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43 cars entered for TCR Italy openers as organisers splits grid

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A record number of 43 cars have been entered for the TCR Italy opener at Imola this weekend, with the championship announcers announcing a split of the grid between cars with sequential (SEQ) gearbox and DSG gearbox.

The split means that 33 cars will take part in the SEQ races and ten cars in the DSG races for a total of four races during the season opener weekend.

Two joint practice sessions have been held while the qualifying and races will be held separately.

The final practice session of the day had TCR Europe champion Franco Girolami fastest, beating the recently announced entry of PMA Motorsport driver Felice Jelmini by close to eight tenths of a second.

Mattias Vathel of MM Motorsport was third fastest behind the wheel of his Honda, nine tenths from Girolami, while Marco Butti of Target Competiition was fourth fastest.

Qualifying is next up for the SEQ field, starting at 09:40 CEST.

2023 TCR Italy entry list

# – Driver – Nat – Car – Team
1 – Niels Langeveld – NLD – Honda Civic Type R FL5 TCR – MM Motorsport
2 – Rodolfo Massaro – ITA – Hyundai Elantra N TCR – Target Competition
4 – Raffaele Gurreri – ITA – Cupra Leon –
5 – Matteo Poloni – ITA – Audi RS 3 LMS –
8 – Denis Babuin – ITA – Audi RS 3 LMS –
9 – Denis Park – KOR – Hyundai Elantra N TCR – Target Competition
10 – Federico Paolino – ITA – Audi RS 3 LMS –
11 – Damiano Reduzzi – ITA – Hyundai Elantra N TCR – Trico WRT
12 – Gil Ruben Fernandez – ESP Audi RS3 LMS – Auto Club RC2 Valles
13 – Adriano Visdomini – ITA – Audi RS 3 LMS –
14 – Felice Jelmini – ITA – Audi RS3 LMS – PMA Motorsport
16 – Giuseppe Cartia – ITA – Hyundai I30 N TCR – Trico WRT
18 – Marco Butti – ITA – Hyundai Elantra N TCR – Target Competition
19 – Gil Felipe Fernandez – ESP – Audi RS 3 LMS – Auto Club RC2 Valles
21 – Nicola Guida – ITA – Audi RS 3 LMS –
23 – Mattias Vathel – EST – Honda Civic Type R TCR – ALM Motorsport
25 – Paolo Rocca – ITA – Honda Civic Type R TCR – ALM Motorsport
27 – Ruben Volt – EST – Honda Civic Type R TCR – ALM Motorsport
30 – Cosimo Barberini – ITA – Cupra Leon Competition –
33 – Horia-Traian Chirigut – ROU – Honda Civic Type R TCR – MM Motorsport
34 – Giovanni Scamardi – BEL – Hyundai Elantra – Aggressive Team Italia
37 – Sergio Lopez Bolotin – ESP – Audi RS 3 LMS – Auto Club RC2 Valles
40 – Rammo Antti – EST – Honda Civic Type R TCR – ALM Motorsport
41 – Gil Victor Fernandez – ESP – Audi RS 3 LMS – Auto Club RC2 Valles
44 – Michele Imberti – ITA – Hyundai I30 N TCR –
48 – Nello Nataloni – ITA – Audi RS 3 LMS –
64 – Levante Losonczy – HUN – Hyundai Elantra – Aggressive Team Italia
67 – Marco Pellegrini – ITA – Audi RS 3 LMS – Pinetti Motorsport
69 – Raffaele Francesca – ITA – Audi RS 3 LMS – Aikoa Racing
72 – Franco Girolami – ARG – Audi RS 3 LMS – Aikoa Racing
73 – Gennaro Manolio – ITA – Hyundai I30 N TCR –
76 – Aurelien Comte – FRA – Cupra Leon Competition – SP Competition
77 – Sylvain Pussier – FRA – Cupra Leon Competition – SP Competition
80 – Filippo Barberi – ITA – Audi RS 3 LMS – Aikoa Racing
81 – Vedat Dalokay Ali – TUR – Audi RS 3 – Bitci Racing Team AMS
86 – Fantilli Giorgio – ITA – Cupra Leon –
88 – Luigi Gallo – ITA – Audi RS 3 DSG –
89 – Niccolò Loia – ITA – Volkswagen Golf TCR DSG –
90 – Mauro Trentin – ITA – Cupra Leon –
91 – Alberto Cioffi – ITA – Volkswagen Golf TCR DSG –
92 – Carlotta Fedeli – ITA – Audi RS 3 DSG –
96 – Paolo Palanti – ITA – Audi RS 3 DSG – Aikoa Racing
99 – Marco De Vecchi – ITA – Audi RS 3 DSG – Aikoa Racing