TCR Italy kicks off at Monza with a field of 27

The TCR Italy championship kicks off this weekend at Monza with a record field of 27 cars.
All eyes are set on the reigining champion Salvatore Tavano who will be aiming to secure a fourth consecutive title at the wheel of his CUPRA Leon Competición run by Scuderia del Girasole.
Besides facing the usual competition from his Italian countrymen, Tavano has to pit himself against some talented drivers coming from other TCR series such as the ADAC TCR Germany reigning champion Antti Buri, TCR Europe regular Evgenii Leonov, Macedonia's motorsport star Igor Stefanovski, Czech driver Dušan Kouřil who was classified third in the 2019 TCR Eastern Europe and Estonian youngsters Mattias Vahtel and Ruben Volt.
Amongst the Italians, the more serious title contenders appear to be the 2017 champion Nicola Baldan, last year's vice-champion Eric Brigliadori, former WTCR race winner Kevin Ceccon and Jonathan Giacon, whose brother Kevin will drive the FIAT Tipo TCR in its first appearance in the Italian series.
Live streaming of both races will be on www.tcr-series.com; Saturday, Race 1 at 13:40 local time (CEST), and Sunday, Race 2 at 10:10 local time (CEST).

2021 TCR Italy – entry list
2 Andrea Argenti (South Italy Racing Team, Opel Astra TCR)
4 Salvatore Tavano (Scuderia del Girasole, CUPRA Leon Competición TCR)
6 Raffaele Gurrieri (Scuderia del Girasole, CUPRA Leon Competición TCR)
7 Jonathan Giacon (Tecnodom Sport, Honda Civic Type R FK7 TCR)
8 Antti Buri (Target Competition, Hyundai i30 N TCR)
11 Damiano Reduzzi (Team Trico WRT, Hyundai i30 N TCR)
13 Nicola Baldan (Target Competition, Hyundai i30 N TCR)
14 Igor Sefanovski (AKK Stefanovski, Hyundai i30 N TCR)
16 Evgenii Leonov (Volcano Motorsport, CUPRA TCR)
18 Kevin Giacon (Tecnodom Sport, FIAT Tipo TCR)
21 Nicola Guida (Scuderia del Girasole, CUPRA Leon Competición TCR)
25 Mattias Vahtel (ALM Motorsport, Honda Civic Type R FK7 TCR)
27 Ruben Volt (ALM Motorsport, Honda Civic Type R FK7 TCR)
28 Federico Paolino (Scuderia del Girasole, CUPRA Leon Competición TCR)
31 Kevin Ceccon (Aggressive Team Italia, Hyundai i30 N TCR)
33 Riccardo Romagnoli (Proteam Motorsport, CUPRA TCR)
47 Ettore Carminati (CRM Motorsport, Hyundai i30 N TCR)
52 Dušan Kouřil (K2 Engineering, Hyundai i30 N TCR)
61 Michele Imberti (Élite Motorsport, CUPRA Leon Competición TCR)
68 Eric Brigliadori (BF Motorsport, Audi RS 3 LMS)
69 Matteo Poloni (Race Lab, Audi RS 3 LMS)
82 Marco Butti (Élite Motorsport, CUPRA TCR DSG)
84 Sabatino Di Mare (CUPRA TCR DSG)
85 Giorgio Fantilli (CUPRA TCR DSG)
86 Alessandro Berton (CUPRA TCR DSG)
90 Denis Babuin (Bolza Corse, CUPRA TCR DSG)
93 Omar Fiorucci (Audi RS 3 LMS DSG)


Picture: ACI Sport