Wet pole for Ollie Norris in KF at PFI

The rain was stopping for the first KF session and the tyres gradually drove water from the line, even though the track was still wet. It was a new situation after free practice which took place mostly in the dry. The times improved with every lap. We will never know if Karol Basz (Tony Kart / Vortex) had the potential to take pole as he dropped out two laps from the end, but still retained third position while Ollie Norris (FA Kart / Vortex ) set the fastest time – 1’13”470 – ahead of Alessio Lorandi (Tony Kart / Parilla). Egor Stupenkov (Tony Kart / TM) finished 4th, Martijn Van Leeuwen (Zanardi / Parilla) 5th and Nicklas Nielsen (Kosmic / Vortex) 6th ahead of Nikita Mazepin (Tony Kart / Vortex) and Maxime Potty (Kosmic / Parilla). It was 16th place for Paolo Besancenez (Tony Kart / TM) who had an engine failure in the penultimate free practice session.

There was a brief shower for the second session, but it didn’t unduly disrupt its progress. The times continued to come down and Julien Darras (ART GP / TM) took fastest brilliantly on the last lap with 1’13”641 ahead of Oliver Hodgson (Kosmic / TM), John Norris (Mach1 / TM), Mark Litchfield (Kosmic / TM) and Callum Ilott (Zanardi / Parilla). Rotax specialist Josh Price (Tony Kart / Parilla) took 6th ahead of Tom Joyner (Zanardi / Parilla) and Gabriel Aubry (Tony Kart / Vortex) while Alexander Gadois (FA Kart / Parilla) finished 14th behind Felice Tiene (CRG / Parilla).

Pole position for the category went to Ollie Norris ahead of Alessio Lorandi and Julien Darras. Hodgson took 4th, John Norris 5th, Litchfield 6th, Ilott 7th, Basz 8th, Van Leeuwen 9th and Stupenkov 10th.

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