Fernando Monje not participate in the fifth round counting towards the FIA â??â??World Touring Car Championship (WTCC), which this weekend will be held at Hungaroring (Budapest). The reason for the absence is because he is awaiting the arrival of a new motor supplied by SEAT Sport to install on your SR Leon 1.6T competitive with competing in this championship. The WTCC races allow Monk to make kilometers, gathering experience and knowledge in this new specialty circuits faced in 2012, while thoroughly preparing their main goal this season: win the title European cars (ETCC).

For this reason, the next appearance of Fernando Monje in the global specialty is in the Portuguese Algarve speedway (2 and 3 June), as quoted in Austrian Salzburgring (19 and 20 May) will also play two ETCC races, championship preferred so will focus exclusively on them. Following the appointment of this past weekend at the Ring Slovakia (Slovak Republic), Fernando is in the second continental championship provisional cars, 1 single point of the current leader, the Swiss Peter Rikli (Honda Civic), a Veteran pilot usual discipline.

The campaign is conducting a pilot sponsored by Barcelona in the European Finance GBS is remarkable: He has scored two wins out of four possible, two poles of two, and two fastest laps. In Slovakia, engine problems led to Monk could not finish the second race and finished 12 th the first, losing a leadership priority now is to obtain the title back.

This high season Fernando will also help to engage more strongly to their university commitments with the other his course, the economy and finance (IQS-ADE), a highlight of the academic year, another reason for the has rejected the team compete in Hungary. Even with his desire to consolidate rapidly in the new discipline, Fernando must wait for the third round of the ETCC to re-take the wheel.

Provisional classification of ETCC after the second of four events
1-Fernando Monje (Spain / Seat Leon TDi), 27 points
2-Peter Rikli (Switzerland / Honda Civic FD), 27 points
3-Petr Fulin (Czech Republic / BMW 320si E90), 20 points
4-Michal Matejovsky (Czech Republic / Seat Leon TDi), 20 points
5-Feren Ficza (Hungary / Alfa Romeo 156), 19 points