Regularly placed since the beginning of the season, Nathanael Berthon (Draco) has signed its first success in Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Sunday. After signing the second time in qualifying, the Champion de France Formula Renault 2.0 has done an exemplary race to sign a precious success, the first for the team of Nadia Morini doubled since Bertrand Baguette Motorland Aragon ended the 2009 season .
After the departure of the Belgian driver on the track in FR 3.5 Series, Draco had decided to renew his tandem pilot. With Nathanael Berthon and Julian Leal, Draco is left on new bases. The Italian team did not wait long to see its drivers to shine. After a 3rd place and 2nd place Motorland to BrnoBerthon completed the final step to afford this success on its land.
Berthon " high hopes ":
Second on the grid, Nathanael Berthon has benefited from the drive-through inflicted Daniel Ricciardo (Tech 1), the author of the pole position to take the lead in the race. The Australian has been fined for having changed tires less than five minutes from the start while the weather was threatening. But Berthon was not an easy race so far. After his pit stop to change his tires, he had to manage the onslaught of the Aussie to the finish to afford this success. Behind championship leader Mikhail Aleshin (Carlin) took on him the fourth spot allowing Daniel Ricciardo be closer to 9 units from the head of the Drivers' classification.
"It's perfect for me to win my first race in France Berthon said. Daniel was very quick in the end it was not easy to contain. I'm really happy to win today and it gives me great hopes for the end of the season. I'm very late, but everything is still playable, I think". With 43 points, Berthon back to 5th place overall at 32 points Aleshin.
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