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Salvatore Tavano completes a double in incident packed second Monza race
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Scuderia del Girasole driver Salvatore Tavano made the most of a race with three safety car interventions to claim his second victory of the season opener at Monza at the wheel of his Cupra Leon Competición.
Sunny skies and a dry track welcomed the TCR Italy field for Sunday’s Race 2, with ALM Motorsport’s Mattias Vahtel, at the wheel of a Honda Civic Type-R TCR, on the reversed grid pole position.
At the start Vathel kept the lead, with Jonathan Giacon, driving a Honda Civic Type-R TCR from Tecnodom Sport, and Antti Buri, with a Hyundai i30 N TCR from Target Competition, coming side-by-side at Turn 1, with the Finn going straight but not giving up attacking the leader at La Roggia.
Matteo Poloni will embark on a second season in TCR Italy in 2021 after agreeing a deal to stick with the Race Lab team. Poloni joined the grid last season in an Audi RS 3 LMS DSG, taking a best finish of sixth in the season opener at Mugello and ending the year in 15th … More »