Ocon Esteban (Exprit / Vortex) lost a lot of time in a clash with Loris Spinelli (Intrepid / TM) at the start of 1st KF3 qualifying session.Spinelli may be able to improve on his position (8th overall), while Ocon had to pull out with a bent chassis and had to settle for 28th place. There was another French driver setting the fastest lap of his group, Amaury Rossero (Sodi / Parilla) from the team of Ludovic Veve, with 44,800. Pavel Rudakov (Tony Kart / BMB!?) andnd Egor Orudzhev (Intrepid / TM) followed, then Peter Hoevenaars (Intrepid / TM), Lucas Auer (Maddox / Parilla), Charles Leclerc (Maranello / Maranello), Mikko Pakari (Maranello / Maranello) and Loris Spinelli (Intrepid / TM).
A few heavy drops of rain made the track very slippery at the start of the 2nd group and the drivers had to be acrobats on slicks. The adhesion gradually improved later in the session and they went 7 seconds faster in 4 laps! In this session, Nicolas Beer (FA Kart / Vortex) was fastest from Hubert (Tony Kart / Vortex), Igor Walilko (Birel / BMB), Jussi Kuusiniemi (Haase / VKR) and Flavio Mathys (Topkart / Parilla). Pierre Gasly (Sodi / Parilla) was 15th, just ahead of Jake Dennis (Topkart / Parilla), 19th.
The situation was reversed in the final session with a little rain late in the session. And it was still a French Veve SRT driver Leo Roussel (Sodi / Parilla) who took pole in front of Callan Okeefe (FA Kart / Vortex) and Carlos Gil (Tony Kart / Vortex). Verstappen (CRG / Maxter) finished 5th, Albon (Intrepid / TM) 18th.
The combined standings shows a double from the Ludo Sodi Racing Team, Amaury Rossero ahead of Leo Roussel. Beer was 3rd, 4th Rudakov, Okeefe 5th, 6th Hubert.
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