Autosport has occasionally ridden in an Uber with a driver who believed they had missed their calling as a racing driver. But it’s not often that the individuals in question had a valid case. Rewind back to 2015 however, and that was the scenario facing Nicolas Costa, now racing for McLaren partner team United Autosports in the World Endurance Championship.
The Brazilian was – for a second time – facing the prospect of his racing dreams hitting a dead end. He’d rebounded from losing his biggest sponsor after winning the 2012 Formula Abarth championship to get back in a single-seater and in 2014 won a race in Pro Mazdas (now called USF Pro 2000) one rung below Indy Lights on the Road To Indy ladder. But hopes of building on that momentum in a second full season came to naught.
