Eventful, dramatic, with controversy and multiple sanctions. The first final of the historic 2024 season of the Road Tourism He had everything on the racetrack Enrique Freile from El Calafate. The thing is that after multiple sanctions and many other celebrations he was the debutant Tobias Martinez the one who took the win in a crazy outcome.
The thing is that before the one who had celebrated had been Facundo Chapurbut the Cordoban’s Dodge did not pass the technical inspection – the compression was 10.6 and the allowed is 10.5 – and thus he was left empty-handed just as had happened a little while before to Diego ‘Bochita’ Ciantiniwho crossed the checkered flag first on the Santa Cruz track, but was removed from the podium by the sports stewards who reloaded him for a touch to Marcos Landa.
He had also been penalized Juan José Ebarlínwho had come second in the competition, but was also recharged for having touched Marcelo Agrelo and a multiple accident occurred in the first turn.
It was all very strange in El Calafate. Chapur was being interviewed for his third place when the journalist from the official broadcast told him that he was the winner of the event, which unleashed a crazy race through the podium area to hug his team.
It was not be for lowerly. Chapur had experienced a spectacular comeback because he had started in 40th place due to a tire problem and finally took the victory, escorted by Martínez (Turin) and Esteban Gini (Toyota).
However, the technical review left the man from Córdoba empty-handed and the one who ended up celebrating was the missionary Martínez, who will never forget his debut in the category.
The current TC Pista champion achieved victory in the Road Tourism with the new Torino model of the Trotta Competition, a car that he had just put on the track last Friday. Second place, then, went to Gini and the one who climbed to the last step of the podium was José Manuel Urcera.
In this way, after all the corrections, Martínez from San Juan joined a select list that includes Jorge Recalde (1974), Tito Bessone (1985) and Pato Juan Manuel Silva (1998) in being debutants and winners in the TC. To them we must add Guillermo Ortelli (1994) and Juan Tomás Catalán Magni (2017) as guests. In addition, obviously, to Ángel Lo Valvo, who in 1937 went down in posterity for having been the winner of the first test in this historic category.
The second date of the 2024 Road Tourism season will be next March 17 at the Viedma racetrack.