HOT NEWS - TKART - Autodromo Internacional do Algarve (Portimao - Portugal) - Perfect race for the English driving the new chassis by Armando Filini.

First try, first win for Croc Promotions in the CIK-FIA Euro Championship of the KF category. But to win the first round of 2015, beating 54 drivers in KF, you need a perfect trio. TM Racing has supplied an extremely fast engine, re-launching itself in the international scene. Finally, you need the best driver, or at least the one more in shape, to take you through three qualifying heats, a pre-final and a final, always in front of anybody else. He is indeed Ben Hanley (Croc Promotions/TM Racing).

In pre-final the British driver, fourth in qualifying practice and fantastic first at the start, after three wins out of three in the qualifying heats, keeps the lead never loosing first position, and finally wins. At the back, quite close behind, Hannes Janker (CRG/Parilla) and Martijn Van Leeuwen (CRG/TM Racing). Fourth, in second row for the final, is Leonardo Lonardi (Tony kart/Vortex).

In the final, sunny with 28°C and strong wind, Ben Hanley seems to have no real rivals, if one considers his progression from qualifying practice to qualifying heats, to semifinal. And in fact it is so: he takes the lead at the start followed by Tom Joyner (Zanardi/TM), who will be the only one to keep the pace of the leader, but never able to attack, ending up second at 2.626 from the winner. In the last laps Hanley actually seems to simply control the situation, enriching carburation for a safer win.

Great battle among the three CRG drivers, Felice Tiene (CRG/Parilla), Hannes Janker (CRG/Parilla) and Martijn Van Leeuwen (CRG/ TM Racing), ending up in this order, but exchanging positions a number of times.  Among the three, the Van Leeuwen and Janker had actually changed two out of four tires already in the prefinal, meaning he actually struggled more in the last race of the week end. Anyway him and Hannes Janker have surely had a positive progression, improving respectively from 18th place in qualifying to final 4th and from 16th to final 5th.

Two protagonists who actually were in good shape but lost all in the final have been Casper Roes Andersen (FA Kart/Vortex), finally 26th, loosing 20 positions, and Leonardo Lorandi (Tony Kart/Vortex), starting 4th, but retiring after only 8 laps.

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