As for the Champions Cup one week ago, the Italian weather turned to be once again cold and, this time, rather rainy when the three categories went through their on-track duties.
Starting from 13:40, the Qualifying series – three for OKJ and 60 Mini, two for OK – have delivered their verdicts ahead of the first Qualifying Heats, with seven races disputed before the chequered flag called it a day around 18:00.
OK
On a slippery track, Sebastian Ogaard (Tony Kart/Vortex) set the reference-lap (1:03.229) in his second Qualifying series to clinch the first spot in the Group A. Second-fastest overall, Aleksey Sizov (Tony Kart/TM) will start ahead in the Group B, as will Dexter Patterson (KR/IAME) in the Group C (third-fastest of the class) and Kirill Smal (Tony Kart/Vortex) in the Group D (fourth-fastest). Accredited with the sixth best lap time, Gabriele Mini’ (Parolin/TM) has preceded Dilano Van’t Hoff (Exprit/TM), Kacper Szczurek (Kosmic/Vortex), Sami Meguetounif (Tony Kart/Vortex), Rasmus Joutsimies (Tony Kart/Vortex) and David Rozenfeld (Kosmic/Vortex) in the top ten. Lorenzo Travisanutto (KR/IAME) set the 12th-fastest performance while British favorites Harry Thompson (FA Kart/Vortex) and Taylor Barnard (KR/IAME) concluded their series with the 25th and 30th lap times respectively. Click here for the full results.
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OK Junior
Paolo Ferrari (Righetti Ridolfi/TM) made the best of a tricky Qualifying session to set the fastest lap in the Juniors. Nikita Bedrin (Tony Kart/Vortex) pulled off the second-fastest lap (first in Group B) in front of Tymoteusz Kucharczyk (Parolin/TM, first in Group C), Brando Badoer (Parolin/TM, first in Group D) and Robert De Haan (Energy/TM, first in Groupe E). The series, which opened the afternoon in Adria, proved to be difficult for some of the latest Champions Cup’s contenders like Andrea Kimi Antonelli (KR/IAME), 12th overall, James Wharton (FA Kart/Vortex), 24th, or last year’s Final Cup round winner Marcus Amand (KR/IAME), 47th overall. Click here for the full
The first Heat of the weekend (C-E) went to Tymoteusz Kucharczyk who crossed the line 2.3 seconds clear off Lorenzo D’Aloisio (Birel ART/TM) before the Italian driver was penalized with five seconds (front fairing) to drop back to 6th. Consequently, Robert De Haan gained one place, as Marcel Kuc (Parolin/TM), Paolo Gallo (Parolin/TM) and Alessandro Cenedese (Parolin/TM). A distant 24th on the grid, Laurens Van Hoepen (FA Kart/Vortex) recovered half of the positions in 12 laps (full results here). The following Heat (B-D) was the scene of a double drama when the two front row drivers, Pole-sitter Nikita Bedrin and Brando Badoer, retired in the first lap after hitting each other! A situation that led to Josep Marti Sobrepera (Tony Kart/Vortex) taking the win with Andrea Kimi Antonelli completing his run in second place ahead of Conrad Laursen (FA Kart/Vortex), Martinius Stenshorne (Parolin/TM) and 2019 Champions Cup Winner Alex Dunne (Exprit/TM) (Full results here).
60 Mini
At ease with the track conditions, Coskun Irfan (Parolin/TM) topped the 60 Mini class in Qualifying with a lap completed in 1:09.954 to secure him the front seat in the Group A. Manuel Scognamilgio (Tony Kart/TM) was second-fastest (first in Group B) ahead of Maksimilian Popov (first in Group C, Parolin/TM), Francesco Marenghi (first in Group D, Tony Kart/TM), Mark Dubnitski (first in Group E, Birel ART/TM) and Kirill Kutskov (first in Group F, Energy/TM). Rashid Al Dhaheri (Parolin/TM), on the podium last Sunday, faced a troublesome session with the 33rd lap time, as Douwe Dedecker (Parolin/TM), 60th, and last week’s Champions Cup Victor Andrea Filaferro (Tony Kart/TM), 77th. Click here for the full results.
In the opening Heat of the day, William Macintyre (Tony Kart/Vortex) defeated Pole-Sitter Coskun Irfan, who kept his second place despite a three-second penalty for non-respect of the starting procedure. In third place, Mikkel Pedersen (Parolin/TM) produced an interesting effort by making up nine places ahead of Tom Braeken (Parolin/TM) and Kajetan Gawron (Parolin/TM). Third and fourth on track, Gabriele Garozzo (IPK/TM) and Yaroslav Trukhin (Energy/TM) were classified 6th and 8th after both being penalized with a 5-second penalty for front fairing (full results here). Despite starting 11th, Rashid Al Dhaheri flew through the field to win the C-D race 0.8 seconds from the Pole-sitter Maksimilian Popov. His fellow countryman Maksim Orlov (Parolin/TM) came home in third, in front of Julius Dinesen (Parolin/TM) and Loris Clericy (Parolin/TM). Second and third on the grid, Fransceco Marenghi and Alex Powell (Energy/TM) couldn’t do better than 17th and 19th respectively after some trouble on the way (full results here). Finally, the Qualifying Heat between Groups E and F was won by Kirill Kutskov (Energy/TM) ahead of Joel Bergström (Parolin/TM), Mark Dubnitski, Anatoly Khavalkin (IPK/TM) and Alexandr Tibekin (DR/TM) (Full results here).
The Round 1 of the WSK Super Master Series continues this Saturday with the first Warm-ups from 8:20 and the pursuit of the Qualifying Heats from 10:20 (see below).
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| Saturday 02/02 | 08:20 – 10:00 10:20 – 18:20 | Warm-up Qualifying Heats |
| Sunday 03/02 | 08:35 – 10:15 10:20 – 12:20 12:20 – 13:00 14:00 – 15:25 | Warm-ups Prefinals PreFinals Finals |
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Text: Guillaume Alvarez
Photos: Alex Vernardis / The Racebox
