first win of the season for the team VRM! Race : Business Championship Series Round 1 6 hours of Monza.
Location: Autodromo di Monza (parking lot of the "dish".
Date: June 21, 2008.
Pilots : Vieri Lorenzo, David Montoro, Marco Mapelli, Stefano Gai.
Pit lane : Emanuele Sala, David Landolfo.
Team Manager: Lorenzo Vieri.
Finally, after Jesolo and Pomposa, comes the long awaited victory for the team VRM during the 6 hours of Monza, the first round of the Business Series BIREL.
Practice During the 60 minutes of practice, the team remained consistently in the top 5 absolute positions and, after becoming acquainted with the track, he set the fastest time with David Montoro, who has trimmed almost only 6 laps 8 / 10 second chronograph clocked by "Aurora Insurance". In the race, particularly given the consistency and the closeness between the time of the pilots, there was optimism, but the opponents would prove far easier to beat in both races.
Qualifications
15 minutes to make a single lap. The coldness and the skill of the pilot measured in these cases. Pole is designated for David Montoro, the fastest team. After waiting for the last 3 minutes to get on track since the traffic of the first moments of the session, David did not betray the expectations and takes a resounding pole trimming the runner 9 / 10. A real blow to the whole paddock. So VRM would leave in the first row in front of everyone in Game 1, having the ability to have advantage from the start on all rivals.
Race 1
The first race in 3 hours part auspiciously, it succeeds Stefano Gai to just get a good margin (about 6 seconds) on the whole group of followers after a few laps but unfortunately is dubbed into other areas of the runway complex to overcome, they also did not give way and then the gap that was created to zero since the "Kayak" We do not runs over but managed remotely. After 20 minutes of the race arrives on the first stop & go. "Overtaking when yellow flags" that's the charge of race control. After serving his penalty, back on track to almost a sixth round by the first. But with the driver change and the arrival of David Montoro music for the team changes: the sound of fast laps back in half an hour from sixth to second, catching 40''to the leader and taking in its discharges. E ' Mapelli's turn, taking advantage of a stop & go for "kayak" is gaining a lot back in the lead on his pursuers. We're almost an hour and a half race, and between yellow flags and safety car, VRM acquired a margin of 30''on the second overall while kayak sinks in ninth place after the collapse of the rear spoiler of his kart. Here comes again Montoro on the track that makes the fastest time trial ever in a race (53.414) and get to dub all opponents. So VRM to 30 'from the end of the race has a great advantage but an error of Mapes (contact with an opponent) makes us a stop & go and then the safety car resets the margin we had by the pursuers, having split during our penalty. So we have here in the last 5 'of the race with just two seconds ahead of "VRK", but David Montoro maintains the coolness that distinguishes it from competitive and always manages to bring the kart to the finish line first. Follow "VRK" and "Kayak" which has now climbed to third place to the sound of fast laps.
Race 2
A rule that characterizes this beautiful season is starting in Game 2 on arrival in the reverse order of race 1. VRM with Marco Mapelli and then has the task of tracing the heels of last position and his competition. Marco part very well, in fact, already after The second is 12 minutes but failed to keep pace with "Kayak" which closes the first round of riding with about 10 'ahead of VRM, but after the driver change when you thought it could emulate Montoro just got a notice and report the team leading the race, the unthinkable happens: the engine of the explosion and subsequent kart pit stop for repairs. The race now seems compromised. VRM falls to fifth place with more than 1 turn from "Kayak" still in the lead, but still Montoro, to the sound of fast laps, including the best lap of the event (52.681) fails to report as the first kart in second place going into the space of "kayak". In addition, a safety car that goes in front of your leader, brings us back to 12 seconds of the lead. Enthusiasm is a thousand, you can win race 2. But two other questions make us stop and go back far behind the leader, but also the second position would have done the same by virtue of the victory points gained previously. So is that Marco Mapelli Stefano Gai manage the position and the last session is made by Lorenzo Vieri, who manages with difficulty to bring home a vital second place. Beautiful end of the race with four riders together to make the lap of honor on the kart for the entire circuit, with the clutch in the end we gave up on fire in the pits.
Conclusion
The happiness that we experienced at the checkered flag was indescribable, the first victory will be unforgettable feelings are indescribable, a dream come true, a team "neophyte" who can take this dell'endurance great victory. I wanted to thank our sponsors Marcello Landolfo, owner of the company Tack System, which allowed us through his efforts to play in this league of economic and reaching this important result. A big thanks to the team that Beretta has "fed and watered with its products throughout the event. At Jesolo We promised to repay in some way!. A warm thank you to the first VRM fans who have come to Monza to support us and share with us the emotions of this victory. Finally
permanently insert into the post, I received an email from Mark, our supporter, after the victory yesterday.
Here it is: A
wish come true ... and how much to call it? Maybe now they will be still sleeping
the aftermath of the festivities, but in cold blood will understand that he also wrote them a piece of history ..
a piece of history on the asphalt of the temple of speed par excellence, where great champions have their names engraved in our memory, and where large houses have written pages of history is legendary.
ok, ok ... I know that the track was not the same ... I know that the cars did not come from them nor from Arese Maranello ...
but the emotions are the same!
are well aware of this and the four team champions VRM - Tack System.
from fans and enthusiasts are quite proud of the result that our pilots have achieved. The championship
"Business Endurance Kart series" has already found its protagonists, rival and now must stay tuned because we all know that "he who begins well is already half done!".
Meeting in Round 2 to Jesolo.
A "good luck" to our pilots, and
still a "good guys" for victory in Monza.
Marco.
soon
Lorenzo Vieri
