Anticipation heats up in Vallelunga…

Welcome to Autodromo Vallelunga Piero Taruffi for the fifth round of the FIA ETCR eTouring Car World Cup, Race IT, in the glorious Regione Lazio. Friday means practice day and all drivers have taken to the scorching hot track whilst some amongst them were lucky enough to get some press conference action too. Scroll on to hear and read their thoughts ahead of Race IT.

Ad/> First order of the day was the all-important Draw, deciding who will belong to Pool FAST and Pool FURIOUS this weekend and ensuring plenty of exciting head-to-heads for Saturday and Sunday. FIA ETCRFIA ETCR returns to the beginning to race for tomorrow34 MINUTES AGO Featuring Maxime Martin, Adrien Tambay and Jean-Karl Vernay in part one, and Jordi Gené, Giovanni Venturini and Nicky Catsburg in part two, here is the press conference. That’s not everyone though, let’s hear from the entire field after Day 1 of Race IT; quotes from all FIA ETCR drivers incoming below.

CUPRA EKS Mattias Ekström All right a very good day and from the first moment, very good feeling in the car, had solid lap times, no mistakes and yeah just trying to nail the perfect lap is the name of the game for tomorrow… Jordi Gené Reasonable pace today; the car feels quite good. Bit tricky on tyre temperatures, but I think that’s the same for everyone. We’re going to be really close but I’m happy that at least this time I have the right pace since the very beginning so doesn’t look bad for the weekend.

Adrien Tambay Basically we started the weekend in the in the right way with P1 in Free Practice. Quite a bit of work to do to get the best feeling and everything right for qualifying tomorrow as it’s gonna be a big challenge. Very warm temperatures and the tyres are boiling so we’ll have to