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Daniel Serra

Brazilian auto racing driver (born 1984)

For the Spanish swimmer, see Daniel Serra (swimmer).

Daniel Gardano Serra (born 24 February 1984) is a Brazilian auto racing driver. He competes full-time in the Brazilian Stock Car Pro Series, driving the No. 29 Chevrolet Cruze for Eurofarma-RC and is also a Ferrari Factory Driver.

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Daniel Serra

Nationality	Brazilian
Born	(1984-02-24) 24 February 1984 (age 40) São Paulo (Brazil)
Stock Car Pro Series career
Debut season	2007
Current team	Eurofarma RC
Racing licence	FIA Platinum
Car number	29
Starts	294
Championships	3 (2017, 2018, 2019)
Wins	24
Podiums	80
Poles	14
Fastest laps	25
Finished last season	2nd (2023)
Championship titles
2017-2019	Stock Car Brasil

Quick Facts 24 Hours of Le Mans career, Years ...

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	2017 –
Best finish	17th (2017)
Class wins	2 (2017, 2019)

He won 3 times the Stock Car Brasil in the years 2017, 2018 and 2019. He is a two time 24 Hours of Le Mans GTE Pro class winner, having won in 2017 with Darren Turner and Jonathan Adam, while driving for Aston Martin Racing, and again in 2019, with James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi, driving for AF Corse.

Career

Son of three-time Stock Car champion Chico Serra, began karting at age 14, after receiving authorization from his parents. He competed in Formula Renault 2.0 Brazil and Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 (the lack of sponsorship brought him back to Brazil). In Stock Car Light, he finished in runner-up, opened the doors for Stock Car. His debut in the Red Bull-Amir Nasr, scored pole position and finished the Championship as the eighth place. In 2009, he joined Red Bull-WA Mattheis. On 20 September 2009, he won for the first time in Stock Car. After joining Eurofarma RC for the 2017 season, Daniel won his first Stock Car title, a feat he would repeat in the next season. On international level, he has competed part time on the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship for Aston Martin Racing, winning the 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans. He additionally raced in three races of the 2018–19 WEC season for AF Corse, winning the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Racing record

Career summary

More information Season, Series ...

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums	F/Laps	Points	Position
2002	Formula Renault 2.0 Brazil	?	6	0	0	0	0	14	19th
2003	Formula Renault 2.0 Brazil	Medina Motorsport	12	0	0	3	0	86	7th
2004	Formula Renault 2.0 Brazil	Bassani Racing	14	5	3	8	2	245	2nd
2005	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	Cram Competition	16	0	0	0	0	17	17th
2006	Stock Car Light	WB Motorsport	9	2	3	5	2	133	2nd
2007	Le Mans Series	JMB Racing (GT2)	1	0	0	0	0	3	44th
	International GT Open	JMB Racing (GTA)	4	0	0	0	0	N/A	NC
	Stock Car Brasil	Red Bull Racing	12	1	0	1	1	223	8th
2008	GT3 Brasil Championship	Via Italia	6	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	International GT Open	Escuderia Osona (GTA)	4	0	0	1	0	6	24th
	Stock Car Brasil	Red Bull Racing	12	0	0	0	0	17	28th
2009	GT3 Brasil Championship	Ferrari Scuderia	11	4	1	6	4	112	11th
	Brazilian Endurance Championship	Ferrari Scuderia	?	?	?	?	?	?	2nd
	TC 2000	Ford-YPF	3	0	1	1	0	0†	NC†
	TC 2000 Copa Endurance Series	Ford-YPF	3	0	1	1	0	32	4th
	Stock Car Brasil	Red Bull Racing	12	0	1	1	0	234	9th
2010	GT Brasil	Lamborghini Cimed (GT3)	16	3	2	6	4	167	3rd
	Brazilian Endurance Championship	Via Itália	?	?	?	?	?	?	1st
	TC 2000	Ford-YPF	1	0	0	0	0	0†	NC†
	FIA GT1 World Championship	Triple H Team Hegersport	2	0	0	0	0	0	57th
	Stock Car Brasil	Red Bull Racing	12	1	0	0	0	224	9th
2011	GT Brasil	Via Italia (GT3)	20	5	0	3	8	137	7th
	Brasileiro de Marcas	Serra Motosport	16	2	2	7	3	220	2nd
	Stock Car Brasil	Red Bull Racing	12	0	1	3	1	240	5th
2012	Brazilian Endurance Championship	Via Italia	2	1	1	1	1	79	2nd
2012	Stock Car Brasil	Red Bull Racing	12	1	0	4	0	169	4th
2013	Stock Car Brasil	Red Bull Racing	12	3	1	3	6	181	4
	Campeonato Sudamericano de GT - GT3	Via Italia	6	3	1	5	5	92	5
	Rolex Sports Car Series - GT	Scuderia Corsa Michelotto	1	0	0	0	0	16	62
2014	Stock Car Brasil	Red Bull Racing	21	2	1	2	5	182	5
	Super TC 2000, Argentina		1	0	0	0	0	0	NS
	United SportsCar Championship - GTD	Scuderia Corsa	1	0	0	0	0	23	73

