A long of Qualifying Heats valid for the first round of the FIA Karting European Championship comes to an end on the Circuito Internacional de Zuera. The riders today did not spare themselves, allowing us to enjoy intense duels in each category. The last 3 heats remaining for the OKJ and the last two of the OK will take place tomorrow morning before the finals.

OKJ: Arvid Lindblad takes the lead

• Arvid Lindblad (KR Motorsport - KR - IAME) leads the OKJ classification at the end of the fourth round of heats. The Englishman, who clocked the ninth time yesterday, scored three wins and a second place. In the last heat of the day for the category, Lindblad also got the upper hand on the poleman Valerio Rinicella (Parolin Racing Kart - Parolin - TM Racing), who for his part brings home two wins and 2 second places.
  


• Brando Badoer (KR Motorsport - KR - IAME), with 3 wins, ends the day in third place after having to fight in his second heat in which he loses positions in the initial tussle after which he closes seventh
  


• Behind the top three we find 3 drivers with equal penalty points. The first is Igor Cepil (KR Motorsport - KR - IAME) who achieves the same results as Gowda Dion (Ricky Flynn Motorsport - Kosmic kart - Vortex), including a victory. No success however for Alex Powell (KR Motorsport - KR -IAME) who, however, lines up three third places and makes a good leap forward from the 12th time scored yesterday.
  


• Two third places also Bruno Del Pino (Tony Kart Racing Team - Tony Kart - Vortex) who recovered a position compared to yesterday to move to seventh place ahead of the French Evan Giltaire (Sodikart - Sodi - TM Racing), also able to exploit his constancy to advance in the ranking that yesterday, after qualifying, saw him out of the top ten
  Tuukka Taponen (Tony Kart Racing Team - Tony Kart - Vortex) also gains a position even if the Finn, author of a victory, a second and a fourth place, has to deal with first heat ended in 15th place after slipping from 4th to 17th starting position.
  


• Giovanni Trentin (Parolin Racing Kart - Parolin - TM Racing) closes the top-10 with 23 penalty points like Lorens Lecertua (LLK - FA -Kart - Vortex)
  


• Alfio Spina (KR Motorsport - KR -IAME) is also out of the top 10, suffering a penalty that ruined his account made of three second place with an 18th position. Alexander Gubenko (Kosmic Kart Racing Department - Kosmic - Vortex) gains 26 positions compared to yesterday, coming ahead of Ugo Ugochukwu (KR Motorsport - KR - IAME), yesterday sixth but today victim of a withdrawal.
  


• Rafael Modonese (Leclerc By Lennox Racing - Birel ART - TM Racing) also recovered positions (+5) Freddie Slater (Ricky Flynn Motorsport - Kosmic kart - Vortex) (+19) and Tymoteusz Kucharczyk (Birel ART Racing - RK - TM Racing) (+15) while Karol Pasiewicz (Tony Kart Racing Team - Tony Kart - Vortex) lost, also a victim of a penalty, lost eleven places. Nikola Tsolov (DPK Racing - KR - IAME), yesterday 4th, today wins a heat but is also involved in an accident that causes him to slip into 23rd position in the ranking

OK: Taylor Barnardmakes 3 out of 3

• Taylor Barnard (Rosberg Racing Academy - KR - IAME) does not waste the pole position obtained yesterday and completes a perfect day in which no one was able to match his speed. Behind him in second position, Hannes Janker (TB Racing Team -KR - IAME) confirms the good results shown yesterday by scoring 2 wins and a third place.
  


• The third position is provisionally occupied by Oliver Gray (Leclerc By Lennox Racing - Birel ART - TM Racing) who crosses the finish line in second position in all three heats in which he takes part. Constancy rewards the Englishman, who also surpasses Andrea Kimi Antonelli (KR Motorsport - KR - IAME), author of a first, third and fourth place instead.
  


• Laurens Van Hoepen (Leclerc By Lennox Racing - Birel ART - TM Racing), with a second and two third places, is also a constant presence in the first positions. The Dutchman set himself at home in the Leclerc By Lennox Racing's tent, enough to find himself in fifth position with the same penalty points as Nikita Bedrin (Ward Racing - Tony Kart - Vortex), one of the protagonists of this season and who in these Qualifying Heats gets a win and a second place.
  


• In seventh position we find the OKJ 2019 European Champion Marcus Amand (VDK Racing - KR - IAME) who thanks to a second, a third and a sixth place precedes the OKJ 2019 World Champion Thomas Ten Brinke (Ricky Flynn Motorsport - Kosmic Kart - Vortex).
  Pedro Hiltbrand (Tony Kart Racing Team - Tony Kart - Vortex) and Alexander Dunne (Birel ART Racing - BIrel ART - TM Racing) win the last two places in the top ten. Enzo Trulli (KR Motorsport - KR - IAME) follows them in 11th position, but the Italian has also played one more heats.
  


• Norton Andreasson (Ward racing - Tony Kart - Vortex), yesterday second with the same lap time as Taylor Barnard, today is 13th due to a withdrawal suffered in the first heat, however compensated by a victory. Joe Turney (Tony Kart Racing Team - Tony Kart - Vortex), 16th, also suffered a withdrawal due to a contact and ends the day in front of teammate Lorenzo Travisanutto (Tony Kart Racing Team - Tony Kart - Vortex) .
  


• Kajus Siksnelis (Exprit Racing Team - Exprit - Vortex), 20th, precedes Maya Weug Birel ART Racing - BIrel ART - TM Racing) while it is an unfortunate day for Luigi Coluccio (Kosmic Kart Racing Department - Kosmic Kart - Vortex) and James Wharton (Parolin Racing Kart - Parolin - TM Racing) today 35th and 44th. The Italian is forced to retire in the morning due to a technical problem while the Australian does not cross the finish line due to an accident. Both, in the evening are also involved in a maxi accident at the start of the last race together, among others, with Enzo Trulli, Juho Valtanen (today 15th) and Matheus Morgatto (Parolin Racing Kart - Parolin - TM Racing) (22nd ).

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