Brenna takes pole in KZ2

The sky became threatening over Wackersdorf in the late afternoon on Friday for the start of qualifying. The track had time to dry from the light rain mid-day, but the forecast remains uncertain. The 64 drivers in the European KZ2 Championship would go out in in 3 sessions of 8 minutes each.

Everyone rushed to enter the track, and Gary Carlton (TB Kart / Modena) and Jorge Pescador (Praga / Parilla) were at the top of the table, replaced mid-sessiom by Simone Brenna (TB Kart / Modena) running at 50 »288. Kristijan Habulin (TB Kart / Modena) improved o 50 » 276, while Matteo Vigano (Top Kart / Parilla) went off at high speed by the stands. Pescador returned to the lead by 5/100, Jan Midrla (Birel / TM) replaced him, but Brenna concluded with a lap of 49 » 939 ahead of Habulin and Midrla, Pescador 4th and Joel Johansson (Righetti / Parilla) 5th.

Simas Juodvirsis (Energy / Maxter) was the first to go under 51 » in the second session, Menno Paauwe (Birel / TM) then held the lead for a moment with 50’600, then Dylan Davies ( DR / TM) set a 50 » 322 before Finn Kooijman (CRG / TM) came very close to 50 », 2.5 tenths ahead of Ricardo Romkema (Energy / TM). Kooijman’s time of 50 » 068 stood until the end of the session despite the threat from Davies by 13 thousandths, and then Dominik Schmidt (Energy / Vortex). Michele Di Martino (Energy / TM) took 3rd place at the last moment.

The action in the third session really started with Ryan Van Der Burgt (DR / TM) 50 » 334 ahead of Maik Siebecke (CRG / Modena). starting a lap after everyone else, Douglas Lundberg (Alpha / Parilla) quickly joined the top three. Van Der Burgt improved to 50 » 261, followed by Lundberg who then took control. Marcel Müller (DR / Modena) went ahead in his final lap of 50 » 114. Lundberg was 2nd, Siebecke 3rd and Thierry Delré (DR / Modena) 4th.

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