TEAM DALVA...recovering traditions.

Posted by C.daSILVA / at Tuesday, September 06, 2011 / /

DALVA´s cocktail party at the river front

2th of June 2011… at the sunset, in the riverfront, near to C. da Silva wine shop, we promoted a cocktail party with the DALVA Dry white and the Rosé, for the TEAM DALVA.


C. da Silva is sponsoring a racing team in the Fiat Uno national championship.


DALVA´s racing car

Motor racing has been a family (C. da Silva) tradition since the late sixties...

Clemente Ribeiro da Silva (Mr. C. da Silva´s son) was born in 1943, a very creative person, he revealed since his youth a innate ability to draw, aware of this ability, Clemente Ribeiro da Silva, known for his nickname “Kiko”… began to design his favourite racing cars.

In the late sixties, a dream became true,  Kiko started racing.

But it was in 1971 that Kiko started to become well known to the big audience, being  4th in the national championship, driving a Datsun 1200, and sponsored by DALVA.

Because of this amazing initiation, Kiko raced for TEAM DALVA, with many other racing cars, like…Toyota Corolla 1200 S KE20; Opel Commodore GS/E; Mini cooper; Porsche Carrera RSR and Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV.

In 1977 on the wheel of an Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV, Kiko ran in a unlucky race, in Estoril.

Mechanical problems forced him to park the car near to the finish line, he has waited next to the rail till all competitors crossed the finish line.

"Kiko" da Silva at the wheels of an Opel Commodore GS/E 

The winner of this 500km race in Estoril was the Italian Humberto Grano driving a BMW 3.0 CSL, that because of a breakdown in the alternator was racing without lights, Humberto didn´t see the finish line flag and was still in race mode, due to this, Kiko crossed the race track and the worst happened.

A unusual accident in the national motoring.

A visionary, a friend… a great pilot.

Now recovering another tradition, C. da Silva is back to the racing tracks…

Gonçalo Devesas