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Fernando Monje: Goal accomplished in China and looking in Macau

04/11/2012

Fernando Monje will return to Barcelona with much experience gathered after his participation in the penultimate event of the FIA World Touring Car Championship, which has occupied the Shanghai International Circuit in China from Thursday until today.

The mission is fulfilled: learn a new track so that next season the touring car world has few secrets for the current European champion. All circuits since the pilot have been incorporated into the specialty Queen with bodywork vehicles are completely new for him and it is necessary to this process of immersion that Fernando Monje is making in record time, given that as soon end this campaign, within fifteen days with the 59th Macau Grand Prix, the 2013 season will start córrer.

Today the two races which has hosted the Grand Prix circuit have been helpful for the pilot of the Tuenti Racing Team in terms of experience and miles behind the wheel of the Seat León WTCC prepared by Sunred Engineering. Monje yesterday was the 16th best Chrono and regretted not being able to classify for Q2 that access only the 10 best times of the first batch. "That was our goal, to overcome the cut, and I fell to one-tenth;" and at the end everything was a bad strategy. We had not warmed the used set of tyres and I lost 8 minutes in the box to not have to newcomers... And when I left like I missed a little bit of confidence... We had a good pace, with even a 7th best Chrono in the second round of free during all trials. "Adapt to the track was fast and already was that we would," said Fernando.

Thus, since half of the grill, monk came today to race fast but in turn 8 of the 13 that comprised the test a rival has hit you destroying the rim and tire and already running out of competition. In the second, everything was going well and Fernando managed to climb two positions, but in the last third of career a problem with fuel injection pump caused the vehicle to rateara again losing both seats and ending as it began: 16 th.

The Tuenti Racing Team, Pepe Oriola, teammate to Fernando Monje always help it can for team strategy, lived a race to forget in the first stages a hard blow that missed their aspirations of a good performance, despite to leave the second line of the grid in the final race to fret, but with car very touched because in this contest mechanics have few minutes to repair the effects arising from the first to the second test.

The team will return tomorrow to Barcelona and Fernando will start all the preparations to deal with a very hard last appointment on your calendar, and that requires great concentration and a great physical condition, two aspects of GBS finance works hard to achieve their goals. Participation in the complicated urban circuit of Macau will be the last great challenge of the 2012 season (15-18 November).

 
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