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CRG in Salbris for the CIK-FIA KZ & KZ2 European Championship
TKART Staff
04 May 2018

After the opening to the CIK-FIA OK and OK-Junior European Championships, the time has now come for the opener of the CIK-FIA KZ and KZ2 Championship that will be held in France at the Circuit of Salbris. CRG to field a top class team.

The European Championship will see the return to Salbris of CIK-FIA races, as will happen in the case of the South Garda Karting of Lonato, the circuit that will stage the second and closing round of the European series, that this year will feature two rounds as opposed to the four KZ and three KZ2 rounds held last year. Getting a good result since the beginning is therefore imperative!

KZ. CRG will contest KZ with the reigning European Champion Paolo De Conto, who won the title in 2017 on CRG after winning it in 2010 and 2011 and will compete alongside Pedro Hiltbrand, at his debut in KZ but already victorious in 2016 in the shifter category at the International Super Cup KZ2. The 2012 European Champion Jorrit Pex will also be among CRG’s color bearers in KZ, as his brother Stan Pex and KZ2 European Champion of 2011 and 2016 Fabian Federer, who will compete among the fields of SRP Racing Team.
The Finn driver Jan Kuovi will also be among the privateers on CRG.

KZ2. CRG is all set to line up a strong team also in KZ2. This will include the Swiss driver Jean Luyet and the French Emilien Denner (Kalì-Kart), the Italians Alessandro Giardelli, Filippo Berto and Marco Valenti, Spaniards Enrico Prosperi, Kilian Meyer, Gerard Cebrian Ariza and Marc Oriol Lopez, and the Finn Arto Ojaranta.
CRG Holland will field Max Tubben, Benjamin Tornqvist and Andreas Jahansson, SRP Racing Team Fabrizio Rosati and Mathias Ramirez, TB Racing Team Dominik Schmidt, the Finn Jaakko Ruotsalainen, Arthur Carbonnel and Johan Renaux.

CRG’S HALL OF FAME. CRG is among the most victorious teams in the shifter categories KZ and KZ2. In the past 7 years CRG has been the most successful of all, scoring an impressive series of CIK-FIA victories in KZ and KZ2:

2011 European KZ2 Champion with Fabian Federer;
2011 KZ1 World Cup Winner with Jonathan Thonon;
2012 European KZ Champion with Jorrit Pex;
2012 KZ2 World Cup Winner with Jordon Lennox-Lamb;
2013 European KZ Champion with Max Verstappen;
2013 KZ World Champion with Max Verstappen;
2014 KZ2 European Champion with Andrea Dalè;
2014 KZ European Champion with Rick Dreezen (Tinini Group);
2015 World Champion with Jorrit Pex;
2016 International Super Cup KZ2 Winner with Pedro Hiltbrand;
2016 KZ2 European Champion with Fabian Federer;
2016 KZ World Champion with Paolo de Conto;
2017 KZ European Champion with Paolo De Conto.
2017 KZ World Champion with Paolo De Conto.

CRG RACING TEAM AT THE CIK-FIA EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP

KZ
1 PAOLO DE CONTO (ITA) CRG / TM Racing / LeCont
5 STAN PEX (NLD) CRG / TM Racing / LeCont
8 JORRIT PEX (NLD) CRG / TM Racing / LeCont
15 PEDRO HILTBRAND (ESP) CRG / TM Racing / LeCont

KZ2
318 JEAN LUYET (CHE) CRG / TM Racing / LeCont
321 ENRICO PROSPERI (ESP) CRG / TM Racing / LeCont
327 GERARD CEBRIAN ARIZA (ESP) CRG / TM Racing / LeCont
338 ALESSANDRO GIARDELLI (ITA) CRG / TM Racing / LeCont
341 ARTO OJARANTA (FIN) CRG / TM Racing / LeCont
342 FILIPPO BERTO (ITA) CRG / TM Racing / LeCont
349 EMILIEN DENNER (FRA) Kalì-Kart / TM Racing / LeCont
357 KILIAN MEYER PRAT (ESP) CRG / TM Racing / LeCont
359 MARC LOPEZ ORIOL (ESP) CRG / TM Racing / LeCont
360 MARCO VALENTI (ITA) CRG / TM Racing / LeCont

THE PROGRAM IN SALBRIS
CIK-FIA European KZ & KZ2 Championships, 4-6.05.2018
Friday, May 4th, 2018: Free practice from 9:00 (GMT+2); Qualifying from 16:40.
Saturday, May 5th, 2018: Qualifying heats from 10:30.
Sunday, May 6th, 2018: Qualifying heats from 9:50.
Finals: KZ2 at 13.20; Academy at 14:25; KZ at 15:25.

Complete results, Live Timing and Live TV at www.cikfia.com

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