The pretenders to the World KF Title present themselves in Brandon
After today’s qualifying heats in Brandon (UK), the list of the pretenders to the World KF Title is complete. The 10 races run today, during the first day of the CIK-FIA KF World Championship, established the starting grid of tomorrow’s final phase. We are at the first out of two scheduled rounds, which is taking place on the 1,382 metre long PF International Circuit. The core of the event is tomorrow, with the two Prefinals and the Final; this race will award the first points of the Championship. Also the starting grid of the KF Junior is ready, after today’s three qualifying races. This category completes the programme of the weekend with the CIK-FIA International Super Cup, run on a single round.
Max Verstappen leading the way (Pic: Press.net Images)
Verstappen and Nielsen grab the two pole positions in KF
Max Verstappen (CRG-TM-Vega) continues to be unstoppable: the fifteen-year-old Dutch driver won four heats in a row, all the heats he took part in. He achieved the overall best result, better than Nicklas Nielsen’s (Kosmic-Vortex-Vega) one. The Danish driver, who won three races, remained behind Verstappen, but they will both start in pole position in their Prefinals. In tomorrow’s Prefinal 1, in the two slots of the front row we’ll find Verstappen and the English Tom Joyner (Zanardi-TM-Vega). In second row there are the Danish Andreas Hansen (Tony Kart-Vortex-Vega) and the Spanish Alex Palou (CRG-Parilla-Vega). Next to Nielsen, in Pre-final 2, the Canadian Lance Stroll (Zanardi-TM-Vega), winner in the other two heats of today. In second row the Polish Karol Basz (Tony Kart-Vortex-Vega) and the Croatian Martin Kodric (FA Kart-Vortex-Vega).
Alessio Lorandi will start on pole position in the KF Junior pre-final (Pic: Press.net Images)
Alessio Lorandi grabs the pole in KFJ
In the race for the CIK-FIA International Super Cup, the Italian Alessio Lorandi (Tony Kart-Parilla-Le Cont) is the driver to beat, after conquering the pole of the Prefinal thanks to a win and two second places in today’s races. His strongest rival seems to be the English Daniel Ticktum (FA Kart-Vortex-Le Cont), who achieved victory twice. Unfortunately, the British driver was excluded from the first race because he overtook twice with yellow flags displayed. Because of this penalty, Ticktum dropped back to fourth row, leaving the first row position behind Lorandi to his teammate and fellow countryman Jehan Daruvala. In second row there are the Russian Robert Shwartzman (Tony Kart-TM-Le Cont) and the English Archie Tillett (CRG-BMB-Le Cont). Another favourite driver who will have to recover in tomorrow’s races is Lando Norris: the Englishman – the new European champion – was rather unlucky at the start of the first heat and dropped back to the last positions. His recovery has already brought him back to the sixth row.
