Why the success of AVB's WRC debut won't be defined on the stages
Three years after a Dakar Rally crash resulted in him being airlifted to hospital, Andre Villas-Boas is preparing to make his debut on his home round of the World Rally Championship later this month. His goals for the event are modest, but the same cannot be said for the charities he plans to promote where his true impact could be felt
When it comes to football in the Villas-Boas family, Porto is the team everyone unites behind. But when it comes to motorsport, that togetherness starts to fray around the edges – and it is the doing of two men. The same two men who shaped Andre Villas-Boas’s love of cars.
The father of the future Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur manager, Luis Filipe Manuel, introduced him to Formula 1 aged 11 and, as a youngster, Villas-Boas made regular visits to Estoril to witness the greats of that period – Prost, Senna, Mansell and Berger – going wheel-to-wheel at the Portuguese Grand Prix. His uncle Pedro on the other hand was more of a rally raid man.
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