Monza, 28 March

The first race of the Italian and the European Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli just ended at the Autodromo Nazionale in Monza, where over the weekend 46 F430s participating in the single-marque Championship of the Prancing Horse went onto the track for start of the 18th edition of this Championship.

At the end of the first race in the Italian division for the main category of the Trofeo Pirelli, the Motor/Piacenza drivers Giorgio Sernagiotto and Lorenzo Casé gained first and second place respectively, ahead of Stefano Gai (Rossocorsa). Gai boasted in the second race, crossing the line first, ahead of Andrea Belluzzi (Motor/Modena) from San Marino and Riccardo Ragazzi (Ineco/MP). Amongst the gentlemen drivers in the Coppa Shell Massimo Mantovani (Motor/Malucelli) gained victory in race 1 ahead of Giuseppe Fascicolo (Rossocorsa/Pellin) and Erich Prinoth (Ineco/MP), while Gianluca Carboni (Rossocorsa/Pellin) crossed the line first in race 2 ahead of Massimo Mantovani and Vincenzo Sauto (Ineco/MP).

In the European Trofeo Pirelli victory went in both races to Philipp Baron: the Austrian racing for Baron Service was faster than Björn Grossmann (Autohaus Gohm) of Germany, who crossed the line second in both races, as well as Max Blancardi (Motor/Malucelli), third in race 1, and the Czech Robert Pergl (Scuderia Praha), third in race 2. In the Coppa Shell the British driver Oliver Morley (Motor/Malucelli) celebrated a splendid double-win, crossing the line first in race 1 ahead of the Hungarian Tibor Valint (Warm Up) and the Dutch driver Fons Scheltema (Kessel), and in the second race ahead of the German Frank Gelf (Eberlein Kassel) and the Swiss Daniel Wächter (Kessel).


Classification

Trofeo Pirelli Italia
Gai 27
Sernagiotto, Casé 22
Belluzzi 21

Coppa Shell Italia
Fascicolo, Carboni 29
Mantovani 27
Prinoth, Sauto 20

Trofeo Pirelli Europa
Baron 33
Grossmann 24
Pergl 19

Coppa Shell Europa
Morley 33
Galassi 18
Waechter 17

The participants in the Italian Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli will be back on the track at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola on the weekend of 18 April, while this season’s second race for the European series will be held at the Parco Algarve circuit in Portugal on 23 May.

The first race of the Italian Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli series will be shown tomorrow, Monday 29 March at 7:30am Sky Sport 2 and at 5pm Sky Sport Extra will repeat race 1, followed on Wednesday 31 March at 3:30pm on Sky Sport 2; the second race will be repeated on Monday 29 March at 8:30am on Sky Sport 2 and at 6pm on Sky Sport Extra and on Friday 2 April at 3:30pm on Sky Sport 2.