CRG MAGAZINE N.2 UK

N.2 - APRIL / JUNE 2017

THE FACTORY OFFICIAL HOUSE ORGAN

Ready for the

Cik-Fia European

Championship

The celebrity Giancarlo Tinini talks about Lewis Hamilton

RACING TEAM Wsk, Margutti Trophy and Winter Cup report

The interviewS Luca and Alessandro Giardelli, Gillian Henrion

Product Road Rebel KZ chassis test on the track

TABLE OF CONTENTS /

N.2 - APRIL / JUNE 2017

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THE FACTORY OFFICIAL HOUSE ORGAN

Ready for the

PHOTO SHOOT /

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BRIEFLY /

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A POSITIVE SEASON DEBUT / WSK, MARGUTTI TROPHY AND WINTER CUP REPORT

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THE INTERVIEW / ALESSANDRO AND LUCA GIARDELLI

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GAMOTO /

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MANFRED Brandl FROM PRESPO /

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rAciNG TeAM Wsk, Margutti Trophy and Winter Cup report

The iNTerviewS Luca and Alessandro Giardelli, Gillian Henrion

ProducT Road Rebel KZ chassis test on the track

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EDITED BY

GILLIAN HENRION /

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The celebriTy Giancarlo Tinini talks about Lewis Hamilton

CRG SpA’s Official House Organ

PREVIEW / CIK-FIA EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP

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Cik-Fia European

Championship

TEST ON THE TRACK / ROAD REBEL KZ

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RENTAL KART LINE / PARTNER OF THE ENDURANCE KART CUP CHAMPIONSHIP

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CRG CHAMPIONS / TININI TELLS LEWIS HAMILTON

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CRG SpA via Mantova 4-F/G Lonato del Garda (BS) Italy CURATED BY

Marketing & Communication direction PROJECT MANAGER

Marco Angeletti angeletti@kartcrg.com PROJECT MANAGER

CRG press office

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EDITORIAL / BY GIANCARLO TININI

The start of the CIK-FIA European Championship and the

forthcoming CIK meeting in Geneva – during which we will discuss with the International Federation some of the aspects of the promotion of our sport, inspired some of my thoughts. Our opinion is that a lot of interventions are needed to put drivers needs and cost cutting at the heart of regulations and promotion choices.

For example, regarding costs we will ask a different and more transparent management of tenders regarding tyres and fuel, calling for lower costs for drivers and sponsors. We will also ask a cut in entering fees and in free practice ticket costs, but we believe that reducing the number of International races is a necessary measure to increase the number of drivers and teams that can afford to be present. This would also favour a relaunch of national championships (that are currently crushed under the weight of more than 20 International rounds such as WSK races, Trophies and CIK-FIA Championships) and a wider diffusion of OK engines.

We will propose a rethinking of the KZ activity, as the present numbers do not justify a European Championship featuring 4 rounds. From a technical viewpoint, we will call for some changes to the current front fairing regulations, asking some more careful interventions by stewards to better evaluate racing episodes.

Alongside the usual in-depth analysis of the racing activity and on our products, I am pleased to signal two events in which CRG will be protagonist: the Academy Grand Prix Kart Scholarship in China and the Rental Kart World Contest, that will take place in Italy in October.

In the GPKS Championship, together with our partners, we will try to train the next generation of Chinese drivers, while the Rental Kart meeting will be an international event underlining our direct commitment to this important market segment.

I wish you all a very pleasant reading.

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Giancarlo Tinini, President of CRG SpA.

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MAX VERSTAPPEN WITH THE CRG TEAM

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Max Verstappen’s passion for karting and the affection for CRG are always strong, even if today he a successful F1 star. At the WSK Champions Cup, in Adria, the Dutch champion stayed the whole weekend with the CRG Racing team, meeting again Giancarlo Tinini and all the technical staff with whom he worked from 2010 to 2013, breathing again the same emotions of his successful experience with CRG. Max came with his father Jos and he paid deep attention to the races, offering himself to the fans affection in the paddock.

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BRIEFLY /

CRG PRESENTS THE RENTAL KART WORLD CONTEST BERETTA With CRG With over 1.300 employees, 22 manufacturing plants and a sales volume of over 750 millions, the Beretta Group is one the Italian food excellences in the world.

Specialised in cured meats, since the early 2000s they started successfully dealing with ready dishes, always focusing their production on high quality as their distinctive feature. On this point, quality, there was immediately a connection with the CRG mission and values. Since this year, the Beretta brand, always close to sport and young athletes, took the field also in karting supporting the World champion brand. First of all, Beretta will supply CRG’s official Hospitality with a wide range of products: first rate hams, roast beef and stuffed sandwiches. In this way, the Beretta brand enters the international karting paddock from the main entrance, a side of a brand with the most prestigious history and record of achievements, in the most important races context. Staff, press and drivers will be able to taste the Italian food quality in every race around the world.

The Beretta brand will be also placed on the CRG official team’s kart liveries and on the drivers’ suits, moreover the collaboration will be extended to other complementary activities, as the CRG karts and logistic services supply for the Beretta team building company meeting. The event called B&Co will involve the company managers and customers and it will take place in Castelletto di Branduzzo on May 20th 2017.

CRG is pleased to introduce a new and exciting karting initiative: the Rental Kart World Contest.

This event is an International Final reserved to drivers and rental karting enthusiasts that will have the chance to challenge each other in Lignano Sabbiadoro next 14 - 15 October 2017.

Qualifying for this event will take place on the rental tracks, race organizers and championships adopting CRG karts all around the world. The event will award drivers and teams titles. The teams title will be awarded at the end of a 8 Hours long Endurance race open to 34 lineups (made by 3 to 6 drivers), while the drivers title will be decided at the end of a Sprint race open to 68 drivers (2 for each of the 34 teams qualified).

CRG will be directly involved in the organization of the event through the provision of Centurion karts (powered by 4 stroke engines), technical assistance and RENTAL KART logistics, such as box and paddock club WORLD set up, and other special initiatives that CONTEST 2017 will make the event very appealing. CRG racing team works drivers will also be Discover how to qualify involved and several media and on kartcrg.com communication initiatives will be devised to provide the event and partaking drivers with the due visibility.

CRG will unveil the list of the 34 race tracks and organizers that will manage qualifying events for the Final of Lignano and regulations for qualifying and Final this coming May. For further information on the event, please contact Marco Angeletti, CRG marketing dept. +39.030.9912604 - angeletti@kartcrg.com

LIGNANO SABBIADORO (ITALY) October, 14th 2017

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THE NEW HOSPITALITY FOR THE TININI GROUP BRANDS

1 CRG 51 20,99 2 TONY KART 50 20,58 3 ENERGY 21 8,64 4 KOSMIC 18 7,41 5 BIREL ART 17 7,00 6 FA KART 11 4,53 7 EVOKART 8 3,29 8 ZANARDI 7 2,88 9 SODI 7 2,88 10 DR 6 2,47

THE CRG CHASSIS, THE MOST CHOSEN AT THE WSK SUPER MASTER With 51 registered drivers, equivalent to 20,99% of the WSK Super Master’s 2017 official entry list, the CRG chassis were the greatest in number. In 3 categories out of 4, the CRG brand was at the top: in the KZ2 with 11 drivers, equivalent to 21%, in OK Junior with 13 drivers, representing the 23%, and in the crowded 60 Mini, where the CRG chassis have always been appreciated, with 21 drivers, meaning the 24%. These numbers were confirmed also in the Winter Cup and highlight a positive trend, supported by the excellent performances of the technical equipment and the great work done, both by the CRG’s official Racing Team and the external teams linked to the Italian brand.

These numbers should be added to the linked brands and technical partnerships, where the Zanardi and DR drivers outstand at international level.

GoPro Motorplex chose the Centurion kart The prestigious GoPro Motorplex track, North Carolina (USA), recently inaugurated their new fleet of 25 CRG Centurion karts. The new karts are available with Honda engine, 13 hp, in order to give an exciting experience both to expert drivers and to many motorsport fans visiting the plant.

Tracks that choose CRG karts are increasing every month in the US and also the GoPro track will take part to the Rental Kart World Contest, an international event that will select its team for the Final in Italy.

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A very appreciated novelty is for sure the new Hospitality, that will be present in the International races, reserved to the team, drivers, sponsors and guests of the Tinini Group brands. The structure is managed with the direct support of the Beretta Group and it made its debut at the beginning of the season at the WSK Champions Cup in Adria. It has a lounge area for the drivers’ and guests’ relax and it offers a top level catering service, both for lunch and dinner.

This service for customer teams and linked brands, as Zanardi and DR, represents the opportunity to save time and money at the track, but especially to offer the drivers and their families and partners a top level service area and it is very appreciated.

The cuisine is managed by an Italian cook and many of the products employed are provided by the Beretta company, CRG sponsor and worldwide Italian food excellence. The Tinini Group Hospitality structure will follow all the international calendar, including the European and World Championships.

For further information on the service and teams linked to the Tinini Group, you can directly contact the CRG offices.

RACING TEAM / PREVIEW

CIK-FIA EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP The first round of the Cik-Fia European Championship will take place in Sarno, the most important event of the season for the OK Junior, OK, KZ and KZ2 classes before the World Championship in September

Everything’s ready for the 1st round

for technicians and drivers. Sarno will host the 1st round for the OK Junior, OK and KZ classes, whilst the 2nd meeting will be in Genk on May 14th for the KZ classes.

The 3rd round will be in Oviedo, Spain, from the 9th to the 11th of June for the OK, OK Junior and KZ categories, then the international karting circus will go to Les Mans, France, on July 2nd with the OK, OK Junior and KZ2, then in July the Championship will come to the end with the double trip to Finland (OK, OK Junior) and Sweden. In the last and crucial round, in Kristianstad from 26th to 30th July, all the categories will be present.

The CRG drivers will be many in all the classes. Among them, the official drivers will be protagonists for sure, all of them ready and determined to achieve important

of the CIK-FIA European Championship for the OK Junior, OK and KZ classes, starting in Sarno from the 19th to the 23rd of April. It is the most important agonistic event in international karting, together with the OK Junior, OK and KZ World Championships that will take place in September. The first international races of the year, especially the WSK programme, were useful for the CRG Racing team to be prepared in the best way, aiming to confirm last year’s great results, when the CRG colours dominated with the titles achieved from Hiltbrand in the OK and Federer in the KZ2. The 2017 European Championship will be very hard, as it will be in 5 rounds for each class, some taking place on new tracks

The CALENDAR 20-23 APRIL Sarno (Ita)

OK JUNIOR, OK, KZ

11-24 MAY

Genk (Bel)

KZ, KZ2

08-11 JUNE

Oviedo (Esp)

OK JUNIOR, OK, KZ

01-02 JULY

Le Mans (Fra)

OK JUNIOR, OK, KZ2

19-23 JULY

Alaharma (Fin)

OK JUNIOR, OK

26-30 JULY

Kristanstad (Swe) OK JUNIOR, OK, KZ, KZ2

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The CRG teams expectations Glenn Keyart (Team manager): «The 2017 European Championship will be very demanding, as there are more races than in the past, moreover some tracks are new and we will have to make an extra work with the drivers from the technical point of view. The environment inside the team is very positive, we worked hard in the first races of the year to be prepared and competitive and also our drivers made an excellent work. I think they are ready to achieve important results».

> Flavio Camponeschi, KZ2 <

Flavio Camponeschi (OK): «In the last year I dedicated myself exclusively to the KZ, but together with the technical staff and Giancarlo Tinini we decided to move to the OK, as there was a need of experience in this category, after that the new regulations reduced the drivers’ minimum age and many new young drivers from the OK Junior came in. My work during the weekends, besides aiming to the best possible result, will be also supporting the technicians with the set-up and the developments in view of the World Championship in September and the new homologations».

results. In the OK Junior, the CRG official drivers will be Henrion, Bortoleto, Gomez, Munding, Karmanshachi and the young Luca Giardelli, but also Sagrera and Haverkort will have great ambitions. In the OK, the most unexpected news at the Championship’s eve is the decision to line also the experienced driver Flavio Camponeschi, who showed all his potential at the WSK in Sarno. Together with the Roman driver, the CRG Racing team will have Hauger, Bradshaw, Janker, Alatalo, Meyer and Rosina. In KZ, the star is the World Champion Paolo De Conto, with his team mates Prosperi and Torsellini, whilst there are great expectations for CRG Holland with the Jorrit and Stan Pex brothers.

The KZ2, instead, will start the 1st round in Les Mans.

WAFEPROJECT

Killian Meyer (OK): «In the first races of the year I made a lot of experience and my performances improved more and more. There a wonderful feeling with the team and I am ready to make an excellent championship».

Donar Nils Munding (OK Junior): «Last year I only raced at National level, so this will be my first time competing in a European Championship with an official team, so my first goal will be qualifying among the 34 finalists. In the first races of the year I improved and learned a lot from the team’s technical staff, so I hope I will be able to achieve good results very soon. I can’t wait to start this new experience».

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RACING TEAM / REVIEW ON THE AGONISTIC ACTIVITY

A positive start of the season

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An intense international race programme characterized the start of the season and the CRG Racing team confirmed to be at the top in all the categories

The main meetings of the international karting season get underway in May, with the start

It was an intense start of the season for CRG technicians and official drivers, especially committed in the technical development. Moreover, many tests were made for the tyres employed in each national championship, in some categories different from the past season.

The Racing team workâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal is also collecting useful data for future homologations (scheduled for the end of the year) and sometimes it required sacrificing the best performance to collect the needed data. The first races of the season were also a shakedown for the technical staff,

of the CIK-FIA European Championship, this year on 5 rounds, then the most important event in September with the KZ, OK and OK Junior World Championships. But even though the important races are only beginning, the first part of the season was nevertheless very demanding for the CRG Racing division, with the WSK races (Champions Cup and Super Master), the Winter Cup and Margutti Trophy.

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> Paolo De Conto, KZ2 <

that was changed in some divisions with new entries, and especially for the drivers. About this, the regulation change on the minimum age access in the OK and OK Junior classes, contributed to the debut of many young drivers coming from 60 Mini in the OK Junior and many others from OK Junior to the OK. For instance, drivers as Bortoleto and Gomez, who already showed a great potential, entered the CRG official team coming from the 60 Mini, but they still need to make experience to reach their 100%.

The same is for Bradshaw, Meyer and Hauger, at their first year in OK. Nevertheless, the balance in terms of results is still positive, with many podiums and some significant victories, that place CRG among the potential protagonists of the 2017 agonistic season. The expectations and the premises are excellent, also in view of the international Rotax and X-30 races, where the CRG chassis are the most numerous and competitive.

Also the national championships started very well, with the first results achieved in Spain and Germany.

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RACING TEAM / WSK CHAMPION CUP

Supremacy IN KZ Stan Pex, Flavio Camponeschi and Jorrit Pex take it all in Adriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s KZ2. Gillian Henrion very good second on the podium of OK-Junior. CRG on top also in 60 Mini with Alfio Spina taking the win for Team Gamoto

CRG is definitely still up there. The Italian

his brother Jorrit as Camponeschi was fifth, the three young CRG drivers have been unbeatable in the Final.

This result confirmed the supremacy of the Italian outfit in KZ, as happened in 2016 when Paolo De Conto won the World Championship and Fabian Federer the International Super Cup KZ2.

Among the other drivers of CRG works team, Taymour Kermanshahchi was 11th and Alessandro Giardelli was relegated to P20 by a 10s time penalty.

outfit started season 2017 as the unquestionable protagonist of the first racing weekend of the year: the WSK Champions Cup held in Adria. CRG has dominated KZ2, took a podium in OK-Junior and then another victory in 60 Mini with Team Gamoto.

MAGNIFICENT TOP THREE FOR CRG IN KZ2.

CRG has claimed the whole podium of KZ2, with a top three led by the new enfant prodige Stan Pex, KZ 2015 European Champion Flavio Camponeschi and 2015 World > Henrion Gillian (333), Evann Mallet, OK Junior < Champion Jorrit Pex, all on CRG-Tm. CRG drivers have been cheered also by Max Verstappen, who has followed all the racing action in Adria.

After the pole position secured by Flavio Camponeschi, and the red-hot Prefinal when Stan Pex had the upper hand proceeding

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FIRST PODIUM FOR GILLIAN HENRION IN OK-JUNIOR. CRG secured

another good podium in OK-Junior thanks to the brilliant French 2015 Champion of Cadet Gillian Henrion, who was at the debut in OK-Junior with the Italian Outfit. The French driver closed his

> Dennis Hauger, OK <

> Flavio Camponeschi, KZ2 <

effort in P2 behind the Russian Morozov. The German Marius Zug of team RL-Competition could have achieved a lot more, as he has been among the main protagonists of the weekend and won the Prefinal ahead of Henrion and Gomez, before ending fourth in a Final that he also led.

Jose Antonio Gomez also put in a great race ending sixth, after a great Prefinal, while the Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto was seventh. Another CRG protagonist could not shine as he would have deserved in OK-Junior though. The French Evann Mallet had in fact to retire from the Prefinal due to a spin, after being among the quickest in qualifying (second quickest) and in the heats, where he ended fourth.

The INTERVIews Stan Pex, KZ2, first: «Really happy, it is great to start the year with a win. I think we have a good chance to run a strong season. The chassis has been perfect and the engine was really good as well, because all of us in top three were on TM, I am happy and I think straight to the next races. It looks good for this year».

Flavio Camponeschi, KZ2, second: «It was good. Only in the Prefinal we had some small technical issues. We fixed them ahead of the Final and found the right balance I was therefore very fast.

I am disappointed for the start, I had to get away from P5 due to the result of the Prefinal and I lost some ground trying and close in on the leader.

At the end I was the quickest, I also set the fastest lap of the race. Had I started on a better position, I could have certainly fought for the victory».

HAUGER FORCED TO RETIRE IN OK’S PREFINAL.

An unespected retirement in Prefinal due to a problem to the spark plug stopped CRG’s Dennis Hauger run in OK. The Norwegian had been previously shining in his debut race as he set the pole position and completed very good races in the heats. CRG’s colors in this category were defended by the Finn William Alatalo, who ended in a good P14, and by Matteo Nannini, who run a good race but was slowed down by some setup problems first and by a 10s time penalty then, which made him slip down to the final P27.

The victory in this category went to Pedro Hiltbrand, who secured the title of World Champion last year with CRG. Michael Rosina could not qualify in Prefinal.

Jorrit Pex, KZ2, third: «The Final was quite a hard race for me, we tried something in the setup and it didn’t work out really well. The pace has been really good for the whole weekend, only in the final the pace was not good enough to take the win. I realized this quite early in the race and I knew I had to fight for the podium as the win was not possible anymore. That’s what I did».

ALFIO SPINA WINNING 60 MINI WITH TEAM GAMOTO. The very young Alfio Spina on

CRG-Tm run by Team Gamoto has scored a stunning victory in 60 Mini. His team mate Luca Giardelli was among the quickest and fought for the victory until the closing stages, crossing the line in P4.

Top ten finish for Saood Variawa of CRG Holland, seventh, and Gamoto’s Adam Putera, ninth.

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RACING TEAM / WSK CHAMPION CUP RESULTS

WSK CHAMPION CUP KZ2 - ADRIA

WSK CHAMPION CUP OK - ADRIA

Adria Karting Raceway (ITA). 26-29 january 2017. Air: 4ºC, Track: Dry, slightly cloudy.

Adria Karting Raceway (ITA). 26-29 january 2017. Air: 4ºC, Track: Dry, slightly cloudy.

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Gap Best Lap 1 28 Crg Holland Pex Stan Crg/Tm/Bridg 20 Laps 48.707 2 25 Crg S.P.A. Camponeschi Flavio Crg/Tm/Bridg 0.463 48.545 3 29 Crg Holland Pex Jorrit Crg/Tm/Bridg 4.024 48.738 4 4 Ksw Birelart Austria Treaemezen Rick Birel Art/Vortex/Bridg 4.489 48.803 5 26 Formula K Racing Team Iglesias Jeremy Formula K/Tm/Bridg 6.001 48.670 6 5 Gold Kart Fore’ Davide Gold/Vortex/Bridg 7.306 48.824 7 9 Tony Kart Racing Team Piccini Alessio Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 8.076 48.833 8 11 Baby Race Lorandi Leonardo Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 8.641 48.795 9 6 Novalux S.R.L. Iacovacci Francesco Luxor/Lke/Bridg 9.790 48.976 10 7 Novalux S.R.L. Ippolito Paolo Lenzokart/Lke/Bridg 11.389 48.883 11 18 Crg S.P.A. Kermanshahchi Taymour Crg/Tm/Bridg 12.430 49.034 12 30 Chiesa Corse Joyner Thomas Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 14.342 49.047 Dr/Modena Engines/Bridg 15.028 48.937 13 14 Dr Srl Maximilian Paul 14 12 Baby Race Lorandi Alessio Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 16.080 49.041 15 3 Ward Racing Levi Ariel Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 16.285 49.122 16 2 Ward Racing Skaras Emil Tony Kart/Tm/Bridg 19.661 49.107 17 19 Kosmic Racing Dept Bengtsson Axel Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 20.406 49.120 18 33 Novalux Srl Sekulic Damian Lenzokart/Lke/Bridg 21.174 49.273 Dr/Modena Engines/Bridg 22.224 49.295 19 15 Dr Srl Toth Laszlo 20 16 Crg S.P.A. Giardelli Alessandro Crg/Tm/Bridg 24.616 49.123 21 32 Taglienti Group Massetani Gilberto Eks/Tm/Bridg 27.669 49.206 22 20 Kosmic Racing Dept Rasmussen Oliver Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 33.273 49.299 Croc Promotion/Tm/Bridg 35.173 49.236 23 23 Mad-Croc Russia Gavrilov Klim 24 22 Team Komarov Foteev Mikhail Tony Kart/Tm/Bridg 4 Laps 50.286 25 24 Crg Holland Johansson Andreas Crg/Tm/Bridg 8 Laps 49.378 26 1 Birel Art Racing Tiene Felice Birel Art/Tm/Bridg 12 Laps 48.965 27 8 Tony Kart Racing Team Vigano’ Matteo Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 14 Laps 49.069 28 17 Oberon Racing Kart Gruber Nicolas Oberon/Seven/Bridg 18 Laps 51.416

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment 1 201 Tony Kart Racing Team Hiltbrand Pedro Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 2 224 Chiesa Corse Travisanutto Lorenzo Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 3 31 Vdk De Pauw Ulysse Kosmic/Parilla/Bridg 4 204 Tony Kart Racing Team Novalak Clement Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 5 210 Kosmic Racing Dept Milell Noah Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 6 206 Tony Kart Racing Team Vidales David Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 7 249 Ksm Schumacher Racing Tetaomnteri Paavo Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 8 203 Vdk Martins Victor Kosmic/Parilla/Bridg 9 219 Ward Racing Rozenfeld David Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 10 202 Kosmic Racing Dept Basz Karol Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 11 241 Ricciardo Kart Racing Lindh Rasmus Ricciardo Kart/Tm/Bridg 12 216 Ward Racing Blomqvist Isac Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 13 209 Kosmic Racing Dept Vebster Daniel Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 14 221 Crg S.P.A. Alatalo William Crg/Parilla/Bridg 15 225 Chiesa Corse Eteki Adam Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 16 226 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Kruetten Niklas Fa Kart/Vortex/Bridg 17 223 Baby Race Watt Noah Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 18 239 Evokart Srl Piispanen Ilari Evokart/Parilla/Bridg 19 208 Kosmic Racing Dept Pourchaire Theo Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 20 247 Energy Corse Srl Kenneally Finlay Energy/Vortex/Bridg 21 233 Ksm Schumacher Racing Tesacmhumacher David Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 22 234 Ksm Schumacher Racing Teoawmega Jusuf Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 23 220 Kartprom Team Simonov Mikhail Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 24 205 Tony Kart Racing Team Petecof Gianluca Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 25 232 Ksm Schumacher Racing Tefarmitsch Valentino Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 26 246 Forza Racing Vaskelis Kasparas Exprit/Vortex/Bridg 27 222 Crg S.P.A. Nannini Matteo Crg/Parilla/Bridg 28 227 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Taoufik Sami Fa Kart/Vortex/Bridg 29 213 Dr Jonusis Justas Dr/Parilla/Bridg 30 237 Forza Racing Alvarez Sebastian Exprit/Vortex/Bridg 31 230 Birel Art Racing Collet Caio Birel Art/Tm/Bridg 32 229 Birel Art Racing D’Orlando Michael Birel Art/Tm/Bridg 33 211 Vdk Minang Perdana Kosmic/Parilla/Bridg

Gap Best Lap 20 Laps 48.888 0.586 48.742 1.059 48.743 2.902 48.660 4.084 48.974 4.357 48.703 4.500 48.892 4.668 48.631 5.949 48.830 6.021 48.954 7.096 48.890 7.856 48.954 7.968 48.779 8.079 49.005 8.425 48.961 8.804 48.839 9.509 48.936 10.538 49.015 10.743 48.845 16.942 48.878 17.060 48.996 19.227 49.289 19.786 49.040 20.095 48.968 20.594 49.351 23.709 49.055 27.982 48.844 1 Lap 48.907 2 Laps 49.224 2 Laps 49.070 3 Laps 49.062 4 Laps 49.236 15 Laps 50.214

Not Classified 228 Forza Racing

Excluded 49.051

NOTE

Time penalty of 10“ for incorrectly installed front fairing or incorrect position of front fairing.

