C.I. UISP Italian Championship 2013 – Report

The Italian C.I. UISP Championship took place on beautiful track in Gubbio. This year, unlike in the past, it was only a single race championship run in touring car modified, stock F1 and stock F2. Qualification started on Saturday and it was Mattia Collina in stock F1 who showed immediately that he was going to be the man to beat. In just three laps he built a 1 second gap ahead of the second place driver. He took TQ followed by fellow Xray driver Alessio Tolomelli with Nico Catelani in third. The stock F2 qualifications were all about the duel between Xray driver Marco Marino and Andrea Senni until the end with Senni having more luck taking the pole position on the final grid. The modified category was a much closer affair. Francesco Martini was able to get the TQ followed by fast Diego Macchioni and Alessandro Ciaccheri. Alessio Menicucci, last year’s champion, finished 7th in the qualification.

In the F1 final Mattia Collina dominated the field not giving any chance to someone else to take the victory and title. Nico Catelani took the runner-up spot with Maurizio Bicchi completing the podium. In F2 Senni’s experience led him to victory followed by Saverio Sodini. Young Gabriel Berselli came in third after a great showing in the finals. In modified polesitter Francesco Martini had a disastrous race ending in fifth position after many crashes during the race. Ultimately the win went to Kevin Pignotti with Alessandro Brunelli and Diego Macchioni in tow.

Stock F2 results
1. Andrea Senni
2. Saverio Sodini
3. Gabriele Berselli
4. Esposito Lorenzo
5. Andrea Gavi
6. Davide Morgagni
7. Davide Bertuzzi
8. Andrea Ghilotti
9. Marco Marino

Stock F1 results
1. Mattia Collina
2. Nico Catelani
3. Maurizio Bicchi
4. Matteo Berlincioni
5. Luca Musumeci
6. Manuel Busoli
7. Alessio Tolomelli
8. Leonardo Tagliavini
9. Lorenzo Bigi
10.Maurizio Piacere

Modified result
1. Kevin Pignotti
2. Alessandro Brunelli
3. Diego Macchioni
4. Alessandro Ciaccheri
5. Francesco Martini
6. Alessio Mancini
7. Alessio Menicucci
8. Daniel Baldissarri
9. Marco Donadelli
10.Fabrizio Di Michele

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]