The only thing is that I have to miss out on a few days of our family holiday during the WTCC summer break, but even my fiancée Paulien immediately said that I should do it, so who am I to say no?” “During this meeting, we discussed the possibility for me to race in the Buenos Aires 200 Kilometres and that sounded very interesting to me. “The Buenos Aires 200 Kilometres is a motorsport event with a long heritage and this year, it takes place one week before we race in Argentina with the FIA World Touring Car Championship, so it was an opportunity too good to miss,” Coronel explains.Īrgentina is by no means uncharted territory for Tom Coronel: “We have raced there several times with the FIA World Touring Car Championship and I visited the country on numerous occasions for the Dakar rally,” he says.Ĭoronel met the Escudería FE team principal when competing in a round of the German VLN endurance series at the Nürburgring earlier this year. He will be sharing driving duties with Luciano Farroni, the 2015 TC2000 runner-up. Thus, the Dutch driver, a two times’ race winner in the current FIA World Touring Car Championship season, will be on the grid for this year’s Super TC2000 Buenos Aires 200 Kilometres, scheduled for July 31.Ĭoronel will be driving an Escudería FE Peugeot 408.
And when the opportunity arises to take part in a real classic motorsport event, he never takes long to say ‘yes’. With the race season going on in full swing, Tom Coronel is not a person to spend too many weekends at home. Tom Coronel to race in Super TC2000 Buenos Aires 200 Kilometres : With the race season going on in full swing, Tom Coronel is not a person to spend
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