IAME Report: KF2 / KF3 European Championships

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KF2
8 Parilla drivers on the track, all giving an excellent performance. Stefano Cucco (Birel/Parilla) is consistently fast, this is “his” weekend. He wins a heat, is always up among the forerunners, but a contact in the first lap of the pre-final puts him at the back of the group, he makes a comeback to 18th place but compromises the result (even in the final he is KO following a contact). Antonio Giovinazzi (Top Kart/Parilla) is the protagonist in the heats (4th, 5th and 6th place), but in the pre-final a contact makes his rear tire basically unusable: in the final he climbs back to 15th place, achieving a lap time only one tenth behind the fastest lap time of the day. The first to get the chequered flag is Juha Mäki-Jouppi (Alpha/Parilla), a privateer driver, who demonstrated
that with this material and a good deal of work, you can do very well even without the support of a big team. He is in fact 10th in the final after he had started in 28th place. But in this category the various contacts stole the limelight: bad luck also for Simone Favaro (Formula K/Parilla), who is unable to finish the final race.


Above: Pierre Gasly (Sodi/Parilla), 2nd in KF3

KF3
IAME is the star in the youngster’s category: 16 drivers on the track and a “perfect heat” (the D-E) with 4 IAME riders in the top four positions and the best lap time on the track by the winner Roy Johnson (Zanardi/Parilla). The British, a brand new entry in Chiesa Corse, is very fast throughout the weekend (he wins a heat with a best lap time) and, despite the usual accident at the start of pre-final, in the final he comes back from the bottom of the group to finish in 11th position. The best IAME in the final is Pierre Gasly (Sodi/Parilla): the Frenchman is 2nd after starting in 13th place in the pre-final (finishing in 5th place in the pre-final). The heats brought excellent results too: with two second places and two best lap times.

Lucas Auer (Maddox/Parilla) is 4th in the “perfect run” but encounters further problems at the end of the weekend. Niklas Tiihonen (Birel/Parilla), after some tough heats, gathers strength and climbs from 21st to 9th place in the final. Great comeback also for Jake Dennis (Top Kart/Parilla) who, after good results in the heats (3rd 4th 5th), is involved in an accident in the pre-final, dropping back to 22nd and then making a recovery up to 13th and climbing back even further in the final, just missing out on the podium finishing in 4th place. Federico
Savona (Formula K/Parilla) retires in the pre-final and finishes 17th in the final.

THE COMMENT
Andrea Bossaglia, IAME Technical Director, comments: “I am pleased to report the satisfaction of our clients who have confirmed that the material really matches up with the situation. I would like to thank the drivers and our technicians for all their effort. There is some doubt looming over the regulations related to the starting procedure, increasingly more restrictive for those in the front rows and also in the penalty system, which is often not strict enough to deal with the misconduct of some drivers.

Despite being a beautiful and interesting circuit, the track in Genk is marked by continuous accidents, especially at the starts, to the point where it does not highlight their real possibilities”.

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