No.16 Giardelli Alessandro: According to Stewards’ Decision No.165.

No.23 Gavrilov Klim: According to Stewards’ Decision No.166.

No.20 Rasmussen Oliver: According to Stewards’ Decision No.167.

Jewiss Kiern

Exprit/Tm/Bridg

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Time penalty of 10“ for incorrectly installed front fairing or incorrect position of front fairing No.222 Nannini Matteo: . According to Stewards’ Decision No.162.

No.205 Petecof Gianluca: According to Stewards’ Decision No.163.

Exclusion for Bad manoeuvre (Art 2.24 of the Cik General Prescriptions 2017).

No.228 Jewiss Kiern: According to Stewards’ Decision No.164.

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WSK CHAMPION CUP OK JUNIOR - ADRIA

WSK CHAMPION CUP MINI - ADRIA

Adria Karting Raceway (ITA). 26-29 january 2017. Air: 4ºC, Track: Dry, slightly cloudy.

Adria Karting Raceway (ITA). 26-29 january 2017. Air: 4ºC, Track: Dry, cloudy.

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment 1 305 Ward Racing Morozov Ilya Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 2 333 Crg S.P.A. Henrion Gillian Crg/Parilla/Vega 3 306 Ward Racing Bulantsev Pavel Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 4 343 RL-Competition Zug Marius Crg/Tm/Vega 5 327 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Thompson Harry Fa Kart/Vortex/Vega 6 314 Crg S.P.A. Gomez Gutierrez Jose Crg/Parilla/Vega 7 309 Crg S.P.A. Bortoleto Gabriel Crg/Parilla/Vega 8 328 Ricky Flynn Motorsport O Sullivan Zak Fa Kart/Vortex/Vega 9 303 Chiesa Corse David Hadrien Zanardi/Parilla/Vega 10 334 Novalux S.R.L. Pizzi Francesco Raffaele Luxor/Lke/Vega 11 301 Chiesa Corse Marseglia Leonardo Zanardi/Parilla/Vega 12 315 M2 Racing Karts Sagrera Javier Crg/Parilla/Vega 13 322 Baby Race Bosco Luca Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 14 353 Kartprom Team Kosarev Artem Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 15 362 Crg Holland Jansen Linus Crg/Parilla/Vega 16 349 Evokart Srl Fusco Giuseppe Evokart/Lke/Vega 17 302 Chiesa Corse Michelotto Mattia Zanardi/Parilla/Vega 18 357 Vdk Potty Antoine Kosmic/Parilla/Vega 19 323 Baby Race Brizhan Alexey Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 20 336 Novalux S.R.L. Sarg Robin Luxor/Lke/Vega 21 342 Forza Racing Edgar Jonny Exprit/Tm/Vega 22 359 Skjellerup Charlotte Skjellerup Oliver Kosmic/Vortex/Vega 23 338 Tony Kart Racing Team Gustavsson Viktor Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 24 341 Pescador Luis Weug Maya Top Kart/Parilla/Vega 25 331 Birel Art Racing Famularo Alessandro Birel Art/Tm/Vega 26 363 Kikkenborg Knud Kikkenborg Frederik Kosmic/Vortex/Vega 27 317 A.S.Van T Hoff Van T Hoff Dilano Crg/Tm/Vega 28 329 Morsicani Racing Bizzotto Leonardo Crg/Parilla/Vega 29 316 RL-Competition Trefilovs Davids Crg/Tm/Vega 30 346 Evokart Srl Raffaele Francesca Evokart/Parilla/Vega 31 352 Vdk Suleiman Zanfari Kosmic/Parilla/Vega 32 320 Birel Art Racing Patterson Dexter Birel Art/Tm/Vega 33 326 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Doohan Jack Fa Kart/Vortex/Vega 34 304 Ward Racing Beganovic Dino Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Gap Best Lap 1 516 Gamoto Asd Spina Alfio Crg/Tm/Vega 10 Laps 55.560 2 546 Parolin Racing Kart Srl Mini Gabriele Parolin/Tm/Vega 0.400 55.779 3 501 Baby Race Bedrin Nikita Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 0.484 55.378 4 510 Gamoto Asd Giardelli Luca Crg/Tm/Vega 0.572 55.778 0.620 55.561 5 554 Formula K Junior Team A.S.D. Paparo Michael Barbaro Ipk/Tm/Vega 6 507 Tony Kart Racing Team Antonelli Andrea Kimi Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 0.682 55.563 7 608 Crg Holland Variawa Saood Crg/Tm/Vega 0.963 55.818 8 560 Asd Giugliano Kart De Palo Matteo Energy/Iame/Vega 2.520 55.738 9 513 Gamoto Asd Putera Adam Crg/Tm/Vega 2.577 55.447 10 551 Energy Corse Srl Kenneally Bray Energy/Tm/Vega 2.723 55.725 11 511 Gamoto Asd Flack Marcos Crg/Tm/Vega 2.846 55.682 12 544 Evokart Srl Pulito Francesco Evokart/Tm/Vega 3.335 55.929 13 505 Baby Race Fomin Ruslan Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 6.583 55.992 Kucharczyk Tymoteusz Crg/Tm/Vega 6.999 55.968 14 601 Tbkart Srl 15 540 Energy Corse Srl Han Cenyu Energy/Tm/Vega 7.167 55.864 16 591 Pacitto Racing Croccolino Filippo Crg/Lke/Vega 7.537 56.230 17 570 Bbb Kart Team Becicka Jiri Top Kart/Tm/Vega 8.276 55.927 18 582 Ac Motorsport Pingasov Miron Fa Kart/Tm/Vega 8.792 55.907 19 604 Birelart Poland By Wtr Bertuca Cristian Birel Art/Tm/Vega 9.648 56.043 20 579 Af Competition Wulf William Fa Kart/Tm/Vega 9.768 55.837 21 606 Birelart Poland By Wtr Kuc Marcel Birel Art/Tm/Vega 9.772 56.084 22 557 Asd Giugliano Kart Ugochukwu Ugo Energy/Iame/Vega 9.915 56.079 23 503 Baby Race Badoer Brando Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 10.096 56.229 24 520 Crg Holland Polman Justin Crg/Tm/Vega 10.112 55.775 25 574 Gulizia Andrea Gulizia Raffaele Lenzokart/Htl/Vega 10.369 55.859 26 589 Kgt Racing Team Srl Marzi Valerio Fa Kart/Tm/Vega 10.807 55.926 27 528 Ward Racing Laursen Conrad Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 11.600 56.041 28 527 Ward Racing Gubenko Alexander Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 11.819 56.422 29 567 Birel Art Racing Soldavini Francisco Birel Art/Tm/Vega 11.989 56.223 30 572 Rs Competition Weywadt Jonathan Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 12.474 56.184 31 506 Baby Race Dubynin Andrey Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 14.582 56.036 32 504 Baby Race Al Dhaheri Rashid Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 14.990 55.882 33 539 Energy Corse Srl Dinesen Julius Energy/Iame/Vega 16.668 56.033 34 594 Mazzola Raffaele Mazzola Rocco Top Kart/Tm/Vega 17.546 55.940

Gap Best Lap 16 Laps 49.927 0.081 49.820 0.461 49.937 0.612 49.887 4.107 49.962 4.184 49.990 5.982 50.142 8.945 50.031 9.134 49.884 9.954 49.815 11.116 50.272 12.193 50.025 12.525 49.991 13.341 50.066 13.954 50.171 14.398 50.106 14.586 50.341 15.028 50.182 16.439 50.221 17.082 50.206 19.276 50.009 19.887 50.114 22.382 49.854 22.646 50.126 22.846 50.595 23.146 49.787 1 Lap 50.283 7 Laps 50.465 9 Laps 51.363 12 Laps 51.229 12 Laps 50.605 14 Laps 55.915 14 Laps 56.564 16 Laps

NOTE

NOTE

Time penalty of 10“ for incorrectly installed front fairing or incorrect position of front fairing.

No.342 EDGAR JONNY: According to Stewards’ Decision No.157.

No.359 SKJELLERUP OLIVER: According to Stewards’ Decision No.158.

No.338 GUSTAVSSON VIKTOR: According to Stewards’ Decision No.159.

No.341 WEUG MAYA: According to Stewards’ Decision No.160.

No.363 KIKKENBORG FREDERIK: According to Stewards’ Decision No.161.

Time penalty of 5“ for incorrectly installed front fairing or incorrect position of front fairing.

No.594 MAZZOLA ROCCO: According to Stewards’ Decision No.168.

No.539 DINESEN JULIUS: According to Stewards’ Decision No.169.

No.506 DUBYNIN ANDREY: According to Stezwards’ Decision No.170.

No.520 POLMAN JUSTIN: According to Stewards’ Decision No.171.

No.504 AL DHAHERI RASHID: According to Stewards’ Decision No.172.

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RACING TEAM / 22ª WINTER CUP

PODIUM WITH DE

CONTO AND HAUGER Paolo De Conto secured the second place in KZ on CRG-Tm at the 22nd Winter Cup, as did Dennis Hauger in OK, after fighting for the victory. The young Alfio Spina took the win in Mini Rok with Team Gamoto at the end of an exciting final

CRG put in a great performance at the Winter Cup of Lonato, fielding a big and

competitive driver lineup in all categories. The strongest results came in the end mainly in KZ2, where Paolo De Conto secured the second place, and in OK with another second place claimed by a surprising Dennis Hauger. The victory of Mini Rok went to the very quick Alfio Spina and to team Gamoto.

KZ2, DE CONTO PROTAGONIST. Reigning World

Champion Paolo De Conto did his best to take the KZ2 win at the 22nd Winter Cup on CRG-Tm, race that had an exceptional highly-ranked entry list of 89 international drivers. Unfortunately, De Conto had some hiccups in the heats and in the Final he had to put in a great comeback, closing his effort right in the slipstream of the winner Jemery Iglesias. Had De Conto started a bit higher up than from the eighth spot of the grid, the end result could have certainly been different.

“After qualifying that did not go very well and the incident in the final heat – declared Paolo De Conto – the end result has been positive. I am very happy on how things went this weekend, as I kept increasing my speed. If I had started the Final higher up the grid, I could have fought for the victory. But I am fine with this result. This is a good start to the season.”

Among the other CRG finalists of KZ2, Flavio Camponeschi confirmed his place among the front runners ending sixth, team

SRP’s Fabian Federer had to settle for P9 due to an incident after being among the absolute quickest on track. Mirko Torsellini put in strong races but lacked a little bit of speed before being handed a 10s time penalty for the incorrectly placed front fairing in the Final. Simo Puhakka run a solid weekend all the way up to the Final, where he was stopped by an incident during the first lap.

The Spanish driver Enrico Prosperi had an unlucky debut and could not qualify for the Final due to a series of issues, as happened to Alessandro Giardelli and Marco Valenti that accumulated some delay in the heats.

HAUGER RULING IN OK. The Norwegian driver of CRG Dennis Hauger has been dominating OK on CRG-Parilla, despite this being his first season in OK following last year’s debut in OK Junior. Hauger found his place among the main protagonists also in this category, fighting equal with more experienced drivers. In the Final he also managed to get the lead, before being pushed down to P4 and then climbing up again to P2, engaging a battle for the victory. He put in a great performance, closing his > Paolo De Conto, KZ2 < race right in Travisanutto’s slipstream, as the latter led a Zanardi kart back to the victory.

Regarding the other CRG finalists of OK, the Spanish Kilian Meyer was 14th, Michael Rosina 19th and Callum Bradshaw 21st, while William Alatalo had to retire from the race.

> Jan Alvarez, Hauger mechanic <

> Callum Bradshaw (226), Kilian Meyer (224), OK <

MUNDING, GOOD DEBUT WITH CRG IN OK-JUNIOR.

CRG’s youngsters of OK-Junior displayed great speed, but could not get the most of their competitiveness in the end. The best was the German rookie Donar Nils Munding, who recovered all the way to the final P13, leading the French Evann Mallet.

Gabriel Bortoleto had an excursion at the start and closed his race in P29. This was a real pity as the Brazilian had been shining in the heats and Super Heat. The Spanish driver Jose Antonio Gomez could not qualify for the Final by just one point.

The INTERVIews

STANDING APPLAUSE FOR SPINA IN MINI ROK.

Paolo De Conto, KZ2: «We’ve been fast for all the weekend, despite some tests we had to carry out as it was interesting making them in the race context. In the Final we could have won, we had an extraordinary pace but in the end we couldn’t manage to make the crucial overtake. But we are very happy with our performance and potential».

Alfio Spina and Team Gamoto have been shining again in Mini Rok. The Italian won a photo-finish Final by only 0.01s, exciting spectators. The very young Spina completed a great comeback at this Winter Cup, as he recovered from P18 after heats to the second place of Super Heat, a result that granted him a third row start in the Final. Spina recovered the remaining positions early in the Final and then managed to fend off the Russian Bedrin. Among the best drivers, Luca Giardelli of Team Gamoto ended 11th.

Dennis Hauger, OK: «I’m happy because after only 3 races I am already among the fastest drivers in the OK and today, thank to the fantastic work made by the team and our engineer (KVS), we could have really won. Travisanutto is more experienced and in the last 2 laps he didn’t leave me any space, even if I was faster, so I preferred not to waste a whole working weekend and bring home a 2nd place for our moral and the awareness of our potential».

Gabriel Bortoleto, OK Junior: «I am happy and angry at the same time: happy because we were very fast during all the weekend, disappointed as in the Final start an accident deprived me of the possibility of making a nice race and fight for my first podium in the OK Junior».

> William Alatalo, OK <

Alfio Spina (Team Gamoto), MINI: «This victory with the Rok engines is very important for me, for the team and also for CRG, as it comes right after the one in Adria at the WSK with the Mini engines and different tyres, so it means that driver, team and chassis are very competitive».

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RACING TEAM / 22ª WINTER CUP RESULTS

22ª WINTER CUP KZ2 - Lonato del Garda (Bs)

22ª WINTER CUP OK - Lonato del Garda (Bs)

South Garda Karting (ITA). 16-19 February 2017. Air: 1ºC, Track: Dry, Sunny.

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Best Lap Gap 1 158 Formula K Racing Team Iglesias Jeremy Fk/Tm/Bridg 47.093 22 Laps 2 101 Crg Spa De Conto Paolo Crg/Tm/Bridg 47.056 0.180 3 129 Sodikart Lammers Bas Sodikart/Tm/Bridg 46.992 0.288 4 186 Birel Art Racing Longhi Riccardo Birel Art/Tm/Bridg 47.071 0.669 5 130 Sodikart Abbasse Anthony Sodikart/Tm/Bridg 47.073 0.856 6 137 Crg Spa Camponeschi Flavio Crg/Tm/Bridg 46.948 1.282 7 181 Ksw Birelart Aut Dreezen Rick Birelart/Vortex/Bridg 47.034 1.453 8 148 Crocpromotion Srl Hanley Benjamin CrocP/Tm/Bridg 46.946 2.167 9 177 Srp Racing Team Federer Fabian Crg/Tm/Bridg 47.136 3.377 10 118 Kosmic Racing Team Hajek Patrik Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 46.924 3.538 11 151 Tony Kart Racing Team Ardigo’ Marco Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 47.020 4.206 12 146 Zanchi Motorsport Zanchi Matteo Tony Kart/Tm/Bridg 47.059 4.877 13 143 Ngm Motorsport Asd Pollini Giacomo Formula K/Tm/Bridg 47.121 7.271 14 173 Birel Art Racing Tiene Felice Birel Art/Tm/Bridg 47.036 8.131 15 145 Tony Kart Racing Team Corberi Luca Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 47.048 9.994 16 190 Tbkart Srl Habulin Kristijan Tbkart/Tm/Bridg 47.313 10.510 17 144 Tony Kart Racing Team Vigano’ Matteo Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 47.136 10.822 18 164 Cpb Sport Irlando Alex Sodikart/Tm/Bridg 46.963 11.561 19 110 Cpb Sport Lunberg Douglas Sodikart/Tm/Bridg 47.002 12.121 20 122 Crg Holland Schmitz Alexander Crg/Vortex/Bridg 47.087 13.710 21 107 Tony Kart Racing Team Piccini Alessio Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 47.422 17.205 Righetti Ridolfi/Vortex/Bridg 47.271 17.413 22 172 Gold Kart Kart Fore’ Davide 23 114 Ruggeri Alessandro Ruggeri Alessandro Formula K/Tm/Bridg 47.241 17.536 24 152 Maranello Kart Srl Cavalieri Alberto Maranello/Tm/Bridg 47.300 17.741 25 150 Crocpromotion Srl Gavrilov Klim CrocP/Tm/Bridg 47.307 17.865 26 140 Crg Spa Torsellini Mirko Crg/Tm/Bridg 47.191 18.386 Crg/Modena Engines/Bridg 47.386 20.228 27 191 Vezzelli Fabio Vezzelli Daniele 28 105 Ward Racing Skaras Emil Tony Kart/Tm/Bridg 47.318 1 Lap 29 147 Maranello Kart Srl Mosca Tommaso Maranello/Tm/Bridg 46.974 6 Laps 30 124 Nuova 3M Srl Dale’ Andrea Crg/Tm/Bridg 47.385 8 Laps Sodikart/Tm/Bridg 47.413 17 Laps 31 111 Cpb Sport Leuillet Tom 32 187 Intrepid Driver Program Palomba Giuseppe Intrepid/Tm/Bridg 22 Laps 33 136 Crg Spa Puhakka Simo Crg/Tm/Bridg 22 Laps 34 155 Crg Spa Cebrian Gerard Crg/Tm/Bridg 22 Laps

South Garda Karting (ITA). 16-19 February 2017. Air: 1ºC, Track: Dry, Sunny.

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Best Lap Gap 1 237 Chiesa Corse Travisanutto Lorenzo Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 47.835 22 Laps 2 223 Crg Spa Hauger Dennis Crg/Parilla/Bridg 47.775 0.334 3 212 Kosmic Racing Team Pourchaire Theo Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 47.698 0.652 4 210 Kosmic Racing Team Basz Karol Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 47.770 0.747 5 229 Tony Kart Racing Team Petecof Gianluca Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 47.697 3.766 6 252 Ksm Schumacher Racing Tonteri Paavo Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 47.875 11.097 7 228 Tony Kart Racing Team Novalak Clement Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 47.795 14.177 8 241 Energy Corse Srl Kenneally Finlay Energy/Vortex/Bridg 47.812 15.687 9 213 Kosmic Racing Team Vebster Daniel Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 47.855 15.713 10 257 Birel Art Racing Lindh Rasmus Ricciardo Kart/Tm/Bridg 48.114 16.041 11 254 Ward Racing Dzitiev Yuriy Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 48.296 17.828 12 221 Forza Racing Alvarez Sebastian Exprit/Vortex/Bridg 47.969 18.372 13 248 Baby Race Moretti Marzio Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 47.955 19.022 14 224 Crg Spa Meyer Kilian Crg/Parilla/Bridg 47.865 19.904 15 258 Ward Racing Blomqvist Isac Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 47.728 21.688 16 216 Kosmic Racing Team Hicham Mazou Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 47.857 24.567 17 214 Forza Racing Jewiss Kiern Exprit/Vortex/Bridg 48.133 25.636 18 204 Ward Racing Rozenfeld David Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 48.066 25.734 19 205 Crg Spa Rosina Michael Crg/Parilla/Bridg 48.049 26.099 20 203 Ward Racing Shvetsov Ivan Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 47.973 26.755 21 226 Crg Spa Bradshaw Callum Crg/Parilla/Bridg 48.136 27.143 22 242 Baby Race Morricone Edoardo Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 47.988 27.260 23 235 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Taoufik Sami Fa Alonso/Vortex/Bridg 48.510 28.918 24 240 Chiesa Corse Gheno Jacopo Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 47.868 30.167 25 239 Chiesa Corse Arnaud Hugo Zanardi/Parilla/Bridgeston 48.237 34.512 26 232 Energy Corse Srl Nouet Theo Energy/Parilla/Bridg 47.982 7 Laps 27 218 Ksm Schumacher Racing Schumacher David Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 48.057 8 Laps 28 238 Chiesa Corse Eteki Adam Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 47.683 11 Laps 29 227 Tony Kart Racing Team Vidales David Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 47.814 11 Laps 30 251 Komarov Igor Sitnikov Nikita Tony Kart/Tm/Bridg 48.184 11 Laps 31 230 Crg Spa Alatalo William Crg/Parilla/Bridg 48.275 11 Laps 32 211 Kosmic Racing Team Milell Noah Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 48.666 18 Laps 33 201 Tony Kart Racing Team Hiltbrand Pedro Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 49.015 20 Laps Collet Caio Birel Art/Tm/Bridg 49.024 20 Laps 34 246 Birel Art Racing

NOTE

NOTE

Time penalty of 10“.

N°140 Torsellini Mirko: According to Stewards’ Decision No.169.

Time penalty of 10“.

N°228 Novalak Clement: According to Stewards’ Decision No.159.

N°214 Jewiss Kiern: According to Stewards’ Decision No.160.

N°240 Gheno Jacopo: According to Stewards’ Decision No.161.

N°239 Arnaud Hugo: According to Stewards’ Decision No.162.

N°258 Blomqvist Isac: According to Stewards’ Decision No.163.

N°203 Shvetsov Ivan: According to Stewards’ Decision No.164.

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22ª WINTER CUP OK JUNIOR - Lonato del Garda (Bs)

22ª WINTER CUP MINI - Lonato del Garda (Bs)

South Garda Karting (ITA). 16-19 February 2017. Air: 1ºC, Track: Dry, Sunny.

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Best Lap Gap 1 327 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Thompson Harry Fa Alonso/Vortex/Bridg 48.722 18 laps 2 347 Baby Race Colapinto Franco Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 48.848 2.153 3 332 Chiesa Corse Marseglia Leonardo Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 48.879 3.994 4 312 Forza Racing Edgar Jonny Exprit/Tm/Bridg 48.820 5.808 5 302 Ward Racing Bulantsev Pavel Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 48.825 10.238 6 323 Tony Kart Racing Team Gustavsson Viktor Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 48.715 10.423 7 351 Crocpromotion Srl Civico Espona Genis CrocP/Tm/Bridg 48.722 10.648 8 326 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Doohan Jack Fa Alonso/Vortex/Bridg 49.107 11.040 9 335 Baby Race Bosco Luca Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 48.771 11.664 10 311 Kosmic Racing Team Stanek Roman Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 49.132 11.808 11 324 Energy Corse Srl Smal Kirill Energy/Vortex/Bridg 48.838 12.369 12 357 Ksm Schumacher Racing Coluccio Luigi Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 49.053 13.652 13 322 Crg Spa Munding Donar Nils Crg/Parilla/Bridg 49.023 14.177 14 309 Crg Spa Mallet Evann Crg/Parilla/Bridg 49.117 14.419 15 333 Chiesa Corse Michelotto Mattia Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 49.095 14.573 16 329 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Maloney Zane Fa Alonso/Vortex/Bridg 48.953 15.340 17 301 Ward Racing Morozov Ilya Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 48.970 16.299 18 348 Birel Art Racing Patterson Dexter Birel/Tm/Bridg 48.865 17.380 19 330 Ward Racing Kharitonov Tikhon Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 48.950 17.492 20 325 Evokart Srl Fusco Giuseppe Evokart/Lke/Bridg 49.378 21.652 Pizzi Francesco Raffaele Luxor/Lke/Bridg 48.755 22.677 21 353 Novalux Srl 22 318 Ksm Schumacher Racing Tramnitz Tim Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 49.208 22.702 Villa Edoardo Ludovico Tony Kart/Iame/Bridg 48.871 22.966 23 358 Villa Marco 24 313 Kart Prom Team Artamonov Nikita Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 49.467 23.351 25 338 Baby Race Hong Yukui Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 49.273 23.664 26 334 Chiesa Corse David Hadrien Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 48.939 24.071 27 352 Joutsimies Rami Joutsimies Rasmus Kosmic/Parilla/Bridg 49.153 25.459 28 346 Birel Art Racing Delli Guanti Pietro Birel Art/Tm/Bridg 48.904 27.265 29 321 Crg Spa Bortoleto Gabriel Crg/Parilla/Bridg 49.121 35.525 30 337 Baby Race Rosso Andrea Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 48.747 3 Laps 31 307 Sexton Piers Lulham Christopher Tony Kart/Parilla/Bridg 48.610 3 Laps 32 350 Crescente Leonardo Crescente Francesco Birel/Parilla/Bridg 49.123 4 Laps 33 306 Sexton Piers Jackes Flynn Tony Kart/Parilla/Bridg 49.743 11 Laps 34 336 Baby Race Aron Paul Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 18 Laps

South Garda Karting (ITA). 16-19 February 2017. Air: 1ºC, Track: Dry, Sunny.

