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Activity continues on the track for the Round 2 of the WSK Final Cup on the South Garda Karting in Lonato (Italy). After the first day of Friday, in which the qualifications and the first qualifying heats took place, on Saturday all the remaining heats for the five categories present in the race were held: KZ2, OK, OKJ, MINI Gr.3 and MINI Gr.3 U10 The starting grids for Sunday’s pre-finals were then decided.

KZ2: Cristian Bertuca takes command

• He is certainly thinking of wanting to win the first round of the WSK Super Master Series after winning the WSK Champions Cup last week: Cristian Bertuca (Birel Art Racing – Birel Art – TM Racing) makes perfect use of the inattentions of others and, with a haul of two victories and a second position, he is first at the end of the qualifying heats.


• Emilien Denner (Sodikart – Sodikart – TM Racing) continues to worry the Birel Art Racing drivers. The Frenchman scores two victories and two podiums, consequently gaining the second position in the intermediate classification.


• Two more Birel Art at the top of the standings: Pedro Hiltbrand (Birel Art Racing – Birel Art – TM Racing) is third, winner of heat B-D, while Giuseppe Palomba (Birel Art Racing – Birel Art – TM Racing) is fourth, after qualifying 14th.


• Jeremy Iglesias (CRG Racing Team – CRG – TM Racing) climbed the classification during the heats and from 14th position to fifth. Unlike poleman Daniel Vasile (Birel Art Racing – Birel Art – TM Racing), now in sixth position.


• David Trefilov (Maranello SRP Factory Team – Maranello – TM Racing) climbs 6 positions, 7th at the end of the qualifying heats, while Freddie Slater (Birel Art Racing – Birel Art – TM Racing) makes a few mistakes and drops to eighth position. The reigning KZ2 European champion Tom Leuillet (Tony Kart Racing Team – Tony Kart – Vortex) stable in ninth position, ahead of Alessio Piccini (Birel Art Racing – Birel Art – TM Racing), tenth.


• Alex Maragliano (Maranello SRP Factory Team – Maranello – TM Racing) moves to the edge of the Top 10, 11th, followed by Andrea Dalé (Andrea Dalé – CRG – TM Rcing), 12th, and the reigning KZ world champion Viktor Gustavsson (CRG Racing Team – CRG – TM Racing), 13th. The Top 15 also includes Daniel Stell (Dorr Motorsport – KR – IAME), 14th, and Matteo Zanchi (Zanchi Motorsport – CRG – TM Racing), 15th.


• Positive yesterday with the third position in qualifying, Moritz Ebner (Birel Art Racing – Birel Art – TM Racing) slipped back to 19th position. Try to catch up with Noah Milell (Tony Kart Racing Team – Tony Kart – Vortex), from 40th to 26th, as well as the FIA Karting World Cup KZ2 champion Arthur Carbonnel (CRG Racing Team – CRG – TM Racing), from 42nd at 31°.

OK: David Walther's time has come

• With the winner's cup of the WSK Champions Cup sparkling on his showcase, now David Walther (Koski Motorsport – Tony Kart – Vortex) is ready to grab that of the winner of the first round of the WSK Super Master Series as well. The Dane does not disappoint expectations and, with three victories and an eighth position, is first at the end of the qualifying heats.


• With strength and without too much fear of his opponents, Gustav Wisnieswki (Forza Racing – Exprit – TM Racing) gains 11 positions and finishes second. The Pole is ready to have his say tomorrow in prefinal B, where he will start in pole position.


• On the podium a week ago at the WSK Champions Cup, Tomass Stolcermanis (Energy Corse – Energy Corse – TM Racing) reappears in the Top 3 taking third position with a solid progress between yesterday and today. Gabriel Gomez (CRG Racing Team – CRG – IAME) was also good, from 14th to fourth.


• Despite having gone from second to fifth position, James Egozi (Tony Kart Racing Team – Tony Kart – Vortex) still remains in contention for the final victory. The American precedes his teammate Jan Przyrowski (Tony Kart Racing Team – Tony Kart – Vortex) in the standings.


