TCR World and life

Round 6 – Sunday 6 October, Mugello Circuit 1. R. Dall’Antonia/S. Piccin (BF Motorsport, CUPRA); 2. M. Pellegrini/S. Vullo (BD Racing, CUPRA); 3. R. Gurrieri/E. Scalvini (VW Customer Racing, Volkswagen Golf GTI) win in the Qualifying race with title contender Barri alongside him. Giovanni Altoè, was at the back of the field because he had gone off the track during the first lap of the Qualifying race with broken suspension. Most of the teams pitted twice while the safety car was leading the field after the start. The actual racing began after forty minutes with Lorenzo Marcucci in the lead. However, after a few minutes Edoardo Necchi spun and 34 DSG ENDURANCE Giovanni and Alessandro Altoè – uncle and nephew – secured the inaugural TCR DSG Endurance title as they finished seventh at the end of a disrupted final race at Mugello. Their rivals in the title fight, Giacomo Barri and Ermanno Dionisio were classified sixth and so recovered only two points out of the 14-point gap they had from the leaders. The race victory went to Romy Dall’Antonia and Samuele Piccin in the BF Motorsport CUPRA; Marco Pellegrini and Simone Vullo finished a close second and Eric Scalvini and Raffaele Gurrieri completed the podium. The results were influenced by several long safety car periods. The first forty minutes were neutralized because of thick fog, then the safety car was deployed again twice following race incidents. Cosimo Barberini sat on pole after his Giovanni and AlessandroAltoè securethetitle the safety car was deployed again. When action resumed, Barri overtook Giovanni Altoè for P8. The safety car came back into action after Riccardo Ruberti’s CUPRA remained stranded in the gravel and the green flag was waved with 43 minutes left. Roberto Olivo led the field while Barri and Altoè moved up into second and third, nearly a full lap behind. Alessandro Altoé continued following Barri until the 29th lap, when he lost third place to Dall’Antonia. Olivo pitted for refuelling with 30 minutes to go and Barri inherited the lead, but three minutes later he pitted with a flat front tyre and Altoè followed him to change his front tyres. Dall’Antonia was then the new leader ahead of Pellegrini; Scalvini passed Giulio Bensi for P3, while Barri overtook Alessandro Altoè for P6, but could not prevent him from clinching the title.