Strong race pace and a great recovery for a result in the Top 10 have been useless due to a crash in the final minutes of the race. For Michele Beretta and Andrea Piccini the opening round of Blancpain Endurance Series in Monza was not so good; a shame because the Grasser Racing trio was able to bring the green Lamborghini #19 from the thirty-seventh place conquered in qualifying (with over 35 cars packed in 1 second) until the seventh. A drive-through received in the last hour of the race due to overtake with yellow flags downgraded the Huracan GT3 in fourteenth place; after that, Andrea was hit by Albert Costa and his Jaguar that forced Piccini to stop the car, losing a final result in the Top 10.<\/p>\n
Andrea Piccini: \u201cWith more than 30 cars packed in one second, it is synonymous of the great competitiveness that we have in the series, you need to push at 110% everytime. In qualify, the Balance of Performance brought all Lamborghini GT3s out of the first twenty places. In the race, we did a great job thanks to Luca, who started very well, perfect pit stops, good performance shown by Michele to keep the car in the Top 10. The drive-through cut our target to finish in the same position, dropping us down to fourteenth. When I came back on track, I had to fight for 15 laps with Albert Costa\u2019s Jaguar; it was hard because the BOP made the english car so fast on the straights and how I could pull it off in a corner, at every braking I found it on my side. At the end, the Jaguar hit me in the first chiacane spinning out. Such a shame because with our performance we had everything to finish in the Top 10.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Strong race pace and a great recovery for a result in the Top 10 have been useless due to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[170],"tags":[225,233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapiccini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapiccini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapiccini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapiccini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapiccini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapiccini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapiccini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapiccini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapiccini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapiccini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapiccini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}