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The Rok Cup International Final confirms a world festival for Rokkers and an event like few others exists in karting.
The 2018 Champions won the title at the height of an exciting selection that gave endless emotions during the week and saw 420 riders from 51 nations compete against each other.
The final party on Saturday (October 13) has sealed the wonderful atmosphere that has been breathed in the paddock of South Garda, an alchemy that only the Rok knows how to mix, between passion, competitive spirit and friendship.
Let's see, race by race, how they got to the title: Andrea Kimi Antonelli (Mini Rok), Marco Chiari (Expert Plus), Daniel Zajac (Expert), Andrea Zemin (Shifter Rok), Federico Cecchi (Junior Rok), Pietro Delli Guanti (Senior Rok) and Alexandre Machado (Super Rok).
EXPERT ROK & EXPERT PLUS. ZAJAC AND IRRESISTIBLE CLEAR
The first final of the afternoon sees the Rokkers of the Expert and those of the Expert Plus on the track, with a double race in one. ROK EXPERT. The Expertè dominated by the Polish Daniel Zajac, author of a perfect path that leads him from pole position to the final triumph, passing through two victories in the heats.
At the start is only the Brazilian Gaia Magno that manages to keep up with the leader, but already after a few rounds Zajac takes off and goes to win undisturbed, also signing the best lap (49.834).
Magno has an easy life to keep the place of honor because Castro (ARG), who took the first row alongside Zajac, loses ground and retires in mid-race. The third position goes to the American Erik Jackson who precedes the Canadian Crupi and the Chinese Ho Ying Chi.
ROK EXPERT PLUS. If the Expert did not give many emotions to the top, the Expert Plus was full of reversals in the face. Tino Donadei (ITA), from the first position was forced to stop during the first lap, so it was Gianluca Todeschini (ITA) to take the lead of the race ahead of the Danish Lohmann-Jørgensen and the Brazilian Welson Jacometti.
But the biggest danger for the Rok Italia Todeschini Champion came from the back, from Marco Chiari who gave birth to a formidable comeback.
The comeback of Chiari was perfect and culminated with the challenge to Todeschini that took place on the eleventh lap with the surpass that gave Chiari the first international Rok Expert Plus.
Todeschini took the podium with merit, together with the Brazilian Jacometti.
SUPER ROK. MACHADO CHAMPION WITH FREDDENESS
At the top of the Super starting grid there are two defending champions, Luca Bosco (Rok Junior Champion) and Mattia D'Abramo (Super Rok Champion). In keeping with the two Rokker mentioned above, in the first two rows there are Kacper Szczurek (POL) and Domenico Cicognini (ITA).
At the start everything proceeds as expected, with Bosco taking the lead, followed by Cicognini, Machado, Szczurek and D'Abramo.
Cicognini is immediately under the leader Bosco and takes the lead of the race for a few hundred meters. Bosco reacts and returns to the head, but it is precisely at this juncture of the race that Machado surprises everyone. The Rokker of Andorra takes the lead of the race in one shot, on the fifth lap, and points decisively towards the fifteen laps that separate him from the title.
Behind the leader the race lights up with Bosco, D'Abramo and Cicognini who challenge each other for the podium, while Szczurek, Cristian Comanducci (ITA) and Dingli (ITA) remain in wait.
In the final stages of the D'Abraham race he managed to close the gap with Machado and tried an attack, also pulling Bosco behind him. The race reopens, for a few moments, but the leader does not lose his temper, replies abruptly to D'Abramo and Bosco. After this thrill Alexandre Machado goes to celebrate the well-deserved title of International Super Rok 2018 champion!
On the podium, together with Machado, Bosco and Cicognini climb up, with the outgoing champion D'Abramo who has to settle for the best lap of the race (47.944).
SHIFTER ROK. ZEMIN UNDERTAKING
When the lights go out, Zemin (ITA), from the front row, immediately takes the lead of the race, while Zani (ITA), who was shooting at the post, is delayed and then forced to stop due to a technical problem.
Behind Zemin is positioned, initially, the Colombian Henry Cubides, followed as a shadow by the aggressive Luyet and Cinti.
With Zemin impregnable that travels on an unapproachable rhythm, at the poleman Cinti all that remains is to challenge Luyet for the place of honor. The two exchange positions during the eleventh lap, with the expert Cinti who manages to get the better of the young Swiss Luyet.
For the fourth place Cubides resists the reassembling Buran, author of the best lap, and the Canadian Sandri.
The race of the first three does not offer more variations in the last ten passes and Zemin goes to win, writing his name in the Rok Final's gold book soon after that of Danilo Albanese (ITA).
