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Rome, 26 June 2018. More than 200 drivers are expected at the South Garda Karting for the fourth round of the Italian ACI Karting Championship, scheduled from Thursday 28 June to Sunday 1 July 2018 with the categories 60 Mini, OK-Junior, KZ2, Rok Junior, Rok Senior, Rotax Junior, Rotax Senior.

Consolidated numbers in the 60 Mini, currently with about 80 drivers, and in KZ2 where the provisional list has exceeded the threshold of 50 drivers. Very well also the Rok with the Junior and Senior categories that in total are close to 50 riders. To these categories are added the Rotax and the OK Junior, with lower numbers at the moment but with pilots that guarantee further performance.

Among the novelties of this fourth round of the Italian ACI Karting Championship, in KZ2 there will be the absolute debut of last year's OK World Champion, the Englishman Danny Keirle, in the race at Lonato with the Driver Racing team on KR-Iame, for a participation that prefigures a first contact with the kart with the marches in view of the European Championship that will take place in Lonato on July 15th. Also in KZ2, among the reasons of interest, the other debut of the fast Simone Cunati with the CRG colors of the Modena Kart Team. Marco Zanchetta, Italian Champion in 2017 with Maranello, is missing, and fourth in the standings in this year's Championship after the tests of La Conca and Sarno, in the ranking behind the top three classified: the Brescian Giacomo Pollini (Formula K ), the Neapolitan Giuseppe Palomba (Intrepid) and the other Brescian Davide Forè (BirelArt). In Lonato he will also debut in the Tricolor 2018 also Massimo Dante on Maranello-Tm, always excellent performer on the Brianza track.

In the 60 Mini to drive the Championship standings is the Norwegian Martinius Stenshorne (Parolin-Tm) with 112 points ahead of Andrea Kimi Antonelli (Energy-Tm) with 106. In the other categories, in the OK-Junior is in command Tommaso Chiappini (Formula K-Tm), Junior Rok Federico Cecchi (Tony Kart-Vortex), in Senior Rok the Polish Maciej Szyszko (Kosmic-Vortex), Rotax Junior Vincenzo Scarpetta (Parolin-Rotax), Rotax Senior Davide Vuano (Prague-Rotax ).

PROGRAM. The program begins with the Sport Checks that are carried out on Thursday, June 28th. Thursday also begin the first free practice with the use of the transponder. Friday 29 June free practice, in the afternoon official time trials. Saturday 30 June qualifying heats and repechages. Sunday, July 1st warm-up and double final for all categories, start at 9:40 for Race-1 and from 14:00 for Race-2.

GAS STATION. The new petrol station is Repsol Top Fuel in Castiglione delle Stiviere, Via del Benaco 9, petrol 95 octane.

LIVE TV AND LIVE STREAMING. Sunday, July 1 live TV on AutoMotoTV (Sky channel 228), with live streaming on the site www.acisportitalia.it and on the Facebook page Italian ACI Karting "@ACIKarting".

Live Timing and Results on the website www.acisportitalia.it and www.southgardakarting.it

Television services in the ACI Sport Magazine on RAI Sport, national broadcasters and around 50 national broadcasters.

GAZZETTA DELLO SPORT. A special page with comments, classifications and photos will be published on Friday 6 July in the sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport.

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