{"id":20253,"date":"2015-04-26T17:03:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T17:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/vilarino-leads-flag-to-flag\/"},"modified":"2015-04-26T17:03:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T17:03:59","slug":"vilarino-leads-flag-to-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/vilarino-leads-flag-to-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Vilari\u00f1o leads Flag to Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing could stop Ander Vilarino (#2 TFT-Banco Santander Chevrolet SS) from winning the ELITE 1 Race 2 at Valencia. The Spaniard started from the pole and led flag to flag to score his first win of the season, the 18th of his NASCAR career and the fourth on the Spanish track.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5188\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5188\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/binn.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Podium-Ander-Vilari\u00f1o-Valencia-AMerican-Fest-NASCAR-Foto-Eduardo-Ripoll-CircuitValencia.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5188 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/binn.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Podium-Ander-Vilari\u00f1o-Valencia-AMerican-Fest-NASCAR-Foto-Eduardo-Ripoll-CircuitValencia-1170x731.jpg\" alt=\"Podium Ander Vilari\u00f1o Valencia AMerican Fest NASCAR Foto Eduardo Ripoll CircuitValencia\" width=\"1000\" height=\"624\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ander Vilari\u00f1o (Chevrolet)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 16.5pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #2b2b2b;\">\u201cI am very proud to leave Valencia as the championship leader because there are many really strong drivers competing for the win in each race,\u201d said the driver of the #2 TFT-Banco Santander Chevrolet SS. \u201cA lot of people came today to see me in my home race and it feels amazing to win in front of them.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 16.5pt; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #2b2b2b;\">Vilarino jumped to an early lead immediately after the start, building a comfortable margin over Frederic Gabillon (#3 RDV Competition Chevrolet SS) and Anthony Kumpen (#24 PK Carsport Chevrolet SS) \u00a0but a safety car brought out to recover Roberto Benedetti\u2019s car (#9 Double T by DAV Racing Chevrolet SS) from the gravel at turn 12 compacted the field again and led to a restart on lap 6. \u00a0Vilarino kept the first position ahead of Gabillon and Kumpen, dictating the pace while the Frenchman and the defending champion battled for second. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 16.5pt; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;\">Some contacts shuffled the field in restart, with Nicol\u00f2 Rocca (#56 CAAL Racing Chevrolet SS) and Borja Garcia (#1 Active Racing Competition Ford Mustang) losing various positions, while Romain Iannetta (#7 TFT Chevrolet SS) climbed up to fourth, followed by yesterday\u2019s winner Eddie Cheever III (#51 CAAL Racing Chevrolet SS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing could stop Ander Vilarino (#2 TFT-Banco Santander Chevrolet SS) from winning the ELITE 1 Race 2 at Valencia. The Spaniard started from the pole and led flag to flag to score his first win of the season, the 18th of his NASCAR career and the fourth on the Spanish track. \u201cI am very proud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[191,215,166,167],"class_list":["post-20253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias-en","tag-ander-vilarino","tag-borja-garcia","tag-nascar","tag-valencia-american-fest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}