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Best Lap Gap 1 423 Gamoto Asd Spina Alfio Crg/Vortex/Bridg 56.021 12 Laps 2 450 Baby Race Bedrin Nikita Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 55.847 0.010 3 416 Giuliano Kart Ignatov Dmitry Energy/Vortex/Bridg 56.208 0.762 4 418 Giuliano Kart Zhivnov Andrey Energy/Vortex/Bridg 56.284 3.592 5 428 Ert Racing Team Cepil Igor Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 56.097 3.893 Righetti Ridolfi/Vortex/Bridg 55.974 4.067 6 411 Asd Revolution MotorSport Albanese Federico 7 414 Kart Prom Team Soldatov Maxim Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 56.182 4.138 8 471 Birel Art Racing Filaferro Andrea Birel Art/Vortex/Bridg 56.176 4.184 9 448 Energy Corse Srl Kenneally Bray Energy/Vortex/Bridg 56.083 4.212 Righetti Ridolfi/Vortex/Bridg 56.174 4.319 10 403 Gallo Leonardo Gallo Paolo 11 424 Gamoto Asd Giardelli Luca Crg/Vortex/Bridg 56.026 5.288 12 444 Birel Art Racing Bertini Colla Leonardo Birel/Vortex/Bridg 56.052 6.266 13 452 Baby Race Cenedese Alessandro Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 56.085 8.594 14 434 Ward Racing Laursen Conrad Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 56.229 8.690 15 483 Pacitto Racing Croccolino Filippo Crg/Vortex/Bridg 55.980 8.800 16 481 Krt Racing Team Szablewski Jakub Exprit/Vortex/Bridg 55.997 9.422 17 435 Maxim Racing Sport Schmitz Marc Top-Kart/Vortex/Bridg 55.818 9.600 18 402 Birel Art Poland by WTR Bertuca Cristian Birel/Vortex/Bridg 56.262 9.653 19 468 Tony Kart Racing Team Antonelli Andrea Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 56.109 9.938 20 478 Trulli Jarno Trulli Enzo Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 56.100 10.391 21 453 Pirate Team Kamenev Oleg Exprit/Vortex/Bridg 55.876 10.942 22 440 Evokart Srl Siverholm William Evokart/Vortex/Bridg 56.118 11.410 23 449 Baby Race Montenegro Ignacio Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 55.980 11.486 24 404 Birel Art Poland by WTR Kuc Marcel Birel/Vortex/Bridg 56.015 13.153 25 470 Pacitto Fabio Rossi Federico Crg/Vortex/Bridg 55.899 14.534 26 429 Lupifieri Cleber Antonio Lupifieri Hayden Crg/Vortex/Bridg 56.488 14.747 27 454 Birel Art Poland by WTR Piekutowski Bartlomiej Birelart/Vortex/Bridg 56.495 15.775 28 401 Panaev Nikolay Panaev Alexander Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 56.487 15.832 29 480 Granfors Joakim Granfors Joel Energy/Vortex/Bridg 56.519 17.672 30 474 Energy Corse Srl Stolcermanis Tomass LAT Energy/Vortex/Bridg 56.692 23.588 Ressico D’Aloisio Lorenzo Birel/Vortex/Bridg 56.778 35.587 31 422 Birel Art Racing 32 479 Gp Racing Srl Morgatto Matheus Crg/Vortex/Bridg 57.269 2 Laps 33 461 Baby Race Badoer Brando Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 56.814 6 Laps 34 413 Ferrari Damiano Ferrari Paolo Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 57.860 7 Laps

NOTE

NOTE

Time penalty of 10“.

N°329 Maloney Zane: According to Stewards’ Decision No.152.

N°301 Morozov Ilya: According to Stewards’ Decision No.153.

N°358 Villa Edoardo Ludovico: According to Stewards’ Decision No.154.

N°334 David Hadrien: According to Stewards’ Decision No.155.

N°352 Joutsimies Rasmus: According to Stewards’ Decision No.156.

N°346 Delli Guanti Pietro: According to Stewards’ Decision No.158.

Time penalty of 5“.

N°449 Montenegro Ignacio: According to Stewards’ Decision No.165.

N°470 Rossi Federico: According to Stewards’ Decision No.166.

N°429 Lupifieri Hayden: According to Stewards’ Decision No.167.

N°474 Stolcermanis Tomass: According to Stewards’ Decision No.168.

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RACING TEAM / WSK SUPER MASTER SERIES ROUND 1

In 60 Mini a whole

CRG podium

The first round of the WSK Super Master Series in Adria has been spoiled by bad weather. Jorrit Pex ended on the podium of KZ on CRG-Tm. The other CRG drivers stopped by incidents instead. Team Gamoto centered a one-two-three in 60 Mini

The opener of the WSK Super Master Series at the Adria Karting Raceway has taken place

ago at the WSK Champions Cup when Jorrit Pex closed his effort behind his brother Stan Pex and Flavio Camponeschi. This time around the top two went to Anthony Abbasse and Bas Lammers.

Regarding the other CRG drivers, Flavio Camponeschi had to settle for P14 after the eighth place in the Final, one week after the mentioned great performance. Paolo De Conto suffered a series of problems in Prefinal and Final and had to retire due to a failure to the drive chain.

Alessandro Giardelli also had to retire, but he was happy on finding his place among the finalists despite being at the debut in the shifter category, as the British driver Taymour Kermanshahchi. Stan Pex had to retire due to an incident in the opening lap after closing the Prefinal in P2. Similar fate also for polesitter Simo Puhakka.

in a very difficult weekend. The circuit was soaked with unceasing rain during the three days of the event and in the final it was close to impracticable conditions. CRG obtained positive results in Adria, but a different weather could have ended with a better result for the drivers of the Italian outfit that is well represented in all categories.

JORRIT PEX ON THE THIRD STEP OF THE PODIUM IN KZ. The strong Dutch driver Jorrit Pex

managed to secure another podium for CRG in KZ on CRG-Tm, at the end of a final that has been made chaotic by the heavy rain. He put in a bold race and claimed the third step of the podium, as did one week

SEVERAL RACE INCIDENTS IN OK. Several contacts

and spins characterized the race of CRG drivers in OK, after the great speed shown in qualifying.

Dennis Hauger – fourth in Prefinal, managed to cross the finish line only in 19th, while Michael Rosina was 21st and Davide Lombardo 23rd.

The Spanish driver Kilian Meyer, the British Callum Bradshaw and Matteo Nannini could not qualify for the final stages due to some problems in the Prefinals.

The INTERVIew Jorrit Pex KZ2: «Difficult conditions today for everyone, I struggled a bit as but I think most of the drivers did, and in the end I am really happy because we are back on the podium again. Two races and two podiums, we keep going and try to go to higher steps instead of third. The start of the year is good and we can to do even better in the next races».

BIZZOTTO SHINING IN OK-JUNIOR. Team

Morsicani’s Leonardo Bizzotto has been the best of CRG drivers in the Final of OK-Junior and crossed the line in fifth place. The Spanish driver Ayrton Fontecha was handed a 10s time penalty ending his debut race with the works team in P20, while the Malaysian Nik Zamir Zakwan was 22nd. The French Gillian Henrion had to

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> Taymour Kermanshahchi, KZ2 <

retire after he confirmed the good performance shown in qualifying and in the heats with the 10th place in Prefinal. A similar fate characterized the race of the Spanish driver Jose Gomez (12th in Prefinal). The French Evann Mallet and the Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto could not qualify for the Final instead.

FULL HAUL IN 60 MINI FOR CRG GAMOTO. Great results for CRG arrived from 60 Mini thanks to the excellent performance of Team Gamotoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drivers, that managed to lock out the podium of the Final. The closing race was in fact won by Fabio Spina, who repeated the victory scored at the WSK Champions Cup. Luca Giardelli secured P2 after leading the race early on, while Malaysiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Adam Putera completed the podium.

The top three drivers were all on CRG-Tm.

> Marco Valenti, KZ2 <

> Ayrton Fontecha, OK Junior <

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RACING TEAM / WSK SUPER MASTER SERIES RESULTS

WSK SUPER MASTER SERIES KZ2 - ADRIA

WSK SUPER MASTER SERIES OK - ADRIA

Adria Karting Raceway (ITA). 2-5 February 2017. Air: 7ºC, Track: Wet, Cloudy.

Adria Karting Raceway (ITA). 2-5 February 2017. Air: 7ºC, Track: Wet, Cloudy.

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Gap Best Lap 1 44 Sodikart Abbasse Anthony Sodi/Tm/Bridg 15 Laps 1:03.733 2 45 Sodikart Lammers Bas Sodi/Tm/Bridg 4.839 1:04.034 3 29 Crg Holland Pex Jorrit Crg/Tm/Bridg 14.471 1:04.615 4 10 Kosmic Racing Dept Hajek Patrik Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 15.370 1:04.024 5 47 Zanchi Matteo Zanchi Matteo Wildkart/Tm/Bridg 17.063 1:04.373 6 34 Cpb Sport Lundberg Douglas Sodi/Tm/Bridg 26.145 1:04.474 7 2 Ward Racing Skaras Emil Tony Kart/Tm/Bridg 31.755 1:04.162 8 51 Tony Kart Racing Team Ardigo Marco Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 33.233 1:03.973 9 35 Cpb Sport Leuillet Tom Sodi/Tm/Bridg 33.464 1:05.501 Dr/Modena Engines/Bridg 34.423 1:05.382 10 14 Dr Srl Maximilian Paul 11 6 Novalux S.R.L. Iacovacci Francesco Luxor/Lke/Bridg 36.375 1:05.406 12 5 Gold Kart Fore Davide Gold/Vortex/Bridg 36.623 1:05.394 13 36 Cpb Sport Alex Sodi/Tm/Bridg 39.339 1:05.330 14 25 Crg S.P.A. Camponeschi Flavio Crg/Tm/Bridg 41.045 1:05.673 2 15 30 Chiesa Corse Joyner Thomas Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 41.917 1:05.685 16 40 Energy Corse Srl Van Leeuwen Martijn Energy/Tm/Bridg 42.776 1:05.342 17 37 Birel Art Racing Kremers Marijn Birel Art/Tm/Bridg 49.507 1:05.059 18 48 Praga Racing Team Celenta Francesco Praga/Tm/Bridg 56.600 1:05.567 19 7 Novalux S.R.L. Ippolito Paolo Lenzokart/Lke/Bridg 1:01.578 1:06.870 20 49 Praga Racing Team Salmaso Edoardo Praga/Tm/Bridg 1:10.838 1:06.543 21 9 Tony Kart Racing Team Piccini Alessio Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 3 Laps 1:04.955 Dr/Modena Engines/Bridg 3 Laps 1:07.168 22 15 Dr Srl Toth Laszlo 23 1 Crg S.P.A. De Conto Paolo Crg/Tm/Bridg 5 Laps 1:05.269 24 16 Crg S.P.A. Giardelli Alessandro Crg/Tm/Bridg 5 Laps 1:06.981 25 17 Ckr Giannoni Lorenzo Ckr/Tm/Bridg 6 Laps 1:05.899 26 23 Ckr Pelizzari Alessandro Ckr/Tm/Bridg 6 Laps 1:05.846 27 41 Praga Racing Team Pescador Jorge Praga/Tm/Bridg 13 Laps 1:06.392 28 28 Crg Holland Pex Stan Crg/Tm/Bridg 15 Laps 2 Laps 29 26 Formula K Iglesias Jeremy Formula K/Tm/Bridg 15 Laps 2.460 30 8 Tony Kart Racing Team Vigano Matteo Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 15 Laps 0.567 31 31 Crg S.P.A. Puhakka Simo Crg/Tm/Bridg 15 Laps 0.351 32 18 Crg S.P.A. Kermanshahchi Taymour Crg/Tm/Bridg 15 Laps 33 19 Kosmic Racing Dept Bengtsson Axel Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 15 Laps 4.804

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Gap Best Lap 1 231 Vdk De Pauw Ulysse Kosmic/Parilla/Bridg 15 Laps 1:04.444 2 224 Chiesa Corse Travisanutto Lorenzo Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 4.246 1:04.700 3 206 Tony Kart Racing Team Vidales David Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 9.446 1:04.990 4 213 Dr Srl Jonusis Justas Dr/Parilla/Bridg 12.212 1:04.684 5 203 Vdk Victor Martins Kosmic/Parilla/Bridg 14.111 1:04.859 6 202 Kosmic Racing Dept Basz Karol Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 15.244 1:04.717 7 251 Crg Tb Racing Team Lippkau Luca Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 19.247 1:05.569 8 230 Birel Art Racing Collet Caio Birel Art/Tm/Bridg 21.745 1:05.131 9 247 Energy Corse Srl Kenneally Finlay Energy/Vortex/Bridg 21.813 1:05.336 10 225 Chiesa Corse Eteki Adam Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 22.922 1:05.434 11 218 Ward Racing Shvetsov Ivan Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 26.685 1:05.039 12 241 Ricciardo Kart Racing Lindh Rasmus Ricciardo Kart/Tm/Bridg 27.436 1:04.809 13 204 Tony Kart Racing Team Novalak Clément Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 29.610 1:05.165 14 249 Ksm Schumacher Racing Tonteri Paavo Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 29.772 1:05.023 15 216 Ward Racing Blomqvist Isac Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 31.616 1.844 1:05.300 16 238 Ksm Schumacher Racing Laganella Umberto Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 33.497 1:05.864 17 234 Ksm Schumacher Racing Owega Jusuf Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 33.624 1:04.998 18 253 Ksm Schumacher Racing Arnold Felix Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 35.535 1:06.472 19 245 Crg S.P.A. Hauger Dennis Crg/Parilla/Bridg 36.836 1:05.174 20 248 X-Rei Motorsport Eichenberger Tara Exprit/Vortex/Bridg 43.023 1:06.493 21 244 Raceland Ssdrl Rosina Michael Crg/Parilla/Bridg 43.849 1:05.658 22 221 Ricciardo Kart Racing Ohlin Simon Ricciardo Kart/Tm/Bridg 46.393 1:05.836 23 250 Crg S.P.A. Lombardo Davide Crg/Parilla/Bridg 46.411 1:04.882 24 227 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Taoufik Sami Fa Kart/Vortex/Bridg 47.064 1:04.777 25 212 Vdk Lomko Lev Kosmic/Parilla/Bridg 1 Lap 1:05.800 26 205 Tony Kart Racing Team Petecof Gianluca Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 1 Lap 1:05.755 27 233 Ksm Schumacher Racing Schumacher David Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 1 Lap 1:06.620 28 211 Vdk Minang Perdana Kosmic/Parilla/Bridg 2 Laps 1:05.687 29 217 Ward Racing Lobanenko Artem Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 4 Laps 1:05.559 30 210 Kosmic Racing Dept Noah Milell Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 7 Laps 1:05.926 31 254 Dr Srl Schimpf Mateos Adrian Dr/Parilla/Bridg 7 Laps 1:06.568 32 219 Ward Racing Rozenfeld David Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 10 Laps 1:06.909 33 207 Kosmic Racing Dept Mazou Hicham Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 12 Laps 1:07.812 34 208 Kosmic Racing Dept Pourchaire Theo Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 15 Laps

Not Classified 3 Ward Racing

Levi Ariel

NOTE

Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg Retired

Time penalty of 10“ for incorrectly installed front fairing or incorrect position of front fairing.

No.203 VICTOR MARTINS: According to Stewards’ Decision No.173.

No.218 SHVETSOV IVAN: According to Stewards’ Decision No.175.

No.249 TONTERI PAAVO: According to Stewards’ Decision No.176.

No.234 OWEGA JUSUF: According to Stewards’ Decision No.177.

No.244 ROSINA MICHAEL: According to Stewards’ Decision No.178.

No.221 OHLIN SIMON: According to Stewards’ Decision No.179.

No.227 TAOUFIK SAMI: According to Stewards’ Decision No.180.

No.233 SCHUMACHER DAVID:According to Stewards’ Decision No.181.

No.230 COLLET CAIO: According to Stewards’ Decision No.182.

NOTE

Time penalty of 10“ for incorrectly installed front fairing or incorrect position of front fairing.

No.34 LUNDBERG DOUGLAS: According to Stewards’ Decision No.174.

No.2 SKARAS EMIL: According to Stewards’ Decision No.184.

No.51 ARDIGO MARCO: According to Stewards’ Decision No.185.

No.40 VAN LEEUWEN MARTIJN: According to Stewards’ Decision No.186.

No.48 CELENTA FRANCESCO: According to Stewards’ Decision No.187.

No.49 SALMASO EDOARDO: According to Stewards’ Decision No.188.

No.37 KREMERS MARIJN: According to Stewards’ Decision No.189.

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Time penalty of 10“ for bad manoeuvre (Art 2.24 CIK General Prescriptions).

No.202 BASZ KAROL: According to Stewards’ Decision No.183.

WSK SUPER MASTER SERIES OK JUNIOR - ADRIA

WSK SUPER MASTER SERIES MINI - ADRIA

Adria Karting Raceway (ITA). 2-5 February 2017. Air: 7ºC, Track: Wet, Cloudy.

Adria Karting Raceway (ITA). 2-5 February 2017. Air: 7ºC, Track: Wet, Cloudy.

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Gap Best Lap 1 321 Baby Race Rosso Andrea Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 12 Laps 1:07.189 50 2 326 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Doohan Jack Fa Kart/Vortex/Vega 2.960 1:07.649 3 305 Ward Racing Morozov Ilya Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 4.956 1:07.859 4 342 Forza Racing Edgar Jonny Exprit/Tm/Vega 6.191 1:07.940 5 329 Morsicani Racing Bizzotto Leonardo Crg/Parilla/Vega 6.358 1:07.725 6 322 Baby Race Bosco Luca Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 6.706 1:07.633 7 325 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Skodopole Dan Fa Kart/Vortex/Vega 7.484 1:07.919 8 323 Baby Race Brizhan Alexey Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 9.273 1:08.125 9 330 Birel Art Racing Delli Guanti Pietro Birel Art/Tm/Vega 12.463 1:07.854 10 327 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Thompson Harry Fa Kart/Vortex/Vega 15.098 1:08.044 11 302 Chiesa Corse Michelotto Mattia Zanardi/Parilla/Vega 15.642 1:07.466 12 320 Birel Art Racing Patterson Dexter Birel Art/Tm/Vega 15.862 1:07.896 13 316 Ward Racing Nord Gabriel Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 17.993 1:07.575 14 337 Crescente Leonardo Crescente Francesco Birel Art/Parilla/Vega 19.795 1:08.066 15 331 Birel Art Racing Famularo Alessandro Birel Art/Tm/Vega 20.213 1:08.488 16 318 Baby Race Aron Paul Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 20.308 1:08.648 17 336 Novalux S.R.L. Sarg Robin Luxor/Lke/Vega 21.706 1:08.548 18 308 Energy Corse Srl Smal Kirill Energy/Vortex/Vega 26.385 1:08.587 19 351 Cpb Sport Cabirou Loris Sodi/Tm/Vega 26.475 1:08.204 20 313 Crg S.P.A. Fontecha Ayrton Crg/Parilla/Vega 27.114 1:08.081 21 347 Evokart Srl Kattoulas Alexandros Evokart/Lke/Vega 27.442 1:08.099 22 312 Crg S.P.A. Zamir Zakwan Nik Crg/Parilla/Vega 30.957 1:08.596 23 349 Evokart Srl Fusco Giuseppe Evokart/Lke/Vega 31.132 1:08.638 24 333 Crg S.P.A. Henrion Gillian Crg/Parilla/Vega 3 Laps 1:07.502 25 364 Praga Racing Team Martinez Carles Praga/Tm/Vega 3 Laps 1:08.261 Croc Promotion/Tm/Vega 6 Laps 1:08.010 26 360 Dpk Racing Civico Genis 27 365 X-Rei Motorsport Eichenberger Gaia Kosmic/Tm/Vega 6 Laps 1:09.448 28 301 Chiesa Corse Marseglia Leonardo Zanardi/Parilla/Vega 7 Laps 1:06.999 29 303 Chiesa Corse David Hadrien Zanardi/Parilla/Vega 8 Laps 1:10.727 30 314 Crg S.P.A. Gomez Gutierrez Jose Crg/Parilla/Vega 8 Laps 1:10.913 31 304 Ward Racing Beganovic Dino Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 9 Laps 1:09.885 32 363 Kikkenborg Knud Kikkenborg Frederik Kosmic/Vortex/Vega 10 Laps 1:11.758 33 332 Birel Art Racing Famularo Anthony Birel Art/Tm/Vega 11 Laps 1:09.120

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Gap Best Lap 1 516 Gamoto Asd Spina Alfio Crg/Tm/Vega 8 Laps 1:14.886 2 510 Gamoto Asd Giardelli Luca Crg/Tm/Vega 0.427 1:14.938 3 513 Gamoto Asd Putera Adam Crg/Tm/Vega 1.925 1:15.235 Righetti Ridolfi/Tm/Vega 2.600 1:15.178 4 585 Asd Revolution Motorsport Albanese Federico 5 507 Tony Kart Racing Team Antonelli Andrea Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 2.941 1:15.164 6 503 Gamoto Asd Kleve Stenshorne Martincirugs/Tm/Vega 5.259 1:15.601 7 546 Parolin Racing Kart Srl Mini Gabriele Parolin/Tm/Vega 6.385 1:15.395 8 579 Af Competition Wulf William Fa Kart/Tm/Vega 7.613 1:15.385 9 517 Gamoto Asd Bohra Nikhil Crg/Tm/Vega 7.952 1:15.542 10 601 Tbkart Srl Kucharczyk Tymoteusz Crg/Tm/Vega 9.938 1:15.559 11 540 Energy Corse Srl Han Cenyu Energy/Tm/Vega 11.306 1:16.054 12 550 Evokart Srl Gravlund Sebastian Evokart/Tm/Vega 11.921 1:16.218 13 535 Birel Art Racing Filaferro Andrea Birel Art/Tm/Vega 14.199 1:16.419 14 501 Baby Race Bedrin Nikita Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 15.787 1:16.415 Ressico D’Aloisio Lorenzo Birel Art/Tm/Vega 15.809 1:16.494 15 566 Birel Art Racing 16 558 Asd Giugliano Kart Ignatov Dmitry Energy/Iame/Vega 15.828 1:15.473 17 528 Ward Racing Laursen Conrad Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 16.313 1:16.472 18 590 Morsicani Racing Scionti Enzo R. Crg/Tm/Vega 16.957 1:16.370 19 502 Baby Race Cenedese Alessandro Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 17.001 1:15.933 20 512 Ward Racing Victorsson Philip Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 17.207 1:16.636 21 518 Gamoto Asd Quek Aidan Crg/Tm/Vega 18.005 1:16.310 22 524 Pozzi Pieracarlo Pozzi Brando Mad Croc/Tm/Vega 18.569 1:16.265 23 511 Gamoto Asd Flack Marcos Crg/Tm/Vega 19.475 1:16.159 24 508 Asd Giugliano Kart Zhivnov Andrey Energy/Iame/Vega 20.675 1:16.639 25 608 Crg Holland Variawa Saood Crg/Tm/Vega 20.687 1:16.605 26 602 Gamoto Asd Van Hoepen Laurens Crg/Tm/Vega 20.881 1:16.678 27 576 Praga Junior Team Bagnardi Matteo Ipk/Tm/Vega 21.183 1:17.167 28 539 Energy Corse Srl Dinesen Julius Energy/Iame/Vega 21.695 1:17.005 29 596 Birel Art Racing Bertini Colla Leonardo Birel Art/Iame/Vega 22.220 1:16.934 30 504 Baby Race Al Dhaheri Rashid Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 22.449 1:16.112 31 562 Aix Racing Team Algre Ken Oskar Energy/Tm/Vega 24.155 1:16.540 32 561 Aix Racing Team Hakala Patrick Energy/Lke/Vega 26.629 1:15.842 33 533 Vdk Amand Marcus Energy/Iame/Vega 29.523 1:15.479 34 551 Energy Corse Srl Kenneally Bray Energy/Tm/Vega 2 Laps 1:15.518 NOTE

Not Classified 306 Ward Racing

Bulantsev Pavel

Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega Excluded 1:06.446

Time penalty of 5“ for incorrectly installed front fairing or incorrect position of front fairing.

