Janker sets the fastest time in OK at Ampfing

Qualifying Practice for the European OK Championship was held at Ampfing under beautiful sunshine and quite high temperatures. Lorenzo Travisanutto (KR / Parilla), Harry Thompson (FA Kart / Vortex), Zane Maloney (FA Kart / Vortex) and Hannes Janker (KR / Parilla) were the fastest of the day in Free Practice. The Qualifying sessions alternated with the Juniors and only half of the eight minutes were used.

Juho Valtanen (Kosmic / Vortex) knocked Danny Keirle (KR / Parilla) out of the lead in the first session by crossing the 42 » mark. The Finn – on 41 »985 – beat the reigning World Champion by 44 thousandths. Hugo Sasse (KR / Parilla) took 3rd place a hundredth further back, Jonny Edgar (Exprit / TM) finished 4th in front of Marius Zug, all in the same tenth. Behind Callum Bradshaw (CRG / TM), Evan Spenle (Kosmic / Parilla) took a superb 7th place ahead of Noah Milell (Tony Kart / Vortex), while Franck Chappard (Redspeed / Parilla) was 12th.

In the second session, Hannes Janker (KR / Parilla) took the lead on the first lap, Marijn Kremers (Birel ART / TM) and Mattia Michelotto (KR / Parilla) followed suit with Christopher Lulham (Exprit / TM). But Janker continued to improve to finish on an exceptional time of 41 »775 which gave him provisional pole. Michelotto finished 2nd, but 0.280 » slower, followed by Tijmen Van Der Helm (Tony Kart / Vortex), Lulham and Kremers. Pedro Hiltbrand (CRG / TM) took a modest 10th place, Jules Mettetal (Redspeed / Parilla) was 17th and Vincent Fraïsse (Birel ART / TM) 19th.

Harry Thompson (FA Kart / Vortex) quickly returned to the pace of the third session ahead of Dexter Patterson (Exprit / TM) and Zane Maloney (FA Kart / Vortex). But Lorenzo Travisanutto (KR / Parilla) finished the session with the fastest time – 41 »922, 2nd overall – while Thompson followed by 48 thousandths and took 3rd place, Patterson 3rd, Maloney 4th, Luigi Coluccio (Birel ART / TM ) 5th and Roman Stanek (Kosmic / Vortex) 6th by 1.5 tenths. Nicklas Nielsen (Tony Kart / Vortex) was also in the lead group in 7th place followed by Andrea Rosso (CRG / TM) while the 12th fastest time for David Vidales (Tony Kart / Vortex) was a bit disappointing at 0.341 » from Travisanutto.

Janker was the poleman in OK, 0.147″ ahead of Travisanutto and Thompson, with Valtanen 4th and Keirle 5th. The top Frenchman, Spenle had a good 21st place having posted the best performance of the VDK team. Chappard clocked 41st, Mettetal 48th and Fraïsse 51st out of 76 participants.

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