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F. Renault 2.0. ALPS: Prema in house title duel between Fuoco and Ghiotto

Who is going to sign Formula Renault 2.0 ALPS yearbook? The seventh and last venue in Imola, scheduled for the upcoming weekend (4/6 October) will award the 2013 title of the Fast Lane Promotion branded Series. It will be a Prema in house duel between Antonio Fuoco, 17y/o from Cariati (Italy), and his team mate Luca Ghiotto, born in '95 from Vicenza. With six wins, twice second and once third, Fuoco is the undisputed Championship leader. 49 points behind there is Ghiotto (three wins for him). 50 those still to be awarded. The young driver already part of Ferrari Driver Academy will have just to manage his huge lead.

Besides the duel between the two drivers racing for the Angelo Rosin team, once more there will be plenty of novelties. There will be three debuts on the Santerno track. The first being the young British Matt Parry, 19 y/o, already involved in the Catheram Racing Academy, and current NEC leader, who will race with Koiranen GP looking forward for a full 2014 ALPS season. Another debut is the Thai Tanart Sathienthirakul one that will be driving an Arta Engineering car. First race for the Ukrainian Danyil Pronenko, with GSK Grand Prix, along with the Russian Dzhon Simonyan.

Still with Prema there will be Hans Villemi, previously involved in the Series with SMP Racing by Koiranen GP. The Estonian already impressed during the latest testing session held in Imola on the 17/18 September when he managed fastest on the Prema car. Once more in the Series, after the Monza round, Philo Paz Patric Armand, who will still be racing with Tech1 Racing along with the Canadian Luke Chudleigh and the other Russian Egor Orudzhev. Spotlights also on Bruno Bonifacio, third overall just ahead of the Jenzer Motorsport Swiss driver Kevin Joerg, and him too with three wins so far. On the home track best efforts will be made by BVM Racing (with the Italian Dario Capitanio and the Indian Parth Ghorpade) and Euronova, that will still line up his trio made by the V enezuelan Javier Amado, the Scottish Gregor Ramsay and Japanese Ukyo Sasahara.

Thirty cars will be on track on the three days weekend with a schedule that, as usual, will foresee three 60 minutes free practice sessions on Friday. Saturday at 10.15 the qualify green light and later in the afternoon, at 16.35 Race 1 (25 minutes plus a lap) that will be broadcasted live on the web on www.renaultsportitalia.it. Race 2 is set for Sunday at 14.20, still with live web coverage.

The Championship (top-5): 1. Antonio Fuoco ITA (Prema Junior) 209; 2. Luca Ghiotto ITA (Prema Powerteam) 160; 3. Bruno Bonifacio BRA (Prema Powerteam) 145; 4. Kevin Joerg SUI (Jenzer Motorsport) 80; 5. Pierre Gasly FRA (Tech1 Racing) 72.

All standings available on internet www.renaultsportitalia.it.