† - ineligible for points.

Complete Stock Car Pro Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

More information Year, Team ...

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	Rank	Points
2007	Red Bull Racing	Volkswagen Bora	INT 3	CUR 5	MOU 7	INT Ret	LON 30	SCZ Ret	CUR 12	BRA 7	ARG 10	TAR 15	RIO 24	INT 9													8th	223
2008	Red Bull Racing	Chevrolet Astra	INT Ret	BRA 11	CUR 11	SCZ 9	MOU 19	INT Ret	RIO 30	LON 28	CUR Ret	BRA 22	TAR 16	INT 17													27th	20
2009	Red Bull Racing	Peugeot 307	INT 4	CUR 11	BRA Ret	SCZ 5	INT Ret	SAL 16	RIO 1	MOU 11	CUR 18	BRA 6	TAR 14	INT 10													9th	234
2010	Red Bull Racing	Peugeot 307	INT 4	CUR 12	VEL 13	RIO 6	RBP 4	SAL 9	INT 7	MOU DSQ	LON Ret	SCZ 23	BRA 4	CUR 13													9th	224
2011	Red Bull Racing	Peugeot 408	CUR 15	INT 2	RBP Ret	VEL 19	MOU 15	RIO 11	INT 2	SAL 15	SCZ Ret	LON 8	BRA 22	VEL 1													5th	240
2012	Red Bull Racing	Chevrolet Sonic	INT 6	CUR 6	VEL 4	RBP 1	LON 3	RIO 13	SAL Ret	MOU 17	TAR 3	CUR 3	BRA 7	INT 12													4th	169
2013	Red Bull Racing	Chevrolet Sonic	INT 4	CUR 1	TAR 1	SAL 12	BRA 2	CAS 5	RBP 25	CAS 2	VEL 1	CUR 3	BRA 12	INT Ret													4th	181
2014	Red Bull Racing	Chevrolet Sonic	INT 1 5	SCZ 1 19	SCZ 2 2	BRA 1 16	BRA 2 5	GOI 1 Ret	GOI 2 DNS	GOI 1 25	CAS 1 Ret	CAS 2 12	CUR 1 1	CUR 2 6	VEL 1 3	VEL 2 7	SCZ 1 2	SCZ 2 8	TAR 1 17	TAR 2 Ret	SAL 1 12	SAL 2 9	CUR 1 1				5th	182
2015	Red Bull Racing	Chevrolet Sonic	GOI 1 12	RBP 1 Ret	RBP 2 DNS	VEL 1 1	VEL 2 4	CUR 1 1	CUR 2 Ret	SCZ 1 10	SCZ 2 2	CUR 1 3	CUR 2 4	GOI 1 2	CAS 1 25	CAS 2 DNS	MOU 1 7	MOU 2 6	CUR 1 Ret	CUR 2 Ret	TAR 1 8	TAR 2 3	INT 1 Ret				6th	181
2016	Red Bull Racing	Chevrolet Cruze	CUR 1 4	VEL 1 2	VEL 2 6	GOI 1 19	GOI 2 Ret	SCZ 1 3	SCZ 2 12	TAR 1 4	TAR 2 13	CAS 1 10	CAS 2 21†	INT 1 8	LON 1 20	LON 2 Ret	CUR 1 4	CUR 2 13	GOI 1 7	GOI 2 15	CRI 1 Ret	CRI 2 3	INT 1 1				3rd	229
