26 July 2014 |
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The European CIK-FIA KZ and KZ2 Championships will be awarded in Kristianstad (Sweden) this weekend. At this final round, Patrik Hajek (Praga-Parilla) has qualified fastest in KZ while Felice Tiene (CRG-Maxter) is quickest in KZ2.
The event is also round three (of four) for the CIK-FIA European KFJ Championship and sees the American Juan Correa (Energy-TM) on top in qualifications.
The opening heats were run after qualifying. The first KZ race was won by Thonon, after a gripping duel against Lammers. German Mick Junior (Tony Kart-Vortex-Vega) and English Daniel Ticktum (Zanardi-Parilla-Vega) topped KFJ while the two KZ2 heats were won by Lundberg and Pescador.
Above: Thonon and Lammers battle in the first KZ heat.
CIKFIA press - Qualifying
Patrik Hajek achieves the pole in KZ
After the success in KZ of the Belgian Jonathan Thonon (Praga-Parilla-Bridgestone) in the previous round in Germany, the Praga Kart Racing team is back on top thanks to its other driver, the Czech Partik Hajek. In Kristianstad he set the fastest time thanks to his 51”524. Thonon completed the successful session of their team placing behind Hajek, with a gap of 148 milliseconds. Behind them, two other pretenders to the European title: the Dutch drivers Jorrit Pex (CRG-TM-Bridgestone), third 0”205 behind, and Bas Lammers, fourth at 0”240. The Italian Marco Ardigò (Tony Kart-Vortex), second of the current Championship standing, placed at 0”273 with the fifth time, ahead of the English Jordon Lennox-Lamb (CRG-Maxter), with a gap of 0”301. The current leader did not do well: the Belgian Rick Dreezen (Zanardi-Parilla) is only 17th, 0”731 behind Hajek.
Rnk | No. | Driver | Equipment | Time | Gap |
1 | 10 | Hajek, Patrik | Praga / Parilla / B'stone | 51.524 | |
2 | 3 | Thonon, Jonathan | Praga / Parilla / B'stone | 51.672 | 0.148 |
3 | 5 | Pex, Jorrit | CRG / TM / B'stone | 51.729 | 0.205 |
4 | 4 | Lammers, Bas | FK / Parilla / B'stone | 51.764 | 0.24 |
5 | 1 | Ardigo, Marco | Tony Kart / Vortex / B'stone | 51.797 | 0.273 |
6 | 8 | Lennox-Lamb, Jordon | CRG / Maxter / B'stone | 51.825 | 0.301 |
7 | 6 | De Conto, Paolo | Birel / TM / B'stone | 51.888 | 0.364 |
8 | 17 | Hanley, Ben | ART GP / TM / B'stone | 51.945 | 0.421 |
9 | 15 | Kokko, Henri | CRG / Parilla / B'stone | 51.967 | 0.443 |
10 | 7 | Fore, Davide | CRG / Maxter / B'stone | 52.028 | 0.504 |
11 | 14 | Camponeschi, Flavio | Tony Kart / Vortex / B'stone | 52.038 | 0.514 |
12 | 96 | Ilott, Callum | Zanardi / Parilla / B'stone | 52.039 | 0.515 |
13 | 11 | Torsellini, Mirko | ART GP / TM / B'stone | 52.046 | 0.522 |
14 | 32 | Puhakka, Simo | Birel / TM / B'stone | 52.076 | 0.552 |
15 | 25 | Antonsen, Emil | DR / TM / B'stone | 52.205 | 0.681 |
16 | 33 | Mostajo Ollo, Mikel | Intrepid / Modena Engines / B'stone | 52.248 | 0.724 |
17 | 9 | Dreezen, Rick | Zanardi / Parilla / B'stone | 52.255 | 0.731 |
18 | 97 | Joyner, Tom | Zanardi / Parilla / B'stone | 52.277 | 0.753 |
19 | 16 | De Brabander, Yannick | CRG / TM / B'stone | 52.289 | 0.765 |
20 | 21 | Öberg, Viktor | Gillard / Parilla / B'stone | 52.295 | 0.771 |
21 | 39 | Negro, Riccardo | Top Kart / Parilla / B'stone | 52.333 | 0.809 |
22 | 22 | Carlsson, Freddie | Maddox / TM / B'stone | 52.378 | 0.854 |
23 | 37 | Rasmussen, Nikolaj | Dino / Parilla / B'stone | 52.532 | 1.008 |
24 | 95 | Forss, Andreas | Top Kart / TM / B'stone | 52.594 | 1.07 |
25 | 36 | Aceto, Massimo | Righetti / Parilla / B'stone | 52.636 | 1.112 |
Correa, an underdog gives the chase to success in KFJ
Surprises never end in KFJ. The American Juan Correa (Energy-TM-Vega), only 20th in the Championship, is the first in qualifying in Kristianstad thanks to his 52”271. He placed ahead of the English Martin Ross (Tony Kart-TM-Vega) for only 8 hundreths of a second. Two other underdogs, the Dutch Bard Verkroost (FA Kart-TM-Vega) and the Belgian Ulysse De Pauw (Kosmic-Parilla-Vega) placed behind the American. Behind them the Chinese Sun Yeu Yang (FA Kart-Vortex) and the Swiss Clément Novalak (Kosmic-Vortex): they are all occupying the last positions of the Championship standing. The top drivers, on the other hand, are experiencing a rather hard time: the leader, Enaam Ahmed (FA Kart-Vortex), is only 22nd.
