together again and with two further co-drivers, they were eighth in the 2013 Parana Endurance race, using a Volkswagen Gol.

Since 2013, Alline has been racing a Ginetta in endurance events in the USA, mostly those in the FARA series. She was a class winner in FARA in 2014 and 2015 and became a FARA Ambassador in the process.

Brazilian motorsport had not been forgotten completely. Alline was seventh in the 2014 Sprint Race championship, having completed two-thirds of the season. In 2015, she raced in the Mercedes-Benz Challenge in a C250. Her best finish in this one-make championship was seventh at Interlagos. 

She raced the Ginetta in the States again in 2016, making a guest appearance at Barber in the Pirelli World Challenge. Her best result was a fifteenth place; the weekend was wet and she had not qualified well. She did better in FARA events and ended the year vice-champion in the series.  

After taking some time out to have her son, she raced again in the States in 2018, winning the Chase For The Trigon Trophy TA3 series. Her car was a Ginetta G55 sponsored by Ginetta USA. Her particular class win was a first for a female driver and the first for a Brazilian in an American series.

She raced once more for Ginetta in her home country in 2020. The Stillux Ginetta team entered a G55 GT4 into the Imperio Endurance Brasil series. Alline competed at Sao Paulo, Goiania and Curitiba, but did not manage to finish a race.

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