SENIOR ROK. OF THE GLOVES IS SURE OF THE SAMPLE.
The essence of the Senior Rok final can be summarized in two crucial moments, the match between Alex Brown (SNG) and Giorgio Molinari (ITA) and the victorious escape of Pietro Delli Guanti (ITA).
The Senior has been full of protagonists and has lived on a first part of the race in which Brown has fled to the lead, chased by Giuseppe Gaglianò (ITA), Szymon Szyszko (POL), Delli Guanti and Giorgio Molinari (ITA).
Just Molinari animated the first ten rounds of the final, making a spectacular comeback that led him to the leader, Brown.
Unfortunately, the comparison between Brown and Molinari has been consummated with a contact that has ousted both from the race for victory.
Delli Guanti did not miss the chance to jump at the lead of the race and go on to win the title, leading with authority from the tenth lap to the checkered flag.
In second place Molinari concluded, to which they were inflicted ten seconds of penalization for having caused the incident with Brown. Molinari, at the decision of the race director, appealed and placed the sub judice classification.
Third came Szyszko Maciej (POL) who got the better of Davide Cordera (ITA), author of a good recovery and Gaglianò.
The appeal presented by Molinari (author of the best lap in the final), will not entail any variation regarding the name of the winner, Pietro Delli Guanti, who, after the Italian Rok Championship, has put in his palmares the most prestigious international title Rok.
JUNIOR ROK. CECCHI INTERNATIONAL CHAMPION FOR THE 2ND TIME.
After an excellent sequence of heats, the Italian Pietro Ragone took the right to start from the front row of the Rok Junior final. The American of Italy Ugo Ugochukwu lined up alongside him.
It is precisely the couple from the first row, Ugochukwu-Ragone, who sparks at the first corner, with Ugochukwu passing by force Ragone and trying to escape. On the fourth lap there is an accident (with no consequences for the drivers) that requires neutralization, with the "Slow" for three laps, and at the restart there is Federico Cecchi (ITA) to point in the wake of Ugochukwu.
At the eighth lap Cecchi is super determined, passes Ugochukwu and goes towards his second international title, after the one won in the Mini Rok in 2016. Also David Locatelli (ITA) can immediately pass the American and conquers the second position.
The podium, in fact, is decided at this juncture, with Cecchi, Locatelli and Ugochukwu who complete the rest of the race in this order. At the foot of the podium ends Ragone, followed by Albanese. The most spectacular comeback of the Junior final puts in place the Australian James Wharton, who from the thirtieth position goes up to the eighth place. In the final the poleman Alvarenga Matheus Morgatto (BRA) confirms the fastest single lap, with 49.643.
MINI ROK. ANTONELLI PIEGA POWELL.
The final of the Mini Rok is preceded by a formidable job that the ACI-Sport technical and sports commissioners perform, making all the 34 finalists change the clutches. Furthermore, the drivers of the first two rows are replaced by the carburetors. This action, in addition to giving a clear signal of transparency, confirms that the best remain even after the replacement of the technical material. This is one of the reasons for pride of the Rok Cup.
In the front row the Jamaican Alex Powell and the Italian Andrea Kimi Antonelli line up.
At the start Powell remains leader, while Antonelli lost some positions, getting overtaken by Bohra Akshay (USA), Cristian Berduca (ITA) and Ariel Elkin (RUS).
The Italian lost no time and quickly got rid of Akshay, Berduca and Elkin, launching himself in pursuit of Powell, who already gained a slight margin.
The race was decided on the sixth lap when Antonelli, in the wake of Powell, attacked the opponent decisively and immediately took a margin of advantage that he kept until the end.
Antonelli succeeds in the Rok Final register with the American Connor Zilisch and is accompanied on the podium by Powell and Akshay. The top of the ranking is completed by Bertuca, Ariel, Al Dhaheri (ARE) and Alexander Gubenko (RUS), author of the best lap in the final.
ROK TROPHYES. SINGHA, OMP, BRIDGESTONE AND VORTEX
The special Trophies, reserved for Rokkers who have not managed to enter the first thirty-four of their respective categories, reserve emotions and entertainment and confirm how much all the riders participating in the Rok International Final are animated by a healthy spirit of competition and the desire to have fun.
Nikola Tsolov (BGR) prevails in the Mini Rok Singa Trophy, Nicola Rossi precedes Rubens Barrichello in the Shifter Rok Vortex Trophy and the American lady Emma Delattre is fantastic in taming a platoon of Senior Rok in the OMP Trophy.
Alexandru Iancu (ROU) is the first in the Bridgestone Trophy, reserved for Junior Rok.