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Spa 24: Davide Rigon race report
5th place, 1st category and, especially, 1st victory in the championship: these are fantastic numbers of Davide Rigon at the end of the first 24h of Spa-Francorchamps, the fifth race of the FIA World GT, at the wheel of the red Ferrari F430 ...
Published: Aug 5, 2008, 5:11 PM
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5th place, 1st category and, especially, 1st victory in the championship: these are fantastic numbers of Davide Rigon at the end of the first 24h of Spa-Francorchamps, the fifth race of the FIA World GT, at the wheel of the red Ferrari F430 yellow-Team BMS Scuderia Italia.
After seeing blur the satisfaction of the podium on the tracks of Adria and Oschersleben, right into the most important and most spectacular on the circuit as difficult Davide Rigon has succeeded in conquering the highest step of the podium and first win of the season.
"It 'been a spectacular race." Commented Davide Rigon "Once arrived in Belgium the team was loading and know you can do well. At the end of the 24h race of all is in the best possible way: the strategy was perfect as our Pirelli tyres, especially when in my stint I mounted the intermediate compounds and we were able to run 3 sec faster others. Just at that moment we were able to take a substantial margin of advantage. I want ringrazie all the tea and my fellow team for this fantastic success, the first in the FIA World GT "
A Davide Rigon are enough and then only five appointments to achieve the first victory in the world thanks to this great result the Twenty-Rigon rises to fourth place with 33 points.
-credit: minardi.it
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