OK Prefinals: Lundgaard and Basz comfortable in the wet

The rain had stopped, but the track was still wet for the first OK Prefinal. Lorenzo Travisanutto (Tony Kart / Vortex) dominated the race before having to give up with an engine problem. Christian Lundgaard (Energy / TM) recovered well in the lead ahead of Tom Joyner (Zanardi / Parilla). However he reduced the gap and quickly took control with five laps to go. Lundgaard was holding the pace and contained the return of Paavo Tonteri (CRG / Parilla). Nicklas Nielsen (Tony Kart / Vortex) was not taking any risk to finish 4th. Starting last after recovering from a spin on the second formation lap, Bent Viscaal (Tony Kart / Vortex) made a tremendous rise to 5th position in front of Benjamin Lessennes (Kosmic / Parilla) and Felice Tiene (CRG / Parilla). Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer (Tony Kart / Vortex) came home in the top 10, while Lucas Légeret (ART Birel / Parilla), 8th for two laps, retired after a spin. After the 10 sec. penalisation of Joyner, Lundgaard took the victory.

Karol Basz (Kosmic / Vortex) clearly dominated Prefinal-B to finish as the winner with a lead of almost 5”. Sun Yue Yang (FA Kart / Vortex) took an early lead ahead of his teammate Logan Sargeant (FA Kart / Vortex), while Martijn Van Leeuwen (Birel ART / Parilla) and Flavio Camponeschi (CRG / Parilla) battled for the 4th place while closing on Sargeant. Camponeschi lost ground. More at ease when the track began to dry, Sargeant passed Yue Yang with three laps left and finished 2nd as well.

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