2023-11-03 01:02:00
The 33-year-old National Tourism (TN) pilot, Agustín Herrera, died this Thursday following suffering a road accident on National Route 205, 20 km from Saladillo. He Chapulinas he was known, drove a vehicle BMW in which also his girlfriend was travelingSofia, who suffered minor injuries and remains hospitalized.
The incident occurred this Thursday at 1:50 p.m. The athlete died on the spot following a head-on collision with another car, in which The other driver also lost his life.who was driving a Toyota Corolla heading towards Buenos Aires, according to reports The New Province.
Everything would indicate that one of the two drivers wanted to overtake another car and crashed head-on, according to the Infocielo portal. Firefighters from the Del Carril detachment and the scientific police intervened at the scene.
The last Herrera’s public appearance was last weekend in La Plata when he competed with Juan Martín Eluchans in the race of the 300 Tourist Track Pilots. In that test, he had to abandon when only three of the nine agreed laps had been run.
Born on November 10, 1989, the pilot from Olavarria, nephew of the former Turismo Carretera pilot, José María Romero (Chueco), debuted in National Tourism on April 15, 2012 at the Autódromo Rosendo Hernández, in San Luis, at the controls of a Renault Clio serviced by the Tigre Racing team. Currently, he was part of the Class 3 team of drivers competing aboard a Ford Focus serviced by the GR Competition team.
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His annual outstanding work was obtained in the 2019 Argentine Championship, having established himself Class 2 runner-up on a Renault Clio serviced by GR Competition, powered by Esteban Pou. In this division he achieved his last victory, on 09/01/2019 at the Termas de Río Hondo Circuit (Santiago del Estero).
Then he made the jump to Class 3 and this season he was part of the team of drivers competing aboard a Ford Focus serviced by the GR Competition team. He was in 23rd place in the championship.
“El Chapulín” also ran within the Asociación Corredores Turismo Carretera (ACTC) and was runner-up in the TC Pista Mouras (the fourth division of the ACTC). He also ran in the TC Pista, the prelude to the TC.
Agustín Herrera’s last post on social media
Herrera had more than 10 thousand followers on his Instagram account. There he used to show all the details of his career and also his personal life with his girlfriend, Sofía. The last story he shared is still published on his profile: it is a video in which he is seen next to his racing car, inside the pits; He is seen concentrated, preparing to run.
Agustín Herrera had an aggressive driving style on the track, but he combined it with some fine maneuvers to know when to change the position of the car in order to make an overtake. His specialty for overtaking was in the curves, as seen in the video of a race in the TN minor division at the La Pedrera circuit, in Villa Mercedes.
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