Armstrong Wins In Europe; Piastri Punted Out


  27 July 2015

Kiwi Marcus Armstrong has has scored the biggest win of his career to date, winning the final round of the CIK-FIA European KF Championship in Sweden.

Driving with the Tony Kart Racing Team, Armstrong only qualified 19th in the 47-kart field. Heat results of 7th, 9th, 18th and 4th saw hims stuck in the mid-pack and ranked 19th after the heats. A strong recovery in the pre-final (6th) set up a decent run in the 25-lap final.

Having not scored any points in the previous two rounds, the win rocketed Marcus to 9th in the Championship.

Tony Kart also won KF Junior, the Danish driver Christian Lundgaard winning the round and the European Championship. Ben Hanley won the Senior KF title for Croc.

Meanwhile, a great run from Aussie Oscar Piastri effectively came to an end in the first turn of his pre-final, where only the top 17 would transfer.

Oscar & Alex
Above: Oscar & Alex
pic - Salvestrin

"(Starting 9th) I was hit from behind (again) in turn 1 and spun putting me back to last position and a long way back on lap one" he wrote on Facebook. "I drove up to 27th, setting the 2nd fastest lap of the race, so that's at least something positive. Overall, I was happy with my pace for the whole series and I have consistently had top 10 speed.

"I'd like to again thank my sponsors HP Tuners, IAME, Remo Racing and my team Kosmic Ideal Kart managed by Frank Cancelli, the best mechanic Alex Baten, my mum and dad, sisters, grandparents and all my family and friends for your support and messages."

Points scored at the opening round placed Oscar 26th in the Championship.

 

press release

Asum Ring, a breath-taking European Championship

The finale of the European CIK-FIA Championship couldn’t have been more exciting than this. The event, hosted by the Asum Ring facility in Kristianstad (S), was reserved to the KF and KFJ categories: the names of the new 2015 European Champions of the two international categories were decided at the last bends of exceptionally heated races. The winners of the two Finals were Marcus Armstrong and Christian Lundgaard (both on Tony Kart-Vortex-Vega): it was after their victory that the British Ben Hanley (Croc-TM-Vega) became the new KF Champion, while in KFJ it was the Danish Lundgaard who, thanks to his victory in the last round, grabbed the title.

Marcus Armstrong heads up the KF podium
Above: All smiles from Marcus Armstrong on the KF podium
pic - Press.net Images

Armstrong incredible winnner, while Hanley is the new KF Champion

Marcus Armstrong (Tony Kart-Vortex-Vega) was the protagonist in KF: he had a spectacular off-track excursion on Saturday with no consequences, he closed the gap in the Prefinal and accomplished the recovery mission in the Final, winning the race.

The driver from New Zealand started from the third row and battled for the top positions against the British drivers Ben Hanley (Croc-TM-Vega) and Tom Joyner (Zanardi-TM-Vega), the Danish Nicklas Nielsen (Tony Kart-Vortex-Vega) and the American Juan Correa (Energy-TM). This group of five was then reached by the Dutch Richard Verschoor (Exprit-Vortex-Vega) and the German Hannes Janker (CRG-Parilla-Vega), all eager to push hard.

With Nielsen out of the games, eventually, it was Armstrong who won ahead of Verschoor and  Joyner. This result, however, didn’t help Joyner in his attempt to climb the standings: the winner of the Championship is Ben Hanley, the new European Champion.

Marcus greets the chequered flag
Above: Marcus greets the chequered flag
pic via Armstrong/facebook

Rnk  No.  Driver  Equipment  Gap  Best Lap
1 156 Armstrong, Marcus  Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega  51.701
2 102 Verschoor, Richard  Exprit / Vortex / Vega  1.317 51.565
3 144 Joyner, Tom  Zanardi / TM Racing / Vega  2.554 51.719
4 107 Janker, Hannes  CRG / Parilla / Vega  4.004 51.693
5 133 Hanley, Ben  Croc Promotions / TM Racing / Vega  4.135 51.692
6 106 Basz, Karol  Kosmic / Vortex / Vega  5.172 51.691
7 128 Roes Andersen, Casper  FA Kart / Vortex / Vega  5.788 51.849
8 126 Correa, Juan  Energy Corse / TM Racing / Vega  6.405 51.806
9 105 Van Leeuwen, Martijn  CRG / TM Racing / Vega  7.542 51.721
10 134 Jochimsen, Andreas  Kosmic / Vortex / Vega  12.431 51.554
11 123 Travisanutto, Lorenzo  Tony Kart / TM Racing / Vega  12.846 51.698
12 127 Lessennes, Benjamin  CRG / Parilla / Vega  15.904 51.883
13 151 Vips, Juri  FA Kart / Vortex / Vega  17.237 51.786
14 141 Tiihonen, Niklas  Kosmic / Vortex / Vega  18.222 52.166
15 114 Skaras, Emil  Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega  18.578 51.923
16 145 Dahlberg, Alexander  Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega  19.949 51.816
17 147 Nerman, Hugo  Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega  20.145 52.121
18 122 Haaga, Anton  Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega  20.202 51.819
19 125 Verkroost, Bard  Croc Promotions / TM Racing / Vega  21.142 52.013
20 152 Galletto, Francesco  Zanardi / TM Racing / Vega  23.014 52.127
21 137 Barnicoat, Benjamin  Birel Art / Parilla / Vega  24.03 51.965
22 155 Reicher, Simon  FA Kart / Vortex / Vega  24.432 52.158
23 142 Valtanen, Juho  Kosmic / Vortex / Vega  33.773 52.131
24 189 Lassen, Julius  Energy Corse / TM Racing / Vega  51.364 51.858
25 188 Tillett, Laura  Zanardi / TM Racing / Vega  53.322 52.102
26 192 Thorsen, Kristian  Kosmic / Vortex / Vega  56.081 52.31
27 112 Haapalainen, Tuomas  Croc Promotions / TM Racing / Vega  1 Lap  51.799
28 190 Becamel, François  Kosmic / Parilla / Vega  8 Laps  51.886
29 111 Marcu, Dionisios  Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega  12 Laps  52.289
30 149 Vigano, Matteo  Top Kart / Parilla / Vega  13 Laps  52.396
31 101 Nielsen, Nicklas  Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega  16 Laps  51.941
32 135 Peltola, Olli  Croc Promotions / TM Racing / Vega  24 Laps  59.601
33 120 Vartanyan, Alexander  Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega  25 Laps 
104 Tiene, Felice  CRG / Parilla / Vega  Excluded  51.676

