24 HOURS OF ITALY

The 24 Hours Karting of Italy, the prestigious Endurance event organized by CRG on the Adria track on the weekend of 24 and 25 March with Kart CRG Centurion, ended with an exceptional organizational and sporting outcome.

The competition on the track was of the highest level, thanks to the value of the 30 teams (representing 10 different nations) and the over 180 drivers competing and the quality and reliability of the CRG Karts, managed on the track by the factory’s technical staff.

After 24 exciting hours of racing, the victory went to the Danish ATB Bengio team of Colin Brown (former Kart World Champion), Ian Andersen, Andrea Tognalli, Alessandro Begnozzi, Matteo Domenico Rotta and Ramon Pineiro by just 2″ over the French team Skof’s DT Racing composed of Yohann Vaugarni, Helmy Hamrouini, Miko Bouvier and Boris Bouvier.

On the 3rd step of the podium, just 30″ behind the winners, went the German Schnitzelalm team of Christoph Gruebel, Timo Kieslich, Enrico Schumann, Dominik Linke and Felix Moeltgen who preceded the crew of compatriots Schusta Racing by Jabertools and the Russian team Pinkman.

The 1st Italian team, PKI – Pordenone Kart Indoor, finished the race in 6th place overall, with the International Karting driver Lorenzo Travisanutto also lining up among its ranks.

The Star Cauduro team finished in 7th place, led by another Karting champion: the official CRG driver Paolo De Conto. The top ten was completed by the Scatolificio Simonti team, 8th at the finish line ahead of Miout and La Vecchia Guardia.

Also noteworthy is the presence of two teams from Ecuador, who finished the race in 26th and 27th place respectively after having had an excellent start to the race. The presence of 10 foreign teams contributed to giving a strong international dimension to the event, which CRG and the management of the Adria circuit have already confirmed as an Endurance Karting classic for the coming years too.

From a technical point of view it is worth reminding the great balance that the CRG Centurion karts guaranteed to the teams right from the qualifying, where the Russian Pinkman team had obtained pole with only 49 thousandths of a second on PKI and where the top 15 teams were all included in 8 tenths.
This great balance was also the result of the excellent work carried out by the CRG technical staff and was confirmed in the race with an incredible arrival at the photo finish. Precisely the excellent feedback received on the karts in the race, both for the performance and for the fun and sensations that they offered even to very expert drivers while driving, are one of the great strengths of the work carried out by CRG in this exciting discipline competitive.
But the positive organizational balance goes beyond the technical factor and also included the high standards of service that the teams had at their disposal, experiencing an event with the organizational contents of an international meeting. From this point of view, the professional structures of the Adria Raceway track also offered great added value, a modern and cutting-edge facility for this type of event, which guaranteed the team brick pits, race direction with over 20 cameras on the circuit and all the useful comforts for such a demanding race.

SPAIN, GERMANY AND FRANCE SHARE THE PODIUM OF THE 24 HOURS OF ADRIA

The Spanish CH-T Gold team of Piñeiro, Alcaraz, Garcia and Risitano won a spectacular edition of the 24 Hours Karting of Italy with 40 teams competing from all over the world. The Italian team Bolza Corse won the Silver category. The 2^nd edition of the 24 Hours Karting of Italy ended with excitement and entertainment, thanks to the record number of 40 teams and over 250 drivers competing representing 15 different nationalities.

The drivers parade that took place on the starting straight after Qualifying Practice provided an incredible view and the same images were broadcast worldwide thanks to live streaming, which then followed the entire race up to the ceremony of the podium on CRG’s web platforms and social pages.

From an organizational point of view, the event was a great success, also favored by the exceptional location that represents the Adria circuit, unique in the world for its structures, such as the brick garages, the hotel rooms for the teams and various pluses such as the excellent lighting system and the video control system of the track.

BAC-PKI (PRO) AND THE ALLIANZ TEAM (SILVER) ARE THE WINNERS OF THE ADRIA 24 HOURS KARTING RACE

It’s been a great edition of the 24 Hours Karting of Italy on the Adria Raceway happened on October 17th and 18th. Despite the Covid restrictions that didn’t allow the foreign teams to travel to Italy, 29 teams took part to the competition putting on an exceptional show. The BAC-PKI Team made up by Denis Furlan, Andrea Rocco, Fabiano Bottosso, Marco Bortoluzzi, Andrea Riva, Riccardo Melas and Carlo Alberto Cappello won with big merit and great advantage the 2020 edition with 1266 laps in 24 hours. As for the 2nd and 4th place there were two arrivals at the fotofinish, which is normally very rare for a 24 hours race, and which proves the great balance between the team and the karts on the track. As for the 2nd place, the Pomposa Dream Team preceded the Orza Group / Lorenz Petronas by only 128 thousandths, while the Zena Karting won the 4th position for 511 thousandths on Team Thunderbolt. Afterwards, great 6th place for the RKS Team that preceded the French NTKart Team. The Allianz Team (Ambrogio Canavesi, Matteo Marini, Federico Zanette, Sebastiano Galiazzo, Federico Gargano, Carlo Pasquino and Gabriele Gargano) ranked 8th overall, winning the special Silver ranking ahead of the Prost Racing Team and Bolza Corse. The Volmar and the Gas RT are also present within the top ten ranking, respectively 9th and 10th in the standings. From a sports point of view, the DMS Team was forced to be excluded from the top ten due to a technical motor issue, as well as some other setbacks during the night that slowed down the Nutria and Miout Teams, respectively 11th and 12th under the chequered flag. The Next Gen Team took part to the event too, raising funds to support Unicef, and saw Davide Valsecchi and Vicky Piria at the wheel, among others.