• Maxim Rehm (Ricky Flynn Motorsport – LN – Vortex) hits the Top 10 conquering the seventh position, as well as Martin Molnar (Energy Corse – Energy Corse – TM Racing) with the eighth place. 11 positions more in the standings for Kiano Blum (DPK Racing – KR – IAME), tenth behind Jimmy Helias (Ward Racing – Tony Kart – Vortex), ninth.


• Zhenrui Chi (Beyond Racing Team – KR – TM Racing) is no longer in the top ten, more precisely 11th. Thomas Strauven (Ricky Flynn Motorsport – LN – Vortex) is 12th, ahead of Emanuele Olivieri (IPK Official Racing Team – IPK – TM Racing).


• A contact with Wisnieswki and the consequent withdrawal in the last heat of the day irreparably ruin the chances of poleman Luigi Coluccio (Tony Kart Racing Team – Tony Kart – Vortex) to restart from the front in tomorrow's pre-finals. The Italian has now dropped to 14th position. -11 positions in the standings also for Simone Bianco (CRG Racing Team – CRG – IAME), now 15th.

OKJ: Sebastian Lehtimäki aims for victory

• Someone could venture to consider him as a simple "outsider" of the category, but in reality Sebastian Lehtimäki (Koski Motorsport – Tony Kart – Vortex) is much more. In fact, the Finn demonstrates his superiority in the qualifying heats and, with a total of four victories out of five races, he grabs the top of the intermediate standings. After the third position at the Winter Cup two weeks ago, the Koski Motorsport driver is aiming for the best result this weekend.


• Two victories and three second positions launch Elliot Kaczynski (Ward Racing – Tony Kart – Vortex) directly into second position. The Swede will be the other poleman in the pre-finals, as already mentioned, scheduled for tomorrow morning.


• Despite three successes, Oleksandr Bondarev (KR Motorsport – KR – IAME) slips one position back in the standings. Thanks to a ninth position in heat A-B on Friday and the sixth position remedied today in heat B-C, in the latter due to a few too many contacts.


• Christian Costoya (Parolin Motorsport – Parolin – TM Racing) also lost a position compared to qualifying. The Spaniard, now fourth, scored two victories and two podiums, but in heat B-C he finished "just" tenth.


• Compared to Bondarev and Costoya, things went worse for Dries Van Langendonck (Energy Corse – Energy Corse – TM Racing). The Belgian, who took pole position yesterday, did not score any wins but four podiums, as well as a seventh position in the last heat on Saturday.


• Well done Filippo Sala (Sodikart – Sodikart – TM Racing), who went from eighth to seventh, as well as Kian Fardin (KR Motorsport – KR – IAME), from 14th to seventh, and David Cosma Cristofor (KR Motorsport – KR – IAME), from 21° to eighth. Even Alp Hasan Aksoy (Tony Kart Racing Team – Tony Kart – Vortex) gains 15 positions thanks also to the victory in the last heat and finishes ninth.


• Geramin Skulanov (Birel Art Racing – Birel Art – TM Racing) is 10th, ahead of Scott Kin Lindblom (Tony Kart Racing Team – Tony Kart – Vortex), 11th, Stepan Antonov (KR Motorsport – KR – IAME), 12th , and Jack Iliffe (Parolin Motorsport – Parolin – TM Racing), 13th.


• Simon Rechenmacher (TB Racing Team – KR – IAME) recovers 13 positions and reaches 14th position. Complete the Top 15 Davide Bottaro (Tony Kart Racing Team – Tony Kart – Vortex), 15th. Jindrich Pesl (IPK Official Racing Team – IPK – TM Racing) falls 16th.


• After a complicated qualifying, the 2022 WSK Open Cup champion Salim Hanna (Ricky Flynn Motorsport – LN – Vortex) scored a record comeback of 66 positions and finished 19th. Also noteworthy is the climb of 55 positions for Tiziano Monza (Shamick Europe – Parolin – TM Racing), now 23rd.

