🏳️ Manuel Gil del Real

Manuel Gil del Real is a competitive amateur racing in national multiclass sprint championships across the United States. He races NASA's American Stock Car and Super Unlimited classes, drives for Paradaime Performance Engineering in the Porsche Sprint Challenge USA West 992 M class, and competes in SVRA's Group 10 class. His career spans eight seasons from 2004 to the present.[1]

Across 56 starts, Gil del Real has taken 5 wins and 27 podiums. His longest tenure came in NASA from 2004 to 2011, where he scored 2 wins and 16 podiums in 42 starts for ASC. He returned to national racing in 2024 with SVRA, where he has won once and taken four podiums across four rounds in 2025, finishing 15th in the championship standings. His current season in Porsche Sprint Challenge USA West began in 2026 with 2 wins and 4 podiums from 6 starts for Paradaime Performance Engineering.[2]

Gil del Real races regularly against drivers at his own level, closely matched with NASA regulars Michael Arnheiter and David Arnheiter, a 2003 NASA American Stock Car champion. His record against stronger professional competition is limited to isolated meetings; he has beaten a professional with eight NASCAR Xfinity starts on one occasion and an entry-level professional who has contested 36 ARCA Menards West rounds once.