Negro wins the final ahead of Zanchetta

The weather was beautiful at the Prokart Raceland at Wackersdorf when the 34 KZ2 finalists were preparing to enter the track, but gray clouds loomed over the surrounding forests. The weather strategy was likely to play an important role in the result, knowing that some drivers already used 4 new tyres for the prefinal, the others preferring to retain this advantage for the final. Suspense!

On the front row, Joel Johansson (Energy / TM) and Douglas Lundberg (Maranello / TM), were followed by Felice Tiene (CRG / Maxter) and Marco Zanchetta (Maranello / TM) on the second, Riccardo Negro (DR / TM) and Simone Brenna (TB Kart / Modena) on the third, with the joker Emil Antonsen (DR / TM) in seventh position. Johansson finished the first lap ahead of Lundberg, Negro, Zanchetta, Marcel Jeleniowski (CRG / TM), Brenna, Antonsen, Alessandro Manetti (Praga / Parilla) and Tiene. On the second lap, Lundberg took control, but Negro moved into the lead on the third time round ahead of both Maranellos. Johansson returned to third ahead of Lundberg, Jeleniowski and Antonsen. We were about to see a new battle between Negro and Zanchetta.

The attention was back on Tiene, who was already fifth on the sixth lap, ready to attack Lundberg, and he succeeded on the seventh of 24 laps. Zanchetta closed on Negro, hundredth by hundredth. Clement Da Silva (Birel / TM) entered the top 10, Charles Fiault (Sodi / Parilla) was 19th. Negro put his foot down and distanced Zanchetta slightly whose lead on Johansson was reduced. As for Tiene, he was going less well and lost fourth position to Antonsen before having to retire due to a technical problem. Meanwhile, Dominik Schmidt (CRG / TM) moved into the top five past Brenna and Lundberg.

Negro’s lead on Zanchetta dropped over four laps from 0.5” to 0.2”, with 0.8” to Johansson. But Negro seemed to be able to protect his leadership for the moment. Now seventh, Da Silva was under investigation, while Fiault was having a good race in 11th place. Zanchetta threw all his energy into battle over the last two laps. Negro however controlled the situation perfectly and crossed the line at full speed, the winner by 0.391” ahead of Zanchetta. Johansson took third place ahead of Antonsen, Schmidt, Lundberg and Da Silva, still under investigation.

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