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The qualifying heats day of the last round of WSK Euro Series has been quite intense at Adria Karting Raceway. Crashes, crazy moves and a lot of action has set the day.
OK: Kirill Smal smashes the pace
The OK drivers only had three manches today but all of them have been intensely competitive. Gabriele Mini (Parolin/TM Racing/Bridg) who yesterday took the pole position, he managed to keep Taylor Barnard (KR/Iame/Bridg) to win manche 1 ahead of the British driver. Behind them, Lorenzo Travisanutto (KR/Iame/Bridg) who started from 24th place managed to comeback to a final 10th place.
But then in the second manche Taylor Barnard was not in the right position at the start and this caused a red flag period. Once the race was restarted, this time Barnard made a good start in terms of legal position on a racetrack. But despite he lost positions with Kirill Smal (Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg) taking second place, just behind Mini.
Smal from Ward Racing quickly overtook Mini to set his dominant pace to win manche 2. The Russian again was unbeatable in manche 3 wining by almost 5 seconds of gap.
The last manche was heavily intense, with Gabirele Minì unable to keep the pace, this let into a big battle for the top 10 places that finished with Harry Thompson (FA Kart/Vortex/Bridg) finishing second ahead of Kai Aksey (KR/Iame/Bridg) who made an impressive comeback. Mini finished seventh but crashed after the checker flag with Lorenzo Patrese (KR/Iame/Bridg). Also retired for mechanical issues Dilano Van T’Hoff (Exprit/TM Racing/Bridg) who was driving in a comfortable second place.
So, for tomorrow’s prefinal, Kirill Smal will start from pole position ahead of Gabriele Minì, Taylor Barnard and Harry Thompson.
OKJ: Ten Brinke and Antonelli set themselves as the favorites for the final
The day started with heat A-B in which Thomas Ten Brinke (FA Kart/Vortex/Vega) easily dominated over Artem Severiukhin (Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega). But Ten Brinke got a 10 seconds penalty for jumpstart that he done for after the slow period caused for a multiple crash at the start of the race.
Then in heat C-D, Ugo Ugochukwu (FA Kart/Vortex/Vega) controlled the pace to win while Mike Van Vugt (Parolin/TM Racing/Vega) beat Alex Dunne (Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega) for second place.
Ugochukwu tried to repeat his victory in heat A-C but the American crashed with William Siverholm (Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega) who crashed into him and got disqualified for that. The race was dominated by Andrea Kimi Antonelli (KR/Iame/Vega). The Italian later also won heat A-D.
Then in heat B-D, Thomas Ten Brinke won easily over teammate Laurens Van Hoepen (FA Kart/Vortex/Vega). And the same result was copied in heat B-C.
But tomorrow it will be Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Laurens Van Hoepen the ones who will start prefinals on pole position in the OKJ class.
Mini: Al Dhaheri, Tsolov and Matveev show their potential
The craziness of 60 Mini class gave very exciting races. Rashid Al Dhaheri (Parolin/TM Racing/Vega) starting wining heat C-E. The Arabian was a one to watch today as he had a great battle for the victory in heat D-E in which he as well crossed the checker-flag in first place, and heat B-E also finished in the Parolin driver hands.
The Russian drivers also looked strong in the heats. The Energy Corse drivers Kirill Kutskov (Energy/TM Racing/Vega) and specially Dimitry Matveev (Energy/TM Racing/Vega) managed to dominate on track.
Kutskov won heat A-E, but it was Matveev who really showed strong winning in a total of three heats (heats C-D, A-C and B-C).
Nikola Tsolov (Parolin/TM Racing/Vega) won two heats as well, heats A-B and A-D. This last one was especially intense with a red flag caused due to a very scary crash at turn 1 in the opening lap that involved drivers a total of three drivers, with one of them flying from his kart and needing medical attention.
It will be Rashid Al Dhaheri and Manuel Scognameglio (Tony Kart/TM Racing/Vega) the ones who will start from pole position in the prefinals.
Tomorrow the prefinals, final’s B and finals will set a very intense final round of WSK Euro Series at Adria Karting Raceway.
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