About Luis Derani

Luís Felipe "Pipo" Derani (born 12 October 1993 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian race car driver, who is currently driving a Cadillac DPI-V.R for Whelen Engineering Racing in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and is an overall winner of the 2016 24 Hours of Daytona and the 2016 , 2018 and 2019 12 Hours of Sebring. Pipo is son of the late Walter Derani and younger brother of Rafael Derani, both well known Brazilian racing drivers.
Derani made his karting debut in 2003, at the age of ten. In 2005 he was champion of the São Paulo Junior Menor Championship.