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In Val Vibrata, surprising qualifications for the ACI Karting Italian Championship
TKART Staff
27 August 2018

"Translated with Google translate"

Sant'Egidio alla Vibrata, 24 August 2018. After the summer break, the Italian ACI Karting Championship will restart from Sant'Egidio alla Vibrata (Teramo) with 160 riders registered in the sixth Tricolore race scheduled from 24 to 26 August with the KZ2 categories , KZ3, the Iame X30 and Trofeo Rotax Trophies, and the Naskart single-brand trophy.


On the 1,050 meters of the track of Abruzzo, which with this event of the Italian Championship wants to give a sign of recovery and present itself with new enamel after a fairly difficult period, the competitiveness of the riders did not wait until the qualifying tests on Friday, with a series of surprises in all categories and many outsiders in the limelight.


To start with the right foot in KZ2 for the fourth and penultimate round of this category was a splendid Giuseppe Palomba (Intrepid-Tm), second in the Championship standings and author of an excellent pole position in 40.315, "blown" for 8 thousandths second in the last rounds to Francesco Celenta (Praga-Tm), winner of the last test in Lonato. Third and slightly delayed by 89 thousandths the capoclassifica Giacomo Pollini (Formula K-Tm), in front of Flavio Sani (Maranello-Tm) at 0.103 and Danilo Albanese (Tony Kart-Vortex) detached just 1 thousandth from Sani. Francesco Iacovacci was also very strong, with his debut with Maranello, sixth at 0.143, and the fast Natalia Balbo (Formula K-Tm), seventh at 0.144. The top-ten finishes are Giorgio Amati (CRG-Tm), Filippo Berto (CRG-Tm) and Davide Forè (BirelArt-Tm). In short, a good group of protagonists ready to give a show in the heats on Saturday and then in the double finals on Sunday 26 August.


A series of surprises characterized the other categories. In the hard-fought KZ3, for the second race after La Conca, in the Junior pole position went to Roberto Cesari (Formula K-Tm) with a time of 40.991, while the leader of the standings, Denis De Marco (Parolin) -Tm), winner of the race1 at La Conca, only 16th at 0.466. The sendo tempo is + went to Francesco Temperini (Tony Kart-Tm) to 0.072, the third to Gian Marco Loddo (CRG-Tm) to 0.100.


In KZ3 Under for the second time in a row, the pole position was won by Emanuele Simonetti (Tony Kart-Tm), who on the home track achieved a time of 41.001, very little ahead of Andrea Fortuna (Maranello-Tm) at 0.056 and to Thomas Polidoro (TK-Tm) at 0.072. Fourth time for the provisional leader of the ranking Alessandro Cavina (Parolin-Tm).


In KZ3 Over the success in trial is for the two Loddo brothers, with Riccardo having the best time in 41.235 and Jonni at 0.082, both on CRG-Tm. Third performance at 0.124 for the ranking leader Roberto Profico (Tony Kart-Tm) at 0.124. Among the sure protagonists are Simone Torsellini (KR-Iame), Andrea Spagni (Tony Kart-Dea) and Cristian Griggio (Maranello-Tm).


In the Iame X30, in the Junior was confirmed very fast Edoardo Ludovico Villa (TB Kart-Iame), winner of the last test of Adria, with the pole position in 43.212, and two tenths ahead of Ugo Ugochukwu (Tony Kart-Iame). The leader of the ranking Francesco Pulito (Top Kart-Iame) got the seventh time at 0.369. In this category are also in competition two sons of art, Enzo Trulli (son of Jarno Trulli) that on CRG-Iame has realized the ninth time at 0.405, and Lorenzo Patrese (son of Riccardo Patrese) that on KR-Iame has obtained the 11th time at 0.541.


In the Iame X30 Senior is the last winner of Adria, Danny Carenini (Tony Kart-Iame), to be in the chair in the official tests of Val Vibrata, with the best time in 43.36, with only 15 thousandths of a second ahead of Aleksander Bardas (Top Kart-Iame). Francesco Pagano (KR-Iame), second in the Championship, is with the third time to 33 thousandths, Luigi Coluccio (BirelArt-Iame) Championship leader, is with the fourth time to 117 thousandths. Good also Leonardo Caglioni (KR-Iame) fifth only 7 thousandths from Coluccio.


In the Rotax Trophy, the leader of the Rotax Max ranking Davide Vuano (Praga-Rotax) is confirming the fastest in Val Vibrata with the best time trial in 43.879, while in the Rotax Junior the best test was Elia Galvanin ( Exprit-Rotax) in 44.651.

Italian KZ2 Championship after three tests:

1. Giacomo Pollini points 126

2. Giuseppe Palomba points 101

3. Francesco Celenta points 79

4. Davide Forè points 77

5. Marco Zanchetta points 68

Italian KZ3 Junior Championship after a trial:

1. De Marco points 54

2. Tolfo points 46

3. Liuzzi points 30

4. Fazzino points 30

5. Menegatti points 30

Italian KZ3 Under Championship after a trial:

1. Cavina points 58

2. Pagani points 40

3. Nalon points 35

4. Polidoro points 34

5. Zanotti points 32

Italian KZ3 Over Championship after a trial:

1. Profitable points 62

2. Feola points 42

3. Time points 42

4. Gray points 40

5. Gagliardini points 34

Italian X30 Junior Championship after three tests:

1. Clean points 153

2. Villa points 151

3. Ingolfo points 92

4. Stagger points 76

5. Woods points 70

Italian X30 Senior Championship after three tests:

1. Points package 158

2. They pay points 134

3. Carenini points 108

4. Earnings points 83

5. Moretti points 83

Italian Rotax Junior Championship after three tests:

1. Segattini points 49

2. Galvanin points 33

3. Scarpetta points 31

4. Babbolin points 26

Rotax Max Italian Championship after three tests:

1. They want 99 points

2. Santin points 56

3. Zollino points 41

4. Points compass 41

5. Marchetto points 24

THE PROGRAM.

Saturday 25 August: qualifying heats and repechages.

Sunday, August 26: double final for all categories, beginning at 9:40 for Race-1 and from 1:55 pm for Race-2.

LIVE TV AND LIVE STREAMING. Sunday, August 26, 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 at www.acisportitalia.it. Television services in the ACI Sport Magazine on RAI Sport, national broadcasters and around 50 national broadcasters.

COURIER OF SPORT. A special page with comments, classifications and photos will be published on Friday 31st August in the Corriere dello Sport sports newspaper.

The next events of the Italian ACI Karting Championship:

6th round: 24-26 August 2018 - Val Vibrata Karting Track, Sant'Egidio (Teramo)

Categories: KZ2, KZ3, Iame X30, Rotax, Naskart.

7th round: 14-16 September 2018 - Pista Salentina, Torre San Giovanni, Ugento (Lecce)

Categories: 60 Mini, OK, OK-Junior, Iame X30, Rok.

8th round: 21-23 September 2018 - 7 Laghi International Circuit, Castelletto di Branduzzo (Pavia)

Categories: KZ2, KZ3, Rotax, Easykart, Naskart.

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