No.602 VAN HOEPEN LAURENS: According to Stewards’ Decision No.196.

No. 558 IGNATOV DMITRY: According to Stewards’ Decision No.197.

NOTE

Time penalty of 10“ for incorrectly installed front fairing or incorrect position of front fairing.

No.320 PATTERSON DEXTER: According to Stewards’ Decision No.195.

No.308 SMAL KIRILL: According to Stewards’ Decision No.192.

No.351 CABIROU LORIS: According to Stewards’ Decision No.194.

No.313 FONTECHA AYRTON: According to Stewards’ Decision No.193.

No.312 ZAMIR ZAKWAN NIK: According to Stewards’ Decision No.190.

No.349 FUSCO GIUSEPPE: According to Stewards’ Decision No.191.

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RACING TEAM / WSK SUPER MASTER SERIES ROUND 2

STAN PEX ON

THE PODIUM

Stan Pex scored a podium on CRG-Tm in KZ2 at the second round of the WSK Super Master Series held in Castelletto.

De Conto out due to an incident. Great races for Lombardo in OK, Bortoleto and Henrion in OK-Junior

CRG Racing Team lived quite a challenging in Castelletto di Branduzzo (Pavia, Italy)

of WSK in KZ2, thanks to the third place obtained in Castelletto, after the victory taken in WSK Champions Cup at the beginning of the season. Stan put in a stunning comeback run this time around.

He climbed all the way from the 28th time in qualifying to the seventh place of the starting grid of the Final, before ending in P3 right in the slipstream of Jeremy Iglesias and the winner Bas Lammers.

Flavio Camponeschi run a great Final too, closing seventh at the end of a weekend in crescendo due to an unlucky qualifying. Paolo De Conto could have also ended on the

at the second round of the WSK Super Master Series.

The race has been spoiled by some unlucky events and by particularly bad weather in the first half of the weekend. An excellent result came in the end in KZ2 thanks to Stan Pex on CRG-Tm, but several positive indications arrived also in OK and OK-Junior.

STAN PEX ON THE KZ2 PODIUM IN CASTELLETTO.

The young Dutch driver Stan Pex got again on the podium > Andrea Dalè (54), Jorrit Pex (29), KZ2 <

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podium, but he had an incident in the Final when he was in P4 and closing in on the leading group.

That was a real pity as De Conto had strong chances to fight for the victory. Jorrit Pex had to retire due to a technical problem after starting 12th.

Some setup problems affected Simo Puhakka’s race and he had to settle for P16, behind team mate Andrea Dalè.

Benjamin Tornqvist of CRG Holland was 21st, while Alessandro Giardelli managed to find his place among the finalists and closed his effort in 23rd position.

An incident in Prefinal did not allow the British Taymour Kermanshahchi to qualify for the Final.

Marco Valenti had a similar fate due to some issues.

BORTOLETO AND HENRION SHINING IN OK-JUNIOR. The Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto and

the French Gillian Henrion have been shining in OK-Junior, clinching respectively the sixth and seventh place in the Final. Henrion has been very quick also in the heats when he took the first position.

The Dutch of CRG Keijzer Racing Kas Haverkort has also been very fast. He claimed the pole position in qualifying and then ended the Final in a good P10.

The Spanish driver Ayrton Fontecha has been under the spotlight for the whole weekend, but was slowed down by some battles in the Final ending 26th.

The Malaysian driver Nik Zamir Zakwan, the Spanish

> Gillian Henrion (333), Gabriel Bortoleto (309), OK Junior <

LOMBARDO GREAT PROTAGONIST OF OK.

> Hauger e Meyer, OK <

Jose Antonio Gomez and the French Evann Mallet, could not go beyond Prefinals. The latter had a big crash in his Prefinal, but he luckily escaped serious physical consequences.

The best end result among CRG drivers of OK was secured by Davide Lombardo, who has been the great protagonist of a good sixth place in the Final, after the fifth in Prefinal and the tenth in SPINA AND GIARDELLI HIT BY BAD LUCK IN 60 qualifying and heats. Dennis Hauger has been quite MINI. The young drivers of the CRG Gamoto Team could unlucky instead. His weekend did not start on a high, not get on the podium of the very tight 60 Mini this time but he promptly recovered in the heats. around, despite a promising start to the weekend.

Hauger’s end result was spoiled by a 10s time penalty in Alessandro Giardelli has been stopped by a problem to the the Prefinal though. Started from the back, Hauger was engine in the Final, after being second quickest at the end involved in an incident at turn 2 and this put the word of heats. Adria’s winner Alfio end to his race. The British driver > Jose Antonio Gomez, OK Junior < Spina was also slowed down by a Callum Bradshaw was 15th at the end of technical problem, but managed a very tight battle, while Michael Rosina to recover up to the seventh place has always been among the quickest of of the Final. Saood Variawa of the weekend and closed his effort in CRG Holland has been the best P18. The Italian ACI Kart Champion of of CRG drivers in P5. The team Morsicani Alessandro Di Cori updated classification now sees ended 24th. The Spanish driver Kilian Spina slipped down to P3 and Meyer had to retire from the Final due Giardelli to P5. to an incident instead.

RACING TEAM / WSK SUPER MASTER SERIES results

WSK MASTER SERIES KZ2 - CASTELLETTO

WSK MASTER SERIES OK - CASTELLETTO

International Circuit 7 Laghi (ITA). 2-5 March 2017. Air: 12ºC, Track: Dry, Sunny.

International Circuit 7 Laghi (ITA). 2-5 March 2017. Air: 14ºC, Track: Dry, Sunny.

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Gap Best Lap 1 45 Sodikart Lammers Bas Sodi/Tm/Bridg 20 Laps 48.244 2 26 Formula K Iglesias Jeremy Formula K/Tm/Bridg 0.990 48.316 3 28 Crg Holland Pex Stan Crg/Tm/Bridg 2.023 48.363 4 44 Sodikart Abbasse Anthony Sodi/Tm/Bridg 2.321 48.306 5 51 Tony Kart Racing Team Ardigo Marco Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 3.010 48.290 6 36 Cpb Sport Alex Sodi/Tm/Bridg 3.574 48.338 7 25 Crg S.P.A. Camponeschi Flavio Crg/Tm/Bridg 4.763 48.362 8 10 Kosmic Racing Dept Hajek Patrik Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 5.847 48.349 Coc Promotion/Tm/Bridg 6.079 48.294 9 55 Crocpromotion Hanley Benjamin 10 11 Tony Kart Racing Team Corberi Luca Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 6.852 48.375 11 37 Birel Art Racing Kremers Marijn Birel Art/Tm/Bridg 7.113 48.384 12 4 Birel Art Racing Tiene Felice Birel Art/Tm/Bridg 7.302 48.373 13 42 Parolin Racing Kart Camplese Lorenzo Parolin/Tm/Bridg 8.104 48.323 14 40 Energy Corse Srl Van Leeuwen Martijn Energy/Tm/Bridg 9.212 48.372 15 54 Nuova 3M Srl Dale’ Andrea Crg/Tm/Bridg 9.837 48.366 16 31 Crg S.P.A. Puhakka Simo Crg/Tm/Bridg 11.304 48.551 17 56 Ksm Schumacher Racing Norris John Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 13.938 48.630 18 23 Ckr Pelizzari Alessandro Ckr/Tm/Bridg 14.739 48.617 Righetti Ridolfi/Tm/Bridg 14.884 48.603 19 5 Gold Kart Fore Davide 20 57 Ksm Schumacher Racing Kohler Leon Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 15.355 48.619 21 32 Crg Holland Tornqvist Persson Benjacmrgin/Tm/Bridg 15.860 48.645 22 33 Cpb Sport Renaudin Adrien Sodi/Tm/Bridg 16.859 48.650 23 16 Crg S.P.A. Giardelli Alessandro Crg/Tm/Bridg 17.043 48.676 24 7 Novalux S.R.L. Ippolito Paolo Lenzokart/Lke/Bridg 17.258 48.522 25 62 Srp Racing Team Lehane Pierce Crg/Tm/Bridg 19.426 48.713 26 8 Tony Kart Racing Team Vigano Matteo Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 22.356 48.354 27 35 Cpb Sport Leuillet Tom Sodi/Tm/Bridg 25.227 48.536 28 34 Cpb Sport Lundberg Douglas Sodi/Tm/Bridg 1 Lap 48.423 Birel Art/Vortex/Bridg 3 Laps 48.368 29 59 Ksw Birelart Austria Racing Dreezen Rick Dr/Modena Engines/Bridg 4 Laps 48.596 30 14 Dr Srl Maximilian Paul 31 41 Praga Pescador Jorge Praga/Tm/Bridg 5 Laps 48.363 32 2 Ward Racing Skaras Emil Tony Kart/Tm/Bridg 6 Laps 48.797 33 1 Crg S.P.A. De Conto Paolo Crg/Tm/Bridg 10 Laps 48.332 34 29 Crg Holland Pex Jorrit Crg/Tm/Bridg 18 Laps 49.777

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Gap Best Lap 1 204 Tony Kart Racing Team Novalak Clément Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 20 Laps 49.048 2 249 Ksm Schumacher Racing Tonteri Paavo Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 0.318 48.976 3 255 Chiesa Corse Joyner Thomas Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 0.332 48.822 4 202 Kosmic Racing Dept Basz Karol Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 2.983 48.999 5 233 Ksm Schumacher Racing Schumacher David Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 4.067 49.160 6 250 Crg S.P.A. Lombardo Davide Crg/Parilla/Bridg 4.311 49.048 7 230 Birel Art Racing Collet Caio Birel Art/Tm/Bridg 4.843 49.069 8 231 Vdk De Pauw Ulysse Kosmic/Parilla/Bridg 6.023 49.213 9 216 Ward Racing Blomqvist Isac Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 8.292 49.112 10 224 Chiesa Corse Travisanutto Lorenzo Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 10.239 48.983 11 225 Chiesa Corse Eteki Adam Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 13.097 49.226 Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 13.193 49.201 12 218 Ward Racing Shvetsov Ivan 13 210 Kosmic Racing Dept Noah Milell Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 13.361 49.066 14 247 Energy Corse Srl Kenneally Finlay Energy/Vortex/Bridg 13.817 49.376 15 235 Crg S.P.A. Bradshaw Callum Crg/Parilla/Bridg 14.335 49.228 Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 15.394 49.168 16 219 Ward Racing Rozenfeld David Schimpf Mateos Alejandro Dr/Parilla/Bridg 16.173 49.265 17 242 Dr Srl 18 244 Crg S.P.A. Rosina Michael Crg/Parilla/Bridg 16.548 49.260 19 251 Crg Tb Racing Team Lippkau Luca Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 19.799 49.303 Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 21.304 49.637 20 236 Baby Race Morricone Edoardo Birel Art/Ricciardo/Bridg 22.278 49.220 21 221 Ricciardo Kart Racing Ohlin Simon 22 212 Vdk Lomko Lev Kosmic/Parilla/Bridg 23.023 49.521 23 227 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Taoufik Sami Fa Kart/Vortex/Bridg 23.353 49.210 24 261 Morsicani Racing Di Cori Alessandro Crg/Parilla/Bridg 23.827 49.746 Ricciardo Kart/Tm/Bridg 25.015 48.971 25 241 Ricciardo Kart Racing Lindh Rasmus Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 20 27.350 49.136 26 217 Ward Racing Lobanenko Artem 27 254 Dr Srl Schimpf Mateos Adrian Dr/Parilla/Bridg 4 Laps 50.028 28 213 Dr Srl Jonusis Justas Dr/Parilla/Bridg 5 Laps 49.198 Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 14 Laps 49.546 29 234 Ksm Schumacher Racing Teamowega Jusuf Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 15 Laps 49.313 30 205 Tony Kart Racing Team Petecof Gianluca 31 232 Crg S.P.A. Meyer Kilian Crg/Parilla/Bridg 15 Laps 49.617 Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 17 Laps 49.907 32 206 Tony Kart Racing Team Vidales David 33 245 Crg S.P.A. Hauger Dennis Crg/Parilla/Bridg 19 Laps 58.517

NOTE

Time penalty of 10“ for incorrectly installed front fairing or incorrect position of front fairing.

No.224 TRAVISANUTTO LORENZO: According to Stewards’ Decision No.164.

No.251 LIPPKAU LUCA: According to Stewards’ Decision No.167.

NOTE

Time penalty of 10“ for incorrectly installed front fairing or incorrect position of front fairing.

No.8 VIGANO MATTEO: According to Stewards’ Decision No.170.

Time penalty of 5“ for Bad manoeuvre (Art 2.24 of the Cik General Prescriptions).

No.255 JOYNER THOMAS: According to Stewards’ Decision No.169.

Time penalty of 10“ for leaving the track (art 2.24 CIK General Prescriptions).

No.227 TAOUFIK SAMI: According to Stewards’ Decision No.171.

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International Circuit 7 Laghi (ITA). 2-5 March 2017. Air: 14ºC, Track: Dry, Sunny.

International Circuit 7 Laghi (ITA). 2-5 March 2017. Air: 12ºC, Track: Dry, Sunny.

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment 1 321 Baby Race Rosso Andrea Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 2 306 Ward Racing Bulantsev Pavel Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 3 1 326 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Doohan Jack Fa Kart/Vortex/Vega 4 2 327 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Thompson Harry Fa Kart/Vortex/Vega 5 360 Dpk Racing Civico Genis Fa Kart/Tm/Vega 6 309 Crg S.P.A. Bortoleto Gabriel Crg/Parilla/Vega 7 333 Crg S.P.A. Henrion Gillian Crg/Parilla/Vega 8 376 Piers Sexton Racing Lulham Christoper Tony Kart/Parilla/Vega 9 305 Ward Racing Morozov Ilya Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 10 350 Crg Keijzer Racing Haverkort Kas Crg/Parilla/Vega 11 302 Chiesa Corse Michelotto Mattia Zanardi/Parilla/Vega 12 303 Chiesa Corse David Hadrien Zanardi/Parilla/Vega 13 349 Evokart Srl Fusco Giuseppe Evokart/Lke/Vega 14 320 Birel Art Racing Patterson Dexter Birel Art/Tm/Vega 15 329 Ksm Schumacher Racing Bizzotto Leonardo Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 16 325 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Skodopole Dan Fa Kart/Vortex/Vega 17 375 Rs Competition Bastian Buus Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 18 377 Piers Sexton Racing Flynn Jackes Tony Kart/Parilla/Vega 19 345 Ksm Schumacher Racing Coluccio Luigi Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 20 308 Energy Corse Srl Smal Kirill Energy/Vortex/Vega 21 370 Koski Motorsport Seppanen Elias Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 22 301 Chiesa Corse Marseglia Leonardo Zanardi/Parilla/Vega 23 338 Tony Kart Racing Team Gustavsson Viktor Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 24 323 Baby Race Brizhan Alexey Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 25 371 Koski Motorsport Nurmi Luka Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 26 313 Crg S.P.A. Fontecha Ayrton Crg/Parilla/Vega 27 351 Cpb Sport Cabirou Loris Sodi/Tm/Vega 28 366 Parolin Racing Kart Srl Al Habsi Shihab Parolin/Parilla/Vega 29 316 Ward Racing Nord Gabriel Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 30 358 Fusion Motorsport Cuman Nicolo Exprit/Tm/Vega 31 337 Crescente Leonardo Crescente Francesco Birel Art/Parilla/Vega 32 361 Praga Racing Team Handsaeme Xavier Praga/Tm/Vega 33 335 Sørensen Pavia Majgaard Victor Kosmic/Vortex/Vega 34 322 Baby Race Bosco Luca Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment 1 507 Tony Kart Racing Team Antonelli Andrea Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 2 501 Baby Race Bedrin Nikita Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 3 557 Asd Giugliano Kart Ugochukwu Ugo Energy/Iame/Vega 4 546 Parolin Racing Kart Srl Mini Gabriele Parolin/Tm/Vega 5 608 Crg Holland Variawa Saood Crg/Tm/Vega 6 579 Af Competition Wulf William Fa Kart/Tm/Vega 7 516 Gamoto Asd Spina Alfio Crg/Tm/Vega 8 550 Evokart Srl Gravlund Sebastian Evokart/Tm/Vega 9 554 Formula K Junior Team Paparo Michael Barbaro Ipk/Tm/Vega 10 540 Energy Corse Srl Han Cenyu Energy/Tm/Vega 11 558 Asd Giugliano Kart Ignatov Dmitry Energy/Iame/Vega 12 504 Baby Race Al Dhaheri Rashid Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 13 568 Birel Art Racing Camara Rafael Birel Art/Tm/Vega 14 601 Tbkart Srl Kucharczyk Tymoteusz Crg/Tm/Vega Righetti Ridolfi/Tm/Vega 15 585 Asd Revolution Motorsport Albanese Federico 16 513 Gamoto Asd Putera Adam Crg/Tm/Vega 17 551 Energy Corse Srl Kenneally Bray Energy/Tm/Vega 18 526 Ward Racing Mertsalmi Samuli Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 19 530 Trulli Jarno Trulli Enzo Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 20 538 Novalux S.R.L. Marrocco Matthew Luxor/Lke/Vega 21 555 Formula K Junior Team Fluxa Lorenzo James Ipk/Tm/Vega 22 548 Rs Competition Degnbol Noah Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 23 602 Gamoto Asd Van Hoepen Laurens Crg/Tm/Vega 24 596 Birel Art Racing Bertini Colla Leonardo Birel Art/Iame/Vega 25 545 Crg Keijzer Racing Ploeg Bart Crg/Tm/Vega 26 593 Noviello Engine Lavazza Erika Energy/Tm/Vega 27 511 Gamoto Asd Flack Marcos Crg/Tm/Vega 28 574 Mavilla Luca Gulizia Raffaele Lenzo Kart/Htl/Vega 29 509 Egp Racing Team Eyckmans Ean Crg/Tm/Vega 30 528 Ward Racing Laursen Conrad Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 31 572 Rs Competition Weywadt Jonathan Tony Kart/Tm/Vega Ipk/Tm/Vega 32 571 Formula K Junior Team A.S.D. Norton Andreasson 33 603 Birel Art Racing Kuc Marcel Birel Art/Tm/Vega Righetti Ridolfi/Tm/Vega 34 575 Gallo Leonardo Gallo Paolo

Gap Best Lap 16 Laps 50.638 6.213 50.720 6.310 50.835 10.090 50.963 11.222 50.866 11.308 50.577 11.373 50.588 11.781 50.636 11.941 50.714 12.225 50.858 14.634 50.528 16.403 50.820 16.497 50.823 16.709 50.815 16.803 50.902 16.921 50.894 17.191 51.142 18.997 50.849 19.107 51.180 21.012 50.931 21.602 50.959 21.704 50.861 23.440 50.887 23.681 51.272 23.782 50.996 25.200 50.864 28.952 51.652 29.123 51.667 29.300 50.564 31.309 51.024 6 Laps 51.486 9 Laps 51.980 10 Laps 52.032 11 Laps 52.433

NOTE

NOTE

Time penalty of 10“ for incorrectly installed front fairing or incorrect position of front fairing.

No.302 MICHELOTTO MATTI: According to Stewards’ Decision No.172.

No.301 MARSEGLIA LEONARDO: According to Stewards’ Decision No.173.

No.358 CUMAN NICOLO: According to Stewards’ Decision No.174.

No.316 NORD GABRIEL: According to Stewards’ Decision No.175.

Time penalty of 5“ for incorrectly installed front fairing or incorrect position of front fairing.

No.572 WEYWADT JONATHAN: According to Stewards’ Decision No.176.

No.511 FLACK MARCOS: According to Stewards’ Decision No.177.

No.574 GULIZIA RAFFAELE: According to Stewards’ Decision No.178.

No.603 KUC MARCEL: According to Stewards’ Decision No.179.

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Gap Best Lap 10 Laps 54.658 1.149 54.671 1.662 54.714 2.689 54.667 2.798 54.611 5.412 54.768 6.318 54.499 6.390 54.951 7.371 54.442 7.554 54.856 8.917 54.949 9.038 54.670 11.161 54.939 12.129 54.822 13.385 54.899 13.450 55.081 16.092 55.314 16.160 54.920 16.652 55.064 17.137 54.929 17.933 55.023 17.988 55.125 18.482 54.843 18.617 55.102 20.557 55.353 20.757 55.303 21.824 54.940 23.327 54.983 27.505 54.896 28.595 54.661 30.188 54.877 40.631 54.686 54.814 55.086 6 Laps 55.058

RACING TEAM / WSK SUPER MASTER SERIES ROUND 3

BITTER WSK FOR CRG DRIVERS IN LA CONCA A series of unlucky episodes and some incidents prevented CRG drivers to get on the podium in the third round of the WSK Super Master Series at the International Circuit La Conca on March 19th. Spina 1st in 60 Mini but then penalized

A series of unlucky events stripped CRG

turn had run a great Final B ending sixth.

Stan Pex and Taymour Kermanshahchi retired early from the Final. Alessandro Giardelli could not find his place among the finalists due to a retirement in Prefinal A. Paolo De Conto did not take part in this race due to a snowboarding incident in the days before the round of La Conca.

drivers from the podium in the third round of WSK in La Conca. In KZ, Flavio Camponeschi ended his race in eighth place leading Jorrit Pex. An incident in OKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Prefinal took the Norwegian polesitter Dennis Hauger > Kilian Meyer, OK <

HAUGER MISSING OUT ON THE FINAL IN OK.

Dennis Hauger had to unexpectedly retire from Prefinal B of OK due to an incident at lap one. This did not allow him to take part in the Final, stripping the race from one of the certain protagonists of the category, as the Norwegian had set the pole position and won one heat. In the Final, Meyer, who was sixth in Prefinal B ahead of Davide Lombardo, lost some ground and had to settle for P16. Lombardo lost even more ground and > Jose Antonio Gomez, OK Junior <

off. The Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto best of OK-Junior in sixth place. Alfio Spina crossed the finish line of 60 Mini on top, but was later on issued a penalty.

CAMPONESCHI EIGHT IN KZ. Flavio Camponeschi

turned out to be the best of CRG drivers in the Final of KZ on CRG-Tm. He was eighth proceeding Jorrit Pex, as the latter had been protagonist in qualifying and in Prefinal B where he clinched the third place, but could not give his best in the Final. The Dutch driver of CRG Holland Benjamin Tornqvist Persson recovered well up to the 13th place leading the Finn Simo Puhakka, who in

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> Kas Haverkort, OK Junior <

closed his effort in P24, while Bradshaw had to retire at lap one after the eight place he secured in Prefinal A. BORTOLETO THE BEST OF CRG’S LOT IN OK-JUNIOR.

The Dutch Kas Haverkort of team CRG Keijzer has been one of the quickest drivers throughout weekend in OKJunior and confirmed his speed with the victory of Prefinal A. Unfortunately, the Dutch driver started the Final from the outside lane and was involved in an incident at the first lap.

The Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto put in a great race instead, and clinched a sixth place in > Nik Zamir, OK Junior < Prefinal and confirmed it in the Final, at the end of a nice run.

