The Entre Ríos driver
Mariano Werner
(Ford) took advantage this Sunday of the abandonment of the Buenos Aires native
Matías Rossi
(Toyota) in the closing section of the race and was left with the victory in the final of
Turismo Carretera
(TC), which took place in the city of Viedma, for the first date of the 2023 season of the most important category of Argentine motorsport.
The 34-year-old pilot from Paraná had achieved pole position, but came in second place in the competition held at the Río Negro racetrack with 4,118 meters of rope.
When lap number 21 of the 25 planned was completed, the native of Del Viso who was leading the classification suffered an unexpected 'puncture' in his engine, which caused his automatic abandonment with the unit of the Japanese brand.
In this way, Werner was left with the way clear to take the victory, in an accumulated time of 41m.
09s.
667/1000, at an average of 150.069 kilometers per hour.
Mariano Werner triumphed on the first date of Road Tourism in Viedma.
Photo: ACTC Press.
The champion in the 2020 and 2021 seasons obtained his 22nd win in ?teceista?
and equaled the line of the emblematic
Carlos Alberto Pairetti
, who died last year, after having dazzled with the 'Orange Thunder', back in the '60s.
Werner, winner of the Viedma race in 2021, led by 5s.
514/1000 to the guard, the Buenos Aires native from Lobería
Jonatan Castellano
(Dodge).
In third position, after good competition, Juan Tomás Catalán Magni
(Ford) from the reef qualified
, 11s behind.
633/1000.
"The truth? We inherited the race. He (for Rossi) had a superior unit and was ready to win," the Paraná native acknowledged in the microphones of 'Campeones' (AM 590 Radio Continental).
The reference is specific.
Because the 'Missile' Rossi came out better accommodated in the curves, with more acceleration and so it was that -during the middle section of the competition- he jumped from third to first place, successively beating Julián Santero from Mendoza (he left on lap 11 with
a
problem in the gearbox) and to
Werner
.
"Matías (Rossi) made me make mistakes because he was going very fast, he demanded me in all sectors," the man from Entre Ríos honestly confessed, who has been winning uninterruptedly -at least one- TC races since the 2011 edition.
Uruguayan
Mauricio Lambiris
(Ford) completed a very good performance and finished fourth, 13s behind.
663/1000, while Rivera native
Germán Todino
(Dodge) finished fifth, 14s behind.
998/1000.
The sixth place corresponded to
Marcelo Agrelo
(Dodge) from Chubut;
Quilmeño
Esteban Gini
(Torino) was seventh and the experienced
Christian Ledesma
(Chevrolet) from Mar del Plata had to settle for eighth place.
Santiago Álvarez
(Dodge), born in the town of Ferré, finished in ninth position, while
Elio Craparo
(Dodge), from Buenos Aires, from Chacabuco, finished in tenth place, after fighting for fourth position with
Castellano
and
Catalán .
magni
.
The defending champion,
José Manuel Urcera
(Torino) from Rio Negro, designed an excellent race from the bottom.
The number 1 started in position 53 (he was penalized for a touch in the series towards Martín Vázquez) and finished fourteenth.
The work of Gastón Mazzacane
(Chevrolet) from La Plata was also meritorious
, who started in the 40th.
position and finished thirteenth.
The championship positions were as follows: Werner 47 points;
Spanish 41.5;
Catalan Magni 38;
Lambiris 34;
Add it 33.5;
Todino 32.5;
Gini 30.5;
Alvarez 30;
Ledesma and Craparo 29.5.
The next race will be on Sunday, March 5 at the Parque Provincia de Neuquén racetrack.
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