Race 2: Camponeschi wins again
The scenario for the second Race of the day was practically identical to the first, at least for the winner. Behind Daiki Sasaki for a brief time, Flavio Camponeschi very quickly took the lead and soared to his second consecutive victory. But behind the leader there was no lack of excitement. A collision on the first bend in fact involved a good dozen drivers including former World Champion Arnaud Kozlinski (PCR-TM), Davide Foré, Anthoine Hubert, Philo Paz Patric Armand, the Czech Tereza Gromanova (Kosmic-Vortex) and the Belgian Yannick de Brabander (FK-TM).
Once he had yielded to the attack by Flavio Camponeschi, Daiki Sasaki made a minor error and fell back to 7th position, but he is not the type to succumb easily. With a number of brilliant overtaking manoeuvres, he succeeded once again in taking the points for second place. For the bottom step on the podium, Felice Tiene withheld the attack by the Dutch driver Max Verstappen, only 31st after qualifying and 13th in the first race (his grid position for the second race).
After crossing swords with Karol Basz, who lost a great deal of time in the process, Jordon Lennox Lamb improved on his classification in the first race to complete the top 5. He led the Japanese drivers Kenta Yamashita (CRG-BMB), Takashi Kasai (Tony Kart-Vortex), the Spaniard Pedro Hiltbrand (FA Kart/Vortex) and two more Japanese, Hiroshi Umegaki (Birel-BMB) and Takeharu Nakamori (DR-BMB). With five of their compatriots in the first ten (however this classification had not yet been made official on Saturday evening, as several on-track moves were still under investigation), the Japanese spectators have every reason to celebrate, and to hope that one of them ends up a winner on Sunday, when the race programme will be the same: qualifying practice, three qualifying heats and two Races in the afternoon.
Asia-Pacific KF2 Championship: Rossel and Ippolito in the lead
Organised in parallel with the World KF1 Championship, the Asia-Pacific KF2 Championship is currently dominated by… Europeans! The Danish driver Kevin Rossel (Birel-BMB) was the fastest in practice before winning the first qualifying heat. Second heat went to the Italian Paolo Ippolito (Kosmic-Vortex) while the Argentine driver Federico Panetta (Tony Kart-Vortex) finished second twice. On Sunday a last qualifying heat and a Prefinal will determine the grid for the Final, the only race to decide the title.
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