2017	Eurofarma RC	Chevrolet Cruze	GOI 1 1	GOI 2 6	VEL 1 4	VEL 2 7	SCZ 1 6	SCZ 2 17	CAS 1 2	CAS 2 15	CUR 1 1	CRI 1 2	CRI 2 6	VCA 1 8	VCA 2 2	LON 1 2	LON 2 Ret	ARG 1 3	ARG 2 21	TAR 1 1	TAR 2 22	GOI 1 1	GOI 2 9	INT 1 3			1st	371
2018	Eurofarma RC	Chevrolet Cruze	INT 1 1	CUR 1 2	CUR 2 10	VEL 1 8	VEL 2 1	LON 1 3	LON 2 3	SCZ 1 2	SCZ 2 5	GOI 1 8	MOU 1 2	MOU 2 DSQ	CAS 1 Ret	CAS 2 13	VCA 1 2	VCA 2 2	TAR 1 4	TAR 2 2	GOI 1 3	GOI 2 6	INT 1 4				1st	338
2019	Eurofarma RC	Chevrolet Cruze	VEL 1 1	VCA 1 2	VCA 2 15	GOI 1 3	GOI 2 3	LON 1 4	LON 2 Ret	SCZ 1 2	SCZ 2 7	MOU 1 8	MOU 2 5	INT 1 3	VEL 1 9	VEL 2 6	CAS 1 4	CAS 2 14	VCA 1 3	VCA 2 3	GOI 1 4	GOI 2 10	INT 1 2				1st	387
2020	Eurofarma RC	Chevrolet Cruze	GOI 1 4	GOI 2 6	INT 1 13	INT 2 DNS	LON 1 16	LON 2 10	CAS 1 2	CAS 2 10	CAS 3 1	VCA 1 9	VCA 2 Ret	CUR 1 3	CUR 2 4	CUR 3 3	GOI 1 3	GOI 2 8	GOI 3 4	INT 1 4							3rd	275
2021	Eurofarma RC	Chevrolet Cruze	GOI 1 1	GOI 2 7	INT 1 24	INT 2 2	VCA 1 7	VCA 2 9	VCA 1 4	VCA 2 6	CAS 1 4	CAS 2 11	CUR 1 2	CUR 2 8	CUR 1 2	CUR 2 6	GOI 1 11	GOI 2 10	GOI 1 18	GOI 2 Ret	VCA 1 5	VCA 2 4	SCZ 1 5	SCZ 2 10	INT 1 2	INT 2 4	2nd	354
2022	Eurofarma RC	Chevrolet Cruze	INT 1 3	GOI 1 16	GOI 2 4	RIO 1 1	RIO 2 8	VCA 1 6	VCA 2 8	VEL 1 4	VEL 2 12	VEL 1 4	VEL 2 11	INT 1	INT 2	VCA 1 16	VCA 2 7	SCZ 1 3	SCZ 2 5	GOI 1 5	GOI 2 8	GOI 1 10	GOI 2 3	INT 1 2	INT 2 Ret		2nd	316
2023	Eurofarma RC	Chevrolet Cruze	GOI 1 1	GOI 2 8	INT 1 26	INT 2 11	TAR 1 23	TAR 2 6	CAS 1 1	CAS 2 17	INT 1 7	INT 2 5	VCA 1 7	VCA 2 3	GOI 1 Ret	GOI 2 5	VEL 1 10	VEL 2 DNS	BUE 1 19	BUE 2 Ret	VCA 1 1	VCA 2 12	CAS 1 2	CAS 2 7	INT 1 5	INT 2 12	2nd	296
2024	Eurofarma RC	Chevrolet Cruze	GOI 1 Ret	GOI 2 Ret	VCA 1	VCA 2	INT 1	INT 2	CAS 1	CAS 2	VCA 1	VCA 2	GOI 1	GOI 2	BLH 1	BLH 2	SCZ 1	SCZ 2	BUE 1	BUE 2	TBC 1	TBC 2	BRA 1	BRA 2	INT 1	INT 2	28th*	0*

^† Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. ^* Season still in progress.