The Spanish driver Ayrton Fontecha was 12th, the German Marius Zug of RL-Competition was 13th, the Spaniard Jose Antonio Gomez 18th and the Malaysian Nik Zamir Zakwan 21st. The two French drivers Gillian Henrion and Evann Mallet had an unlucky weekend instead and had to retire from the Prefinal, therefore not qualifying for the Final.

ALFIO SPINA STRIPPED OF THE VICTORY IN 60 MINI. The most spectacular Final of the weekend was

unquestionably 60 Mini’s. The race was tight from lights to flag and team Gamoto’s Alfio Spina crossed the line on top, recovering all the positions from the starting P5. Spina managed to get the lead of the race in the closing stages and kept it all the way to the flag, crossing the line leading Minì and the Norwegian team mate at Gamoto Martinius Stenshorne. At the end of the race, a penalty surprisingly hit Spina and relegated him out of the podium. The motivation for this stewards’ decision is the partial detachment of the front fairing, a measure that once again has penalized spectacle on track. The victory was therefore inherited by Minì and the second place by Stenshorne.

The other team Gamoto’s driver Luca Giardelli ended within the top ten in sixth place, while the South African Saood Variawa of CRG Holland was ninth. Spina was relegated to P12 leading the Russian driver of Gamoto Miron Pingasov.

RACING TEAM / WSK SUPER MASTER SERIES results

WSK MASTER SERIES KZ2 - MURO LECCESE

WSK MASTER SERIES OK - MURO LECCESE

International Circuit La Conca (ITA). 16-19 March 2017. Air: 14ºC, Track: Dry, Cloudy.

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Gap Best Lap 1 10 Kosmic Racing Dept Hajek Patrik Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 20 Laps 45.730 2 45 Sodikart Lammers Bas Sodi/Tm/Bridg 2.004 45.761 3 51 Tony Kart Racing Team Ardigo Marco Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 2.146 45.883 4 26 Formula K Iglesias Jeremy Formula K/Tm/Bridg 2.256 45.943 5 36 Cpb Sport Irlando Alex Sodi/Tm/Bridg 2.967 45.735 6 35 Cpb Sport Leuillet Tom Sodi/Tm/Bridg 4.235 45.898 7 44 Sodikart Abbasse Anthony Sodi/Tm/Bridg 4.270 45.847 8 25 Crg S.P.A. Camponeschi Flavio Crg/Tm/Bridg 5.207 45.914 9 29 Crg Holland Pex Jorrit Crg/Tm/Bridg 5.744 45.920 10 41 Praga Pescador Jorge Praga/Tm/Bridg 6.233 45.850 11 34 Cpb Sport Lundberg Douglas Sodi/Tm/Bridg 7.175 46.103 12 37 Birel Art Racing Kremers Marijn Birel Art/Tm/Bridg 8.825 45.813 13 32 Crg Holland Tornqvist Persson Benjamin Crg/Tm/Bridg 9.009 46.002 14 31 Crg S.P.A. Puhakka Simo Crg/Tm/Bridg 9.210 45.942 15 38 Birel Art Racing Dahlberg Alexander Birel Art/Tm/Bridg 9.630 46.042 16 6 Novalux S.R.L. Iacovacci Francesco Luxor/Lke/Bridg 11.690 45.983 17 23 Ckr Pelizzari Alessandro Ckr/Tm/Bridg 12.221 46.028 Dr/Modena Engines/Bridg 12.717 46.162 18 66 Dr Srl Davies Dylan Croc Promotion/Tm/Bridg 13.940 45.761 19 55 Crocpromotion Hanley Benjamin 20 33 Cpb Sport Renaudin Adrien Sodi/Tm/Bridg 17.947 46.252 21 64 Real Racing Vasile Daniel Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 18.409 46.298 22 24 Crg Holland Johansson Andreas Crg/Tm/Bridg 19.547 46.450 23 11 Tony Kart Racing Team Corberi Luca Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 19.750 46.003 24 2 Ward Racing Skaras Emil Tony Kart/Tm/Bridg 21.093 46.323 25 70 Taglienti Group Srl Semerano Fedele Eks/Tm/Bridg 25.352 46.668 26 9 Tony Kart Racing Team Piccini Alessio Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 30.437 46.430 27 20 Kosmic Racing Dept Rasmussen Oliver Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 47.571 46.328 28 67 Evokart Srl Paiano Alessandro Evokart/Tm/Bridg 5 Laps 46.879 29 42 Parolin Racing Kart Camplese Lorenzo Parolin/Tm/Bridg 7 Laps 45.876 30 28 Crg Holland Pex Stan Crg/Tm/Bridg 16 Laps 46.102 31 18 Crg S.P.A. Kermanshahchi Taymour Crg/Tm/Bridg 16 Laps 46.776 Dr/Modena Engines/Bridg 16 Laps 46.739 32 14 Dr Srl Maximilian Paul 33 27 Formula K Ptacek Petr Formula K/Tm/Bridg 16 Laps 46.193 34 8 Tony Kart Racing Team Vigano Matteo Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 20 Laps

International Circuit La Conca (ITA). 16-19 March 2017. Air: 14ºC, Track: Dry, Cloudy.

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Gap Best Lap 1 204 Tony Kart Racing Team Novalak Clément Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 20 Laps 45.769 2 202 Kosmic Racing Dept Basz Karol Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 1.867 45.825 3 206 Tony Kart Racing Team Vidales David Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 3.215 45.750 4 231 Vdk De Pauw Ulysse Kosmic/Parilla/Bridg 4.994 45.888 5 208 Kosmic Racing Dept Pourchaire Theo Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 5.176 45.708 6 201 Tony Kart Racing Team Hiltbrand Pedro Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 6.671 45.757 7 210 Kosmic Racing Dept Noah Milell Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 9.582 45.936 8 269 Kohtala Sports Valtanen Juho Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 10.432 46.075 9 216 Ward Racing Blomqvist Isac Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 12.229 46.103 10 249 Ksm Schumacher Racing Tonteri Paavo Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 13.317 45.867 11 230 Birel Art Racing Collet Caio Birel Art/Tm/Bridg 14.161 46.111 12 268 Evokart Srl Guazzaroni Alessio Evokart/Parilla/Bridg 15.804 46.227 13 234 Ksm Schumacher Racing Owega Jusuf Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 17.445 45.949 14 263 Chiesa Corse Gheno Jacopo Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 19.713 46.210 15 229 Birel Art Racing D’Orlando Michael Birel Art/Tm/Bridg 19.860 46.271 16 232 Crg S.P.A. Meyer Kilian Crg/Parilla/Bridg 20.074 46.077 17 213 Dr Srl Jonusis Justas Dr/Parilla/Bridg 20.922 46.328 18 236 Baby Race Morricone Edoardo Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 21.281 46.346 Bin Abdul Garaf Mizzuddin Dr/Parilla/Bridg 21.433 45.827 19 266 Dr Srl 20 227 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Taoufik Sami Fa Kart/Vortex/Bridg 21.695 46.071 21 222 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Nannini Matteo Fa Kart/Vortex/Bridg 22.433 45.913 22 209 Kosmic Racing Dept Vebster Daniel Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 23.371 46.049 23 207 Kosmic Racing Dept Mazou Hicham Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 26.054 46.346 24 250 Crg S.P.A. Lombardo Davide Crg/Parilla/Bridg 27.663 46.472 Ricciardo Kart/Tm/Bridg 27.741 46.497 25 221 Ricciardo Kart Racing Ohlin Simon 26 265 Kohtala Sports Saarniala Axel Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 29.690 46.571 27 243 Energy Corse Srl Nouet Theo Energy/Parilla/Bridg 34.264 46.260 28 262 Kohtala Sports Sario Robin Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 6 Laps 46.456 29 246 Forza Racing Vaskelis Kasparas Exprit/Tm/Bridg 9 Laps 46.356 30 205 Tony Kart Racing Team Petecof Gianluca Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 10 Laps 45.997 31 255 Chiesa Corse Joyner Thomas Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 19 Laps 47.975 Ricciardo Kart/Tm/Bridg 20 Laps 32 241 Ricciardo Kart Racing Lindh Rasmus 33 235 Crg S.P.A. Bradshaw Callum Crg/Parilla/Bridg 20 Laps 0.102 34 237 Forza Racing Alvarez Sebastian Exprit/Vortex/Bridg 20 Laps 1.084

NOTE

NOTE

Time penalty of 10“ for incorrectly installed front fairing or incorrect position of front fairing No.11 Corberi Luca: According to Stewards’ Decision No.84.

No.9 Piccini Alessio: According to Stewards’ Decision No.85.

No.20 Rasmussen Oliver: According to Stewards’ Decision No.86.

Time penalty of 10“ for incorrectly installed front fairing or incorrect position of front fairing.

No.227 Taoufik Sami: According to Stewards’ Decision No.76.

No.266 Bin Abdul Garaf Mizzuddin: According to Stewards’ Decision No.77.

No.243 Nouet Theo: According to Stewards’ Decision No.78.

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WSK MASTER SERIES MINI - MURO LECCESE

International Circuit La Conca (ITA). 16-19 March 2017. Air: 14ºC, Track: Dry, Cloudy.

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Gap Best Lap 1 301 Chiesa Corse Marseglia Leonardo Zanardi/Parilla/Vega 16 Laps 47.054 2 302 Chiesa Corse Michelotto Mattia Zanardi/Parilla/Vega 0.717 47.054 3 327 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Thompson Harry * Fa Kart/Vortex/Vega 2.751 * 47.079 4 321 Baby Race Rosso Andrea Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 2.860 47.160 5 345 Ksm Schumacher Racing Coluccio Luigi Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 3.704 47.123 6 309 Crg S.P.A. Bortoleto Gabriel Crg/Parilla/Vega 7.110 47.138 7 326 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Doohan Jack Fa Kart/Vortex/Vega 9.163 47.166 8 338 Tony Kart Racing Team Gustavsson Viktor Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 11.910 47.212 9 320 Birel Art Racing Patterson Dexter Birel Art/Tm/Vega 12.268 47.210 10 335 Sørensen Pavia Majgaard Victor Kosmic/Vortex/Vega 14.395 47.182 11 339 Kosmic Racing Dept Roman Stanek Kosmic/Vortex/Vega 14.917 47.358 12 313 Crg S.P.A. Fontecha Ayrton Crg/Parilla/Vega 15.338 47.069 13 343 Rl-Competition Zug Marius Crg/Tm/Vega 16.107 47.517 14 329 Ksm Schumacher Racing Bizzotto Leonardo Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 18.643 47.407 15 305 Ward Racing Morozov Ilya Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 18.669 47.185 16 381 Kartprom Team Kosarev Artem Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 18.974 47.421 17 380 Kohtala Sports Pirttilahti Nikolas Kosmic/Vortex/Vega 19.092 47.450 18 314 Crg S.P.A. Gomez Jose Antonio Crg/Parilla/Vega 20.295 47.707 19 360 Dpk Racing Civico Genis Fa Kart/Tm/Vega 21.165 47.200 20 336 Novalux S.R.L. Sarg Robin Luxor/Lke/Vega 21.333 47.653 21 312 Crg S.P.A. Zamir Zakwan Nik Crg/Parilla/Vega 21.487 47.583 22 323 Baby Race Brizhan Aleksey Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 21.514 47.904 23 347 Evokart Srl Kattoulas Alexandros Evokart/Parilla/Vega 2.073 47.534 24 331 Birel Art Racing Famularo Alessandro Birel Art/Tm/Vega 23.852 47.242 25 316 Ward Racing Nord Gabriel Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 24.416 47.254 26 325 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Skodopole Dan Fa Kart/Vortex/Vega 34.563 47.837 27 304 Ward Racing Beganovic Dino Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 1 Lap 46.973 28 342 Forza Racing Edgar Jonny Exprit/Tm/Vega 8 Laps 47.342 29 318 Baby Race Aron Paul Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 13 Laps 48.114 30 350 Crg Keijzer Racing Haverkort Kas Crg/Parilla/Vega 16 Laps 31 328 Ricky Flynn Motorsport O Sullivan Zak Fa Kart/Vortex/Vega 16 Laps 0.220 32 303 Chiesa Corse David Hadrien Zanardi/Parilla/Vega 16 Laps 0.078 33 322 Baby Race Bosco Luca Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 16 Laps 0.191

International Circuit La Conca (ITA). 16-19 March 2017. Air: 14ºC, Track: Dry, Cloudy.

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Gap Best Lap 1 546 Parolin Racing Kart Srl Mini Gabriele Parolin/Tm/Vega 10 Laps 53.026 2 503 Gamoto Asd Stenshorne Martinius Crg/Tm/Vega 0.165 52.874 3 501 Baby Race Bedrin Nikita Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 1.383 52.961 4 557 Asd Giugliano Kart Ugochukwu Ugo Energy/Iame/Vega 1.734 52.940 5 554 Formula K Junior Team Paparo Michael Barbaro Ipk/Tm/Vega 1.816 53.128 6 510 Gamoto Asd Giardelli Luca Crg/Tm/Vega 1.882 53.208 7 540 Energy Corse Srl Han Cenyu Energy/Tm/Vega 1.923 53.232 8 507 Tony Kart Racing Team Antonelli Andrea Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 2.109 53.035 9 608 Crg Holland Variawa Saood Crg/Tm/Vega 3.082 53.463 10 550 Evokart Srl Gravlund Sebastian Evokart/Tm/Vega 3.116 53.067 11 574 Formula K Junior Team Gulizia Raffaele Ipk/Tm/Vega 3.257 53.288 12 516 Gamoto Asd Spina Alfio Crg/Tm/Vega 4.464 53.252 13 582 Gamoto Asd Pingasov Miron Crg/Tm/Vega 5.887 53.354 14 568 Birel Art Racing Camara Rafael Birel Art/Tm/Vega 5.956 53.137 15 544 Evokart Srl Pulito Francesco Evokart/Tm/Vega 7.321 53.342 16 560 Asd Giugliano Kart De Palo Matteo Energy/Iame/Vega 7.563 53.370 17 592 Real Racing Iancu Alexandru Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 7.810 53.585 18 509 Egp Racing Team Eyckmans Ean Crg/Tm/Vega 7.927 53.115 19 512 Ward Racing Victorsson Philip Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 10.640 53.915 20 502 Baby Race Cenedese Alessandro Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 11.139 53.177 21 570 Bbb Kart Team Becicka Jiri Top Kart/Tm/Vega 11.486 53.314 22 517 Gamoto Asd Bohra Nikhil Crg/Tm/Vega 11.522 53.334 23 504 Baby Race Al Dhaheri Rashid Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 13.178 53.184 24 578 Formula K Junior Team Rogala Kacper Ipk/Tm/Vega 13.336 53.237 25 530 Trulli Jarno Trulli Enzo Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 15.581 53.541 26 513 Gamoto Asd Putera Adam Crg/Tm/Vega 16.469 54.146 Righetti Ridolfi/Tm/Vega 16.604 54.202 27 585 Asd Revolution Motorsport Albanese Federico 28 614 Pc Driver Project Asd Rossi Federico Crg/Lke/Vega 16.643 54.004 29 527 Ward Racing Gubenko Alexander Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 16.762 54.156 30 542 Energy Corse Srl Foteev German Energy/Tm/Vega 26.222 53.571 31 590 Baby Race Scionti Enzo R. Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 31.199 53.591 32 555 Formula K Junior Team Fluxa Lorenzo James Ipk/Tm/Vega 33.048 53.371 33 558 Asd Giugliano Kart Ignatov Dmitry Energy/Iame/Vega 10 Laps 34 528 Ward Racing Laursen Conrad Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 10 Laps 3.017

Not Classified 324 Ricky Flynn Motorsport

Maloney Zane

Fa Kart/Vortex/Vega

NOTE

Excluded 47.152

Time penalty of 5“ for incorrectly installed front fairing or incorrect position of front fairing.

No.516 SPINA ALFIO: According to Stewards’ Decision No.88.

No.502 CENEDESE ALESSANDRO: According to Stewards’ Decision No.89.

No.504 AL DHAHERI RASHID: According to Stewards’ Decision No.90.

No.578 ROGALA KACPER: According to Stewards’ Decision No.91.

No.530 TRULLI ENZO: According to Stewards’ Decision No.92.

No.590 SCIONTI ENZO R: According to Stewards’ Decision No.93.

NOTE

Time penalty of 10“ for incorrectly installed front fairing or incorrect position of front fairing.

No.305 Morozov Ilya: According to Stewards’ Decision No.80.

No.360 Civico Genis: According to Stewards’ Decision No.81.

No.316 Nord Gabriel: According to Stewards’ Decision No.82.

No.325 Skodopole Dan: According to Stewards’ Decision No.83.

Time penalty of 3“ for bad manoeuvre (Art 2.24 Cik General Prescriptions).

No.327 Thompson Harry: According to Stewards’ Decision No.94. (*) No.327: +3 Sec. - Sub Judice.

Exclusion for Bad manoeuvre (Art 2.24 of the Cik General Prescriptions 2017).

No.324 Maloney Zane: According to Stewards’ Decision No.87.

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RACING TEAM / WSK SUPER MASTER SERIES ROUND 4

CRG IN SARNO FOR THE WSK CLOSER The International circuit Napoli of Sarno has staged the fourth round of the WSK Super Master and provided CRG works team with several important indications, ahead of the forthcoming CIK-FIA European Championship

The closing round of the WSK Super Master Series ended with several unlucky

occasions and recovered from two issues in the heats, the spark plug cabling and the front fairing, that lost him some ground. The front fairing rule also handed Stan Pex a time penalty in Prefinal at the end of a good race that saw him crossing the finish line in fourth position. The Dutch driver recovered well in the Final, but was unfortunately stopped by an incident. Alessandro Giardelli also put in a good performance up to Prefinal, but could not make it through to the Final due to a penalty. The Dutch driver of CRG Holland Benjamin Tornqvist Persson ended the Final within the top ten in P9. Jorrit Pex was the most highly ranked CRG driver in the championship, as he ended sixth behind Lammers, Hajek, Abbasse, Iglesias and Ardigò.

racing episodes hitting CRG works teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drivers at the International Circuit Napoli of Sarno, but the Italian outfit managed to collect very positive indications in terms of speed and performances in all categories.

The WSK round of Sarno has been particularly important eying the CIK-FIA European Championship that will kick off from Sarno in two weeks time for categories KZ, OK and OK-Junior. CRG took this weekend as a further chance to test several technical solutions.

JORRIT PEX AND DE CONTO AMONG THE QUICKEST IN KZ. The best result of CRG drivers in KZ was obtained

by Jorrit Pex, who ended the Final in fifth place, while Paolo De Conto was sixth, but showed a good pace in several

CAMPONESCHI PROTAGONIST AGAIN IN OK.

The British driver Callum Bradshaw has been the most

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> Alessandro Giardelli, KZ2 <

> Gabriel Bortoleto, OK Junior <

> Kilian Meyer (232), Dennis Hauger (245) e Callum Bradshaw (235), OK <

productive of CRG’s lot in OK, ending seventh at the end of a good comeback. Flavio Camponeschi was unfortunately forced to skip the final stages due to a trivial technical problem he experienced at the beginning of his Prefinal, but the Italian driver of CRG has been very quick in a category he had not been racing in for five years. He has been among the absolute quickest in qualifying heats. Camponeschi is now awaited at the International CIK-FIA races. A technical problem has also stopped the Norwegian Dennis Hauger in the Final, when he was putting in a strong race that would have made him climb higher up in the charts. A technical problem prevented the Spanish driver Kilian Meyer to qualify for the Final, as happened to Michael Rosina and to the Colombian Lorenzo Alborta Paredes. The Championship was won by Novalak.

CRG’s Bradshaw was 17th and Hauger 18th.

slipped down from P3, while Fontecha took a P4 that was only a tenth shy of the third place. Bortoleto closed his effort in 14th place. Among the quickest of the category, the German of CRG TB Racing Team Hugo Sasse was eighth. Luca Giardelli ended a nice race with a good P12. The French Gillian Henrion was 22nd at the end of a tough weekend instead. The German Donar-Nils Munding and Luca Griggs of team Morsicani had to retire from the Final, while the Spanish driver Jose Antonio Gomez could not go beyond Prefinal. The Championship was won by Rosso, while Bortoleto was 14th and Fontecha 18th.

ANOTHER GOOD RACE FOR SPINA IN MINI.

Team CRG Gamoto has been competitive once again in 60 Mini with its very young drivers. Alfio Spina could not put in the winning sprint in the closing stages of Sarno’s Final though, but he completed a strong race nevertheless.

Spina had to settle for P6, leading some other protagonists of team Gamoto: namely, the Russian Miron Pingasov and the American Nikhil Bohra. The Dutch driver of EGP Racing Team Ean Eyckmans also displayed a good shape ending the Final in 12th place. Spina closed the championship in fourth place, behind Minì, Bedrin and Antonelli.

STRONG RACES FOR FONTECHA AND BORTOLETO IN OK-JUNIOR. The Spanish Ayrton Fontecha put in a good

performance in OK-Junior. He managed to slide in the main protagonists of the Final in a tight and exciting race, that also saw CRG’s Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto among the leading group. In the closing stages of the race, Bortoleto unfortunately

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RACING TEAM / WSK SUPER MASTER SERIES RESULTS

WSK MASTER SERIES KZ2 - SARNO

WSK MASTER SERIES OK - SARNO

International Circuit Napoli (ITA). 6-9 April 2017. Air: 26ºC, Track: Dry, Sunny.

International Circuit Napoli (ITA). 6-9 April 2017. Air: 26ºC, Track: Dry, Sunny.

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Gap Best Lap 1 10 Kosmic Racing Dept Hajek Patrik Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 17 Laps 57.006 2 44 Sodikart Abbasse Anthony Sodi/Tm/Bridg 2.781 57.156 3 45 Sodikart Lammers Bas Sodi/Tm/Bridg 3.506 57.219 Formula K/Tm/Bridg 4.417 57.318 4 26 Formula K Iglesias Jeremy 5 29 Crg Holland Pex Jorrit Crg/Tm/Bridg 5.278 57.217 6 1 Crg S.P.A. De Conto Paolo Crg/Tm/Bridg 5.717 57.205 7 7 Novalux S.R.L. Ippolito Paolo Lenzokart/Lke/Bridg 5.928 57.373 8 23 Ckr Pelizzari Alessandro Ckr/Tm/Bridg 9.217 57.418 9 32 Crg Holland Tornqvist Persson Bencjragm/Tinm/Bridg 9.556 57.093 10 51 Tony Kart Racing Team Ardigo Marco Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 9.994 57.282 11 6 Novalux S.R.L. Iacovacci Francesco Luxor/Lke/Bridg 10.327 57.445 12 11 Tony Kart Racing Team Corberi Luca Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 11.265 57.197 13 35 Cpb Sport Leuillet Tom Sodi/Tm/Bridg 13.201 57.185 14 49 Praga Racing Team Salmaso Edoardo Praga/Tm/Bridg 13.515 57.670 15 33 Cpb Sport Renaudin Adrien Sodi/Tm/Bridg 14.685 57.433 16 54 Nuova 3M Srl Dalè Andrea Crg/Tm/Bridg 14.711 57.521 Formula K/Vortex/Bridg 15.427 57.504 17 72 Renda Motorsport Mollo Ciro 18 24 Crg Holland Johansson Andreas Crg/Tm/Bridg 15.731 57.546 19 73 Crg Tb Racing Team Moritz Horn Crg/Tm/Bridg 17.170 57.589 20 2 Ward Racing Skaras Emil Tony Kart/Tm/Bridg 17.508 57.569 21 76 Chiesa Corse Loubere Pierre Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 18.228 57.648 22 34 Cpb Sport Lundberg Douglas Sodi/Tm/Bridg 19.949 57.450 23 4 Birel Art Racing Tiene Felice Birel Art/Tm/Bridg 21.667 57.347 24 5 Gold Kart Fore Davide Gold/Tm/Bridg 23.359 57.372 Dr/Modena Engines/Bridg 24.534 58.046 25 14 Dr Srl Maximilian Paul 26 27 Formula K Ptacek Petr Formula K/Tm/Bridg 24.736 58.003 27 46 Manduchi Roberto Manduchi Roberto Gp Racing/Tm/Bridg 27.380 57.720 Dr/Modena Engines/Bridg 29.636 57.682 28 66 Dr Srl Davies Dylan 29 77 Cpb Sport Fontaine Paul Sodi/Tm/Bridg 29.984 58.137 30 9 Tony Kart Racing Team Piccini Alessio Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 42.784 57.612 31 28 Crg Holland Pex Stan Crg/Tm/Bridg 4 Laps 57.260 32 38 Birel Art Racing Dahlberg Alexander Birel Art/Tm/Bridg 4 Laps 57.293 33 31 Kosmic Racing Dept Puhakka Simo Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 11 Laps 57.172 34 42 Parolin Racing Kart Camplese Lorenzo Parolin/Tm/Bridg 14 Laps 59.301

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment 1 202 KOSMIC Racing Dept Basz Karol Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 2 201 Tony Kart Racing Team Hiltbrand Pedro Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 3 224 Chiesa Corse Travisanutto Lorenzo Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 4 204 Tony Kart Racing Team Novalak Clément Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 5 249 Ksm Schumacher Racing Tomnteri Paavo Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 6 276 Chiesa Corse Lahos Lopez Alejandro Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 7 235 Crg S.P.A. Bradshaw Callum Crg/Parilla/Bridg 8 257 Baby Race Moretti Marzio Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 9 233 Ksm Schumacher Racing Schumacher David Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 10 269 Kohtala Sports Valtanen Juho Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 11 216 Ward Racing Blomqvist Isac Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 12 280 Sodikart Irlando Alex Sodikart/Tm/Bridg 13 225 Chiesa Corse Eteki Adam Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 14 237 Forza Racing Alvarez Sebastian Exprit/Vortex/Bridg 15 247 Baby Race Kenneally Finlay Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg Bin Abdul Garaf Mizzudddin Dr/Parilla/Bridg 16 266 Dr Srl 17 263 Chiesa Corse Gheno Jacopo Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 18 214 Ward Racing Persson Sebastian Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 19 220 Kartprom Team Simonov Mikhail Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 20 211 Vdk Perdana Minang Kosmic/Parilla/Bridg 21 262 Kohtala Sports Sario Robin Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 22 218 Ward Racing Shvetsov Ivan Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 23 206 Tony Kart Racing Team Vidales David Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 24 245 Crg S.P.A. Hauger Dennis Crg/Parilla/Bridg 25 277 Chiesa Corse Muth Esteban Zanardi/Parilla/Bridg 26 231 Vdk De Pauw Ulysse Kosmic/Parilla/Bridg 27 210 Kosmic Racing Dept Noah Milell Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 28 243 Energy Corse Srl Nouet Theo Energy/Parilla/Bridg 29 207 Kosmic Racing Dept Mazou Hicham Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 30 241 Ricciardo Kart Racing Lindh Rasmus Ricciardo Kart/Tm/Bridg 31 208 Kosmic Racing Dept Pourchaire Theo Kosmic/Vortex/Bridg 32 234 Ksm Schumacher Racing Teoawmega Jusuf Tony Kart/Vortex/Bridg 33 227 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Taoufik Sami Fa Kart/Vortex/Bridg 34 222 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Nannini Matteo Fa Kart/Vortex/Bridg

NOTE

NOTE

Time penalty of 10“ for incorrectly installed front fairing or incorrect position of front fairing.