MINI Gr.3: Dean Hoogendoorn ousts Iskender Zulfikari

• Exciting duel air for the final victory in the MINI Gr.3. Dean Hoogendoorn (Kidix Driver Performance – KR – IAME) records a perfect score of four wins out of four, taking the leadership away from the hands of Iskender Zulfikari (Babyrace Driver Academy – Parolin – IAME).


• Zulfikari, author of the pole position yesterday and winner of the WSK Champions Cup, the Winter Cup, the WSK Final Cup and the WSK Open Cup in the last few months, thus finds himself a rival to beat tomorrow. The Turk will start in front of everyone in prefinal B.


• The first pursuer of the pair Hoogendoorn-Zulfikari is Mariano Lopez (Babyrace Driver Academy – Parolin – IAME), third after also winning heat D-E. Vladimir Ivannikov (Gamoto – EKS – TM Racing) instead gains the fourth position, followed by Bogdan Cosma Cristofor (Team Driver Racing Kart – KR – IAME) in fifth position.


• He put the turbo into the qualifying heats Shen Zeyu (AVRacing – Parolin – TM Racing), good at scraping together a second position as best result and sixth position in the intermediate classification. The Chinese started from the 29th position obtained in qualifying.


• The ranking continues with Arias Chavarri (Team Driver Racing Kart – KR – IAME), 7th, Devin Walz (Babyrace Driver Academy – Parolin – IAME), 8th, and Teoh Travis (Kidix Driver Performance – FA Kart – IAME), past from 23° to 9°. Too bad for Ilia Berezkin (Team Driver Racing Kart – KR – IAME), 10th due to a retirement in the last heat on Saturday and after winning two heats.


• Immediately at the foot of the Top 10 we find Angelo Bruno Blanco (CRG Racing Team – CRG – TM Racing), 11th, Riven Esteves (Babyrace Driver Academy – Parolin – IAME), 12th, and a surprising Keelan Harvick (Babyrace Driver Academy – Parolin – IAME), from 59° to 13°.


• Comeback also for Max Endacott (Kidix Driver Performance – FA Kart – IAME), from 25th to 14th. Pietro Bagutti (AVRacing – Parolin – TM Racing) is instead 15th.

MINI Gr.3 U10: Alessandro Truchot still ahead

• The opportunity is too tempting to pass up. Alessandro Truchot (Parolin Motorsport – Parolin – TM Racing) finished third in the first heat and won the other two, confirming his position at the top of the standings at the end of Saturday too.


• The direct pursuers of Truchot change. Oleksandr Legenkyi (Team Driver Racing Kart – KR – IAME), fresh champion of the WSK Champions Cup, climbs from seventh to second position. Behind him Antoine Venant (Kidix Driver Performance – KR – IAME), from 15th to 3rd, and Nikita Botte (CRG Racing Team – CRG – TM Racing), from 18th to 4th.


• Wiktor Stalmach (Team Driver Racing Kart – KR – IAME) also gained positions, from 13th to 5th, Michele Orlando (IPK Official Racing Team – IPK – TM Racing), from 29th to 6th, and Daniil Kutskov (Babyrace Driver Academy – Parolin – IAME), from 21st to 7th.


• Sebastian Eskandari Marandi (Tony Kart Racing Team – Tony Kart – Vortex) remains solidly eighth, while David Moscardi (AVRacing – Parolin – TM Racing) and Niccolò Perico (Energy Corse – Energy Corse – TM Racing) complete the Top 10, respectively 9th and 10th.


• Henri Kumpen (Babyrace Driver Academy – Parolin – IAME) retreats from third position to 14th, Orlando Rovelli (Kidix Driver Performance – KR – IAME) from second to 17th and Roland Nagy (ERT Racing Team – Parolin – TM Racing) from fifth to 18th.

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