Under a bright sun and on a dry Asum Ring track, the last three qualifying races unfolded this morning in the Junior class. Nikita Bedrin (Tony Kart/Vortex) took his fourth win of the weekend in the E-F race ahead of Miron Pingasov (FA Kart/IAME), Kajus Siksnelis (Tony Kart/Vortex), Philip Victorsson (Tony Kart/Vortex) and Thomas Ten Brinke (FA Kart/Vortex).
After a Saturday made of ups and downs, Robert De Haan (Energy/TM) claimed his last heat (C-D) with Marcus Amand crossing the line in second place ahead of William Karlsson (Exprit/Vortex), Tymoteusz Kucharczyk (Parolin/TM) and James Wharton (FA Kart/Vortex).
In the last Junior heat race of the weekend (A-B), Tuukka Taponen (Redspeed/IAME) went past Andrea Kimi Antonelli (KR/IAME) in the opening laps to clinch the Pole position for the Final, Maxime Furon-Castelain (Kosmic/IAME) finishing third ahead of Rafael Camara (BirelART/TM) and Jamie Day (Exprit/Vortex).
Provisional Junior Final starting grid:
- Tuukka Taponen
- Nikita Bedrin
- Andra Kimi Antonelli
- Philip Victorsson
- Kajus Siksnelis
- Marcus Amand
- Jamie Day
- Theo Wernersson
- Tymoteusz Kucharczyk
- Andra Alfio Spina
- Rafael Chaves Camara
- Alex Dunne
- Christian Ho
- James Wharton
- Lorens Lecertua
- Thomas Ten Brinke
- William Karlsson
- Suleiman Zanfari
- Maxime Furon-Castelain
- Conrad Laursen
- Karol Pasiewicz
- Cristian Bertuca
- Josep Marti
- Oleksandr Partyshev
- Miron Pingasov
- Arvid Lindblad
- Maxwell Dodds
- Robert De Haan
- Caspian Hagman
- Andrey Zhivnov
- Axel Malja
- Santiago Trisini
- Elliott Vayron
- William Silverholm
Text: Guillaume Alvarez
Photo: Alex Vernardis