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Ugento (Lecce), September 15, 2018. The qualifying heats of the seventh round of the Italian ACI Karting Championship in Ugento have complicated things a bit to some leaders, forcing them to still engage a lot in the finals of Sunday, September 16 to bring home the Tricolore title of 60 Mini, OK-Junior, Rok Junior, Iame X30 Junior and Senior.

Apart from Pietro Delli Guanti (Exprit-Vortex), former Italian Rok Senior champion, the protagonists of the other categories that close their season in the Italian Championship at Ugento, will have to face this last challenge that is very uncertain for the conquest of the title. , also because this test assigns points with the coefficient 1.5 and the final classification will be formed by the best 8 scores.

60 MINI. In the 60 Mini is the young Andrea Kimi Antonelli (Energy-Tm) to have appeared in the role of mattatore in the first two days of the weekend of Ugento, first with the pole position recorded in practice, and then with the double victory in the two heats. In the first of the two finals on Sunday 16 September Antonelli will start from the first position, but in the Championship he is second with 182 points, while the Norwegian leader Martinius Stenshorne (Parolin-Tm) with his 210 points is determined to control the situation, with a second and a fourth place conquered in the two heats. Third could be the Belgian Ean Eyckmans (Parolin-Tm), third in the first heat and then second in the other heats. Andrea Filaferro, third in the Championship, slightly behind, with a tenth and a sixth place in the two heats.

Italian 60 Mini Championship:

1. Stenshorne points 210

2. Antonelli points 182

3. Filaferro points 122

4. Eyckmans points 116

5. Pasiewicz points 93

OK-JUNIOR. In the OK-Junior the classification leader Tommaso Chiappini (Formula K-Tm) seems able to figure well, after the pole position in practice and his double success in the two heats, in the first in front of Carlo Salce and in the second in front of Daniel Palermo.

OK-Junior Italian Championship:

1. Chiappini points 49

2. Zanfari points 31

3. Pine points 28

4. Ingolfo points 24

5. Fornaroli, Patrese and Prantl points 19

ROK JUNIOR. Ugo Ugochukwu (Tony Kart-Vortex), fourth in the Championship, took the lead in the two heats of the Junior Rok, but also Raffaele Gulizia (Tony Kart-Vortex), third in the standings, could prove to be a winner in the final as he has already proved himself with the best position. Gulizia won the second place in the second heat after the fourth place obtained in the first heat. But the others are also very close, led by the leader of the Paolo Ferrari Championship (Parolin-Vortex), third and fourth in the two heats, with Federico Cecchi (Tony Kart-Vortex), second in the Championship, second and third in the two heats.

Italian Rok Junior Championship:

1. Ferrari points 141

2. Cecchi points 132

3. Gulizia points 99

4. Ugochukwu points 97

5. Kucharczyk points 59

X30 JUNIOR. Also in the X30 Junior to express himself at a high level in the two heats was the second in the Championship, Francesco Pulito (Top Kart-Iame), who won in both races after the third position in practice. Edoardo Ludovico Villa (TB Kart-Iame), leader of the standings, instead found himself sixth in the first heat due to 10 seconds of penalty, and third in the second heat. Also back Lorenzo Patrese (KR-Iame), author of pole position in practice, but then fifth in both heats.

Italian X30 Junior Championship:

1. Villa points 163

2. Clean points 153

3. Ingolfo points 109

4. Albanian points 104

5. Provide them with points 90

X30 SENIOR. A series of difficulties and setbacks have slowed down the potential of Luigi Coluccio (BirelArt-Iame), ranking leader who could not dispute the qualification tests for an intestinal virus. For more in the two heats he first accused a withdrawal by accident and then a placement in the rear. Good performance instead by Aleksander Bardas (Top Kart-Iame) with the victory in the first heat after the pole position in practice, and Francesco Pagano (KR-Iame), second in the standings and winner of the second heat.

Italian X30 Senior Championship:

1. Point sleeve 193

2. They pay points 154

3. Carenini points 150

4. Earnings points 125

5. Bardas points 118

THE PROGRAM.

Sunday, September 16: double final for all categories, beginning at 9:40 for Race-1 and from 14:15 for Race-2.

LIVE TV AND LIVE STREAMING. Sunday, September 16, 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 at www.acisportitalia.it

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

COURIER OF SPORT. A special page with comments, classifications and photos will be published on Friday 21 September in the sports daily Corriere dello Sport.

The next events of the Italian ACI Karting Championship:

7th round: 14-16 September 2018 - Pista Salentina, Torre San Giovanni, Ugento (Lecce)

Categories: 60 Mini, OK, OK-Junior, Iame X30, Rok.

8th round: 21-23 September 2018 - 7 Laghi International Circuit, Castelletto di Branduzzo (Pavia)

Categories: KZ2, KZ3, Rotax, Easykart, Naskart.