Bray Off To Belgium
| press release | 13 June 2013 |
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Globetrotting Kiwi karter Daniel Bray (GP/TM/Bridgestone) is off to Belgium today to prepare for the second round of this year's CIK-FIA European Championship meeting for KZ and KZ2 class karts at Genk over the June 29-30 weekend.
Aucklander Bray, 26, was quick but ultimately unlucky at the first round at Wackersdorf in Germany in May and is hoping to at least get to - and finish - the Final this time.
Above: Kiwi karter Daniel Bray - set for a busy couple of months in Europe and the United States.
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Fast Company/Todd McCall
"We definitely had the speed in Germany, that wasn't the problem," he said last night. "We were second quickest in practice, qualified 12th and twice finished third in two of our heats. What I could have done without were a couple of mechanical dnfs and being taken out after getting up to ninth in the Pre-Final."
Bray has been commuting back and forth from his home in Auckland to events in the United States and now Europe for the past three years.
This time though he will stay in the Northern Hemisphere after the CIK-FIA Championship round, flying to San Francisco afterwards before a road trip with his GP Karts team to the third and fourth rounds of this year's SuperKarts USA Pro Tour at Grand Junction in Colorado over the July 20-21 weekend.
He will then finally return home after that double-header meeting so that he has plenty of time to prepare for the fifth round of the YÖGG Rotax Max Challenge of New Zealand in the Hawke's Bay on August 17 & 18.
Italian-born German Ricardo Negro (DR/TM/Bridgestone) was the big winner in the KZ2 class at the first CIK-FIA European Championship round taking out the Final from Italian Marco Zanchetta (Maranello /TM/Bridgestone) and Swede Joel Johansson (Energy/TM/Bridgestone).
Victory in the premier KZ class, meanwhile, went to Max Verstappen (CRG/TM/Bridgestone) from fellow Dutchman Bas Lammers (Intrepid/TM/Bridgestone).
