The Italian V-Action Racing Team has announced that it will enter two Alfa Romeo Giulietta TCR racecars this season in Europe, building on its promising debut with the Romeo Ferraris-built machines which came during the season closing TCR Italy round last year.
Following nine successful years in the Trofeo Abarth, the ‘one make’ series reserved for identical derivatives of the Abarth 500, the Brescia-based team is now evaluating new programmes in TCR Europe and the TCR Italy.
Team Manager Daniele Vernuccio told the official TCR Series website: “I am very pleased to continue our cooperation with [the] Romeo Ferraris engineering company that started last year with selected participations in the TCR Italy and TCR Germany series.
“We are currently working to finalise a top-level programme, either in Europe or in Italy, with professional drivers who are also experienced in Touring Car racing,” he continued. “Our goal is to be competitive from the very beginning and fight for the title.
“We are proud of racing Alfa Romeo cars and we dream of reviving the success the brand enjoyed in the past,” Vernuccio added. “We are confident, because we trust the Giulietta’s potential and we are very motivated to prove that an all-Italian team-and-car association can be a winner again in motor sport.”
The team enjoyed a good end to last season when it entered the final round of the TCR Italy Touring Car Championship with two Giulietta racecars. In the first race of the ‘double header’ weekend Joakim Darbom started from tenth position and the Swedish driver fought his way up to third place before he was hit by an opponent and slipped back to finish fifth.
Meanwhile, promising youngster Giacomo Altoè – who last year also raced in TCR International Series in a season that started with West Coast Racing (VW Golf GTi TCR) before swapping mid-season to M1RA (Honda Civic TCR) – after being punted out of the first race bounced back in style to finish fifth in the second race while Darbon concluded his weekend with a double points finish by taking ninth place in the final race.
