Maranello Kart displayed a good competitiveness level in the opening race of DKM in Lonato with SRP Racing Team and has been among the protagonists throughout the weekend that had a record number of nearly 200 drivers at the South Garda Karting.

 Mutable weather made the opener of the DKM campaign quite tricky especially on Sunday when rain fell on-off and complicated tyre choices.

 Team SRP's DKM reigning championFabian Federerhas been excellent since qualifying practice in KZ2 and claimed a spectacular pole position in 45.192s, but his team-mate Fabrizio Rosatihas also displayed a good shape in P9 of his group. Christoph Holdhad some problems instead and settled for P18 of his group. Federerdominated also heats claiming two strong wins.

A light rain shower before the finals ended up with all teams opting for rain tyres, the only exception was Fabrizio Rosati, who started from P25 and gambled on the slick tyres to turn the situation upside down. He was soon rewarded by this brave choice: Rosatiquickly recovered all the places as the track was drying up lapping 2-3s faster than his rivals (!). "He looked like an aircraft..." was the comment of most of his rivals. Rosatilapped several of his rivals and won the first final with a 18s lead on his team-mate Federer, who came second. Hold was 15th.

Race-2 was run on the dry but under a sky promising rain. All drivers got to the start on slick tyres, but Rosatiand other two drivers opted for the rain tyres. Rain started to fall after lap one and drivers were forced to pit due to safety reasons, which stripped Rosatiof a big advantage, but safety was the priority. The "king of the rain" Giannoni won the race leading Iglesias. Federergot again on the podium in third. Holdwas 15th, Rosati23rd. The double result in Lonato allowed Federerto take the lead of the championship with 45 points.

In KZ2 Cup the young German Davids Trefilovs of team SRP placed Maranello Kart on the five-place podium of the Final in a good P4. Alessio La Martinaalso run a good race ending in the top-ten in P8. The Dutch Brio Huetingwas 22nd and the German Andreas Dresen27th. In OK-Junior the German Jannik Julius-Bernhartwas 23rd in Race-1 and 15th in Race-2, while Paul Riebererjust missed out on qualifying for the final stages.

The next rounds of DKM:

12.05.2019 Wackersdorf (D)

14.07.2019 Kerpen (D)

04.08.2019 Genk (B)

06.10.2019 Ampfing (D)

Maranello Kart Media

15.04.2019

In the pictures: 1) Federer e Rosati; 2) Start KZ2 gara-2; 3) Rosati; 4) Federer; 5) Trofilovs.

Ph. Maranello Kart Media