Rnk | No. | Driver | Equipment | Time | Gap | Grp |
1 | 241 | Correa, Juan | Energy / TM / Vega | 52.271 | A | |
2 | 217 | Martin, Ross | Tony Kart / TM / Vega | 52.351 | 0.08 | B |
3 | 267 | Verkroost, Bard | FA Kart / TM / Vega | 52.403 | 0.132 | C |
4 | 260 | De Pauw, Ulysse | Kosmic / Parilla / Vega | 52.549 | 0.278 | D |
5 | 263 | Yeu Yang, Sun | FA Kart / Vortex / Vega | 52.572 | 0.301 | E |
6 | 270 | Novalak, Clément | Kosmic / Vortex / Vega | 52.576 | 0.305 | F |
7 | 200 | Lassen, Julius | Energy / TM / Vega | 52.596 | 0.325 | A |
8 | 204 | Sargeant, Logan | FA Kart / Vortex / Vega | 52.639 | 0.368 | B |
9 | 224 | Alesi, Giuliano | Tony Kart / Parilla / Vega | 52.647 | 0.376 | C |
10 | 201 | Ticktum, Daniel | Zanardi / Parilla / Vega | 52.65 | 0.379 | D |
11 | 294 | Nielsen, Jonas | Kosmic / Vortex / Vega | 52.659 | 0.388 | E |
12 | 206 | Lorandi, Leonardo | Tony Kart / Parilla / Vega | 52.662 | 0.391 | F |
13 | 209 | Lessennes, Benjamin | Kosmic / Parilla / Vega | 52.664 | 0.393 | A |
14 | 272 | Milell, Noah | Exprit / Vortex / Vega | 52.666 | 0.395 | B |
15 | 216 | Beckmann, David | Tony Kart / Parilla / Vega | 52.724 | 0.453 | C |
16 | 213 | Travisanutto, Lorenzo | PCR / TM / Vega | 52.729 | 0.458 | D |
17 | 218 | Fewtrell, Max | FA Kart / Vortex / Vega | 52.731 | 0.46 | E |
18 | 222 | Smith, Joshua Francis | ART GP / TM / Vega | 52.762 | 0.491 | F |
19 | 268 | Lundgaard, Christian | Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega | 52.763 | 0.492 | A |
20 | 285 | Jern, Joel | Gillard / Parilla / Vega | 52.765 | 0.494 | B |
21 | 211 | Vartanyan, Alexander | Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega | 52.799 | 0.528 | C |
22 | 202 | Ahmed, Enaam | FA Kart / Vortex / Vega | 52.814 | 0.543 | D |
23 | 265 | Fernandez Wahbeh, Sebastian | Exprit / Vortex / Vega | 52.832 | 0.561 | E |
24 | 212 | Mick Junior | Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega | 52.835 | 0.564 | F |
25 | 228 | Martono, Presley | Tony Kart / Parilla / Vega | 52.897 | 0.626 | A |
26 | 240 | Baciuska, Rokas | Energy / TM / Vega | 52.941 | 0.67 | B |
27 | 223 | Defrancesco, Devlin | Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega | 52.946 | 0.675 | C |
28 | 288 | Travnikov, Sergey | DR / TM / Vega | 52.951 | 0.68 | D |
29 | 239 | Petrov, Artem | DR / TM / Vega | 52.973 | 0.702 | E |
30 | 296 | Poulsen, Cato | Kosmic / Vortex / Vega | 52.985 | 0.714 | F |
31 | 232 | Tonteri, Paavo | ART GP / TM / Vega | 52.989 | 0.718 | A |
32 | 253 | Sario, Robin | Kosmic / Vortex / Vega | 53.008 | 0.737 | B |
33 | 221 | Moreira Laliberté, Kami | Tony Kart / Parilla / Vega | 53.015 | 0.744 | C |
34 | 261 | Roes Andersen, Casper | Energy / TM / Vega | 53.022 | 0.751 | D |
35 | 225 | Colombo, Lorenzo | Tony Kart / Parilla / Vega | 53.026 | 0.755 | E |
