 In 2009 he and the team saw their first win at their home track in Curitiba, unfortunately the lack of better performances due to mechanical failures hurt their fight in the championship and he could only finish the season again in the ninth place.For 2010 and 2011 season's he continued to race with his own team in South America Formula 3 and was able to get another 2 wins (at Londrina in 2010 and Rio de Janeiro in 2011) and more podiums finishes, but unfortunately poor reliability meant that again he would finish the championship way behind the main contenders .During the 2012 season he was in contention for the title until the first race of the last round when he suffered a mechanical problem and didn't finish the race, confirming the title for that year champion Fernando "Kid" Rezende, he dropped to 3rd place overall in the last race, his best championship result in the series standings.