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Ferrara takes the
double at Monza
SALVATORE TAVANO IS CROWNED CHAMPION BY 2.5 POINTS
Luigi Ferrara and his V-Action Alfa
Romeo Giulietta concluded the 2018
season of TCR Italy in style with a
double victory in the Monza finale, his
fourth and fifth wins of the season.
However, this was not enough for him
to prevent Salvatore Tavano from being
crowned champion after Saturday’s
Race 1, in which the SEAT Motorsport
Italia driver was rewarded with a fifth
place that mathematically secured the
title for him. In the final standings,
Tavano’s winning margin over Ferrara
was of just 2.5 points.
In Race 1, the Cupra of pole-sitter Igor
Stefanovski was beaten to Turn 1 by
Eric Scalvini’s Hyundai i30 N with
Tavano retaining the second place in
which he’d started. Ferrara started
from fourth on the grid and was
elevated to third when Stefanovski
went straight on at the Roggia
chicane. There was then contact
between Stefanovski and Tavano on lap
2, which allowed Ferrara to move up
into second place and Enrico Bettera
into fourth. Bettera’s Audi then passed
Tavano for third place on lap 4, which
is where Bettera would finish.
Two battles then developed – the first
between Scalvini and Ferrara for the
lead and the second a thrilling three-
way scrap involving the Cupra cars of
Stefanovski, Tavano and Andrea Larini.
Ferrara snatched the lead on lap 4 but
Scalvini stayed with him for several
laps until his challenge faded in the
closing stages. Both drivers received
five-second time penalties for
infringing track limits at Turn 4, as did
Bettera and Stefanovski.
Tavano continued to fight with Larini