36 | 210 | Garcia Lopez, Marta | Zanardi / Parilla / Vega | 53.033 | 0.762 | F |
37 | 234 | Lappalainen, Konsta | Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega | 53.071 | 0.8 | A |
38 | 236 | Zotov, Gleb | Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega | 53.08 | 0.809 | B |
39 | 282 | Valtonen, Isac | Kosmic / Vortex / Vega | 53.098 | 0.827 | C |
40 | 254 | Haaga, Anton | Kosmic / LKE / Vega | 53.12 | 0.849 | D |
41 | 287 | Slutskiy, Zahar | DR / TM / Vega | 53.127 | 0.856 | E |
42 | 215 | Krencisz, Jan | Kosmic / Vortex / Vega | 53.13 | 0.859 | F |
43 | 286 | Slutskiy, Artem | DR / TM / Vega | 53.148 | 0.877 | A |
44 | 207 | Floersch, Sophia | FA Kart / Vortex / Vega | 53.17 | 0.899 | B |
45 | 226 | Drugovich Roncato, Felipe | Kosmic / Vortex / Vega | 53.173 | 0.902 | C |
46 | 244 | Viscaal, Bent | Zanardi / Parilla / Vega | 53.186 | 0.915 | D |
47 | 246 | Scherer, Fabio | Top Kart / Parilla / Vega | 53.232 | 0.961 | E |
48 | 290 | Vips, Juri | Energy / TM / Vega | 53.269 | 0.998 | F |
49 | 274 | Blomqvist, Isac | Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega | 53.28 | 1.009 | A |
50 | 238 | Martinez Merono, Eliseo | CRG / TM / Vega | 53.287 | 1.016 | B |
51 | 231 | Pasma, Patrik | ART GP / TM / Vega | 53.294 | 1.023 | C |
52 | 242 | Brozzoni, Alessandro | PCR / TM / Vega | 53.298 | 1.027 | D |
53 | 281 | Svensson, Emma | Kosmic / Vortex / Vega | 53.313 | 1.042 | E |
54 | 277 | Nerman, Hugo | Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega | 53.341 | 1.07 | F |
55 | 249 | Pankiewicz, Julia | Tony Kart / LKE / Vega | 53.358 | 1.087 | A |
56 | 245 | Legeret, Lucas | Zanardi / Parilla / Vega | 53.383 | 1.112 | B |
57 | 280 | Smorodinov, Alexey | Tony Kart / TM / Vega | 53.4 | 1.129 | C |
58 | 258 | Lindh, Rasmus | Praga / Parilla / Vega | 53.401 | 1.13 | D |
59 | 262 | Roosens, Kenny | Zanardi / Parilla / Vega | 53.475 | 1.204 | E |
60 | 276 | Ljungdahl, Julius | Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega | 53.538 | 1.267 | F |
61 | 205 | Azedo Sousa, Yohan | Zanardi / TM / Vega | 53.549 | 1.278 | A |
62 | 219 | Pull, James | Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega | 53.551 | 1.28 | B |
63 | 283 | Astrand, Kalle | Gillard / Parilla / Vega | 53.56 | 1.289 | C |
64 | 291 | Martinsson, Filip | Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega | 53.576 | 1.305 | D |
65 | 289 | Nyberg, Tobias | Top Kart / TM / Vega | 53.618 | 1.347 | E |
66 | 264 | Milesi, Charles | Tony Kart / Parilla / Vega | 53.665 | 1.394 | F |
67 | 220 | Tillett, Archie | CRG / TM / Vega | 53.675 | 1.404 | A |
68 | 293 | Kekarainen, Pyry | Kosmic / Vortex / Vega | 53.795 | 1.524 | B |
69 | 297 | Rosenback, Lucas | Intrepid / TM / Vega | 53.816 | 1.545 | C |
70 | 292 | Fredriksson, Lucas | Exprit / Vortex / Vega | 53.882 | 1.611 | D |
71 | 295 | Ferreira, Joao | ART GP / TM / Vega | 53.988 | 1.717 | E |
