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Jordon Lennox-Lamb Takes Greatest Victory of his Career

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At the end of the Qualifying Heats for the KZ2 World Cup fought in Sarno, two men seemed to be ahead of the rest: the New Zealander Daniel Bray (GP-TM), leader of the intermediate classification, and the young Dutchman Max Verstappen (CRG-TM), only 10th on the starting grid for the Prefinal as a result of a broken clutch in one Heat, but remarkably fast in other confrontations.

The Prefinal confirmed his pace. In fewer than two laps, Verstappen took command and flew to pole position for the Final. Behind him, Daniel Bray also took his place on the front row, whilst Simone Brenna (TB Kart-TM) lost any benefit of his 5th place on the grid when his engine failed on the first lap.


Above: Jordon Lennox-Lamb (GBR), KZ2 World Cup winner
pic - CIK/KSP

The duel expected in the Final indeed took place… but it did not last long! After covering the long straight to the Parabolica side by side, Max Verstappen and Daniel Bray completed the first lap in that order. But for his first race in Europe, the New Zealander was determined to leave his mark. Indeed he attacked his rival on the second lap to take the lead. Some few hundred metres later however, his World Cup dream faded when he collided with Max Verstappen, too impatient to regain the lead. As Max abandoned, Daniel restarted out of contention. For the two favourites, the race had already been run…


Above: A few seconds before the start of the KZ2 Final, Kiwi Bray in the #153
pic - CIK/KSP

Jordon Lennox-Lamb (CRG-Maxter) had not asked for as much! Second after the Qualifying Heats and then third in the Prefinal, this time the Briton was again waiting in ambush and drove in solitary splendour to the greatest win of his career. “Frankly, I did not expect to win,” he confirmed. “I was only looking for a podium place because Max Verstappen was really too fast. But he made a mistake when he tried to take the lead on the second lap and from then on I saw that I could control the Race. Naturally I’m delighted! 


Above: Emil Antonsen (NOR), 2nd in the KZ2 World Cup
pic - CIK/KSP

Behind Jordon, the Norwegian Emil Antonsen (DR-TM) was never really in fear of his second place and, three weeks after a national title in his own country, he climbed the podium for this KZ2 World Cup. In addition, he was pleased to be joined by his team-mate, the German of Italian origin Ricardo Negro (DR-TM).

For a long time in third place, the Czech Jan Midrla (Birel-TM) finally just missed a podium place, but still beat the Canadian Phillip Orcic (Zanardi-TM), the Dane Andreas Fasberg (Tony Kart-Vortex) and the Italians Alfredo Daniele Delli Compagni (CRG-TM) and Felice Tiene (CRG-Maxter). Starting from 33rd, the Austrian Marcel Müller (CRG-Maxter) made the best fight-back of the Race to finish in 9th place, just ahead of the Italian Loris Spinelli (FK-TM).


Above: Ricardo Negro (DEU), 3rd in the KZ2 World Cup
pic - CIK/KSP


Above: KZ2 World Cup podium - Emil Antonsen (NOR), Jordon Lennox-Lamb (GBR) and Ricardo Negro (DEU)
pic - CIK/KSP

Rnk  No.  Driver  Equipment  Gap  Best Lap
1 109 Lennox-Lamb, Jordon  CRG / Maxter / Vega  59.016
2 188 Antonsen, Emil  DR / TM / Vega  2.378 59.217
3 111 Negro, Riccardo  DR / TM / Vega  2.618 59.097
4 108 Midrla, Jan  Birel / TM / Vega  3.121 59.183
5 140 Orcic, Phillip  Zanardi / TM / Vega  3.438 59.2
6 105 Fasberg, Andreas  Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega  3.703 59.075
7 156 Delli Compagni, Alfredo Daniele  CRG / TM / Vega  4.422 59.202
8 184 Tiene, Felice  CRG / Maxter / Vega  4.494 58.884
9 132 Müller, Marcel  CRG / Maxter / Vega  7.315 59.059
10 143 Spinelli, Loris  FK / TM / Vega  9.723 59.537
11 101 Juodvirsis, Simas  Energy / TM / Vega  10.41 59.505
12 126 Janous, Adam  Praga / TM / Vega  10.485 59.171
13 194 Pastacaldi, Marco  Kosmic / TM / Vega  10.774 59.338
14 196 Musio, Luigi  Intrepid / TM / Vega  10.995 59.091
15 104 Davies, Dylan  PCR / TM / Vega  11.708 59.245
16 185 Torsellini, Mirko  Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega  12.391 59.232
17 134 Suonpää, Leevi  DR / TM / Vega  12.814 59.153
18 139 Celenta, Francesco  Birel / TM / Vega  13.118 59.038
19 150 Bagattino, Luca  GP / TM / Vega  15.528 59.477
20 153 Bray, Daniel  GP / TM / Vega  16.132 59.231
21 165 Ercoli, Gianmarco  Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega  17.016 59.295
22 167 Riener, Stefan  DR / TM / Vega  17.993 59.209
23 116 Oswald, Rene  Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega  18.827 59.455
24 200 Öberg, Viktor  Gillard / TM / Vega  24.744 59.045
25 210 Brenna, Simone  TB Kart / TM / B'stone  4 Laps  58.953
26 120 Arrue, Alexandre  Righetti / TM / Vega  6 Laps  59.43
27 127 Sani, Flavio  RK / TM / Vega  8 Laps  59.4
28 110 Tilloca, Luca  Kali'Kart / TM / Vega  9 Laps  59.555
29 122 Fabiani, Alessandro  CRG / TM / Vega  9 Laps  59.314
30 102 Di Martino, Michele  Energy / TM / Vega  11 Laps  59.558
31 137 Mazzali, Massimo  Jesolo / TM / Vega  16 Laps  01:00.2
32 159 Dante, Massimo  CKR / TM / Vega  16 Laps  01:00.8
33 124 Verstappen, Max  CRG / TM / Vega  17 Laps  01:02.9
34 112 Ostvold, Kenneth J.  Energy / TM / Vega  17 Laps  01:03.3

 

 

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