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Rome, 27th July 2018. The fifth round of the Italian ACI Karting Championship on the Adria Karting Raceway Circuit started with a good participation, where the 180 riders entered in this race have already started to compete on the track, representing the start of the second part of the season.

The 60 Mini and the categories of the Iame X30, Rok and Easykart Brand Trophies are in competition. Unfortunately, the OK-Junior did not reach the minimum number of drivers and could not be formed, so the only national category is the 60 Mini, which has 84 members. The Iame X30 stands out with 25 riders in the Junior and 26 drivers in the Senior, as well as the Rok with 25 riders in the Junior and 14 in the Senior. Also present the Naskart for its own brand trophy and the off-grade Entry-Level.

Meanwhile, Friday afternoon the qualifying tests were held valid for the deployment of the heats on Saturday 28th July. In 60 Mini the fastest ever was the young Belgian Ean Eyckmans (Parolin-Tm), who in the third series fell under the "wall" of 55 "with a time of 54.932. In this third series, Eyckmans preceded Sebastiano Pavan (Parolin-Tm) at 0.152, Alex Iancu (Maranello-Tm) at 0.161, Joel Bergstrom (IPK-Tm) at 0.170, Andrea Kimi Antonelli (Energy-Tm) at 0.198. In the first series was the Bulgarian Nikola Tsolov (BirelArt-Tm) to get the best time in 55.216, ahead of Coskun Irfan (Parolin-Tm) to 0.118 and Rafel Modonese (Parolin-Tm) to 0.154. In the second series the current headline Martinius Stenshorne (Parolin-Tm) has been asserting itself with the fastest time in 55.116, together with Cristian Bertuca (Evokart-Tm) with the exact same time trial, while Keanu Al Azhari (Parolin-Tm) recorded the third performance at 0.224.

In the X30 Junior the fastest was Leonardo Fornaroli (KR-Iame) in 50.325, a breath on Edoardo Ludovico Villa (TB Kart-Iame) to 0.003, while the third performance was obtained by Michael Barbaro Paparo (BirelArt-Iame) at 0.067. Luca Bosco recorded the fourth time at 0.364, and the leader of the ranking Francesco Pulito (Top Kart-Iame) the fifth time at 0.415.

In the X30 Senior the two major contenders, Francesco Pagano (KR-Iame) and Luigi Coluccio (BirelArt-Iame) have suffered a bit of delay: Coluccio is fifth at 0.201 from pole position recorded by French Arnaud Malizia (CRG- Iame), Pagano ninth at 0.345. Lorenzo Ferrari (Parolin-Iame), second half, at 0.137 and Danny Carenini third fastest at 0.161.

In the Junior Rok the current capoclassifica Federico Cecchi (Tony Kart-Vortex) got the best performance at 50.505, ahead of Tymoteusz Kucharczyk (Parolin-Vortex) at 0.011 and Raffaele Gulizia (Tony Kart-Vortex) at 0.099.

In the Senior Rok also the other leader Pietro Delli Guanti (Exprit-Vortex) proved to be the fastest in 49,730, with Francesco Sartori (Tony Kart-Vortex) with the second time at 0.181 and the Polish Kacper Szczurek (Kosmic-Vortex) with the third time at 0.245.

In Easykart 125 Master the pole position was recorded by Rosolino Caralla (Birel-Bmb) for 70 thousandths of a second on the leader of the ranking Francesco Serafini.

THE PROGRAM. Saturday, July 28 qualifying and repechages. Sunday 29 July double final for all categories, beginning at 9:40 for Race-1 (in the order X30 Junior, X30 Senior, 60 Mini, Rok Junior, Senior Rok, Easykart, Naskart, Entry-Level) and from the hours 13:55 for Race-2.

LIVE TV AND LIVE STREAMING. Sunday, July 29th, live TV on AutoMotoTV (Sky channel 228), with live streaming on the website www.acisportitalia.it and on the Facebook page Italian ACI Karting "@ACIKarting". Live Timing and Results at www.acisportitalia.it.

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