Driving a kart at a racetrack, perhaps challenging a F3 single-seater? Madness! Unless it regards a Gold Kart and the four-time world champion Davide Forè, for a day on the trail of Cremona to be told.

Fans may like to dream "big", it may be that as children a fascination with the racetrack has names like Monza or Imola ... the fact is that the thought of driving a kart in a real race track is something that, at least once, has touched the mind of all kart drivers.

Making it come true is not so impossible, because some of the racetracks allow you to drive on test days; to "raise the bar" of the dream and challenge, here is the idea to get on the track and challenge a Formula 3 car, which normally runs on that racetrack.

It was Gold Kart who thought of putting this in practice with an exceptional pilot: Davide Forè, or else the most successful kart driver who is still in the racing business.
The real organisers of the test were the brothers Gianpaolo and Maurizio Righetti, owners of Righetti Ridolfi, the proprietor of the chassis brand Gold.

However, nothing could be realised without the help of Bernardo Pellegrini, an F.2 Italian Formula Trophy driver, who has made his car and team available for the F3 vs Kart challenge.

The event, for everyone, is the Cremona Circuit in San Martino del Lago (CR); a 3,450 m long circuit with a maximum width of 14 m, with counter-clockwise racing, with a straight, almost a kilometre long and a guided part with fast bends.

Surely the ideal environment for the F3 single-seater, equipped with a Dallara chassis and powered by a Toyota Piedrafita engine that delivers 216 horsepower, with a dry weight of only 495 kg.

After a few seconds, a small adjustment, the time comes to start the 2000 cc 4-cylinder engine of the Dallara F308. And it is enough to hear the noise to understand that for a kart it will not be easy to keep up with such a "monster".
Davide made several laps and, after returning to the pits, the first thing that he emphasized was the impressive acceleration and braking of the single-seater.

However, after other sessions in the car, it is now finally time for the other challenger at the San Martino del Lago racing circuit: the Gold Kart GTR 30...(keep reading on the “ONCE IN A LIFETIME” TKART Magazine channel)