After the three titles won in the 2018 season, the team of former F1 driver Alex Caffi
confirms its commitment in the 2019 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series. Among its drivers,
the winner of the 2018 Elite 1 Challenger Trophy Kenko Miura, Jesse Vartiainen, and
Pierluigi Veronesi. The team, with an expanded technical staff, fields all of the three
different cars starring in the exciting series born in the USA:
Chevrolet, Toyota and Ford.
Montecarlo, 21 february 2019. With less than two months to go before the first round of the
2019 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, Alex Caffi Motorsport confirms its presence in the prestigious
series where the team of the former F1 Monegasque driver secured three titles in 2018.
Japanese driver Kenko Miura, backed by the Japanese manufacturer, will return behind the
wheel of the No.2 Toyota Camry with which he won the Challenger Trophy in Elite 1. The
same car will be used in Elite 2 by Finn Jesse Vartiainen, who already starred within the
team in the past season. Italy’s Pierluigi Veronesi, who in 2018 obtained podium places
among the Rookies, will be back in the No. 27 Ford Mustang. The team will also enter a third
car, a Chevrolet, becoming the first team taking to the track all the three spectacular
cars, rear-wheel drive with a 5.7-litre Chevrolet engine, of the series born in the USA. And in
this context the team has expanded its technical staff with the arrival of Franco Scotuzzi, an
engineer formerly in Scuderia Italia.
Alex Caffi said “We start from three, like the titles we won in 2018, and the cars we will follow
in the new season. I am delighted to continue alongside Kenko Miura, who in addition to the
Challenger Trophy title performed a seasonal crescendo ended with an overall podium in the
final race, but also Jesse Vartiainen and Pierluigi Veronesi who have shown great potential in
2018. We have taken another important step with the arrival of an engineer, Mr. Scotuzzi,
whose experience will be precious in allowing the team to continue its development. We are
still working to complete our driver line-up for the 2019 NWES, with just under two months
before the first race in Valencia we are already flat out”.
Official website: https://hometracks.nascar.com/international/whelen-euro-series/
Useful links: https://hometracks.nascar.com/international/whelen-euro-series/race-centrallive-
2018-nascar-whelen-euro-series/
NASCAR Whelen Euro Series 2019 Calendar: 13-14/04 Valencia (ESP); 11-12/05
Franciacorta (ITA); 1-2/06 Brands Hatch (GBR); 22-23/06 TBA (FRA); 29-30/06 Most (CZE),
13-14/07 Venray (NLD); 21-22/09 Hockenheim (DEU); 05-06/10 Zolder (BEL).