Complete GT1 World Championship results

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Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pos	Points
2010	Triple H Team Hegersport	Maserati MC12 GT1	ABU QR	ABU CR	SIL QR	SIL CR	BRN QR	BRN CR	PRI QR	PRI CR	SPA QR	SPA CR	NÜR QR	NÜR CR	ALG QR	ALG CR	NAV QR	NAV CR	INT QR 16	INT CR 17	SAN QR	SAN CR	57th	0
Source:^[1]

Complete IMSA SportsCar Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

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Year	Team	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Points	Ref
2014	Scuderia Corsa	GTD	Ferrari 458 Italia GT3	Ferrari 4.5L V8	DAY 10	SEB	LGA	DET	WGL	MOS	IMS	ELK	VIR	COA	PET		73rd	23	^[2]
2015	Scuderia Corsa	GTD	Ferrari 458 Italia GT3	Ferrari 4.5L V8	DAY 14†	SEB	LGA	DET	WGL	LIM	ELK	VIR	COA	PET 6			40th	27	^[3]
2016	Scuderia Corsa	GTLM	Ferrari 488 GTE	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 V8	DAY 4	SEB 7	LBH 6	LGA 2	WGL 5	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	COA	PET 8		10th	164	^[4]
2018	Spirit of Race	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 Turbo V8	DAY 21	SEB 12	MDO	DET									29th	77	^[5]
	Squadra Corse Garage Italia								WGL 18	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	LGA
	Scuderia Corsa														PET 1
2019	Spirit of Race	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 Turbo V8	DAY 20	SEB		MDO	DET	WGL	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	LGA		67th	11	^[6]
2019	Risi Competizione	GTLM	Ferrari 488 GTE	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 Turbo V8			LBH									PET 1	22nd	35	^[6]
2020	Risi Competizione	GTLM	Ferrari 488 GTE	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	DAY 6	DAY	SEB	ELK	VIR	ATL	MDO	CLT	PET	LGA	SEB		16th	25	^[7]
2021	AF Corse	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	DAY 8	SEB	MDO	DET	WGL	WGL	LIM	ELK	LGA	LBH	VIR	PET	55th	246	^[8]
2022	Risi Competizione	GTD Pro	Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	DAY 2	SEB 9	LBH	LGA	WGL 2	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	PET 7			8th	1213	^[9]
2023	Risi Competizione	GTD Pro	Ferrari 296 GT3	Ferrari 3.0 L Turbo V6	DAY 10	SEB 6	LBH	LGA	WGL 2	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	IMS	PET 3		6th	1192	^[10]
2024	Risi Competizione	GTD Pro	Ferrari 296 GT3	Ferrari 3.0 L Turbo V6	DAY 1	SEB 2	LGA	DET	WGL	MOS	ELK	VIR	IMS	PET			1st*	722*	^[11]
Source:^[12]

^† Serra did not complete sufficient laps in order to score full points. ^* Season still in progress.

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

More information Year, Entrant ...

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Rank	Points
2017	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 7	SPA 7	LMS 1	NÜR 7	MEX Ret	COA 5	FUJ	SHA	BHR	9th	79
2018–19	AF Corse	LMGTE Pro	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	SPA	LMS 4	SIL	FUJ	SHA	SEB 4	SPA	LMS 1		6th	71
2019–20	AF Corse	LMGTE Pro	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	SIL	FUJ	SHA	BHR	COA	SPA	LMS 2	BHR 12		14th	37
2021	AF Corse	LMGTE Pro	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	SPA 3	ALG 2	MNZ 4	LMS 10	BHR 4	BHR 3				4th	92
2022	AF Corse	LMGTE Pro	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	SEB	SPA	LMS 2	MNZ	FUJ	BHR				11th	36
2023	Kessel Racing	LMGTE Am	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	SEB 3	ALG 10	SPA 8	LMS Ret	MNZ	FUJ	BHR 5			11th	43
Sources:^[12]^[13]

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

More information Year, Team ...

