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How a former King of WTCR is helping Goodyear #FollowTheLeader Azcona
The 2022 WTCR − FIA World Touring Car Cup resumes at Vallelunga in Italy later this week (July 22-24) with the title race finely balanced following the recent visit to Portugal for some classic round-the-houses racing Vila Real style. Having won three times this season, Spain’s Mikel Azcona is the Goodyear #FollowTheLeader with a 16-point title advantage. Driving a Hyundai Elantra TCR for Italian outfit BRC Racing Team, the 26-year-old has previous Autodromo Vallelunga Piero Taruffi knowledge to count on − and a vastly experienced colleague to look to for support.
Podium goal for Hyundai Motorsport in Vallelunga
Hyundai Motorsport N will seek to compete for pole positions and victories as the team tries for its first 2022 King of the Weekend podium at this weekend’s fifth round of the FIA ETCR eTouring Car World Cup, Race IT. The squad returns to Autodromo Vallelunga, where it hopes to build on its recent gains in form and secure a podium finish.
Huff on a high in WTCR Trophy
Rob Huff, who won Race 2 outright at WTCR Race of Portugal earlier this month, is on a high in the WTCR Trophy for independent racers after he moved into a 36-point advantage with his seventh category win from eight starts in Vila Real. The class for drivers with no financial backing from a manufacturer was introduced in 2020 and lists Jean-Karl Vernay and Gilles Magnus as its title winners to date.
WTCR Race of Italy did you know?
With Autodromo Vallelunga Piero Taruffi gearing up to host WTCR Race of Italy from July 22-24 here are some fast facts. *Vallelunga, located 40 kilometres north of the Italian capital Rome, staged its first race in 1951 and is named in honour of Piero Taruffi, the Mille Miglia road racer who was the track’s principal design engineer. Ad/> *It has played host to international and national-level competition over the past half-century and last June was the setting of the inaugural PURE ETCR event, which has become the FIA ETCR eTouring Car World Cup for 2022.
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