Sergei Sirotkin was on pole alongside Brandon Maïsano. A Franco-Russian competition, or TonyKart vs Intrepid for the KF3 Prefinal at Sarno.
Sirotkin led into the first corner followed by Maïsano. Staying too far right, Sirotkin and Maïsano lost places to the benefit of D’Agosto, Ceccon, Moller-Madsen and De Vries. Vainio was seventh. Camplese, Wiman and Kyvat were out. Maïsano recovered while De Vries moved into third. Maïsano soon despatched Moller-Madsen and started on Nyck. Carlos Sainz edged into ninth position, a gain of eight places. Gerard Barrabeig was stuck in 22nd position.
Maïsano attacked fanatically and successively took third then second place.On the fifth lap, he was in the wake of the leader D’Agosto. Ceccon was the third, De Vries fourth, Sirtokin fifth and Taylor sixth, followed by Sainz and Vainio.
Maïsano took command of the race on the sixth lap: impressive! De Vries took third place at the expense of Ceccon. There was a duel between Taylor and Sainz for seventh place. On the eighth lap, Maïsano escaped, Sirotkin attacked Ceccon and Sainz passed Taylor. Two laps later, De Vries threatened D’Agosto and Sirotkin passed Ceccon who retook his place a few turns later.
A great victory for the maestro of KF3, Brandon Maïsano ahead of D’Agosto, 43 milliseconds in front of De Vries. Sirotkin was fourth, Ceccon fifth, then Vainio, Sainz, Taylor, Grenhagen and Antilla.
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