Guazzaroni : Pole Position in KF2 World Cup

Sunshine everywhere, temperatures of over 30°C… The participants in the CIK-FIA World Cup for KF2 held this weekend at Sarno have not been surprised by the conditions prevailing during the first powerful moments of the meeting on this Friday morning, namely timed practice.

It was however all about surprises in the hierarchy of KF2! After the different qualifying sessions Alessio Guazzaroni (on astonishing Tony Kart-BMB equipment) indeed proved fastest. The 19 year-old Italian accomplished a real feat. “I did not expect at all to get pole here”, he said in a smile. “We are in a small family team with limited means. For example, we sleep in our lorry and have just one chassis – and even then, it has been lent to me! I don’t know how I managed to achieve pole-position but I did it, and I am on top of the world! But the weekend is only just beginning…”

Even though this is a beautiful story, the Italian is right to put matters in perspective as the 94 competitors, separated into 6 groups, will now get down to running in their qualifying heats, and only the top 34 will be eligible for the Final. Behind Guazzaroni, the other leading Drivers further to qualifying practice are Thailand’s Tanart Sathienthirakul (Tony Kart-TM), who thus confirms the form he showed in the European Championship, the Frenchman John Filippi (Exprit-Vortex), the Italians Loris Spinelli (Tony Kart-Vortex) and Antonio Maria Giovinazzi (PCR-Parilla), the Brit Sam Macleod (FA Kart-Vortex), the Dane Christian Sorensen (Tony Kart-Vortex), the Italian Paolo Ippolito (Tony Kart-Vortex), Britain’s Sam Snell (Energy-TM) and Italy’s Giuliano Niceta (Intrepid-TM), who won the World Cup for KF3 2 years ago on this very track. As a token of the intensity of debates, 70 Drivers were within the same second… and some favourites – like the European Champion Sami Luka (Energy-TM), 46th in the classification – must already start what is likely to be a long chase as a result of a poor qualifying session.

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