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Facundo Ardusso: “It’s the most emotional weekend of my life”

After a winning both races of the Super TC 2000 double header at the Santa Fe Street Circuit, Facundo Ardusso of Renault Sport expressed his feelings in what was a tough weekend for him personally.

“I don’t know if it was my best weekend ever, but I never enjoyed a race like today’s, it was the most emotional weekend in my life. I’m not from Santa Fe city, but it’s my province. I feel at home,” said Ardusso to TouringCarTimes.com.

The best friend of his girlfriend and a close friend’s father passed away days ago, meaning high emotions for Ardusso.

His hometown Las Parejas is located at 150 kilometres from the venue of this race, inside the Santa Fe province.

“I could listen and see how the people celebrated when I took the lead of the race today, I could see waving hands. The last five laps were very hard to focus on the race and concentrate. I dedicated this race last night, but I had the chance to do it again today,” said the Renault Sport driver.

Given Ardusso is leading the championship with a 19-point advantage over Mariano Werner of Team Peugeot Total Argentina, he may well be the one from Renault Sport to battle for the title this year: “I’m not thinking in that yet, I only want to be this quick in the following race.”