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Ecomotori CNG Team Triumphs at Monte Carlo Rally

hantu 2015-04-03 16:33
  Two races and two wins: the Ecomotori Racing Team and its Cavagna-Bigas CNG-converted Fiat 500 Eco-Abarth have started the 2015 racing season in perfect fashion. Beginning the 2015 racing season by taking out the Eco Snow Trophy in Northern Italy, the rookie pair – made up of the Lombard Nicola Ventura and the Tuscan Guido Guerrini – have now won the prestigious Monte Carlo Rally: no easy feat, as they were one of the 87 crews competing in the most challenging race on the FIA Alternative Energies Cup calendar.
The Italian team triumphed after seven special stages spread out over a three-day event that is more than 1,000 kms long. Ninth place after the first three tests, Ventura and Guerrini rose up the ranks, and by the fifth stage they had already taken the lead. The last two stages left no doubt about their first place finish, as they put half a minute between them and the defending World Champion Massimo Liverani, who came in second.
 
  The Ecomotori Team also achieved noteworthy results in the energy consumption classification, where Ventura and Guerrini came in tenth place. Only nine hybrid and electric cars ranked ahead of them, which is remarkable considering that those cars are assigned extremely advantageous coefficients by the race organizers when compared to vehicles powered by gaseous or liquid fuels. “The performance of the CNG Cavagna-Bigas System was outstanding,” Guido Guerrini emphasized during the press conference held at the Fairmont Hotel in Monte Carlo, adding that “a victory here is really beyond compare: winning in the Principality is a dream that any motor racing lover nurtures since childhood. ”
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