1-2 round Clio cup Italia by Renault 2010 Monza 9/11 Aprile

Victory and two podiums at the start of the season at Monza.

The first week end of the Composit Motorsport starts in the best way, one podium in race-1 with Marchetti and one victory in race-2 with Ricciarini.

The reigning team presented itself on top form at the first appointment at Monza and placed its cars at the top of the rankings since the qualifying heats.

In race-1 the victory fled to Paolo and Marco Ansaloni’s team only because of a electric black-out on Ricciarini’s car. An inconvenient absolutely independent of the team’s job that robbed the team of a certain victory, in fact Ricciarini was leading the race in that moment.

Anyway in the first race arrived the very good second position of Ronnie Marchetti, a protagonist of the weekend and very fit as well.

In race-2 Ricciarini, very steady after the inconvenient of the day before, showed the best performance of his Clio RS 2.0, taking the lead after the few laps and winning the second round on the very fast track of Monza imperatively .

The next race will be on the Enzo and Dino Ferrari circuit at Imola, on May 15th .


Paolo Ansaloni – Team Manager Composit Motorsport:

“We are satisfied even if we found an electric problem on Ricciarini’s car, in both the races. This problem made us lose the chance of winning the first race and came back again Sunday’s race, this time without prejudicing the final result fortunately. We will analyze inside out the reason because the car is new…”



Marco Ansaloni – Sporting Director Composit Motorsport:

“In both the races the fight has been very hard in every point of the ranking and some of our driver had some unlucky touches and finished not very well. We will schedule other training tests in the next weeks, in order to prepare the second round at Imola.”


RANKINGS

Race-1 (top ten):
1. Aron Smith (Team Pyro) 14 giri in 31’23”659, media 155,000 km/h (1. Junior);
2. Ronnie Marchetti (Composit Motorsport) a 0”684;
3. Jeff Smith (Team Pyro) a 0”949 (1. Gentleman);
4. Nicola Rinaldi (Go Race) a 1”419;
5. Cristian Ricciarini (Composit Motorsport) a 6”253;
6. Emanuele Balestrero (Giada Auto/AB Motorsport) a 24”100;
7. Marco Lertora (Giada Auto/AB Motorsport) a 24”752;
8. Liam Denning (Team Pyro) a 38”892 (1. Esordienti);
9. Michele Puccetti (Autostar Motorsport) a 40”327;
10. Luca Ligato (Go Race) a 45”828.


Race-2 (top ten):
1. Cristian Ricciarini (Composit Motorsport) 14 laps in 31’21”227, media 155,200 km/h;
2. Aron Smith (Team Pyro) at 0”173 (1. Junior);
3. Ronnie Marchetti (Composit Motorsport) at 14”892;
4. Nicola Rinaldi (Go Race) at 15”130;
5. Giancarlo Lenzotti (Composit Motorsport) at 17”758 (1. Gentleman);
6. Ezio Muccio (Giada Auto/AB Motorsport) at 25”767;
7. Daniele Perfetti (Composit Motorsport) at 33”146;
8. Liam Denning (Team Pyro) at 37”776 (1. Esordienti);
9. Gian Piero Cristoni (Giada Auto/AB Motorsport) at 38”048;
10. Guglielmo Pipolo (Gretaracing) at 38”206.

The championship after two races:
1. Aron Smith (Team Pyro) 58 points;
2. Marchetti (Composit Motorsport) 44;
3. Cristian Ricciarini (Composit Motorsport) 42;
4. Nicola Rinaldi (Go Race) 32;
5. Jeff Smith (Team Pyro) 22;
6. Liam Denning (Team Pyro) e Giancarlo Lenzotti (Composit Motorsport) 12;
8. Emanuele Balestrero e Ezio Muccio (Giada Auto/AB Motorsport) 10;
10. Marco Lertora (Giada Auto/AB Motorsport) e Daniele Perfetti (Composit Motorsport) 8;
12. Gian Piero Cristoni (Giada Auto/AB Motorsport) e Michele Puccetti (Autostar Motorsport) 4;
14. Luca Ligato (Go Race) e Guglielmo Pipolo (Gretaracing) 2.


Official rankings from the web site www.renaultsportitalia.it