No.34 LUNDBERG DOUGLAS: According to Stewards’ Decision No.120.

No.4 TIENE FELICE: According to Stewards’ Decision No.123.

No.5 FORE DAVIDE: According to Stewards’ Decision No.122.

No.46 MANDUCHI ROBERTO: According to Stewards’ Decision No.121.

No.66 DAVIES DYLAN: According to Stewards’ Decision No.118.

No.9 PICCINI ALESSIO: According to Stewards’ Decision No.119.

Gap Best Lap 17 Laps 58.214 1.987 58.392 8.824 58.499 8.901 58.179 9.007 58.305 11.272 58.447 13.492 58.367 17.091 58.525 17.273 58.530 17.766 58.390 18.272 58.560 21.076 58.900 22.655 58.471 22.865 58.685 23.141 58.778 24.814 58.267 25.040 58.919 26.686 59.147 28.112 58.718 32.838 59.031 33.674 58.784 36.242 58.969 3 Laps 58.261 5 Laps 58.074 5 Laps 58.366 9 Laps 58.677 12 Laps 58.928 12 Laps 59.250 14 Laps 1:00.346 15 Lap 1:00.530 17 Laps 17 Laps 17 Laps 17 Laps

Time penalty of 10“ for incorrectly installed front fairing or incorrect position of front fairing No.269 VALTANEN JUHO: . According to Stewards’ Decision No.111.

No.266 BIN ABDUL GARAF MIZZUDDIN MUSYAFFA: . According to Stewards’ Decision No.106.

No.211 PERDANA MINANG: . According to Stewards’ Decision No.112.

No.262 SARIO ROBIN: . According to Stewards’ Decision No.114.

No.218 SHVETSOV IVAN: . According to Stewards’ Decision No.113.

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WSK MASTER SERIES OK JUNIOR - SARNO

WSK MASTER SERIES MINI - SARNO

International Circuit Napoli (ITA). 6-9 April 2017. Air: 26ºC, Track: Dry, Sunny.

International Circuit Napoli (ITA). 6-9 April 2017. Air: 26ºC, Track: Dry, Sunny.

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment 1 302 Chiesa Corse Michelotto Mattia Zanardi/Parilla/Vega 2 324 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Maloney Zane Fa Kart/Vortex/Vega 3 345 Ksm Schumacher Racing Coluccio Luigi Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 4 313 Crg S.P.A. Fontecha Ayrton Crg/Parilla/Vega 5 321 Baby Race Rosso Andrea Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 6 383 Xavier Handsaeme Xavier Handsaeme Kosmic/Parilla/Vega 7 320 Birel Art Racing Patterson Dexter Birel Art/Tm/Vega 8 354 Crg Tb Racing Team Sasse Hugo Crg/Parilla/Vega 9 325 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Skodopole Dan Fa Kart/Vortex/Vega 10 364 Praga Racing Team Martinez Carles Praga/Tm/Vega 11 303 Chiesa Corse David Hadrien Zanardi/Parilla/Vega 12 388 Crg S.P.A. Giardelli Luca Crg/Parilla/Vega 13 372 Vdk Mari Boya Kosmic/Parilla/Vega 14 309 Crg S.P.A. Bortoleto Gabriel Crg/Parilla/Vega 15 322 Baby Race Bosco Luca Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 16 360 Dpk Racing Civico Genis Fa Kart/Parilla/Vega 17 311 Vdk Lomko Wladislav Kosmic/Parilla/Vega 18 334 Novalux Srl Pizzi Francesco Raffaele Luxor/Lke/Vega 19 347 Evokart Srl Kattoulas Alexandros Evokart/Parilla/Vega 20 392 Evokart Srl Moar Maestro Urbeltz Evokart/Parilla/Vega 21 304 Ward Racing Beganovic Dino Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 22 333 Crg S.P.A. Henrion Gillian Crg/Parilla/Vega 23 318 Baby Race Aron Paul Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 24 386 Kohtala Sports Salonen Matias Kosmic/Vortex/Vega 25 377 Piers Sexton Racing Flynn Jackes Tony Kart/Parilla/Vega 26 348 Morsicani Racing Griggs Luca Crg/Parilla/Vega 27 370 Koski Motorsport Seppanen Elias Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 28 393 Crg S.P.A. Munding Donar-Nils Crg/Parilla/Vega 29 366 Parolin Racing Kart Srl Al Habsi Shihab Parolin/Parilla/Vega 30 337 Formula K Crescente Francesco Formula K/Tm/Vega 31 327 Ricky Flynn Motorsport Thompson Harry Fa Kart/Vortex/Vega 32 328 Ricky Flynn Motorsport O Sullivan Zak Fa Kart/Vortex/Vega 33 376 Piers Sexton Racing Lulham Christopher Tony Kart/Parilla/Vega 34 335 Sørensen Pavia Majgaard Victor Kosmic/Vortex/Vega

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Gap Best Lap 1 568 Birel Art Racing Camara Rafael Birel Art/Tm/Vega 8 Laps 1:07.640 2 544 Evokart Srl Pulito Francesco Evokart/Tm/Vega 0.071 1:07.660 3 546 Parolin Racing Kart Srl Mini Gabriele Parolin/Tm/Vega 2.839 1:07.833 4 501 Baby Race Bedrin Nikita Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 3.368 1:07.963 5 554 Formula K Junior Team Paparo Michael Barbaro Ipk/Tm/Vega 3.698 1:07.835 6 516 Gamoto Asd Spina Alfio Crg/Tm/Vega 3.750 1:08.072 7 582 Gamoto Asd Pingasov Miron Crg/Tm/Vega 3.902 1:07.718 8 517 Gamoto Asd Bohra Nikhil Crg/Tm/Vega 3.990 1:07.952 9 502 Baby Race Cenedese Alessandro Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 5.333 1:07.807 10 557 Asd Giugliano Kart Ugochukwu Ugo Energy/Iame/Vega 6.450 1:07.832 11 540 Energy Corse Srl Han Cenyu Energy/Tm/Vega 6.601 1:07.638 12 509 Egp Racing Team Eyckmans Ean Crg/Tm/Vega 6.768 1:07.794 13 530 Trulli Jarno Trulli Enzo Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 6.944 1:07.985 14 555 Formula K Junior Team Fluxa Lorenzo James Ipk/Tm/Vega 8.253 1:07.712 15 608 Crg Holland Variawa Saood Crg/Tm/Vega 8.387 1:07.821 Righetti Ridolfi/Tm/Vega 8.705 1:08.049 16 585 Asd Revolution Motorsport Albanese Federico 17 574 Formula K Juonior Team Gulizia Raffaele Ipk/Tm/Vega 8.988 1:08.033 18 590 Baby Race Scionti Enzo R. Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 9.011 1:08.199 19 535 Birel Art Racing Filaferro Andrea Birel Art/Tm/Vega 9.566 1:07.984 20 507 Tony Kart Racing Team Antonelli Andrea Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 9.902 1:08.019 21 558 Asd Giugliano Kart Ignatov Dmitry Energy/Iame/Vega 10.801 1:08.097 22 592 Real Racing Iancu Alexandru Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 11.282 1:08.367 23 550 Evokart Srl Gravlund Sebastian Evokart/Tm/Vega 11.526 1:07.925 24 506 Baby Race Dubynin Andrei Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 11.597 1:08.649 25 602 Gamoto Asd Van Hoepen Laurens Crg/Tm/Vega 11.969 1:08.363 26 537 Novalux S.R.L. Pedersen Oscar Luxor/Lke/Vega 12.102 1:08.102 Righetti Ridolfi/Tm/Vega 12.871 1:08.531 27 583 Asd Revolution Motorsport Marzi Valerio 28 570 Bbb Kart Team Becicka Jiri Top Kart/Tm/Vega 13.125 1:08.657 Ressico D’Aloisio Lorenzo Birel Art/Tm/Vega 13.464 1:08.622 29 566 Birel Art Racing 30 512 Ward Racing Victorsson Philip Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 14.762 1:08.582 31 504 Baby Race Al Dhaheri Rashid Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 15.360 1:08.275 32 619 Mazzola Raffaele Mazzola Rocco Top Kart/Tm/Vega 17.235 1:08.137 33 528 Baby Race Laursen Conrad Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 23.965 1:08.433 34 503 Gamoto Asd Kleve Stenshorne M. Crg/Tm/Vega 8 Laps

Gap Best Lap 13 Laps 1:00.871 0.053 1:00.785 0.782 1:00.568 0.910 1:00.572 1.120 1:00.722 1.359 1:00.541 2.850 1:00.842 2.882 1:00.704 2.999 1:00.855 3.849 1:00.689 4.400 1:00.680 4.474 1:00.903 4.703 1:00.666 4.957 1:00.510 5.010 1:00.634 5.072 1:00.825 5.859 1:00.807 7.686 1:00.834 7.858 1:00.856 8.003 1:00.680 8.814 1:00.483 9.336 1:00.686 13.059 1:00.816 15.764 1:00.797 18.377 1:00.573 1 Lap 1:00.943 2 Laps 1:00.993 3 Laps 1:00.794 3 Laps 1:01.376 7 Laps 1:01.451 9 Laps 1:01.264 10 Laps 1:00.931 10 Laps 1:00.788 11 Laps 1:02.258

NOTE

NOTE

Time penalty of 10“ for incorrectly installed front fairing or incorrect position of front fairing.

No.318 ARON PAUL: According to Stewards’ Decision No.117.

No.386 SALONEN MATIAS: According to Stewards’ Decision No.116.

No.377 FLYNN JACKES: According to Stewards’ Decision No.115.

Time penalty of 5“ for incorrectly installed front fairing or incorrect position of front fairing.

No.535 FILAFERRO ANDREA: According to Stewards’ Decision No.126.

No.507 ANTONELLI ANDREA: According to Stewards’ Decision No.125.

No.550 GRAVLUND SEBASTIAN: According to Stewards’ Decision No.129.

No.504 AL DHAHERI RASHID: According to Stewards’ Decision No.128.

No.594 MAZZOLA ROCCO: According to Stewards’ Decision No.127.

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RACING TEAM / WSK SUPER MASTER SERIES RESULTS WSK MASTER SERIES KZ2

P. Nr. Driver

ROUND 1 ROUND 2 ROUND 3 ROUND 4 H PFA PFB F H PFA PFB F H PFA PFB F H PFA PFB F Tot

1 45 Lammers Bas

7 - 30 30 8 - 40 60 6 20 - 50 11 50 - 50 362

2 10 Hajek Patrik

0 4 - 15 3 20 - 9 12 50 - 70 10 - 50 80 323

3 44 Abbasse Anthony 10 30 - 50 11 40 - 20 5 - 9 15 7 40 - 60 297 4 26 Iglesias Jeremy 0 10 - 0 6 - 30 40 9 - 50 30 12 - 60 40 287 5 51 Ardigo Marco

4 20 - 8 9 30 - 15 10 30 - 40 2 - 15 12 195

6 29 Pex Jorrit

5 - 10 20 0 - 8 0 11 - 30 10 0 - 20 35 149

7 31 Puhakka Simo 6 7 - 0 0 - 5 1 0 - 10 5 13 60 - 0 107 8 28 Pex Stan

9 - 20 0 0 10 - 30 4 9 - 0 3 3 - 0 88

9 36 Irlando Alex

0 - 0 3 2 - 20 12 0 - 20 25 - - - - 82

10 35 Leuillet Tom

0 - 7 7 0 - 3 0 0 15 - 20 0 10 - 8 70

68 11 23 Pelizzari Alessandro 0 - 3 0 0 - 0 0 0 3 - 2 0 - 40 20 12 42 Camplese Lorenzo 0 0 - - 0 0 - 4 7 - 15 0 9 30 - 0 65 13 1 De Conto Paolo 3 - 0 0 0 - 10 0 - - - - 0 20 - 30 63

14 55 Hanley Benjamin - - - - 0 - 6 8 8 40 - 0 - - - - 62

15 34 Lundberg Douglas 8 9 - 10 0 7 - 0 0 8 - 8 0 - 10 0 60

16 41 Pescador Jorge 0 3 - 0 0 - 2 0 3 - 40 9 - - - - 57

17 7 Ippolito Paolo 0 0 - 0 0 1 - 0 0 - 0 - 0 - 30 25 56 18 25 Camponeschi Flavio 0 5 - 2 4 - 7 10 2 10 - 12 - - - - 52

19 11 Corberi Luca

- - - - 10 - 9 7 0 1 - 0 0 15 - 9 51

20 37 Kremers Marijn 0 - 2 0 5 9 - 6 0 - 7 7 6 - 0 - 42

21 2 Skaras Emil

2 6 - 9 7 2 - 0 0 7 - 0 0 6 - 1 40

22 32 Tornqvist Persson 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 0 0 - 5 6 0 - 6 15 33 23 6 Iacovacci Francesco 0 0 - 5 0 - 0 - 0 6 - 3 0 - 7 10 31

24 54 Dalè Andrea

- - - - 1 8 - 2 - - - - 0 5 - 5 21

25 47 Zanchi Matteo 0 8 - 12 - - - - - - - - - - - - 20 26 38 Dahlberg Alexander 0 - 0 - 0 0 - - 0 - 6 4 0 - 9 0 19

27 9 Piccini Alessio 1 - 9 0 0 0 - - 0 - 4 0 0 - 4 0 18

WSK MASTER SERIES OK

P. Nr. Driver

ROUND 1 ROUND 2 ROUND 3 ROUND 4 H PFA PFB F H PFA PFB F H PFA PFB F H PFA PFB F Tot

1 204 Novalak Clément 9 - 10 3 4 - 40 60 12 50 - 70 10 - 60 40 368 2 202 Basz Karol

4 10 - 10 0 9 - 20 10 40 - 50 13 60 - 80 306

3 231 De Pauw Ulysse 0 - 30 50 0 - 30 9 7 - 30 30 3 20 - 0 209 4 206 Vidales David

3 - 7 20 5 30 - 0 11 - 50 40 7 30 - 0 203

5 201 Hiltbrand Pedro 0 E - - 11 0 - - 6 30 - 20 12 - 50 60 189 6 224 Travisanutto Lorenzo 10 30 - 30 9 10 - 7 9 - 0 - 0 15 - 50 170 7 249 Tonteri Paavo 0 8 - 2 7 20 - 40 0 7 - 9 0 - 15 35 143

8 255 Joyner Thomas - - - - 0 40 - 30 1 15 - 0 11 0 - - 97

9 269 Valtanen Juho - - - - - - - - 0 - 20 12 5 40 - 12 89

10 210 Noah Milell

0 4 - 0 0 - 2 4 0 3 - 15 9 50 - 0 87

11 247 Kenneally Finlay 0 - 3 7 8 - 10 3 - - - - 8 - 40 6 85

12 208 Pourchaire Theo 0 - 2 0 0 - 0 - 0 - 40 25 0 9 - 0 76

13 216 Blomqvist Isac 0 - 8 1 0 - 7 8 4 20 - 10 0 - 8 10 76

14 233 Schumacher David 0 - 5 0 0 - 20 15 8 0 - - 0 8 - 15 71

15 230 Collet Caio

0 5 - 8 0 - 8 10 3 10 - 8 4 - 0 - 56

16 276 Lahos Lopez A. - - - - - - - - - - - - 0 - 20 30 50

17 235 Bradshaw Callum 2 0 - - 0 - 6 2 0 8 - 0 0 6 - 25 49

18 245 Hauger Dennis 6 9 - 0 1 0 - 0 E - E - 2 - 30 0 48

19 251 Lippkau Luca

5 - 20 9 10 - 3 0 0 - 0 - 0 0 - - 47

20 203 Victor Martins 8 20 - 12 - - - - - - - - - - - - 40

21 218 Shvetsov Ivan 7 - 9 5 3 7 - 5 0 0 - - 0 - 4 0 40

22 250 Lombardo Davide 0 6 - 0 2 - 9 12 0 - 9 0 - - - - 38

23 213 Jonusis Justas 0 7 - 15 0 3 - 0 0 - 8 2 0 - 0 - 35 24 266 Bin Abdul Garaf M. - - - - - - - - 5 - 15 0 0 - 9 5 34

25 241 Lindh Rasmus 0 3 - 4 0 8 - 0 0 9 - 0 0 - 10 0 34

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26 225 Eteki Adam

0 - 0 6 0 5 - 6 0 0 - - 0 - 3 8 28

27 234 Owega Jusuf

0 0 - 0 0 4 - 0 0 6 - 6 1 7 - 0 24

WSK MASTER SERIES OK JUNIOR

P. Nr. Driver

ROUND 1 ROUND 2 ROUND 3 ROUND 4 H PFA PFB F H PFA PFB F H PFA PFB F H PFA PFB F Tot

1 321 Rosso Andrea

0 10 - 50 9 40 - 60 0 - 20 30 13 20 - 35 287

2 302 Michelotto Mattia 0 - 0 5 0 10 - 6 0 30 - 50 8 - 50 80 239 3 327 Thompson Harry 0 - 3 6 0 - 20 20 11 - 50 40 11 10 - 0 171 4 301 Marseglia Leonardo 9 - 30 0 0 - 10 0 5 - 40 70 2 - 0 - 166 5 345 Coluccio Luigi 0 - E - 0 - 3 0 3 - 15 25 9 50 - 50 155 6 326 Doohan Jack

7 - 20 30 10 - 30 30 1 - 6 15 0 0 - - 149

7 306 Bulantsev Pavel 10 30 - E 4 - 40 40 0 - E - 3 0 - - 127 8 324 Maloney Zane 0 0 - - 0 - 0 - 0 - 8 E 0 40 - 60 108 9 328 O Sullivan Zak 0 0 - - 5 0 - - 8 20 - 0 5 60 - 0 98

10 342 Edgar Jonny

4 9 - 15 0 - 0 - 12 40 - 0 12 - 0 - 92

11 320 Patterson Dexter 3 - 10 4 8 - 7 3 0 - 5 10 0 15 - 25 90

12 305 Morozov Ilya

8 20 - 20 0 20 - 8 0 - 9 4 0 0 - - 89

13 322 Bosco Luca

0 7 - 10 0 - 4 0 2 9 - 0 10 - 40 6 88

14 309 Bortoleto Gabriel 0 0 - - 0 9 - 12 6 10 - 20 4 - 20 7 88

15 376 Lulham Christoper - - - - 0 - 9 9 - - - - 6 - 60 0 84

16 360 Civico Genis

0 8 - 0 7 30 - 15 0 8 - 0 0 - 5 5 78

17 350 Haverkort Kas 0 0 - - 0 - 6 7 10 50 - 0 0 - 0 - 73

18 313 Fontecha Ayrton 0 - 1 0 0 4 - 0 0 6 - 7 0 - 15 40 73 19 383 Xavier Handsaeme - - - - - - - - - - - - 0 - 30 30 60

20 354 Sasse Hugo

0 - 0 - 0 0 - - - - - - 7 30 - 20 57

21 303 David Hadrien 0 - 9 0 0 1 - 5 0 15 - 0 0 - 9 10 49

22 318 Aron Paul

0 0 - 0 0 - 0 - 7 - 30 0 0 9 - 0 46

23 325 Skodopole Dan 0 5 - 9 2 - 1 1 0 4 - 0 0 - 6 15 43

24 333 Henrion Gillian 2 3 - 0 11 8 - 10 0 0 - - 0 - 1 0 35

25 304 Beganovic Dino 0 6 - 0 0 - 0 - 9 - 10 0 0 - 10 0 35

26 329 Bizzotto Leonardo 1 - 7 12 0 2 - 2 0 - 3 5 - - - - 32

27 335 Majgaard Victor - - - - 6 - 8 0 0 - 7 9 0 - 2 0 32

WSK MASTER SERIES MINI

P. Nr. Driver

ROUND 1 ROUND 2 ROUND 3 ROUND 4 H PFA PFB F H PFA PFB F H PFA PFB F H PFA PFB F Tot

1 546 Mini Gabriele 10 9 - 9 11 20 - 20 12 40 - 70 13 60 - 50 324 2 501 Bedrin Nikita

9 - 20 2 9 40 - 40 9 - 40 40 10 - 50 40 309

3 507 Antonelli Andrea 0 - 10 12 0 - 40 60 11 - 50 12 12 - 60 1 268 4 516 Spina Alfio

6 30 - 50 1 7 - 10 0 - 30 7 9 30 - 30 210

5 568 Camara Rafael 0 0 - - 0 - 4 4 10 6 - 5 5 50 - 80 164 6 554 Paparo Michael B. 2 0 - - 0 8 - 8 4 50 - 25 7 20 - 35 159 7 557 Ugochukwu Ugo 0 - - - 7 30 - 30 7 - 20 30 6 - 10 12 152 8 510 Giardelli Luca 7 - 30 30 10 - 0 - 0 20 - 20 - - - - 117 9 503 Kleve Stenshorne M. 0 8 - 10 4 - 0 - 0 15 - 50 4 - 20 0 111

10 544 Pulito Francesco 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 1 - 4 0 - 40 60 105

11 517 Bohra Nikhil

0 7 - 7 0 - 0 - 6 3 - 0 11 40 - 20 94

12 608 Variawa Saood 5 - 0 0 0 - 20 15 0 30 - 10 0 6 - 6 92 13 540 Han Cenyu

0 - 4 5 3 10 - 7 8 10 - 15 0 10 - 10 82

0 - 3 4 0 9 - 9 0 9 - 9 0 - 30 0 73 14 550 Gravlund Sebastian

15 558 Ignatov Dmitry 0 6 - 0 8 - 30 6 2 8 - 0 0 - 5 0 65

16 513 Putera Adam

4 20 - 20 0 6 - 1 0 2 - 0 - - - - 53

17 585 Albanese Federico 0 - 9 15 0 - 8 2 5 - 3 0 0 - 2 5 49

18 582 Pingasov Miron 0 - 0 - 0 0 - - 1 - 9 6 0 8 - 25 49 19 502 Cenedese Alessandro 3 - 2 0 0 - 0 - 0 - 5 0 3 15 - 15 43

20 579 Wulf William

0 - 6 8 2 - 10 12 - - - - - - - - 38

21 574 Gulizia Raffaele 0 0 - - 0 0 - 0 3 - 15 8 0 - 6 4 36

22 509 Eyckmans Ean 0 0 - - 0 - 3 0 0 - 6 1 8 - 9 9 36

23 551 Kenneally Bray 8 10 - 0 6 - 7 0 0 - 0 - - - - - 31

24 528 Laursen Conrad 0 - 0 0 0 - 9 0 0 4 - 0 0 - 15 0 28 25 601 Kucharczyk Tymoteusz A. 0 - 7 6 5 5 - 3 - - - - - - - - 26

26 504 Al Dhaheri Rashid 0 4 - 0 0 - 6 5 0 - 4 0 0 7 - 0 26

27 530 Trulli Enzo

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0 0 - - 0 3 - 0 0 - 7 0 0 5 - 8 23

RACING TEAM / 28th ANDREA MARGUTTI Trophy

PROTAGONIST IN ALL CATEGORIES Bradshaw secured his maiden victory in OK. Great race for Alessandro Giardelli in KZ2, Federer dominated but ended second in the Final. Henrion close to the podium in OK-Junior, great debut for Luca Giardelli. Spina triumphant in 60 Mini

A series of important confirmations arrived for CRG works team at the 28th Andrea

luck in one heat when he had a problem to the drive chain.

