Nielsen ran the second round of the European Championship for KF category at Ortona, with pole positions and victories one after the other in the heats. A collision at the starting grid of the very final forced our driver to withdraw, innocently, preventing us to aim at the European success. Lennox Lamb, the driver who pushed out our Nielsen, got a penalty, however the fault Kosmic Kart Racing Department cannot be compared to the penalization given. In KF class Convers and Russo performed very well and the technical material proved to be a guarantee of competitiveness and reliability. In KF Junior category the Rok Talent driver Squaranti did not qualified for the final. Lessennes after a good recovery that took to the final’s driver selection for KFJ, lost the chance to enter the final because of a slight collision with a rival. The final, led by products made in Prevalle, saw the Kosmic Kart of Sasakorn Chaimongkol signing the best lap in race. Official rankings of the CIK European Championship for KF and KFJ.

KF. Since the qualifying heats our technical material confirms to be high-level products, with Nielsen in pole position with the best timing of 56.358, followed by Convers right behind his shoulders. The Italian driver Andrea Russo, at his first complete international season, is seventh position not so far from the two most experienced teammates.
Kosmic Kart-Vortex chassis are amongst the best ones and thus confirm their supremacy for gaining success. This way, in the heats, the leading of our chassis and our drivers clearly continue, actually out of ten heats for defining the line-up of the pre-final starting grid for KF category, not less that five are won by our drivers. Nielsen and Convers win twice while Russo once.
Even if in the heats our drivers are not able to succeed, they prove to be anyhow leaders and gain the first three positions, signing the best lap.
The result of the heat is clear, Nielsen confirms his first position, with five penalties, Russo is third and Convers tenth, due to a withdrawal during one heat.
In their respective pre-finals, Nielsen and Convers gain the third position, with the Danish driver coming not so far but very well attentive in not taking any useless risk, after his leadership in the European Championship.
Unfortunately, the final has a bitter result for our leader. Nielsen very well jumps at the starting grid, does not risk at the first bend and goes ahead at the head. In the long straight line uphill taking to the first hairpin turn Nielsen is involved in a collision and pushed out by Lennox Lamb.
Lennox Lamb’s action is manifestly incorrect and a penalty followed at the end of the competition, however the damaged we, and our driver, got was enormous.
In a few metres the true chances we had to succeed, vanished by the bad sportsmanship of a rival.

KF Junior. Our Racing Department’s drivers did a good performance during the race, even if they were not as much experienced as the most of their rivals; they fought and never lose time, during any phase of the Italian event.
Both excellent and unlucky was the Rok Talent Federico Squaranti’s performance, who, at the end of the heats was able to conquer the twenty-seventh position and missed the final due to a few collisions he was involved in during the pre-final.
A good opportunity for the Rok Talent driver Squaranti, necessary for the next World Cup he will be engaged in for having being awarded by the selection promoted by the Vortex project. (http://www.roktalent.com/index_eng.php).
Benjamin Lessennes, too, after a difficult qualifying entered the finalists’ list in the pre-final, until a bad collision put out our Belgian driver. The Kosmic Kart technical material other teams employed clearly confirmed the qualities shown on fast tracks by our chassis.
Particularly Sasakorn Chaimongkol won two heats in the qualifying and gained a positive eighth position in the B pre-final.
Chaimongkol, racing with the Millennium Motorsport team, lost time at the beginning of the final and he went back at the starting grid. The Indonesian driver, did not lose spirit and performed a very good recovery, leading him to the twelfth position and signing the final’s best lap with 58.660.

KF official ranking: http://www.cikfia.com/competitions/cik-calendar/2013/ortona/kf/results.html

KF Junior official ranking: http://www.cikfia.com/competitions/cik-calendar/2013/ortona/kf-junior/results.html