HOT NEWS - TKART - MURO LECCESE (ITALY) – As soon as the final starts Nicklas Nielsen (Tony Kart/Vortex) takes off, confirming the role as number one title contender achieved with his prefinal win.

Caspers Andersen (FA Kart/Vortex) and Karol Basz (Kosmic/Vortex) get in tow and pull away from the pack. Here, instead, the race turns intense and several drivers take turns in the role of top chaser.

Juan Correa (Energy/TM), Lorenzo Travisanutto (PCR/TM), Egor Stupenkov (Tony Kart/Vortex), Juri Vips (FA Kart/Vortex) and Leonardo Lorandi (Tony Kart/Vortex) all seem to have what it takes. Too bad that, one after the other, they all lose hope of getting anywhere close to the podium. Correa and Lorandi slide down after a heated duel and close eight and tenth. Travisanutto and Stupenkov struggle on a wet patch close to bend 3 created as rivals ahead hit a side puddle: the Italian ends 11th, while the Russian is forced to retire.

In the end, round 1 winner Richard Verschoor (Exprit/Vortex) is the one who finishes 4th behind the runaway trio, making up for a bad start with a great rebound run. Even better, his race makes him vice-champion! Fifth behind him there is Alexander Vartanyan (Tony Kart/Vortex), whose race went up and down, and in sixth there is Marcus Armstrong (Tony Kart/Vortex), author of a 9 position climb.

Martijn Van Leeuwen (CRG/TM) takes seventh place, after rainfall compromised his fast charge (from twelfth on grid all the way to fifth) .

Up ahead, instead, the runaway trio keeps packed together until six laps from the end, when the order is: Nielsen, Basz (who move up one) and Andersen. After hitting the wet patch at corern 3, however, the Dane slips back and sees the other two take off. In the end the Nielsen builds the gap he needs (just three tenths) to get his Tony Kart safely ahead of Basz’ Kosmic and win both race and title.

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