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Fernando Monje returns to the GT as a member of the official team McLaren

21/10/2015

In the final round of the International GT Open, with Andrew Watson as a teammate and aboard a GT3 650S.

Fernando Monje, which was proclaimed in 2012 aged 19 European Touring Car Champion and won the Cup for Spain FIA Nations reappear in competition within the last scoring event for the International GT Open, to be held on 31 October and November 1st in Barcelona Circuit de Catalunya. And it will do in the best way possible, with a 650S GT3 official team McLaren, with Andrew Watson as a partner and encompassed in the structure of the leadership team of the event, Teo Martin, who the family McLaren GT joined this 2015 with Alvaro Parente and Miguel Ramos, pilots are on top.

With this inscription, in the race down the curtain of the International GT Open will be two teams with official seal Top McLaren. The opportunity comes you Fernando Monje as evidence with a view to the 2016 season and for their participation will have all the official structure of McLaren in the Grand Touring they bring this unit together with Barcelona's lead Watson (who already competed in Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium). Andrew Watson is part of the new program emerged Youth saga McLaren GT. According to Fernando, 'both limited and we will not have to search for the best result on a track for my well-known and at the wheel of a machine for Andrew and tested, so that their advice will come to me very well. "

Do not leave ignore that, after leaving the (European and global) cars, Monk has competed several times aboard a Gran Turismo and the results have always been quite remarkable. 'However, at this meeting I will not have time to test drive the vehicle until the Thursday before the -expone handicap races like the Spanish. That day we will have a half hour private test, 90 minutes I have to make the most with all indications, very experienced team, since Friday October 30 and start the free practice sessions regulations'.
 
Traveling to Thailand where this weekend will perform its role as team manager in the structure of Adrian Campos in TCR International Series (Buriram, penultimate), Fernando Monje thinks before this great opportunity before it: 'I am very motivated by the Martin Teo confidence and super happy that the McLaren team official register a second unit in this race with a bucket for me. Normally, in the last meeting of each championship it is where draws conclusions and discusses options to meet next season, so I will be one hundred per thousand during the meeting. Driving a GT is not easy but I have experience and I hope to make it flourish; with a little luck we can get a great result and if possible to help Parente-Ramos, great masters, so the role of Andrew and mine can become decisive 'sentence.

These are times in which will focus the last round of the International GT Open at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya.
 
Friday, October 30:
-Sesiones Free training at 13h and 4:40 p.m. (1 hour each)
 
Saturday, October 31:
-Qualifying 1 for all categories at 11:05 a.m. (30 minutes)
-First Race at 16:00 (70 minutes, with live TV)
 
Sunday, November 1:
-Qualifying 2 for all categories at 9:40 a.m. (30 minutes)
-Second Race 14.00 (60 minutes, with live TV)
 
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