He was therefore forced to get some ground back in Prefinal and Final. In the end, he took the seventh place posting the second quickest time of the race in 46.058s, which was the fastest of CRG drivers. Fabrizio Rosati also closed his effort within the top ten in P9 on team SRP Racing’s CRG-Tm, while Alessandro Giardelli ended the final in his slipstream. Marco Valenti could not find his place among the finalists despite a positive performance, as he had retire from the second chance race and from one heat.

Margutti Trophy, race run in the weekend of March 26th at the South Garda Karting circuit of Lonato. Several protagonists came to the fore, especially youngsters like Callum Bradshaw who claimed his maiden victory in OK, the category in which he made his debut this year.

KZ2, FEDERER ON THE PODIUM. TORSELLINI VERY QUICK. CRG got on the KZ2 podium with the two time

European Champion Fabian Federer, on CRG-Tm run by team SRP Racing, who dominated most of the weekend from heats to Prefinal. In the Final Federer had to concede the position to Riccardo Longhi’s comeback, but managed to secure a great P2. Mirko Torsellini also run a great race on CRG-Tm run by Team Modena Kart, but was hit by bad

BRADSHAW BACK TO THE VICTORY IN OK. Callum

Bradshaw put in a winning performance in OK, confirming the success of the CRG-Parilla package that won the World and European Championships in 2016. Bradshaw’s victory was completed by the great performance of the German

28TH MARGUTTI TROPHY KZ2 - Lonato

> Mirko Torsellini, KZ2 <

South Garda Karting (ITA). 24-26 March 2017. Air: 15ºC, Track: Dry, Slightly cloudy.

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Best Lap Gap 1 130 Birel Art Racing Longhi, Riccardo Birel Art/Tm/Vega 22 Laps 45.974 2 134 Srp Racing Team Federer, Fabian Crg/Tm/Vega 46.152 0.727 3 120 Ngm Motorsport Pollini, Giacomo Formula K/Tm/Vega 46.125 0.858 4 149 Intrepid Driver Program Palomba, Giuseppe Intrepid/Tm/Vega 46.192 2.040 5 109 A.S.D. Lg Motorsport Celenta, Francesco Praga/Tm/Vega 46.077 2.387 6 153 Maranello Kart S.R.L. Dante, Massimo Maranello/Tm/Vega 46.106 3.300 7 145 Modena Kart Asd Torsellini, Mirko Crg/Tm/Vega 46.058 4.091 8 123 Pastacaldi Marco Pastacaldi, Marco Maranello/Tm/Vega 46.184 7.753 9 136 Srp Racing Team Rosati, Fabrizio Crg/Tm/Vega 46.140 9.208 10 107 Crg Spa Giardelli, Alessandro Crg/Tm/Vega 46.173 9.396 11 147 Maranello Kart S.R.L. Hold, Christoph Maranello/Tm/Vega 46.158 9.590 12 38 Ngm Motorsport Ruggeri, Alessandro Formula K/Tm/Vega 46.181 9.805 13 117 Ward Racing Skaras, Emil Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 46.249 10.079 14 141 Bensi Gabriele Bensi, Gabriele Crg/Tm/Vega 46.155 10.610 15 128 Maranello Kart S.R.L. Sani, Flavio Maranello/Tm/Vega 46.124 10.783 N.B. complete risults on website www.kartcrg.com

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28TH MARGUTTI TROPHY OK JUNIOR - LONATO

28TH MARGUTTI TROPHY MINI - LONATO

South Garda Karting (ITA). 24-26 March 2017. Air: 15ºC, Track: Dry, Slightly cloudy.

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Best Lap Gap 1 320 Baby Race Srl Rosso, Andrea Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 48.820 16 Laps 2 333 Chiesa Corse Sas Michelotto, Mattia Zanardi/Parilla/Vega 49.054 0.147 3 332 Chiesa Corse Sas Marseglia, Leonardo Zanardi/Parilla/Vega 48.945 0.361 4 328 Crg S.P.A. Henrion, Gillian Crg/Parilla/Vega 49.132 0.670 5 301 Ward Racing Andersson, Viktor Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 49.128 1.479 6 341 Energy Corse Srl Smal, Kirill Energy/Vortex/Vega 49.219 3.366 7 312 Crg Tb Racing Team Maisch, Luca Crg/Parilla/Vega 49.047 3.477 8 321 Baby Race Srl Brizhan, Alexey Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 49.280 8.307 9 305 Ward Racing Kristiansson, Caesar Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 49.095 8.335 10 304 Ward Racing Kharitonov, Tikhon Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 49.525 8.619 11 303 Ward Racing North, Jordan Kosmic/Vortex/Vega 49.292 8.875 12 310 M2 Racing Karts Sagrera, Javier Crg/Parilla/Vega 49.349 9.095 13 319 Baby Race Srl Bosco, Luca Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega 49.210 9.245 14 318 Rtg Kartsport Enders, Paul Crg/Parilla/Vega 49.553 9.615 15 323 Tk Racing Jakobsen, Malthe Fa Kart/Tm/Vega 49.458 9.771

South Garda Karting (ITA). 24-26 March 2017. Air: 15ºC, Track: Dry, Slightly cloudy.

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Best Lap Gap 1 36 Gamoto Asd Spina, Alfio Crg/Tm/Vega 54.101 10 Laps 2 29 Baby Race Srl Bedrin, Nikita Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 54.143 0.031 3 28 Baby Race Srl Cenedese, Alessandro Tony Kart/Tm/Vega 53.896 0.088 4 61 Parolin Racing Kart Srl Mini, Gabriele Parolin/Tm/Vega 54.110 0.161 5 20 Birel Art Pol By Wtr Bertuca, Cristian Birel Art/Tm/Vega 53.887 4.211 6 24 TB Kart Bertini Colla, Leonardo Crg/Parilla/Vega 54.103 4.218 7 51 Pc Driver Projet asd Croccolino, Filippo Crg/Tm/Vega 54.210 4.284 8 44 Chiesa Corse Sas Amand, Marcus Zanardi/Parilla/Vega 54.266 4.416 9 16 Af Competition Wulf, William Fa Kart/Tm/Vega 54.136 6.255 10 38 Gamoto Asd Pintos, Tommy Crg/Tm/Vega 54.018 6.755 11 58 Tegnelius Andreasson, Norton Formula K/Tm/Vega 54.006 6.888 12 39 Gamoto Asd Pingasov, Miron Crg/Tm/Vega 54.437 7.998 13 26 Birel Art Pol By Wtr Piekutowski, Bartek Birel/Tm/Vega 54.483 10.970 14 22 Birel Art Racing Ressico D’Aloisio, Lorenzo Birel/Tm/Vega 54.562 12.940 15 14 Niro Motorsport Dieringer, Robert Kosmic/Tm/Vega 54.533 15.046

N.B. complete risults on website www.kartcrg.com

N.B. complete risults on website www.kartcrg.com

Hannes Janker, who was sixth in the Final and by that of Dennis Hauger. A penalty due to the mispositioned front fairing relegated the Norwegian to the 12th place at the end of a great comeback that saw him crossing the finish line in fourth. That was a pity. A similar fate hit Michael Rosina, who ended 18th. Henkie Waldschmidt was back to karting after a motorsport career that saw him becoming Toyota works driver. In the occasion he run a very positive weekend with a crescendo of results. A technical problem in the Final unfortunately stopped him when holding P8.

of CRG drivers, the German Luca Maisch of CRG TB Racing Team was seventh, the Spanish Javier Sagrera 12th and Luca Giardelli 18th in his debut race.

The Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto was among the front runners, but a 10s time penalty stripped him from a satisfying sixth place and pushed him down to P19.

The French Evann Mallet had to retire instead.

SPINA TRIUMPHING IN 60 MINI. Alongside the

triumph of team CRG Gamoto’s Alfio Spina, a good race in 60 Mini was completed by team TB Kart’s Leonardo Bertini Colla, who ended sixth leading Filippo Croccolino of Team PC Driver Project. Very positive race also for the other two CRG Gamoto drivers: the Spaniard Tommy Pintos was tenth in the Final and Miron Pingasov 12th after the sixth place of Prefinal.

HENRION CLOSE TO THE PODIUM IN OK-JUNIOR.

The French Gillian Henrion was the best of CRG lot of OK-Junior. He was fourth in the Final and among the quickest on track, as witnessed by the second place close to the leader that he held during the race. Among the quickest

28TH MARGUTTI TROPHY OK - LONATO

> Callum Bradshaw, OK <

South Garda Karting (ITA). 24-26 March 2017. Air: 15ºC, Track: Dry, Slightly cloudy.

P. Nr. Entrant Driver Equipment Best Lap Gap 1 215 Crg Spa Bradshaw, Callum Crg/Parilla/LeCont 46.997 22 Laps 2 221 Chiesa Corse Sas Travisanutto, Lorenzo Zanardi/Parilla/LeCont 47.020 0.528 3 222 Baby Race Srl Kenneally, Finlay Jack Tony Kart/Vortex/LeCont 46.972 3.086 Tony Kart/Vortex/LeCont 46.983 6.777 4 213 Baby Race Srl Moretti, Marzio 5 232 Sodikart Irlando, Alex Sodikart/Tm/LeCont 47.159 7.423 6 216 Crg Spa Janker, Hannes Crg/Parilla/LeCont 46.989 7.869 7 224 Dr Srl Abdul Gafar, Muizzudin Dr/Parilla/LeCont 47.003 8.588 8 219 Chiesa Corse Sas Eteki, Adam Zanardi/Parilla/LeCont 47.063 9.023 9 217 Energy Corse Srl Goldschmied, Dominik Energy/Vortex/LeCont 47.173 9.916 Tony Kart/Vortex/LeCont 47.284 14.283 10 206 Ward Racing Dzitiev, Yuri 11 220 Chiesa Corse Sas Gheno, Jacopo Zanardi/Parilla/LeCont 47.134 14.504 12 214 Crg Spa Hauger, Dennis Crg/Parilla/LeCont 46.816 15.686 Tonykart/Vortex/LeCont 47.217 15.981 13 210 Ward Racing Armellin, Andrea 14 204 Crg Tb Racing Team Colakovic, Nermin Crg/Parilla/LeCont 47.276 17.681 15 211 Brian Pedersen Pedersen, Nicolai Kosmic/Vortex/LeCont 47.429 19.312 N.B. complete risults on website www.kartcrg.com

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RACING TEAM / THE INTERVIEW

Luca AND AleSSANDRO

GIARDELLI

Both of them official drivers of the CRG Racing team (Alessandro in KZ2 and Luca in OK Junior), they are living their educational experience in karting, supported by a passion for motorsport that involves all the familY

The family created by Sandro Giardelli and

our track makes the difference. We have several clients coming from Switzerland since we are not far from the border and the Como Lake is a very appreciated touristic venue. We are proud of having introduced so many youngsters to karting. They started to race on indoor tracks in the traditional races. Our sons actively contribute to the family business, Alessandro and Luca are really appreciated for their driving advice and this gives our company a further advantage, as we also run a karting school».

«I passed down to my family my passion – Sandro Giardelli states – and now we have two quickly growing drivers in our family. Initially we relied on a team, but then we created our own. We honestly could not match the competitiveness shown at high levels and, when we had the chance to meet Giancarlo Tinini and his wonderful family, we took the decision to become part of their works team. We are happy on this choice as CRG has become our second home since the beginning».

«We were a bit disappointed by the approach we had with the karting world – Sabrina Giardelli continued – and this is why we tried to directly manage a racing team of our own, but the

his wife Sabrina is a real racing family. A passion born by chance, as often happens, became a full time job with the creation of one of nicest indoor tracks in Italy in Colico by the Como Lake, and continued with the racing team for the two sons Alessandro and Luca. Both are now competing for CRG. Alessandro is successfully contesting KZ2 while Luca OK-Junior, as he comes from a positive experience in Mini with team CRG Gamoto.

The family includes also the older daughter Giada that mainly manages the indoor track, and the younger Lisa – Luca’s twin – that follows her brothers on the racing tracks.

«We are successfully running our track by the Como Lake – Sabrina Giardelli tells us – and even if we are far away from big cities, we are happy for the turnout, that is increasing as

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challenge was too big and results depended too much on external factors».

You ended up choosing CRG. What attracted you?

“Well, definitely the prestige of the company, its great champions and organization – Sandro Giardelli admitted – moreover, Alessandro had fallen in love with CRG’s KZ kart and therefore the choice was rather obvious».

«From my side – Sabrina Giardelli added – the decision was taken when we got to know mister Tinini and his family. That is when I made my mind up. Everything else took the back seat. We loved their transparency, the organization and the competence of mechanics. The team and Tinini family convey a great passion for motorsport. We are relaxed, knowing we are in good hands now».

You took two quite important steps with CRG. Alessandro switched from Junior to KZ2 and Luca made his debut in Junior from Mini at only 12.

«We are happy on these choices – Sandro Giardelli confirmed – and, after the natural early fears shared by the two kids, I can say that now they are at ease and very happy. I think that karting is a great school for children, it makes them grow and gives them responsibility. Compared to football, that is a team sport and therefore someone risks to get towed, karting is an individual discipline and this creates the perfect conditions to improve all the time. What is important to us now is to see how serene our sons are. This year we will be competing in international championships, which is another big thing for all of us».

How does miss Sabrina live this sporting adventure?

«First of all, I am where my family is and here I feel comfortable. This excitement is contagious, and I fully support my sons. Sometimes I am not sure on if I am doing the right or wrong thing, but I think it is fine like this. Obviously I am quite apprehensive. I try not to make it show, but with two sons in different categories I virtually cannot take a break. I am happy for them if they run a good race, but I am always worried for their safety».

You took part in the Formula Medicine programme. What do you like about it?

Sabrina Giardelli: «The kids are very happy, they met very professional people.

Alessandro and I have been at their headquarters in Viareggio, we had a good experience there and we will be back soon. We have a lot of commitments to reconcile, amongst which school and education, which is important for both our kids. We already had some sessions with Formula Medicine and we will go back there as soon as possible».

What are objectives and plans for the future?

Sandro Giardelli: «Alessandro will certainly run another year in KZ and then we will see. He already run a test on a car but it is still early days. Luca just started in Junior, therefore he has a long way in karting ahead. Future objectives are to make them both compete in motorsport, that is our next challenge.

Alessandro run a Formula Renault test, that was a gift from his sister Giada. He had good fun, but he is now fully committed to karting».

The two Giardelli brothers

DATE OF BIRTH:

June 4th 2005 October 5th 2002 Beginning on karts:

2012, 50 Easykart

2012, Easykart

Best memory:

Castelletto, Pole Adria, WSK Night WSK 2015, Mini Edition 2016

Hobbies:

none

ski, football

Favourite F1 driver:

Max Verstappen FAVOURITE DISH:

Lasagne

Pasta

FAVOURITE Music:

Pop Rock Best movie:

Pirates of the Caribbean

all action movies

Best Car:

Ferrari

Best holiday destination:

Abu Dhabi

Maldives

Football team:

AC Milan

GILLIAN HENRION PROFILE

RACING TEAM / THE INTERVIEW

Date of birth:

GILLIAN

23 March 2003 Residence city:

Toulen - France

HENRION The French driver is part of the French Federation (FFSA) youth programme and, since this year, he joined the CRG official team with the goal of becoming one of the OK Junior’s protagonists

Hobby:

Videogames and kart FAVOURITE F1 DRIVER:

every generation has his best driver: Senna (80s-90s), Schumi (90s-2000) and Max Verstappen today STRONGEST KARTING RIVAL:

the strongest drives I saw in action is Max Verstappen FAVOURITE DISH:

Lasagne

FAVOURITE MUSIC:

French rap

FAVOURITE MOVIE:

Senna a documentary film on Senna DREAM CAR:

La Ferrari

BEST HOLIDAY:

Portugal

FOOTBALL TEAM:

Paris Saint-Germain

Gillian Henrion is one of the most interesting

and promising French young drivers of International karting. The French Federation (FFSA) follows him closely and included him in their formation and training programme, supporting him in his career. Also CRG’s racing division bet on him, as they chose him and made him an official driver in the OK Junior class, in order to achieve important results in the WSK and CIK-FIA races. Gillian was in evidence in the youth categories in France and, last year, he was one of the best rookies in the OK Junior European Championship in Portimao. The trust and support of an important factory as CRG represents for him the opportunity to learn and grow up, but especially to aim for the same important results that one of his idols achieved with CRG: Max Verstappen. And since the first race, the WSK Champions Cup, he met the expectations, achieving an excellent 2nd place. The relation with CRG born since he was in youth categories in France, through the team CRG-KCM, with whom he won the 2015 Champion of France title in the Cadet class, after an early start when he was only 6 years old, as he tells us: «The first time I jumped on a kart, it was in the Oberlin rental track in Nancy, then I received my first racing kart for

Christmas when I was 6 years old. That’s how it all began, thanks to my dedication and my family’s support».

Which are you best memories of the first races?

«The first positive results arrived already in 2012, when I was the best rookie of the Minime category in the Alsace-Lorraine Championship. Then I won the regional title an year later, and in 2014 I became the National vice Champion before moving to the Cadet class and win both the French Championship and the French Cup with the CRG-KCM team in 2015. The French Championship victory in Essay in 2015 is the best memory I have until now».

And which failure did you have to face?

«Perhaps my worst race was at the DKM in Genk last year... it ended with an accident».

How is your relationship with the CRG team?

«In the past I used to race with private teams and joining an official team is a new experience for me. For sure it is an important opportunity as we have great technical equipment,

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HIS carrer 2012 Best Rookie of the Alsace-Lorraine in the Minime category.

Above, Gillian Henrion in front of the French Federation headquarter. Below, on holiday with his family. On the left page, the victory of the Cadet French Championship with the team CRG-KCM in 2015.

2013 Alsace-Lorraine Champion in the Minime category.

2014 French Vice-champion in the Minime category.

2015 French Champion and winner of the French Cup in the Cadet category.

WAFEPROJECT

2016 4th at the Iame International Final in the X30 Junior in Le Mans.

both regarding the chassis and the engine, with the Iame and KVS’ support. But it is also an opportunity in terms of image and formation, thanks to many experienced technicians that teach me a lot every day. CRG’s racing team became like a family: there is a peaceful environment and we all work together in harmony. I really feel well».

How is your relationship with the other drivers?

«We all have a common goal: winning. Nevertheless we respect each other and we have an excellent relationship, exchanging information and data. There is competition, of course, but also collaboration, as it should be in an official team».

Which is your 2017 goal?

«Winning. I work every day for this goal. At the beginning of the year we had great performances and now we

Two victories in the OKJ European Championship’s heats in Portimao.

have to confirm our competitiveness in the most important events: the CIK-FIA European and World Championships».

Which is your strong point and what do you have to improve?

«I think I am a driver that analyzes a lot everything that happens on the track and I learn from my mistakes to improve. But there is one thing I should work on, that is patience».

How do you train for the races?

«I am followed by the French Federation (FFSA) in a physical and mental preparation programme. It is a valid support that is helping me to keep the concentration, energies and manage pressure during race weekends. Moreover I also train in the gym».

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RACING TEAM / THE INTERVIEW

GAMOTO

The Gamoto team is one of the most winning in the Mini category and, thanks to its technicians’ experience and specialization, it shaped many young talents that moved to the CRG official team

Modern karting has undergone

important developments in the recent years, in terms of professionalism and competitiveness of all its sectors, which led to the organization and foundation of highly specialized teams.

This was unthinkable in the past, but it is very actual now. Team Gamoto – the CRG satellite team dedicated exclusively to Mini – is an example of this process. Category Mini features an always wider presence of very young drivers aged from 9 to 12 and in Italy it found a fertile ground and an important international space, with drivers joining from all over the world.

Gamoto is a Sicilian company founded by Vincenzo Gatto, the acronym in fact adds the initials of the owner’s surname to the suffix “moto”, which stands for motorsport. In a few years, it became the synonym of young karting talents. The team is characterized by the exclusive presence in Mini, through a project that also involved Vincenzo’s son Salvatore (aka Toti), who has an important karting experience featuring the participation to European and World Championships and motorsport’s Formula 3 and Formula Masters in his past.

The experience acquired in several decades with CRG has now become business strategic and very formative for young drivers that, according to current regulations, can switch to motorsport at 15 years of age.

«We have always appreciated an outfit like CRG – Toti Gatto stated – since the times of Kalì Kart. When we started this new karting programme in 2009, we decided to focus on Mini with the important support of CRG in a strengthened partnership. Our role is

to train the young generation of drivers preparing them for their future at CRG».

«Back then – Vincenzo Gatto continues – CRG did not have a junior team. We put ourselves fowrard to CRG President Giancarlo Tinini to take care of this sector with the creation of a CRG team dedicated to Mini aimed at introducing drivers to higher categories. This is exactly what we did. Results have been promising since the beginning, for us as well as for CRG, and several young talents have successfully started their karting career in the factory team».

What are the strengths of CRG’s racing product you employ?

Vincenzo Gatto: «Definitely reliability. It is a high end product that is constantly updated and developed, thanks also to the advice of my son Toti, who works on the chassis and to the availability of the factory to follow our proposals. Giancarlo

Below, Vincenzo (on the left) and Salvatore Gatto owners of the Gamoto Team, CRG’s satellite team specialized in the 60 Mini category.

CRG Gamoto Team official drivers

Tinini’s interest has always led to the fast update of chassis that is required keep up with the racing world and always have a better product. We can honestly say that CRG and our team have reached an extremely high competitiveness in Mini, which led to very positive sporting and commercial outcomes. We are really happy on contributing to this success and we believe we can improve thanks also to the dedication of my son Toti».

What is your relationship with CRG works team?

«Our advantage – Toti Gatto added – is that we have a direct interaction with CRG racing department and engineers to timely perform any change that might be needed. CRG is a big company, but it continues to be very flexible and this is of paramount importance to us. We have mutual trust, which in the end goes to the benefit of both parties».

Who are the most talented drivers you managed?

«This is a tricky one! – Toti Gatto answered – We had a lot of young talents in the recent past. Not to hurt anyone, I’d say that we were recently impressed by the progress made by Muizz (i.e. Bin Abdul Gafar Muizzuddin), because most probably nobody would have bet on a 9 years old coming from Malaysia. Muizz left his mark in Mini, then in Junior and now in OK. Martinez, Marseglia and Hauger won quite a lot with us, and so this year Spina has won five of the seven run races so far!

Among the emerging drivers, I would also mention Bortoleto, who is now in OK-Junior with CRG, and Mallet, Gomez, Giardelli… a good number of drivers that now are in higher categories have been in our team».

