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Meritorious race of Monje-Monje (Seat Leon)

15/11/2015

CER at the Circuit de Catalunya Barcelona.

After various problems arising from heavy traffic on the track and the difference in performance between the cars, the team of Ferran Monje and Fernando Monje (Seat León Cup Racer), father and son, have ended CER test played at the Circuit de Barcelona -Catalonia at the 14th absolute position of 48 participants, being clearly one of the fastest in the two phases that has made the race cars.

In both free practice on Saturday in the two qualifying sessions played this morning, both drivers found much traffic, agrabado by some off-track several pilots that prompted the appearance of red flag and with it the loss of rhythm to try set a good lap time. Yet Monk Monk's career would go 2 hours from the 8th row of the grid, with Ferran (father) and driving the strategy of keeping the Seat León Cup Racer # 61 in a similar position output ( 16th), taking care of drive mechanics and tires give the car to Fernando (son) that will carry out the second part of the race with the clear intention to recover as much ground as possible.
 
The output was really tumultuous and Monk received the impact of other cars, making the first lap in 30th position. The pilot of chic & basic starting from the moment a steady recovery, going up to 10 pilots in the next four laps. After a quarter hour of the race, it was 20th and Ferran and expectations remained for improvement. In the 9th round, Monk equaled his starting position, 16th, and leader of the group that had managed to hunt stood.
 
After half an hour of the race, although Monk was 15th for improvement they were already few, given the distance that separated him from his immediate predecessor, but on lap 16 another car slammed into his Leon, going off into the gravel. Ferran Monje managed to join the race but already very late, starting a new recovery marred in part by the appearance of the safety car, giving the car to his son on lap 20, where the winner of the previous quotation Open GT is rejoined at position 41.
 
From here, Fernando Monje staged a spectacular progress, overtaking slower cars and dodging, allowing you access to the 20th place in its rotation 36, about 35 minutes remaining. From here, still get rid of various vehicles, reaching 15th place when there was less than a quarter of an hour to finish accessing the 14th place on lap 51, 5 minutes to go, distanced operation in the then Third-placed Marcos De Diego, one of the fastest drivers in this phase and finishing the race in 14th position worked.

Fernando Monje (son): 'When competing in a race almost 50 cars is evident that problems arise and it is only a matter of luck whether or not you touch you. I'm happy because I could make a good performance although it is clear that the final position would reflect that. The point is that we have increased the experience and shown a good form, more next season! '.
 
Ferran Monje (father) 15 years ago had already evolved in the layout of MotoGP (4727 meters) by which today raced on that occasion with a Porsche 620 hp: 'This version has a curved track that very few Car drivers knew and has great difficulty to be very fast and cant have a counter, which has led to some departures, but certainly allows for faster entry into the home straight. Very interesting, really.'
 
The Monk played all the GSeries, the Speed â??â??Skating Championship in Andorra, which will run between January and February 2016.

 
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