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roby76it · 19-04-2004

ALFA ROMEO DRIVERS IN A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

After the fierce battle between Alfa Romeo and BMW in Monza, the second meeting of the 2004 FIA European Touring Car Championship turned to an all-Alfa parade. Since the qualifying session, AutoDelta drivers Gabriele Tarquini, Fabrizio Giovanardi and Augusto Farfus were in a league of their own. And in today’s races they easily scored two triplets in a dominating style. Tarquini and Giovanardi finished first and second in the first race, and encored in the second, though in reverse order, while Farfus claimed two third positions.

In vain the rest of the field desperately tried to counter the Alfa’s triumphal march. The BMW men had to settle for the positions from fourth onwards. As for SEAT, which was expected to claim some good results on its home track, couldn’t be more unlucky, with all the three Toledo Cupra cars out of the Race 1.

More promising results were achieved by Honda, Ford and Peugeot. Especially the RS-Line Ford Focus showed a radical progress after Monza, while Jan Magnussen in the newcomer Peugeot was recovering positions before being involved in an collision during the second race.

Alfa Romeo drivers dominated also the Independent Trophy: Oregon Team’s Salvatore Tavano scored two brilliant successes, and his team-mate Luca Rangoni recovered from the back of the field to second in Race 2.

The Championship will be now heading to Magny-Cours with Tarquini leading the Drivers’ Championship, two points ahead of Giovanardi and 6 of Jörg Müller. In the Manufacturers’ Championship Alfa Romeo leads from BMW by 7 points.

race 1

1- Gabriele Tarquini - AutoDelta - Alfa Romeo 156 TS - 22'28.346
2- Fabrizio Giovanardi - AutoDelta - Alfa Romeo 156 TS - + 1.482
3- Augusto Farfus - AutoDelta - Alfa Romeo 156 TS - + 3.859
4- Andy Priaulx - BMW Team Great Britain - BMW 320i - + 5.809
5- Dirk Müller - BMW Team Deutschland - BMW 320i - + 7.878
6- Jörg Müller - BMW Team Deutschland - BMW 320i - + 13.471
7- Antonio García - BMW Team Italy-Spain - BMW 320i - + 14.622
8- Salvatore Tavano - Oregon Team - Alfa Romeo 156 Gta - + 23.083
9- Alessandro Zanardi - BMW Team Italy-Spain - BMW 320i 13 22:52.388 24.042
10- Tom Coronel - Carly Motors - BMW 320i - + 26.779
11- Jan Magnussen - Peugeot Sport Denmark - Peugeot 307 Gti - + 30.534
12- Alessandro Balzan - JAS Motorsport - Honda Civic Type-R - + 33.315
13- Thomas Klenke - RS-Line - Ford Focus ST170 - + 36.628
14- Stefano D´Aste - Proteam - BMW 320i 13 23:05.745 37.399
15- Simon Harrison - GR Asia - Honda Civic Type-R - + 50.557
16- Toni Ruokonen - GR Asia - Honda Civic Type-R - + 50.887
17- Carl Rosenblad - Crawford Racing - BMW 320i - + 54.129
18- Paulien Zwart - Carly Motors - BMW 320i - + 54.916
19- Luca Rangoni - Oregon Team - Alfa Romeo 156 Gta - a 3 giri

race 2

1- Fabrizio Giovanardi - AutoDelta - Alfa Romeo 156 TS - 22'31.263
2- Gabriele Tarquini - AutoDelta - Alfa Romeo 156 TS - + 0.179
3- Augusto Farfus - AutoDelta - Alfa Romeo 156 TS - + 5.380
4- Dirk Muller - BMW Team Deutschland - BMW 320i - + 5.707
5- Jorg Muller - BMW Team Deutschland - BMW 320i - + 8.019
6- Andy Priaulx - BMW Team Great Britain - BMW 320i - + 8.328
7- Salvatore Tavano - Oregon Team - Alfa Romeo 156 Gta - + 19.110
8- Luca RANGONI - Oregon Team - Alfa Romeo 156 Gta - + 21.288
9- Tom Coronel - Carly Motors - BMW 320i - + 23.800
10- Alessandro Zanardi - BMW Team Italy-Spain - BMW 320i - + 24.676
11- Jordi Genè - Seat Sport - Seat Toledo Cupra - + 25.010
12- Stefano D'Aste - Carly Motors - BMW 320i - + 28.444
13- Alessandro Balzan - JAS Engineering - Honda Civic Type-R - + 28.835
14- Thomas Klenke - RS-Line - Ford Focus ST170 - + 29.330
15- Antonio Garcia - BMW Team Italy-Spain - BMW 320i - + 33.055
16- Simon Harrison - GR Asia - Honda Civic Type-R - + 38.243
17- Paulien Zwart - Carly Motors - BMW 320i - + 46.621
18- Toni Ruokonen - GR Asia - Honda Civic Type-R - + 51.509
19- Carl Rosenblad - Carly Motors - BMW 320i - + 1'16.781

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**Helz** · 19-04-2004

My god I've lost track of this, haven't seen it for years, pretty much since I left home when I used to watch it with my dad and I've only heard of ermmmmmm.....*counts on fingers*......two of the drivers. Must try harder B)

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. o O Helz O o .

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**Steven** · 19-04-2004

Go on the Alfas! [8D]

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