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100 points up for grabs, two
meetings and just four races still to
go. The F.Renault 2.0 ALPS
competition enters the final straight
over the weekend of the 8th
September at the challenging and
highly technical Mugello circuit.
There are four drivers who still have
a mathematical chance of winning
the championship, although Kevin
Joerg, with 64 points, is no longer
realistically in the running. In fact,
even if he were to get to 164 points
by winning all four remaining races,
the Swiss Jenzer Motorsport driver
would have to rely on the highly
unlikely scenario of the current
leader Antonio Fuoco (159) failing to
score any more points, and neither
Bruno Bonifacio (138) nor Luca
Ghiotto (135) managing to
accumulate enough points to reach
164. Anything's possible in
motorsports, however realistically it’s
now down to the three Prema
Powertam drivers: Fuoco, Bonifacio
and Ghiotto, to decide the winner of
this year’s ALPS championship and
follow in the footsteps of last year’s
winner Daniil Kvat and the 2011
champion, Javier Tarancon.
Angelo Rosin’s drivers have won all
the races so far in Vallelunga, Imola,
Spa, Monza and Misano: four
victories for Fuoco, and three each
for Bonifacio and Ghiotto. So the in
the end the season has come down
to a sort of in-house competition for
Prema Powerteam, but it will be
interesting to see if any of the
season’s most promising young
drivers, such as Egor Orudzhev of
Tech 1 Racing, or Joerg, can
interrupt Prema Powerteam’s run of
victories in Mugello or Imola. In fact,
the Tuscan track is an unforgiving
one and provides the ideal setting
for a driver to showcase his true
quality, so it will be important to
keep a close eye not only on Fuoco,
Bonifacio and Ghiotto, but also on
the Jenzer Motorsport, Tech 1
Racing, ARTA Engineering, Euronova
Racing, GSK Grand Prix,
Interwetten.com, Koiranen GP, JD
Motorsport, BVM Racing, Viola
Formula, and TS Corse drivers, who
will all be doing their utmost to get
that elusive first place finish. So,
good luck to one and all and let’s get
this show on the road!
100 points still available
4 races to go
4 drivers with still in with
a mathematical chance
of winning the title
Ghiotto and Joerg on the podium in Misano
