José Manuel Sapag confident of solid Aragon showing

José Manuel Sapag says he feels confident that he can enjoy a successful end to his two-meeting stint in the World Touring Car Cup in the season finale at Motorland Aragon.

Sapag joined the grid in a Target Competition-run Hyundai i30 N TCR in Hungary, where he secured a best finish of 15th on a weekend affected by tricky weather conditions.

The Argentine driver has past experience of the Aragon circuit from his time racing in the Spanish CER series, winning a race back in 2018, and that leaves him feeling more confident about his chances for the weekend ahead.

“My objective this weekend is to be in the top 15 in all the races,” he said. “Hungaroring was especially hard because it was my first weekend in WTCR and we had a wet track in practice and qualifying and in the races it was something completely different and I had to adapt on the go, which was pretty hard. Now I have a little experience so I think I am more prepared for this challenge.

“MotorLand Aragón is a really fun track with some fast corners and slow corners, uphill, downhill so a little bit of everything. It has a lot of corners and that makes it very challenging, especially for qualifying because there are a lot of corners you have to do correctly and a mistake can cost you a lot of positions.

“But I really like the track, it’s really fun to drive and for sure it will be fun this weekend.”