South Europe for Monaco

...... to book Monaco’s place at The Race of Champions Grand Final in Beijing  

Monaco beat Spain’s Sainz and Sordo 3-1 in the final  

Portugal’s Araujo and Albuquerque eliminated 3-2 by Monaco in semi-finals following one ten thousandth of a second race win in deciding heat

Five-times Le Mans winner, Emanuele Pirro and A1GP star, Clivio Piccione proved too fast for both a strong Spanish and Portuguese pairing at the inaugural  Euromilhoes  ROC  South  Europe  in  Porto  yesterday  evening,  winning the contest to book Monaco’s place at the ROC Nations Cup in Beijing on November 3.

Endurance   racer   Pirro,   a   twenty-two   year   resident   of   Monaco,   and Piccione, the twenty five year old Monegasque racer, created a formidable pairing which beat the Spanish WRC duo of Carlos Sainz and Daniel Sordo by three heats to one in the best-of-five final, with Sordo winning Spain’s only heat and Piccione presiding in both his head-to-heads.

After the victory, Piccione was thrilled : ‘It was very important to win here because we are representing our country, which I already do for Monaco