OK-Junior Super Heats : Bondarev and Martinese win

Cremona offered a dry track, sunny weather and 26°C on Sunday morning for the Super Heats of the OK-Junior European Championship.

Super Heat A: Bondarev wins again
Thibaut Ramaekers (KR/Iame) remained in the lead after the start ahead of Lewis Wherell (Exprit/TM), Oleksandr Bondarev (KR/Iame) and Arjen Kräling (KR/Iame). Andy Consani (Parolin/TM) was 5th ahead of Christian Costoya (Parolin/TM). Bondarev attacked for P1 on lap 2, followed by Wherrell and Kräling. Ramaekers dropped back to 4th before being overtaken by Consani. The Frenchman and the Belgian then attacked Kräling to gain a place each. Ramaekers regained 3rd place on the eighth lap by overtaking Consani, then attacked Wherrell in the process. Bondarev had built up a lead of over a second. Wherrell continued to lose performance and retired with three laps to go. Ramaekers had regained his speed, but Bondarev won the race by 6 tenths. Ramaekers finished 2nd ahead of Consani and Costoya 4th, with Taym Saleh (KR/Iame) seven places further back.

Super Heat B: Martinese at the finish
Dries van Langendonck (Exprit/TM) maintained his advantage at the start against Iacopo Martinese (KR/Iame) and Lewis Francis (KR/Iame). Jack Iliffe (Parolin/TM) and Maria Germano Neto (Tony Kart/Vortex) were eliminated in a collision on the first lap. Alfie Slater (LN/TM) jumped up to 2nd place, while Sebastian Lehtimäki (Parolin/TM) returned to the top five ahead of his team-mate Zac Drummond (Parolin/TM). Francis then lost ground. Slater attacked van Langendonck for 1st position at the halfway point. Martinese then moved up to 2nd ahead of the Belgian. Stepan Antonov (KR/Iame) reached the top five ahead of Salim Hanna (LN/TM). Lehtimäki got the better of van Langendonck who was now 4th. Martinese replaced Slater at the front of the race with two laps to go. Lehtimäki tried to attack Slater. Martinese set the fastest lap 1.1″ ahead of Slater, followed by Lehtimäki in 3rd, Antonov in 4th and van Langendonck in 5th. Louis Cochet (Sodi/TM) had climbed 13 places to 18th before being demoted to 28th because of a double spoiler penalty and for causing an incident.

Ramaekers led the final intermediate classification ahead of Martinese and van Langendonck, followed by Bondarev in 4th and Costoya in 5th. Lehtimäki was 6th ahead of Francis, Antonov, Slater 9th and Consani 10th.

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