It is becoming a (very good) habit: the entry list for the first event of the 2008 CIK-FIA European Superkart Championship is sold out, with 60 entered drivers of 10 different nationalities.
This season, the Championship will comprise three meetings composed of two races each. The first event will be held in France, at Nogaro, on 4-6 April 2008. The second leg is scheduled for 16-18 May in Germany within the framework of the prestigious DTM meeting on the Lausitzring. The third and final event will take place on 1-3 August at Assen in the Netherlands.
The reigning European Champion, Britain’s Gavin Bennett, will stake his title again and is expecting even more determined and honed opposition than in 2007. Last year’s vice-Champion, Malcolm Crowe, will be among his main interlocutors, and so will be the Englishman John Riley and the Frenchman Damien Payart, both former European Champions. Very fast last year, the German Peter Elkmann and the Brit Lee Harpham will be two further candidates for victory as well as for the title. On their home ground, France’s Benjamin Mahé, Mane Vignjévic and Emmanuel Vinualès could start their European campaign with a choice performance. One will also note that a former World Champion, Trevor Roberts from Britain, will be back in business (he was crowned in 1995 in the days when there was still a genuine World Championship for the Superkart category, then called “Formula E”); and we shall see the début of two new twin-cylinder engines recently approved by the CIK-FIA, the VM from the Czech Republic and the DEA from Italy.
In Nogaro, Friday 4 April will be dedicated to free practice (3 sessions). The two qualifying practice sessions will be held on Saturday 5 April, while Races 1 and 2 are scheduled for Sunday 6 April. The classifications of this first round of the CIK-FIA European Superkart Championship to be held at the Paul Armagnac circuit in Nogaro will be published live and during the event on the website of the CIK-FIA: www.cikfia.com.
Entry List
1 Bennett, Gavin (GB) Anderson FPE
2 Crowe, Malcolm (GB) Anderson FPE
4 Kennings, Paul (GB) Anderson Rotax
5 Payart, Damien (F) PVP FPE
6 Riley, John (GB) Anderson Rotax
7 Harpham, Lee (GB) Anderson Rotax
8 Petersen, Poul V. (DK) PVP PVP
9 Elkmann, Peter (D) MS Kart Yamaha
10 Featherstone, Phil (GB) Raider Rotax
11 Reinke, Jürgen (D) PVP BRC
12 Owens, Mark (GB) ADE DEA
13 Lacoste, Antoine (F) Anderson FPE
14 Harvey, David (GB) Anderson FPE
15 Ogeborn, Per-Olov (S) Scherman Rotax
17 Focque, Pierre (F) PVP FPE
20 Roosemark, Tomas (S) Scherman Yamaha
21 Sieker, Ulli (D) USP Yamaha
22 Bischoff, Roland (D) USP Yamaha
23 Maxim, David (GB) PVP FPE
25 White, Steve (GB) PVP Rotax
26 Roberts, Trevor (GB) Anderson PVP
27 Vignjevic, Mane (F) PVP PVP
30 Mahé, Benjamin (F) PVP FPE
31 Bartak, Michal (CZ) MS Kart VM
32 Vaszily, Lumir (CZ) MS Kart VM
33 Moore, John (GB) PVP Rotax
34 Ruiz Quintana, Borja (E) PVP FPE
35 Vinuales, Emmanuel (F) PVP PVP
40 Christoph, Mario (NL) APG FPE
42 Preiss, Daniel (D) PVP Rotax
46 Pfeiffer, Willi (D) PVP Yamaha
47 Marggraf, Thomas (D) PVP PVP
50 Hulme, Carl (GB) Anderson FPE
51 Maasmann, Marcel (NL) MS Kart VM
56 Bruellmann, Walter (CH) Anderson FPE
57 Gorissen, Raymond (NL) APG Rotax
58 Rebus, Alain (F) PVP FPE
59 Nilsson, Robin (S) PVP FPE
60 Urhofer, Thomas (A) MS Kart Rotax
62 Frinken, Dr. Stefan (D) PVP Yamaha
69 Busby, Kevin (GB) Anderson Rotax
70 Gorissen, Marcel (NL) APG Rotax
71 Ellis, Mark (GB) PVP Rotax
72 Bernhard, Jörg (D) PVP PVP
74 Robert, Gregory (GB) Anderson Rotax
77 Garin Hedilla, J. María (E) PVP FPE
78 Sébastia, Alexandre (F) EMA FPE
79 Kruse, Peter (D) Anderson PVP
81 Lehmann, Markus (D) PVP Yamaha
83 Bolk, John (NL) APG PVP
84 Chilcott, Robert (GB) Anderson Rotax
85 Parkes, Gary (GB) PVP Rotax
87 Dau, Olaf (D) PVP BRC
89 Léon, Marc (F) PVP FPE
91 Martos, Pedro (E) PVP PVP
94 Hosier, Bob (GB) PVP PVP
96 Vayssie, Cyril (F) PVP FPE
97 Morgan, Lee (GB) Raider Rotax
98 Scott, Andrew (GB) Raider Rotax
99 Smith, Adam (GB) Anderson Rotax |