 

Lundgaard beats the odds and wins the KFJ title

Christian Lundgaard (Tony Kart-Vortex-Vega), in the final phase of the round, recovered the positions he had lost in the Heats: the poor result he scored in one of yesterday's races prevented him from starting from a good position. Thanks to his win in the Prefinal 1 this morning, Lundgaard immediately laid his cards on the table: he aimed at the Title even though he trailed by a rather ramarkable amount of points from the current leader, Kenny Roosens (Kosmic-Parilla-LeCont).

The Belgian, anyway, did not take part in the Final, where Lundgaard took an early lead. The driver of the Ward Racing team won race and Championship. Marta Garcia (FA Kart-TM-LeCont) nearly scored the second position, but the Brazilian Felipe Drugovich (Cosmic-Vortex-LeCont) overtook her on the last lap and became the runner-up. Garcia placed third. Roosens only placed third in the Championship, leaving the second position to the Indonesian Presley Martono (Tony Kart-Vortex-LeCont).


Above: KF-J podium
pic - Press.net Images

Rnk  No.  Driver  Equipment  Gap  Best Lap
1 208 Lundgaard, Christian  Tony Kart / Vortex / LeCont  52.885
2 209 Drugovich Felipe  Kosmic / Vortex / LeCont  3.274 52.919
3 218 Garcia Lopez, Marta  FA Kart / TM Racing / LeCont  4.295 53.064
4 222 Viscaal, Bent  Tony Kart / Parilla / LeCont  5.727 53.036
5 241 Collet, Caio  Kosmic / Vortex / LeCont  6.392 53.083
6 221 Lloveras Brunet, Xavier  Zanardi / TM Racing / LeCont  7.241 53.158
7 204 Martono, Presley  Tony Kart / Vortex / LeCont  10.254 52.863
8 212 Maini, Kush  Tony Kart / Vortex / LeCont  11.234 53.081
9 247 Watt, Noah  FA Kart / Vortex / LeCont  13.142 53.156
10 206 Lindh, Rasmus  Ricciardo Kart / Parilla / LeCont  13.246 53.028
11 202 Petrov, Artem  DR / TM Racing / LeCont  13.514 52.952
12 207 Fernandez Wahbeh, Sebastian  FA Kart / Vortex / LeCont  14.253 53.133
13 217 Novalak, Clément  Tony Kart / Vortex / LeCont  15.813 53.144
14 244 Hesse, Max  Croc Promotions / TM Racing / LeCont  18.536 53.332
15 248 Worship, Sami  FA Kart / Vortex / LeCont  18.602 53.18
16 255 Ptacek, Petr  Formula K / Parilla / LeCont  19.331 53.291
17 213 Lappalainen, Konsta  Tony Kart / Vortex / LeCont  21.358 53.29
18 228 Shvetsov, Ivan  Tony Kart / Vortex / LeCont  21.763 53.122
19 260 Petelet, Milane  Kosmic / Parilla / LeCont  22.682 53.246
20 203 Martinez Merono, Eliseo  Praga / Parilla / LeCont  23.674 53.208
21 210 Yueyang, Sun  FA Kart / Vortex / LeCont  24.024 53.128
22 286 Ohlin, Simon  Tony Kart / Vortex / LeCont  24.708 53.069
23 233 Vesti, Frederik  Energy Corse / TM Racing / LeCont  26.981 53.298
24 220 Milesi, Charles  Tony Kart / Vortex / LeCont  28.945 53.291
25 271 Giardelli, Alessandro  Tony Kart / LKE / LeCont  29.014 53.202
26 254 De Wilde, Ugo  Kosmic / Vortex / LeCont  30.078 53.409
27 227 Serravalle, Antonio  Exprit / Vortex / LeCont  30.779 53.398
28 250 Simmenauer, Jean Baptiste  Tony Kart / Vortex / LeCont  31.054 53.168
29 246 Höyer, Mikkel  Tony Kart / Vortex / LeCont  31.386 53.239
30 257 Louko, Daniel  Tony Kart / Vortex / LeCont  53.046 53.421
31 214 Milell, Noah  Exprit / Vortex / LeCont  59.368 53.219
32 205 De Pauw, Ulysse  Birel Art / Parilla / LeCont  10 Laps  53.059
33 234 Vidales, David  Energy Corse / TM Racing / LeCont  19 Laps  55.224
226 Persson, Sebastian  Tony Kart / Vortex / LeCont  Excluded  53.849

 

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