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On the Valle del Liri Circuit in Arce, the ACI Karting Italian Cup began, with the KZ2, 60 Mini, KZN Under, KZN Over, X30 Junior and X30 Senior categories at the start of the national title. Rounding out the Arce event on Saturday will also be the riders of the 125 Amatoriale and the very young drivers of the Entry Level.

Friday afternoon the qualifying tests took place, valid for the deployment of the heats scheduled for Saturday. In KZ2 the pole position was scored by Francesco Comanducci (Tony Kart-TM) in 44.838, with just 42 thousandths of a second over Antonio Piccioni (DFM-TM) and 0.203 of advantage over Giuseppe Fusco (BirelArt-Vortex), which promise show together with Roberto Manduchi (45.278, Racing-Modena GP), Raffaele Andreoli (45.364, TK-TM), Mirko Mizzoni (45.833, Italcorse-TM) and Edoardo Salmaso (45.859, BirelArt-TM).

In the 60 Mini the fastest was Valerio Proietti (Italcorse-TM) in 52,248 in front of the pair of ASD Revolution Francesco Marenghi (52.575) and Filippo Sala (52.679) both on Energy-TM.

A good battle is expected in KZN Under, as well as in KZN Over. Roberto Taglienti (TK-TM) achieved 45,249 in KZN Under, ahead of Federico Diana (Maranello-TM) in 45.671 and Fabio Bifulco (CRG-TM) in 45.724. In KZN Over the best was instead Claudio Tempesti (Praga-TM) in 48.812, in front of Tommaso Polidoro (TK-Tm) in 45.913 and Pasquale Feola (DFM-Vortex) in 46.117.

In the X30 Junior the excellent performance of Francesco Castagnina (Tony Kart-Iame) with the best time in 48.294, ahead of the three bearers of Newman Motorsport on Tony Kart-Iame, Andrej Petrovic in 48.426, Matteo Luvisi in 48.443, Alessandro Silvaggi in 48.481. Federico Nardozzi (TK-Iame) achieved the fifth time in 48.511.

In X30 Senior the best time is 47.652 in Federico Albanese (Righetti Ridolfi-Iame) and preceded Alon Gabbay (Tony Kart-Iame) in 47.820, Vittorio Maria Russo (Tony Kart-Iame) in 47.833, Federico Felici (Kosmic- Iame) in 47.936, Domenico Congiu (KR-Iame) in 47.943.

The program:

Saturday 19 October: double qualifying heat by category from 10.30.

Sunday 20 October: Prefinals starting at 10.30 and Finals starting at 12.35.

All results, press releases, photos and Live Timing on the site www.acisport.it

In the picture: Francesco Comanducci, pole position in KZ2.