Maranello, 26 July 2010

Two particularly hard-fought battles characterised the fifth round of the Italian Gran Turismo Championship, held at Mugello’s Autodromo Internazionale at the weekend.
Of the six Ferraris entered in the GT2 class, it was the car driven by Marco Cioci and Piergiuseppe Perazzini, one of the three entered by the AF Corse team, that won. They crossed the line ahead of the F430s of Andrea Montermini-Fabio Moncini (Villorba Corse) and Michael Dalle Stelle-Nicolò Valentini (Edil Cris).
In the second race it was another AF Corse-run Ferrari that won, this time driven by Michel Rugolo and Giuseppe Cirò. The pair finished ahead of Massimiliano Mugelli-Andrea Palma (Vittoria Competizioni), while third place again went to Dalle Stelle and Valentini.
Thanks to these results, Montermini and Moncini retain the lead of the class on 110 points, followed by Palma-Mugelli (102) and Cioci-Perazzini (86).
A long summer break awaits the protagonists of the Italian series, which will be back on track for the sixth round at Vallelunga on the weekend of September 26.