Vincenzo Gatto completed the reasoning: «So far we

have provided a lot of drivers with a good chance to shine. I believe that some of the 15-20 kids we trained in the past few years and some that are currently racing with us from all over the world, have what it takes to be successful. This is also due to CRG that provides us with a great technical support».

What is the secret to always be on top in such a competitive category that is also full of competitive teams?

Vincenzo Gatto: «I think that the secret of this success goes down to the fact that we run a family business, therefore we can address chassis or engine problems directly and quickly. My son takes care of chassis, while I work on the engine.

We exchange ideas and sort any issue».

«What my father said is absolutely correct – Toti Gatto concluded – but I would add that part of the winning aspect is also due to the way we manage the team. We have been involved with this category for several years now and we acquired a good understanding of the fact that these kids need to be followed all around, including the emotional side of things. These young drivers are not all equal, some need more attentions than others. Parents also need to be listened to and managed carefully.

I believe our secret hides here too: being patient, knowing how get our way around and when to say the right words. Serenity and patience are our secret.

We obviously want the best for our drivers. If they win we are happy, but if they do not deliver we cannot wait to get back on track to improve.

This is our life, we have always been in motorsport and we have a winning attitude. We never give up.

We could lose a race, but we are always ready to counter charge in the following one».

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Christian Ho (Sgp) Laurens Van Hoepen (Nld) Luca Giardelli (Ita) Martinius Kleve Stenshorne (Nor) Aidan Quek (Sgp) Akshay Bohra (Sgp) Nikhil Bohra (Usa) Alfio Spina (Ita) Adam Putera (Mys) Tommy Pintos (Esp) Miron Pingasov (Rus) Marcos Flack (Aus)

Achievements: the most important results 2017, Mini Winter Cup: Alfio Spina Trofeo Andrea Margutti: Alfio Spina WSK Champions Cup: Alfio Spina WSK Super Master Series, Adria: Alfio Spina WSK Super Master Series, La Conca: Alfio Spina 2015, Mini WSK Gold Cup: Dennis Hauger WSK Super Master Series: Dennis Hauger WSK Champions Cup: Dennis Hauger Trofeo Andrea Margutti: Leonardo Marseglia 2014, Mini WSK Champions Cup: Muizzuddin Bin Abdul Gafar Trofeo delle Industrie: Leonardo Marseglia Rok Cup Italy: Leonardo Marseglia Rok Cup Bridgestone: Dennis Hauger 2013, Mini WSK Master Series: Eliseo Martinez

COMPANY / THE INTERVIEW

MANFRED Brandl FROM PRESPO MANFRED Brandl FROM PRESPO, IMPORTER FOR GERMANY PRESPO IS ONE OF CRG’S MOST SUCCESSFUL OPERATORS, THANKS TO AN EFFICIENT ORGANIZATION ABLE TO WORK IN ALL THE MARKET’S BRANCHES

We met Manfred Brandl, Prespo’s

key man, a company that has been importing CRG’s products for the German market since 1996. Prespo represents one of the sector’s excellences, as it is organized in a rational way in order to be close to the needs of every market branch, from the top level racing to the hobby one. From the commercial and customer care point of view, a strategic role is played by the e-commerce activities, that allowed Prespo to become a well-known dealer even outside German boundaries. Our first question is how

From left: Manfred Brandl, Stefan Haak, Claudia, Nicole, Sylvia, Heidi and Jürgen.

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did Prespo born: «It comes to life with me, with my passion for karting that became a work to be dealt with accuracy and professionalism.

The company has been on the market for over 20 years and it operates at 360° in the karting world, thanks to an organization that we improved more and more».

How is the commercial and sporting structure organized?

«The key of our success is the network and the organization. This strategy is based on the fact that my co-workers and I cannot be present in every place every weekend and, at the same time, organize the logistics with quick spare parts deliveries, offer assistance and answers to the customers’ questions and follow the agonistic activity on the track. A day has 24 hours in the end. For this reason I started several external collaborations and organized the internal staff in a precise way, to cover all the strategic areas, from the online sales, to the customer care.

For National and International races we have a

CRG in GermanY

close partnership with the TB Motorsport team, 8.000 articles and ship about 9.000 packages per that deals with OK and OK Junior classes, year. Orders from Germany and Austria are to whom we address these kind of requests. delivered in 24 hours, whilst in the other For the Rotax classes we have “CRG Performance” European countries we need 2-3 days. But for that is our team, managed by a technician that urgent and special orders we can deliver in 24 works for Prespo. The KZ classes are the ones hours in every European country». where our customers are the most and we give Which ones do you think are CRG’s strong direct support to many teams, some also very points in Germany? small, almost managed by the families. For this «First, our customers recognize the CRG products important market branch, since this year we also and chassis as winning, thanks to the important have Stefan Haak in our staff, former European titles achieved by the Factory’s Racing Team, but Champion (with CRG), that today is also for the national successful results one of the most experienced chassis in Germany and in the linked PRESPO and engine technicians for this countries as Austria and Belgium.

GmbH & Co. KG category. In the end, for the X30 and Another strong point of the CRG Kerneigenstrasse 4B 84384 Wittibreut all the “hobby” drivers, it is RS products is quality and design, besides Tel. +49.8574.912772 the excellent price/quality ratio, really Motorsport to take care of our info@prespo.de customers on the track. The main good in all the CRG ranges». www.prespo.de activity of Prespo’s internal staff is Which are your 2017 the sales and the customer care for programmes and goals? what concerns the spare parts and the technical «We will invest and push especially on the racing support, especially for hobby and less experienced division, as our group now is complete drivers, that need effective answers. and perfect. All together, Prespo, RS and Every day we ship accessorizes and spare parts all TB Motorsport, can increase the CRG’s success over the world, not only in the German market, and, considering also the return in terms and my work in the company is to coordinate of image of the CRG Racing Team’s presence at all the activities. We can say that Prespo the DKM, I believe we’ll make an excellent has a well-structured and cohesive team to provide work. Our collaboration with CRG our customers with tailor-made services is very good and we will always share with and products for their needs». them the commercial, assistance and We know that the e-commerce part is one of agonistic strategies». your most successful activities.

«I think that this is one of the most important parts of our activity, as analyzing the market’s needs and dimensions, it is clear that this is our most strategic and important business branch.

For this reason, we structured to become a big “logistic” and “service” company. It’s been a long way to reach today’s results, a path built by achieving the customers’ trust, that today are over 5.000, to whom we offer more than

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The 2016 market estimates place the CRG Group’s products almost at 40% of the racing market, very close to the main competitor in terms of sales volume. The most relevant market branch for the CRG colours (besides the linked brands DR, Zanardi and since this year Kalì Kart) is the KZ one, that is also the most spread category, both at national and at regional/hobby level. In the last 10 years, the CRG chassis won several times the XL Motorsport survey as best chassis of the German market.

At the moment, the CRG distribution includes two operators: Prespo, in the Wittibreut area, and CRG Deutschland, in the Erbach city.

PRODUCT / TEST ON THE TRACK

ROAD REBEL KZ CRG WORKS DRIVER PAOLO DE CONTO TESTED IN LONATO THE ROAD REBEL CHASSIS PUSHED

BY TM ENGINE WITH WHICH HE WON THE KZ 2016 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

TECHNICAL SHEET Homologation: 104/Ch/14 Ø Tubes: 32 mm Width: Post. 650 - Ant. 735 Ø Axle: 50 mm Brake System: Hydraulic Brake System: Ven09 Cast Iron Brake Disk: Floating Fuel Tank Capacity: 8,5 l Steering Wheel: Carbon Look Front Hubs: Aluminium Racing Rear Hubs: Aluminium Racing Seat: Resin Wheels: 130/210 Magnesium

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Thomas Maccabelli

The circuit of Lonato is located

less than 1km away from the factory and it is the main testing venue throughout the year for CRG Racing team (as well as for the other main teams on the international scene), due to the its logistics, but also to the important indications it always offers. We run a test in Lonato to appreciate the main technical features of the Road Rebel KZ chassis with the help of Marco Urbinati at the telemetry and that of the KZ coordinator Arnaud Kozlinski. I won the KZ World Championship on this chassis, which has also won several other international titles. It has been one of the commercially most successful CRG products for years now. The approach we use in testings moves from a standard setup configuration devised according to our experience on the testing venue, which we little by little tune to suit the track conditions at best.

Paolo De Conto, CRG works driver in KZ, together with the engineer and CRG Racing team telemetry expert Marco Urbinati.

The test described today took place in March 2017 with good track conditions (dry and good grip levels), but low track temperatures ranging from 8 to 14 degrees Celsius. We used Bridgestone tyres and in the first stint we used a low ride height (on the front and on the rear), M 20 axle of 1040, standard front linear bearings, camber 10, 3° toe-in angle and 3 front spacers. We also used standard magnesium hubs and a Tillet racing seat.

The Road Rebel chassis in this configuration suits most of the race tracks and, most importantly, all rubber.

Behind the wheel, its two main features are evident since the beginning: a great efficiency under braking and high cornering speed and flow. The most heavy breaking point in Lonato is corner 3, as reported by telemetry that shows a decrease in speed from 124 km/h to 45 km/h in only 18 meters in little over a second.

PRODUCT / TEST ON THE TRACK Such a strong move does not upset the entering of the corner and the chassis keeps well its forward momentum as shown by telemetry data comparing lateral acceleration and speed. A linear lateral speed without big changes indicates that the chassis has an excellent balance; this is a very important point as it will allow us to keep a constant race pace and to get the most of the engine torque.

In the first stint, we posted several 47’’2s, which is a very good performance in itself, considering that the pole position time at the Winter Cup 2017 was 46’’745s and that my 46”887s was worth the seventh quickest time. In the second stint, we made the changes we always recommend to our customers: add 1° to the front and increase the track by moving one spacer. These adjustments improved the corner entering, but made us lose some cornering speed and handling.

We therefore went back to 3 spacers and adjusted the snyper to a 2° load for the third stint. These settings provided the best balance of the chassis and allowed us to set the quickest time of the day in 46’’950 on used tyres. In this session, we recorded the fastest corner speed in the high-speed turn one (entering speed 136 km/h and 103 km/h throughout) and the excellent flow of the chassis kept the engine always above the 9.850 rpm mark, allowing us to focus on gear ratio choices and carburator settings to set up the engine at its best. The good chassis balance allowed me to try and take the “double” left-hander leading to the new

Paolo De Conto and his mechanic Omar Valbusa.

THE WORKSHEET CRG technicians and drivers write down all chassis setup and engine configurations on a worksheet during every testing session. These data are then processed and compared to telemetry readings and keep track of the whole work done. This is a very handy logbook to be quickly effective in on track interventions, taking decisions based on all the available information.

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chicane in fourth gear, down-shifting to 3rd only within the corner, hence carrying more speed through. Data collected at the end of the day were very interesting and useful, as they highlighted once again that the Road Rebel chassis is very effective and quick even without any special adjustments, which allows the driver to focus on that fine-tuning often making the difference. The test has also confirmed the winning quality of the pairing of the chassis with the TM engine unit.

TELEMETRY The Italian company Starlane is CRG’s technical partner for telemetry.

On track, Marco Urbinati is the engineer in charge of data acquisition and processing.

He was present at this test of Lonato and obtained useful information from the collected data. The first graph highlights two useful pieces of information to assess the behaviour of the chassis and its handling: gears used in the fastest lap (46”950) and lateral acceleration. The yellow dashed line is lateral acceleration (top lateral G force is 2,2G in Lonato), which is a very important parameter as it allows technicians to evaluate the front and rear grip, traction and braking effectiveness. The more this line is constant and without spikes, the more effective and balanced the chassis is. The second telemetry screen reports some data collected in the fastest lap and, in particular, they highlight the great handling at the “double” left-hander, where rpms never fall below the 9.850 mark, allowing the driver to apply throttle at the end of the corner making the most of the engine torque. Legend: engine revolutions (red), speed (yellow), cornering

data showing (white) and lateral acceleration (green). Current data acquisition systems like Starlane used by CRG racing team allow also not very expert drivers and technicians to evaluate these parameters and the discussed points can be useful to understand what are the elements to keep into account to devise a correct chassis setup.

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PRODUCT / Grand Prix Kart Scholarship Series

partner OF THE GPKS CHAMPIONSHIP CRG CHASSIS (MINI AND JUNIOR) PUSHED BY IAME ENGINES HAVE BEEN CHOSEN BY THE PROMOTER OF THE IMPORTANT PROJECT GRAND PRIX KART SCHOLARSHIP SERIES IN SHANGHAI’S AREA

A new and exciting technical and sporting challenge has CRG as protagonist in

like the F1 GP of China, while Craft-Bamboo Racing will coordinate the technical side of things thanks China, thanks to the technical partnership signed with to its international experience in motorsport. Marketing the promoters of the GPKS Championship and promotion will be entrusted to the agency Pico, (Grand Prix Kart Scholarship Series). This new series is a prestigious company present on the Hong Kong’s stock devoted to two young categories: Cadet from 7 to 11 market. Every race will be available through live years and Junior from 12 to 15. The 5 rounds series will streaming, with press conferences and a very organized kick off from the F1 Shanghai’s circuit on 3-4 social presence on the web. The objective June. The circuit of Shanghai will also house the of this promotional project is to give drivers Jonathan Lee second round (1-2 July) and the closing race of without big budgets an easy introduction to (Gpks Series Director) the series on 9-10 September, while rounds 3 and karting and provide them with the technical +86.021.52666708 4 will take place in Wenzhou and Zhejiand. and sporting preparation necessary lizk@gpkskarting.com As obvious from the name, the GPKS www.gpkskarting.com to climb the motorsport ladder towards Championship will go beyond the mere sporting professionalism. A lot of energy will be event, as it will be a training programme for devoted to this aspect, and three tutors will Chinese drivers aiming to develop a professional constantly work alongside drivers: one director plus a motorsport career. Organizers signed important manager for each one of the two categories. collaboration agreements to shape up a successful The winner of the Cadet Series will receive a wild card programme. Among the most important partners of the entry for the 2018 Junior programme, project, J&P Management will bring to the table its while the Junior winner will take part in the 2017 experience in the organization and promotion of events Iame X30 World Final with CRG’s racing team.

The CALENDAR Round 1. Shanghai F1, June 3-4 Round 2. Shanghai F1, July 1-2 Round 3. Wenzhou, July 29-30 Round 4. Zhejiang, August 12-13 Round 5. Shanghai F1, September 9-10

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PRODUCt / Rental kart LINE

CENTURION

ON TOP IN CHINA THE BRAND CRG STRENGTHENED ITS TOP POSITION ON THE CHINESE MARKET AS 13 NEW TRACKS DECIDED TO USE THE CENTURION RENTAL RANGE

The excellence of the Rental Kart-Centurion products is making CRG steadily

parts provision too. Recently, 13 new tracks decided to employ CRG Karts and the first electric E-Drenaline have already been delivered, alongside the Centurion Senior pushed by a Honda 270cc or 390cc engines. In December 2016, CRG Karts have been on show at the ASI Expo in Shanghai, where an exceptional number of visitors had the chance to appreciate the whole CRG rental range. CRG has been partner of the FIA event organized in Shanghai in April 2016 to contribute to the promotion of karting in China, fielding its Centurion Karts in the presence of Jean Todt. Sales confirm a positive trend also in 2017 and the launch of the sporting programmes as well as the World Contest â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the event that will bring to Italy the best rental Kart drivers selected by CRG all over the world, will definitely contribute to boost a further growth in this sector.

grow its presence in the Chinese market.

The importers network and Nexus, the organization that promotes the Centurion range on the main race tracks of the country, are collecting important success. This ultimately goes down to the great technical feedbacks received by CRG Karts from customers, but also to the very effective customer service set up by the partners of the Italian company. The tracks interested in purchasing CRG rental Karts can benefit from promotional testing sessions and staff following them all the way from customization of the karts to the final delivery, being supported by usage and maintenance tutorials in the process.

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PRODUCT / linea Rental kart

CRG PARTNER OF THE

ENDURANCE The Italian manufacturer will be the official provider of karts (Centurion 4t) and technical-logistic services for the exciting new rental kart championship

Thomas Maccabelli

ENDURANCE KART CUP Calendar Round 1. Saturday, 27 May - Viverone Round 2. Saturday, 8 July - Ala di Trento Round 3. Saturday, 16 September - Ala di Trento

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KART CUP One of the 2017 novelties

at CRG is the brandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presence in Kart Endurance events. Among the planned activities, the new championship Endurance Kart Cup has been presented to all the fans and enthusiasts of this exciting karting discipline.

CRG will be the official provider of Karts and logistic services alongside the organizer Kartsport Circuit of this Series to be run in three rounds. This event is directed at enthusiasts and companies that will have the chance to challenge each other on track on board the Centurion karts pushed by 4 strokes engine units. The racing calendar follows: Viverone will host the opener on Saturday May 27th, while round 2 and 3 will take place at the circuit of Ala (Trento) respectively on July 8th and September 16th.

Karts will be assigned to teams by lot and the technical assistance on track will be provided

by CRG technicians, which will provide all drivers with a highly professional service.

Karts set up for the Endurance Kart Cup will be fitted with ballasts to level performance and will have timing systems integrated in the dashboard on the steering wheel. Organizers will set up a pits zone equipped with screens to watch racing action live and an advanced timing system (that will keep into account pit stop times and driving shifts). The Championship format of each round features free practice, qualifying and two races: a 2 hours long Sprint Race and an Endurance Race of 4 hours. Points will be awarded after qualifying and after both races with increasing scoring.

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WORLD RENTAL KART CONTEST.

Alongside the high standards of the events and performance of karts, a great added value to this championship will be the chance given to the winning team to take part in the World Rental Kart Contest by CRG. This event will be promoted by CRG in Italy next October 14th 2017, as an occasion to bring on track all the best rental drivers selected in CRG championships and on the rental Karts circuits using the karts produced by the Italian company spread all over the world.

Entry fees for the Endurance Kart Cup have been devised with special care to a high value for money ratio: entry fees (3 races) amount to Euro 3.300,00 (+VAT), while single races entries (subject to availability) to Euro 1.500,00 (+VAT). Please be aware that a maximum number of 28 lineups will be allowed in each event. The promoter devised a website dedicated to the series (www.endurancekartcup.it) and social networks will enhance the official support given

by CRG to this exciting sporting challenge.

STORIES / CRG CHAMPIONS

GIANCARLO TININI TALKS ABOUT

Lewis Hamilton Among the talents managed

by CRG in karting, a relevant place is occupied by the Mercedes F1 champion, who climbed all the motorsport ladder from karting to motor racing from the 90s to 2001, with the support of Ron Dennis

English, coloured and exceptionally gifted. This is the

identikit of a very young Lewis Hamilton when, at the beginning of the 90s, he arrived in CRG to compete in International karting, after being in evidence in the youth classes in the Uk. Hamiltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s move to CRG highlighted his speed and competitiveness and allowed him to win the 2000 World Cup and the European Formula A Championship. What was striking about Lewis Hamilton was his sheer determination, focus and belief that karting

From left, Nico Rosberg, a young Nick De Vries, Lewis Hamilton, Giancarlo Tinini and the brother Nicholas Hamilton.

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was like a school, and as all schools it was a training period of his life. His future was already written and he knew that. At 14 years of age he had one objective clear in his mind: becoming a Formula 1 driver. All kids competing on karts share that dream, but he had the advantage of knowing he would have made it a dream come true.

«When Lewis Hamilton got on the International karting scene – Giancarlo Tinini recalled – he was racing in England with Top Kart. One day Domingos Piedade of AMG, that had a partnership with us to create a karting junior team, called me and asked if it was possible to field another young driver alongside Nico Rosberg: that was Lewis Hamilton. From that moment on, the famous team MBM was created at CRG – standing for Mercedes Benz McLaren, which gave us a lot of satisfaction».

HIS VICTORIES 1995

1. British Karting

Championship – Cadet 1. STP Karting Championship - Cadet 1996

1. Sky TV Kart

Masters - Cadet

1. Five Nations - Cadet 1997

1. British Champion

Junior Yamaha 2000

1. European Championship FA, CRG

1. World Cup FA, CRG 2001

5. British Formula Renault Winter Series 2002

3. Formula Renault UK

What kind of karting driver was Lewis Hamilton?

«Lewis was unquestionably a very talented driver, and that was adamant since his first races. He had skills above the average. With us he won the European Formula A Championship and the World Cup in 2000, having the upper hand on very strong rivals as his team mate Nico Rosberg, and “though” clients of the likes of Colin Brown and Robert Kubica. Lewis started season 2001 with us, but – under Ron Dennis’ wing – he then received a call from motorsport, and we know where he climbed since. Lewis was a very mature kid, he had it all figured out in his mind, knowing very well where he wanted to get to. His main drive was the desire to win, he had a competitive spirit in all what he was doing, no matter if he was running, on the onewheel bike or playing football. He always wanted to win, that was his nature».

Lewis was

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1. Formula Renault UK

surely

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a mature boy

1. Formula 3

for his age,

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1. GP2

he had clear

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in his mind

2. Formula 1, McLaren

where

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1. Formula 1, McLaren

he wanted

2009

to arrive

5. Formula 1, McLaren 2010

4. Formula 1, McLaren 2011

5. Formula 1, McLaren 2012

4. Formula 1, McLaren 2013

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4. Formula 1, Mercedes

How much rivalry was it there at team MBM? «Sporting rivalry among Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg has always been very high, but the two kids were playing a lot in the motorhome, and they were always together,

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2014

1. Formula 1, Mercedes 2015

1. Formula 1, Mercedes 2016

2. Formula 1, Mercedes

Lewis Hamilton is born in Stovenage, Hertfordshire (UK), on January 7th 1985.

STORIES / CRG CHAMPIONS as is normal for kids of their age. It was good to see such a pairing, but when they put the helmet on, things changed: both wanted to emerge... as later on happened in Formula 1, things were no different compared to back then. Their story started with karting and ended in Formula 1, but never changed».

HIS career Lewis Hamilton’s career started on karts. He won the Cadet British Championship at 10 years of age.

He got in Ron Dennis’ good books since the beginning and became part of McLaren’s Young Driver Development Program. Following further victories in the British Cadet, he continued his karting career with the British team Zip Kart on Top Kart-Comer. Lewis moved to CRG in 2000 to compete at the international level thanks to AMG’s Domingos Piedade. Lewis Hamilton became part of the Italian team alongside Nico Rosberg, and team MBM – acronym of Mercedes Benz McLaren – was built within CRG with Dino Chiesa directing the two fifteen years old drivers. The team has been active in 2000 and 2001. Lewis Hamilton won the European FA Championship in 2000 leading Nico Rosberg, and the World Cup in Motegi (Japan). At the end of year 2001 he moved to motor racing in Formula Renault.

Lewis Hamilton won the 2003 British Formula Renault, 2005 Formula 3 and 2006 GP2.

In 2007, he was the first black driver of Formula 1 making his debut with McLaren and challenged team mate Fernando Alonso and Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen for the title until the closing round in Brazil. In 2008, Lewis Hamilton took his maiden Formula 1 Championship. In 2013 he moved to Mercedes and won again the Formula 1 Championship in 2014 and 2015. He was second in 2016 when his team mate Nico Rosberg took his maiden title.

How is Giancarlo Tinini’s relationship with Lewis Hamilton?

«Our relationship has always been very good, as that with his dad Anthony and the whole family. We had mutual respect without any hidden agenda. I recall when he came to Lonato with his younger brother Nicolas and Nico. We had a great time together.

In that test in Lonato everybody was stricken by the love and care Lewis showed for his brother. That is another aspect of Lewis that not very many know».

Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, team mates in CRG.

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Hamilton has been more successful than Rosberg though...

«Their racing style was different. Lewis was more resolute, and I believe this is why he has been more successful. Nico was always close, he never gave up. Just to exemplify Lewis’ motivation, he managed to win the European Championship despite running basically with a plastered arm due to a domestic incident and was crying for the pain. His determination was impressive, you knew that when he put the helmet on, he got off to take the win, without compromise.

If you look back at his World Cup race in Motegi (Japan) you can see all his grit and wish to win. In Formula 1, Lewis has put the same grit and determination of the karting days on track. Some others were flat on karts and they stayed the same in Formula 1».

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Lewis Hamilton at the Open Master in Corridonia in 2000.

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