72 | 279 | Persson, Sebastian | Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega | 54.173 | 1.902 | F |
73 | 275 | Jonasson, Christoffer | Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega | 54.537 | 2.266 | A |
74 | 235 | Tashkalov, Damir | Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega | 54.604 | 2.333 | B |
75 | 278 | Ohlin, Simon | Tony Kart / Vortex / Vega | 55.025 | 2.754 | C |
284 | Caldana, Anthon | Gillard / Parilla / Vega | D |
Tiene attacks in KZ2
The surprise in KZ2 is the Italian new entry Felice Tiene (CRG-Maxter-Bridgestone). He achieved success immediately in qualifying, grabbing the pole thanks to his 51”896, ahead of the Italian Andrea Dalè, 16 milliseconds behind. The latter responded to the Lithuanian Simas Juodvirsis (Energy-Maxter-Bridgestone), who placed only 14th today, after he had conquered the top of the Championship standing in Germany. The Swedish Douglas Lundberg (Alpha-Parilla-Bridgestone) is 3rd 0”029 behind, followed by the Spanish Jorge Pescador (Praga-Parilla-Bridgestone) at 0”142. In this case, too, lots of the fastest drivers of qualifying are trying to redeem themselves, given that they are quite far from the top positions of the Championship. This is the case, for example, of the Swedish Joel Johansson (Righetti-Parilla), fifth at 0”161, and the Dutch Marijn Kremers (Birel-TM), sixth at 0”187.
Above: Felice Tiene headed a CRG 1-2 in qualie
pic - CRG/Cunaphoto
Rnk | No. | Driver | Equipment | Time | Gap | Grp |
1 | 422 | Tiene, Felice | CRG / Maxter / B'stone | 51.896 | A | |
2 | 369 | Dalè, Andrea | CRG / Maxter / B'stone | 51.912 | 0.016 | B |
3 | 304 | Lundberg, Douglas | Alpha / Parilla / B'stone | 51.925 | 0.029 | C |
4 | 319 | Pescador, Jorge Carlos | Praga / Parilla / B'stone | 52.038 | 0.142 | D |
5 | 301 | Johansson, Joel | Righetti / Parilla / B'stone | 52.057 | 0.161 | E |
6 | 314 | Kremers, Marijn | Birel / TM / B'stone | 52.083 | 0.187 | A |
7 | 324 | Siebecke, Maik | CRG / Modena Engines / B'stone | 52.094 | 0.198 | B |
8 | 361 | Isaakyan, Nerses | Parolin / TM / B'stone | 52.107 | 0.211 | C |
9 | 316 | Charles, Kenny | Kosmic / Vortex / B'stone | 52.112 | 0.216 | D |
10 | 305 | Midrla, Jan | Birel / TM / B'stone | 52.118 | 0.222 | E |
11 | 331 | Federer, Fabian | CRG / Maxter / B'stone | 52.118 | 0.222 | A |
12 | 330 | Wernersson, Jesper | CRG / Parilla / B'stone | 52.143 | 0.247 | B |
13 | 338 | Zanchi, Matteo | GP / TM / B'stone | 52.155 | 0.259 | C |
14 | 323 | Juodvirsis, Simas | Energy / Maxter / B'stone | 52.168 | 0.272 | D |
15 | 350 | Hansen, Andreas Sebastian | Tony Kart / Vortex / B'stone | 52.171 | 0.275 | E |
16 | 310 | Paauwe, Menno | Birel / TM / B'stone | 52.174 | 0.278 | A |
17 | 317 | Törnqvist, Morgan | CRG / Parilla / B'stone | 52.213 | 0.317 | B |
