Qualifying of the WSK Euro Series in Sarno

The second and final round of the 10th edition of the WSK Euro Series kicked off at the International Circuit Napoli in Sarno with Friday's qualifying sessions. The event will crown the 2024 champions in the MINI, OKNJ, OKN, OKJ, and OK categories on Sunday, September 29th.
 

All the category winners from the first round, held on June 30th in Franciacorta, are among the entered drivers from 40 nations: the Scottish driver Mason Robertson (BabyRace/Parolin-Iame) in MINI U10, the Spanish driver Daniel Miron Lorente (Team Driver/KR-Iame) in MINI Gr.3, the Brazilian Antonio Pizzonia Neto (Team Driver/KR-Iame) in OKNJ, the Turk Bati Ege Yildirim (Modena Kart/Parolin-TM Kart) in OKN, the English driver Roman Kamyab (Ricky Flynn/LN Kart-TM Kart) in OKJ, and the Swede Scott Lindblom (Fusion Motorsport/KR-Iame) in OK.

MINI Gr.3 – Ratajski is a good surprise.
In Session 1 of the MINI Gr.3, the fastest time was set by Bulgarian driver Alexander Lazarus (#515 BabyRace/Parolin-Iame-Vega) in 1:05.746s, which was just 3 thousandths of a second ahead of the Polish driver Leonardo Gorski (#534 Tony Kart Racing Team/Tony Kart-Vortex), and 58 thousandths ahead of his teammate from America Alessandro Truchot. A surprising result came in Session 2, when another BabyRace driver, the Frenchman Stan Ratajski, secured the overall fastest time in 1:05.475s, beating his teammate, the Italian driver Julian Frasnelli, by just 0.0016s. The Ukrainian driver Oleksandr Legenkyi (#588 Team Driver/KR-Iame) qualified in third, 0.112s behind the pole sitter. The Franciacorta winner, the Spanish driver Daniel Miron Lorente, recorded the seventh fastest time, 0.320s behind.
 

MINI Gr.3 U10 - Lazaro is the fastest.
In MINI Gr.3 Under 10, the Portuguese driver Xavier Lazaro (#519 SM Racing/OTK-TM Kart-Vega) achieved the best overall performance with 1:05.354s in Session 1, which was 0.019s ahead of his teammate Stepan Mazepin and 0.318s ahead of the Frenchman Jean Poujol (#601 Tony Kart Racing Team/Tony Kart-Vortex). In Session 2, the fastest was the Italian driver Antonio Ianni (#557 CRG Racing Team/TGroup-TM Kart) with a time of 1:05.541s, which was 0.075s ahead of the American driver Colton Schniegenberg (#593 Ward Racing/Tony Kart-TM Kart) and 0.097s of another Italian driver, Francesco Buglione (#596 BabyRace/Parolin-Iame). The Scottish driver Mason Robertson, the winner at Franciacorta, set the fifth fastest time, 0.156s behind. 

OKN and OKNJ - Eskandari-Marandi takes the pole in OKNJ, Ociepa in OKN.
The duel between the leading drivers of the two categories, OK-N and OK-N Junior, who race together, was thrilling. The fastest overall time (58.326s) was set by the Australian driver Sebastian Eskandari-Marandi (#704 Ward Racing/Tony Kart-Vortex) in OKNJ, which was just 0.054s ahead of the Polish driver Juliusz Ociepa (#805 Novalux/Lenzokart-LKE), who was the fastest among the OK-N drivers. In OK-N, the Italians Lamberto Ferrari (#806 FK Motorsport/IPK-Modena Engines) and Nicolas Marchesi (#809 Team Driver/KR-Iame) took second and third place with the times 58.582s and 58.608s, respectively. In the Junior category, behind Eskandari-Marandi, the Dutch driver Billy Van Staveren (#734 Modena Kart/Parolin-TM Kart) recorded the second-fastest time at 0.355s, while the Italian driver Bruno Blanco (#705 LA Motorsport/Parolin-TM Kart) set the third-fastest time, 0.533s behind. The two winners from Franciacorta were slightly further back: in OKNJ, Pizzonia (#738 Team Driver/KR-Iame) set the sixth-fastest time in 58.989s, and in OK-N, the Turkish driver Bati Ege Yildirim (#804 Modena Kart/Parolin-TM Kart) was sixth with a time of 59.007s.

OKJ - Bobreshow, Pilipenko and Rousseau in a thousand of a second!
In Session 1, the Italian driver Filippo Sala (#327 Ricky Flynn/LN Kart-TM Kart) set the fastest time in 59.084s, ahead of his two teammates: the Franciacorta winner Roman Kamyab, who was just 0.081s behind, and Chinese driver Hou Zai Jiang, 0.106s behind. However, the fastest overall times came from Session 2, with three drivers separated by just one-thousandth of a second! Both Maxim Bobreshow (#371 Fusion Motorsport/KR-Iame) and his teammate, the American driver Mark Pilipenko, set the same fastest time in 58.588s, while the Panamanian driver Gianmatteo Rousseau (#303 Energy Corse/Energy-Iame) was just one thousandth behind.  

OK - Schaufler pips Lindblom.
The pole position in OK was hotly contested, with the Austrian driver Niklas Schaufler (#268 DPK Racing/KR-Iame) setting the fastest time in 56.595s, which was 0.137s ahead of Franciacorta winner, the Swedish driver Scott Lindblom (#221 Fusion Motorsport/KR-Iame). Another Swede was also close to the top two: Elliot Kaczynski (#264 Ward Racing/Tony Kart-TM Kart) was 0.239s behind with the third-fastest time. The Swedish driver Kinnmark (#266 KR Motorsport/KR-Iame) followed them at 0.320s, and his teammate, the Brazilian driver Bernardo Bernoldi, at 0.365s. The Canadian driver Jensen Burnet (#260 Fusion Motorsport/KR-Iame) was also among the best at 0.394s, as the Spanish driver Christian Costoya (#265 Parolin Motorsport/Parolin-TM Kart) at 0.397s, and the Czech driver Jindrich Pesl (#267 Monster K Factory/CRG-TM Kart) at 0.463s. 

The program of the WSK Euro Series, Rd2 Sarno:

Saturday, September 28th: Warm up at 8:45; Qualifying heats at 10:50.

Sunday, September 29th: Warm up at 8:45; Live on TV and Live Streaming coverage of Prefinals from 10:50, Finals from 13:30.