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2017	Aston Martin Racing	Darren Turner Jonathan Adam	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Pro	340	17th	1st
2018	AF Corse	James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	GTE Pro	339	22nd	7th
2019	AF Corse	James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	GTE Pro	342	20th	1st
2020	AF Corse	James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	GTE Pro	346	21st	2nd
2021	AF Corse	Sam Bird Miguel Molina	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	GTE Pro	331	37th	5th
2022	AF Corse	James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	GTE Pro	350	29th	2nd
2023	Kessel Racing	Scott Huffaker Takeshi Kimura	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	GTE Am	254	DNF	DNF
Sources:^[12]^[14]

24 Hours of Daytona results

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Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2013	Scuderia Corsa	Francisco Longo Raphael Matos Xandinho Negrão	Ferrari 458 Italia Grand-Am	GT	576	38th	24th
2014	Scuderia Corsa	Francisco Longo Marcos Gomes Xandinho Negrão	Ferrari 458 Italia GT3	GTD	649	29th	10th
2015	Scuderia Corsa	Francisco Longo Marcos Gomes Andrea Bertolini	Ferrari 458 Italia GT3	GTD	545	32nd	14th
2016	Scuderia Corsa	Alessandro Pier Guidi Alexandre Prémat Memo Rojas	Ferrari 488 GTE	GTLM	721	10th	4th
2018	Spirit of Race	Paul Dalla Lana Pedro Lamy Mathias Lauda	Ferrari 488 GT3	GTD	571	44th	21st
2019	Spirit of Race	Paul Dalla Lana Pedro Lamy Mathias Lauda	Ferrari 488 GT3	GTD	349	DNF	DNF
2020	Risi Competizione	James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi Davide Rigon	Ferrari 488 Evo	GTLM	738	DNF	DNF
2021	AF Corse	Matteo Cressoni Simon Mann Nicklas Nielsen	Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo	GTD	743	29th	8th
Sources:^[12]^[15]

Complete European Le Mans Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

More information Year, Entrant ...

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	Rank	Points
2023	Kessel Racing	LMGTE	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	CAT	LEC	ARA	SPA 5	ALG 4	ALG 12	14th	22
2024	Kessel Racing	LMGT3	Ferrari 296 GT3	Ferrari F163 3.0 L Turbo V6	CAT 9	LEC	IMO	SPA	MUG	ALG	9th*	2*
Source:^[12]

^* Season still in progress.

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"Daniel Serra – 2015 Tudor United SportsCar Championship Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
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"Daniel Serra – 2016 Weathertech SportsCar Championship Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
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"Daniel Serra – 2019 Weathertech SportsCar Championship Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
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"Daniel Serra – 2020 Weathertech SportsCar Championship Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
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"Daniel Serra – 2022 Weathertech SportsCar Championship Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
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"Daniel Serra – 2023 Weathertech SportsCar Championship Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
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"Daniel Serra – 2024 Weathertech SportsCar Championship Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
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"Daniel Serra Results". Motorsport Stats. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
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"Daniel Serra". FIA World Endurance Championship. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
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"Daniel Serra". Automobile Club de l'Ouest. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
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External links

Official website (in Portuguese)

More information Sporting positions ...

Sporting positions
Preceded by Inaugural	Desafio Internacional das Estrelas Winner 2005	Succeeded by Felipe Massa
Preceded by Felipe Fraga	Stock Car Brasil Champion 2017, 2018, 2019	Succeeded by Ricardo Maurício
Preceded by Nick Tandy Tommy Milner (GTLM)	Michelin Endurance Cup GTD Pro Champion 2022 With: Davide Rigon	Succeeded by Jules Gounon Daniel Juncadella

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