Roberto Moreno: How to get to F1 without money

Roberto Moreno took to the stage at AUTOSPORT International to share his career memories, from sleeping in his car to help fund Formula Ford races to the Formula 1 podium

European open-wheel racing has long tapped into Brazil as a source of drivers, but very few of them have flown across the Atlantic without a healthy chequebook stashed in their carry-on luggage.

Roberto Moreno is one of the rare exceptions, having being talked into racing in Britain by Nelson Piquet despite having no money and never having raced anything larger than a kart.