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18
Oct
2022
PCCF ENDS WITH THE TITLE FOR THE TEAM ALMERAS
The Porsche Carrera Cup France has finished the season at Paul Ricard this weekend. Marvin Klein gets the drivers title and the team Martinet by Alméras, the one where our team participates, has taken the teams title.
Probably this wasn’t the weekend expected by our driver Rafa Villanueva, who arrived to its second round to the competition after his first performance at Valencia last month. His goal for this last two races of the championship was to be at P10 at the end, but we’ve seen that this is a higher level of competition and Rafa knows that this Porsche GT3 Cup is harder to drive as his precedent cars.
Practice sessions showed how drivers wanted to give everything in a circuit where we are used to continuous track limits penalties. While championship winner Marvin Klein did 2:06.032 as best time on practice, Villanueva couldn’t go ahead of 2:07.872, which was his best lap of the weekend. Track limits advice didn’t help to get a faster lap. The qualifying session was determined once again by infractions, and he was penalized to start at the end of the grid on both races.
La Carrera 1 fue prácticamente al 100% por la noche y eso es un condicionante añadido cuando el piloto no está habituado. Las diferencias entre los pilotos de cabeza y el resto fueron desde el inicio abismales. En este escenario Rafa hizo un esfuerzo por escalar de P22 a P16 al final.
La Carrera 2, la última de la temporada, estuvo totalmente determinada por las sanciones por superar los límites de pista, y Rafa Villanueva obtuvo una doble penalización -primero un drive trhough y después 5”- echando a perder cualquier opción de recuperación.
Terminamos este fin de semana y este segundo round en la PCCF con muchas lecciones aprendidas para entrenar duro y mejorar para las próximas carreras que vendrán. Pronto tendréis nuestras actualizaciones sobre nuestros futuros proyectos y os invitamos a visitar nuestro canal de YouTube al final de la semana cuando publicaremos una nueva entrevista con nuestro piloto.
