During his work as track secretary at the Estoril circuit in 2002, he was asked to lead the FIA GT and ETCC Championship for a season, a role he retained until the end of 2009.
[8][9] Freitas and Niels Wittich replaced him, splitting the role as race directors, with Herbie Blash acting as their "Permanent Senior Advisor".
[10] At the 2022 Japanese Grand Prix, a race directed by Freitas, there was a great controversy in which a recovery vehicle went out on the track to pick up Carlos Sainz's car - who had had an accident - in wet conditions and without all the drivers regrouped.
Despite the fact that the FOM did not show these images live, they were leaked on social networks, and several drivers spoke out against the action of the race director.
[11] Finally, on the weekend of the United States Grand Prix, the FIA admitted the mistakes made in Japan and announced that Eduardo Freitas would not be the race director again in 2022, leaving the position solely to Niels Wittich.