Had a perfect weekend German Todino in Conception of Uruguaywhere he Road Tourism He played the sixth date of his season. After setting the best time in Saturday’s classification and winning the fastest series on Sunday morning, the young driver from Buenos Aires won the final from start to finish with his brand new Mustang and achieved the seventh victory in his career in the most important category of Argentine motorsport.
“It’s what we came looking for. We had lost a lot of points in the previous races and we wanted a good performance, a good performance. Although we didn’t expect that much,” he acknowledged in a chat with Carbureting Todino, who was escorted on the podium by Julian Santero (Ford), who returned to the top of the championship, and Marcos Quijada (Camaro).
He “Gaucho” de Rivera started from first place and dominated the first 21 laps of the race without problems, despite the constant attacks of Santero, the only one who seemed to have a chance of complicating things on the track.
The entry of the Safety Car after the Chevrolet of Juan Cruz Welcome was left standing on the side of the track, he threatened to put suspense in the outcome. But in the relaunch, Todino did not give rise to surprises, he withstood the pressure from Mendoza and ended up celebrating his first victory with Ford in the TC.
“When he came out ‘pace car’, I felt that the victory was slipping away from me because I know Santero and I knew that he was not going to give me anything. But I’m going to Rivera with great joy,” commented the winner. “Since Friday I knew I had a fantastic car, the team worked overtime to deliver me an incredible vehicle, which always had great balance.”
“The car is incredible, it changed me a lot, it has beautiful handling, I hope we have enough left to develop. It starts something new, with other expectations. Having this motivates you a lot,” added who, after racing the first five rounds of the championship with a Falcondebuted his Mustang this Sunday.
The one from Rivera became the tenth driver to win in the TC with three different brands. He achieved his first celebration in 2021, in San Juan with Torino. In 2022, with that same car, he celebrated at Concordia. Last year, with Dodge, won the events of Concepción del Uruguay, San Nicolás, Toay and San Juan. And now he climbed to the top of the podium with Ford.
Mariano Werner, three-time champion of the category, was involved in an unusual situation before the race. The man from Entre Ríos (Mustang), who had placed fourth in his series and had to start tenth, was penalized for having started on the grid with a red flag on pit road, had to start in last place and finished 20th.
As his team later explained to Carbureting, suffered an inconvenience when a nut got stuck on the tires of his car, when his team tried to align them. And when leaving the pit road, she had to brake her car and avoid the mechanics who were there, so as not to cause an even more serious problem.
The second place on the podium allowed Santero to climb back to first place in the standings. The man from Mendoza now leads with 190 points, ahead of José Manuel Urcera (Mustang), who was fifth in Concepción and fell to second place with 186.5, and Werner, third with 170.
The next date will be June 16 in Rafaela.