18 | 372 | Vigano, Matteo | Top Kart / Parilla / B'stone | 52.234 | 0.338 | C |
19 | 315 | Norris, John | Mach 1 / TM / B'stone | 52.26 | 0.364 | D |
20 | 325 | Romkema, Ricardo | Energy / TM / B'stone | 52.283 | 0.387 | E |
21 | 309 | Brenna, Simone | TB Kart / Modena Engines / B'stone | 52.305 | 0.409 | A |
22 | 308 | Specken, Guust | Gillard / TM / B'stone | 52.355 | 0.459 | B |
23 | 425 | Bleek, Danny | Energy / TM / B'stone | 52.358 | 0.462 | C |
24 | 349 | Poulsen, Lasse | Zanardi / Parilla / B'stone | 52.364 | 0.468 | D |
25 | 359 | Karpov, Kirill | Praga / Parilla / B'stone | 52.424 | 0.528 | E |
26 | 423 | Gudmundsson, Filip | DR / TM / B'stone | 52.438 | 0.542 | A |
27 | 311 | Piccini, Alessio | Tony Kart / Vortex / B'stone | 52.447 | 0.551 | B |
28 | 420 | Eriksson, Joel | Maranello / TM / B'stone | 52.448 | 0.552 | C |
29 | 424 | Sjoberg, Daniel | DR / TM / B'stone | 52.467 | 0.571 | D |
30 | 360 | Nilsson, Brandon | Birel / Vortex / B'stone | 52.47 | 0.574 | E |
31 | 333 | Davies, Dylan | DR / TM / B'stone | 52.472 | 0.576 | A |
32 | 373 | Borsholt Sorensen, Jakob | Zanardi / TM / B'stone | 52.499 | 0.603 | B |
33 | 306 | Pex, Stan | CRG / TM / B'stone | 52.515 | 0.619 | C |
34 | 344 | Maingre, Thomas | Alpha / TM / B'stone | 52.516 | 0.62 | D |
35 | 342 | Bizalion, Charly | Alpha / TM / B'stone | 52.525 | 0.629 | E |
36 | 351 | Backman, Andreas | Kosmic / Vortex / B'stone | 52.526 | 0.63 | A |
37 | 426 | Christensen, Toke | CRG / TM / B'stone | 52.531 | 0.635 | B |
38 | 377 | Paskevicius, Paulius | Righetti / TM / B'stone | 52.548 | 0.652 | C |
39 | 427 | Hansen, Jonas | Kosmic / Vortex / B'stone | 52.56 | 0.664 | D |
40 | 353 | Webster, Sam | ART GP / TM / B'stone | 52.573 | 0.677 | E |
41 | 320 | Savona, Federico | Top Kart / Parilla / B'stone | 52.573 | 0.677 | A |
42 | 376 | Myszkier, Pawe | Alpha / TM / B'stone | 52.587 | 0.691 | B |
43 | 429 | Olofsson, Niklas | Exprit / Vortex / B'stone | 52.596 | 0.7 | C |
44 | 365 | Lauritsen, Stefan S. | Zanardi / TM / B'stone | 52.622 | 0.726 | D |
45 | 303 | Schmidt, Dominik | Energy / Vortex / B'stone | 52.626 | 0.73 | E |
46 | 343 | Bonsaudo, Louis | Alpha / Maxter / B'stone | 52.717 | 0.821 | A |
47 | 417 | Andersson, Fredrik | Kosmic / TM / B'stone | 52.772 | 0.876 | B |
48 | 328 | Chehin, Eline | CRG / TM / B'stone | 52.799 | 0.903 | C |
49 | 419 | Lagerstrom, Linus | Tony Kart / TM / B'stone | 52.876 | 0.98 | D |
50 | 375 | Nieminen, Jesse | Birel / TM / B'stone | 52.899 | 1.003 | E |
51 | 428 | Karlsson, Kim | Gillard / Parilla / B'stone | 52.919 | 1.023 | A |
52 | 358 | Kallasmaa, Kaspar | TB Kart / Modena Engines / B'stone | 53.02 | 1.124 | B |
53 | 339 | Bottiroli, Antoine | GP / TM / B'stone | 53.106 | 1.21 | C |
54 | 418 | Hove Sorensen, Frederik | Tony Kart / TM / B'stone | 53.44 | 1.544 | D |
329 | Törnqvist, Person Benjamin | CRG / Parilla / B'stone | E |