GOOD RESULTS FOR THE TONY KART RACING TEAM AT THE KZ AND KZ2 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP IN LONATO
In the last round of the CIK FIA Karting European Championship, Matteo Viganò in KZ2 and Marco Ardigò in the KZ class kept high the Tony Kart Racing Team’s colors
The curtain falls in Lonato on the Kart Grand Prix - Italy, a decisive appointment for the CIK FIA Karting European Championship for KZ and KZ2 categories that challenged each other on the 1,200 meters of the South Garda Karting circuit during the weekend of 12th-15th July. A track that, as usual, has given a show of the highest level: in this context, the drivers of the Tony Kart Racing Team have expressed their potential at their best, getting good results that are proof of their constant growth, carried out since the beginning of the 2018 season.
In particular, our KZ2 bearers brilliantly stood out, immediately fighting for top positions from the qualifying practices on Friday. The fastest driver in the "time attack" was the young Alessandro Giardelli, who centered the fifth time and then conquered even a third place in the heats. Matteo Viganò, however, proved to be more concrete: his weekend began with the seventh time, followed by three second places and a bronze medal for the best results in the heats, ended overall in a fourth position that the driver from Bergamo has maintained in the final after fighting for long for the podium.
Excellent performance also for Alessio Piccini, playing a leading role with two second and one third positions in the heats, allowing him to finish the decisive race in sixth position, as well as for David Vidales. The Spanish driver, usually racing with his Tony Kart 401S powered by Vortex in single-speed version, proved to have found a better feeling in driving in the shifter class on this occasion, centering a third place and two fast laps in the heat that led, in the end, to the eighth position in the final.
Our drivers in the master class KZ committed themselves completely during the weekend; Marco Ardigò was trying to recover the gap of seven points from the top of the general rating to aim at the 2018 European Champion Title. In the qualifying, the driver from Brescia started with the twelfth time, while at the end of the heats, two of which ended in the Top 10, did not manage to stay in the leading group and he finished the decisive race of the weekend in seventh position.
Noah Milell was carrying out a high-level weekend: in his second official round in the master class, the Swedish driver had managed to center the eighth time in the qualifying, but in the end he was forced to finish the race in the backline, due to the penalty he received for the fall of the nose-cone of his Tony Kart 401S Racer.
Simo Puhakka was also in trouble, due to the same penalization received by his teammate, forcing him to a colorless twenty-second position in the decisive race.
What has been done in the last round of the European Championship, however, will be important to gain experience in view of the next race for the shifter classes, starting on the weekend of 6th-9th September, when the CIK-FIA World Championship for KZ category and the International Supercup for KZ2 will take place on the Belgian circuit of Genk. The next race of the Tony Kart Racing Team, instead, will be the last round of the OK-OKJ European Championship of 2nd-5th August on the French track of Essay.
