Camponeschi inherits race 3 win

The third race of the World KF1 Championship began at Suzuka with a crash on the second corner that required the “Slow” procedure for 3 laps. Kozlinski remained sidelined with Kasai. Felice Tiene (CRG / BMB) was leading at the start but Max Verstappen (Intrepid / TM) headed the field during the slow laps from Tiene, Flavio Camponeschi (Tony Kart / Vortex), Daiki Sasaki (Kosmic / Vortex), Tom Joyner (LH / BMB), Karol Basz (Birel / BMB), Pedro Hiltbrand (FA Kart / Vortex) and Davide Fore (CRG / BMB). Basz stopped at the restart, probably because of a valve problem.

Verstappen built a small gap on the trio of Tiene, Camponeschi, and Sasaki, who were well detached from the pack. Fore attacked Joyner for sixth place while Jordon Lennox-Lamb (CRG / BMB) passed Hiltbrand for seventh. The battle between Christian Sorensen (LH / BMB), Anthoine Hubert (Formula K / TM), Matthew Graham (Zanardi / Parilla) and Tereza Gromanova (Kosmic / Vortex) hotted up behind them.

Shortly before the halfway point, Sasaki attacked Camponeschi to gain second place, then he took the lead at Turn 14 and defended against an attack by Verstappen with a narrow lead. But Camponeschi was in 2nd position, while Tiene was also trying get in front of Verstappen. The checkered flag saw a huge victory for Daiki Sasaki, but the officials inflicted a 3” penalty for going out of his lane at the start. Japan lost its conqueror who found himself in fourth.

Although 2nd on the track, Camponeschi was on the top of the podium, doing well in the Championship, while second and third were Tiene and Verstappen. Fore finished 5th, Lennox-Lamb sixth, Joyner seventh, Graham 8th, Hubert 9th and Hiltbrand 10th.

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