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Lonato, 30 June 2018. Particularly fought qualifying heats held on Saturday 30 June for the Italian ACI Karting Championship at the South Garda Karting Circuit in Lonato, with 210 riders on track trying to conquer the best starting positions of the first final of Sunday morning, July 1st, of each category in a particularly close and high-level confrontation, despite the great heat that is characterizing this fourth trial of the Tricolore.

In KZ2, with 60 riders, the Salerno Italian Champion of 2016 Francesco Celenta on Praga-Tm was revealed among the event's matters. After the good performance on Friday in practice, Saturday went to win the victory in all three heats disputed. But it will certainly not be easy for Celenta, because other players are ready to enter for the win, like Andrea Dalè on CRG-Tm, best time trial and author of a win in one heat, in addition to another victory denied for early departure , remains one of the favorites for success in the first tomorrow's Final. Very well also Simone Cunati, CRG-Tm winner of a heats, and Massimo Dante on Maranello-Tm winner of another heat, although both must complain for a withdrawal due to technical problems. Slightly behind the current headline, the Brescian Giacomo Pollini, on Formula K-Tm, as well as Davide Forè on BirelArt-Tm and Giuseppe Palomba on Intrepid-Tm. Excellent progression instead of the German Maximilian Paul on DR-Modena, climbed to second place after the heats.

These are the best positions for the starting grid of the first Sunday morning Final: 1. Celenta, 2. Paul, 3. Forè, 4. Dalè, 5. Berto, 6. Dante, 7. Buran, 8. Torsellini, 9. Pollini, 10. Schmitz.
 

In KZ2, one of the main protagonists of the Italian Championship, Marco Pastacaldi on Maranello-Tm, was involved in an incident that during the second-last round of the day in KZ2 crashed in the first lap of the race, and in the overturning of the kart he accused the fracture of six ribs. Congratulations to Marco Pastacaldi for a speedy recovery from the whole karting world.

 
In the 60 Mini, with 82 riders, Brando Badoer (Parolin-Tm) took the spotlight, son of the former F1 driver Luca Badoer, winner of two heats, which was opposed by the Belgian Ean Eyckmans (Parolin-Tm) winner of two other heats and the English Coskun Irfan (Parolin-Tm) with two other successes. Among the best with a victory each also Andrea Kimi Antonelli on Energy-Tm, Francisco Soldavini (Parolin-Tm), the Polish Karol Pasiewicz (Energy-Tm), the Swedish Joel Bergstrom (IPK-Tm).
These are the starting positions of the first Final: 1. Badoer, 2. Antonelli, 3. Iancu, 4. Bergstrom, 5. Soldavini, 6. Stenshorne, 7. Pasiewicz, 8. Eyckmans, 9. Weywadt, 10. Olivieri.

In the OK-Junior the Moroccan Souleiman Zanfari (Tony Kart-Vortex) won with both wins in the first, ahead of Nicolas Pino (Tony Kart-Iame) and Tommaso Chiappini (Formula K-Tm), who in the second the positions behind Zanfari were reversed.

These are the starting positions of the first Final: 1. Zanfari; 2. Chiappini; 3. Pine; 4. Prantl; 5. Signorelli.

In the Junior Rok one-two in the heats of Paolo Ferrari (Parolin-Vortex) ahead of the Brazilian Matheus Morgatto Alvarenga (Parolin-Vortex) and Federico Cecchi (Tony Kart-Vortex). In the second race Ferrari received a penalty and had to give the victory to Morgatto.

These are the starting positions of the first Final: 1. Morgatto, 2. Cecchi, 3. Gulizia, 4. Ferrari, 5. Kucharczyk, 6. Bosco, 7. Locatelli, 8. Stifter, 9. Ugochukwu, 10. Trulli.

In the Senior Rok came another double in the two heats, for the Polish Kacper Szczurek (Kosmic-Vortex) already author of pole position in practice. In the first heat, Szczurek won in front of Pietro Delli Guanti (Exprit-Vortex) and the other Polish Maciej Szyszko (Kosmic-Vortex), in the second on Szyszko and Russian Alexey Brizhan (Parolin-Vortex).

These are the starting positions of the first Final: 1. Szczurek, 2. Szyszko, 3. Delli Guanti, 4. Brizhan, 5. Martinello, 6. Comanducci, 7. Szymon, 8. Torreggiani, 9. Bruni, 10. Machado.

In the Rotax Senior the winners in both heats were Davide Vuano (Praga-Rotax), in the first on Giacomo Parisotto (Exprit-Rotax) and Patrick Marchetto (Praga-Rotax), in the second on Marchetto and Marta Bussola (Intrepid- Rotax). Double victory also in the Rotax Junior for Elia Galvanin (Exprit-Rotax), in both qualifying races in front of Cristian Babbolin (Tony Kart-Rotax) and Emma Segattini (Intrepid-Rotax).

These are the starting positions of the first Final: Senior 1. Vuano, 2. Marchetto, 3. Compass; Junior 1. Galvanin, 2. Babbolin, 3. Segattini.

PROGRAM. Sunday, July 1st warm-up and double final for all categories, beginning at 9:40 for Race-1 and from 1:55 pm for Race-2.

LIVE TV AND LIVE STREAMING. Sunday, July 1 live TV on AutoMotoTV (Sky channel 228), with live streaming on the site www.acisportitalia.it and on the Facebook page Italian ACI Karting "@ACIKarting".

Live Timing and Results on the website www.acisportitalia.it and www.southgardakarting.it

Television services in the ACI Sport Magazine on RAI Sport, national broadcasters and around 50 national broadcasters.

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