The ROAL Motorsport team made his first outing of the season at Valencia, for a two-day test on Monday and Tuesday.
“We really needed it, to wake up from hibernation!” Team principal Roberto Ravaglia said.
Both drivers of the Italian team, Tom Coronel and WTCC newcomer Alberto Cerqui, had the opportunity to spend long time at the wheel of their BMW 320 TC cars.
“Tom completed about 500 laps and Alberto about 400,” unveiled Ravaglia, adding: “It was a very important occasion for Albert his first proper test in a WTCC car. All in all he did very well and showed a good potential that I’m confident we will be able to exploit from the first event at Monza.”
The age difference between Coronel and Cerqui is twenty years. “This is not going to be a problem,” Ravaglia commented. “Tom has a much younger spirit than his forty years and is a very easy person. For now they have a few communications problems as Alberto is not very familiar with English. But he will learn fast and I’m sure that he will benefit a great deal by racing alongside Tom.”