He Road Tourism is history. The longest-running category in world motorsport opened roads, routes and racetracks in the country, transmitted its passion from one generation to another and revolutionized different eras of national mechanics with model changes that allowed the public’s preference and its delicious adventure to spread. Mariano Werner he wrote another unique page, which is added to the three titles he enjoys in the TC: celebrated for the first time with Ford Mustang, offering the first victory to the New Generation prototypewhich came into effect this season.
With the triumph, it is the championship leader and the fourth different pilot, in the same number of dates, to celebrate in the year; success imposes it as biggest winner at the Toay racetrack, where the fourth episode of the calendar took place, which had a particular regulation with the change of the front and right rear tires, and increased its series of recording at least one victory in each course in the last 14 years. He completed the task by matching a historical fact: 57 years ago, in the Vuelta de La Pampa, Oscar Cabalén won with a Ford Mustang F-100the only success of the American model until the triumph that Werner signed with an imperial maneuver on Diego Ciantini (Chevrolet)in the only relaunch that the competition had, four laps to the checkered flag.
The TC is undergoing a renewal: Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro, Dodge Challenger, Torino New Generation and Toyota Camry are the models with which the category has imposed the revolution since this year. Fifty-seven years ago, in 1967, a shock also occurred with the debut of the Torino IKA Renault and with the replacement of the cupidity for compact cars: three years earlier, Jorge Cupeiro was the pioneer with the incursion of the Chevitú. Thus they appeared Bottleby Andrea Vianini, or the Barracuda-Chevrolet, by Carlos Pairetti. Ford ventured with the Ford Mustang, which debuted in the 1966 Vuelta de Pergamino and made history the following years..
At present, Werner was one of the first drivers to embark on the Ford Mustang project and abandon the Ford Falcon, a model with which he won the 2020, 2021 and 2023 crowns. Along with his structure, the Fadel Werner Competition, the year past and while retracing the path to the three-time championship, he was already making progress in the work to be competitive in the new era. He debuted with a 16th place in El Calafate and showed his potential with second place in Viedma – an aerodynamic part of the rear wing was objected to; The seventh position in Centenario (Neuquén) imposed him as a protagonist of the year: success was just around the corner. The Toay circuit is a drawing that feels comfortable for him: he celebrated in 2016 and 2019 and with the new victory he stands out as the biggest winner that the racetrack has.surpassing Omar Martínez and Facundo Ardusso, who have two victories.
Werner’s maneuver to win in Toay
The race had the uniqueness of the mandatory change of the front and right rear tires, a window that opened on the eighth lap and for which each driver had five opportunities. The dominance of the weekend was exercised by Ciantini, who marked the pole with a record, he won his qualifying series and led the final race by a wide margin.
The 25-year-old from Balcarce was hoping to break Chevrolet’s drought, which has accumulated 12 appearances without victories. A forceful task on the track by the driver and correct work by the JP Carrera mechanics at the stop showed him as the great candidate… But The abandonment of Gastón Mazzacane (Chevrolet) modified the scenario with the entry of the Safety Car: In the relaunch, Werner took advantage of the only opportunity that the race presented him and won the jackpot.
“I had no chance if it wasn’t for him. Pace Car. I had to lose many races like that, it’s that bit of bad luck that we drivers sometimes have. Ciantini behaved incredibly: pique and I knew I had to stretch the brakes on the Turn 1 and accelerate to reach the second corner with a half-car advantage. He can do it because that maneuver is done with the collaboration of the other driver, it is also his credit, because he let me pass without strangling me,” said Werner, who praised the mechanics, who acted quickly during the pit stop. This area was dominated by Julián Santero (Ford), from LCA Racing: the assistants, in six seconds, changed both tires.
As in 1967, Ford Mustang had the biggest prize in the Road Tourism in La Pampa. Cabalén, on a road that combined dirt and asphalt, to cut off Torino’s four consecutive wins, with Héctor Pirin Gradassi and Eduardo Copello. Werner, reference of the Ovalrewrote history with the brand, with the model and aspires to defend its reign.