Nilton Rossoni

Nilton 'Niltinho' Rossoni (Curitiba, April 21, 1981) is a former Brazilian racing driver who won the 2000 Barber Dodge Pro Series championship.

After winning karting championships in the Paraná and São Paulo regions the young driver graduated into single-seaters in 1997.

The sixteen-year-old raced in the Formula Chevrolet Brazil, a support series to the highly popular Stock Car Brasil.

[2] He returned the following year winning races at Road America and Homestead-Miami Speedway finishing sixth in the standings.

But as the economic crisis hit Brazil, his longtime sponsor Fox Distribuidora de Petróleo (owned by the Rossoni family) almost went bankrupt.