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31/07/2013

The WTCC returns to action this weekend in another new circuit for pilots: Termas de Rio Hondo, Argentina.

The FIA â??â??World Touring Car Championship 2013 return to activity after a month off for the drivers involved in it, including the Chic & Basic Spanish, Fernando Monje (Seat Leon WTCC). The first round of the five remaining to finish the campaign will take place in Argentina, at the Autodromo Termas de Rio Hondo in Santiago del Estero, 2 to August 4.

This is a track where the world premieres, international test whose route was redesigned this year. With 14 corners and nearly 5 miles in length, the Argentine racetrack will file a little differences between the drivers, since never before had rolled WTCC cars in it, but the track record is for a Chevrolet, also marks dominating in this specialty.
Given these 'hardships', Fernando Monje gaucho country goes to the very motivated and eager to rethread the needle Yokohama Drivers' Trophy, an event in which militates with Campos Racing team. 'This year we have participated in many tests that were totally new to us, so this handicap does not scare me. Landing is time, quickly adapt and be positive to try to always make the best of the performances. Toned is a track in which the Seat Leon can be quick and we will bring a car that fits the up the path, 'said the pilot of Grandvalira.

Argentina will be the first race of the five remaining and the first of two that will visit the American continent, to which Fernando Monje back next month for the Sonoma race, this time to the north, in the United States, near San Francisco . 'I stressed to my travel-explains-, the pressure I have on the track, which is where you have to prove you're good in a most demanding championship.
Our goal is to score in both races to win positions in a championship in which I am 9 and I have 9 points 7th place ... In fact aspire to score in the ten races remaining to close the year since, despite the difficulty presented by the paths, which will follow Argentina and are not unknown to me.'

The activity of the WTCC in this event will pass with five hours of difference to our country. After the 30-minute test that the FIA â??â??will allow the Friday, August 2, from 18.30 to 19.00, Saturday and Sunday activity will these times, always taking Spain basis:

Saturday, August 3
14.30-15.00h 17.00-17.30h â?¢ Free Trials
20.45-9:20 p.m. â?¢ Rating

Sunday, August 4
â?¢ Warm Up 14.00-14.15 h
7:20 p.m. â?¢ Race 1 (11 laps)
9:20 p.m. â?¢ Race 2 (11 laps)

 
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