From an organizational point of view, the “classic” of the Endurance karting promoted by CRG was confirmed to be one of reference events at international level. The CRG Centurion karts‘ performance has been reliable and strongly balanced as always, as the arrivals at the fotofinish and the minimum gaps in qualification could ascertain. Most of all, lots of positive feedbacks on the karts have been gathered by the pilots thanks to the feeling they guarantee to the driving performance. The overall organization behind the event was also excellent, as well as the Adria Raceway that is probably the best location in the world to host such a demanding event, thanks to its great logistical structures that offers to the teams.

As for the past year, also the long live streaming of the event was of great success with thousands of spectators and sharings on social media. The overall balance for CRG has once again been very positive, despite the absence of many foreign teams and the obvious safety restrictions that, for example, didn’t allow to put the traditional “Drivers Parade” into place. About this, it must be said that all the teams collaborated with the organization in a constructive way, in order to respect all the safety criteria both in the paddock and in the common areas. In addition, the all behaved very well on track, where the race supervision had to inflict 3 stop and go only.

The 24 Hours Karting of Italy has already been confirmed also for 2021 on the Adria Raceway and the date will soon be officialized.

Full results on: www.youcrono.it
Official Photographer: Ennio Brigatti (brigatti@visual-graficaecomunicazione.it)

24H KARTING 2021: GREAT SHOW IN ADRIA WITH 40 TEAMS ATTENDING THE RACE

It has been a fantastic edition of the 24 Hours Karting of Italy, the one which took place on the Adria Raceway track from June 4^th to 6^th. The 4^th appointment overall of this event organized and promoted by CRG with its CRG Centurion karts, has once again proved to be a key competitive meeting for international endurance karting.

40 teams from 12 different countries challenged each other on the track and after 24 exciting and eventful hours, also thanks to a bit of rain that fell during the night, the victory went to the Italian GFT Racing team led by Gabriele Meda with Giorgio Ganciu, Michele Suardi, Daniele Cervaro, Mattia Castelletti, Stefano Pallavicini and Orlando Sidoti behind the wheel, while in the SILVER ranking it was the Chioggia Kart team of Nicola Santi, Mauro Varotto, Demetrio Polauszach, Nicola Fortin, Mattia Massarotto and Michael Nalesso who won. The Italian GFT crew, made up of drivers who boast a very high profile resume in endurance races, covered 1263 laps ahead of the BAC-PKI squad, led by Denis Furlan and Thomas Bruseghin, who put Fabiano Bottosso, Marco Bortoluzzi, Andrea Rocco, Andrea Riva, Carlo Capello and Claudio Ferraresso on the track and who were the winners of the last edition, but also the authors of the pole position in the Super Pole on Saturday morning.

In 3^rd place, Lorenzo Beretta’s DMS Motorsport team, made of Stefano Perseghin, Francesco Russo, Davide Trombetta, Mario Villa and Claudio Biffi, which also finished just 26 ”from BAC-PKI, while the Belgian team Racing 4 Belgium Black got P4 in the end. The crew composed by Simon Delvenne, Guillaume Germis, Maverick Dessy and Maxime Drion has long been fighting for the podium and made it to the finish line in front of Zena SMO, the first of the 5 teams lined up by the Ligurian squad, made up of Wesley Bettinelli, Lorenzo Vailati, Matteo Roncaglio, Andrea Bigioggera and Davide Balbo. The French NTKart Pro team of Ugo Nastasi, Freddy Bruni, Arnaud Hemricourt and Dimitri Duszynski finished the race in 6^th position: they drove the race for a long time in the first 10 hours, before an engine failure stopped them on the track in the first night hours. Their comeback after the engine change was incredible, but it didn’t allow them to get back into the fight for the podium. Behind the French team, Team Nutria (Gilberto, Mazzarolo, Giordano, Prati, Pero and Carraro), a historic endurance karting team, who achieved an excellent placement in the top ten, like Chioggia Kart, which finished in 8^th absolute position, ahead of Zena Warriors in 9^th place and the Pomposa Dream Team in 10^th position.

For what concerns the SILVER ranking, the victory went to Chioggia Kart as mentioned before. From the very first stages, the team has fought with Scuola Karting Abruzzo Academy and Zena ODR Panther. In the last part of the race Chioggia Kart slightly stretched on Zena ODR Panther, who obtained 2^nd place, while Scuola Karting Abruzzo Academy, which had suffered some technical problems in the first part of the night, slipping up to 4^th place in its category, made it to the 3^rd step of the podium, making good use of the race phase with the rain and the last hours, when they controlled the MGS team. In 5^th place the Tutela Legale team closed with an exceptional comeback, slowed down in the first hours of the race by a double stop due to a problem with the accelerator leverage, but then able to climb up more than 15 positions, with a race pace equivalent to the top teams. Afterwards, again in the SILVER ranking, the RKS Exp team got 6^th place, the Gas Master one finished 7^th and the top ten was completed by Bolza Corse, RKS and Riders.

The event was broadcast in live streaming with 4 different video connection from the track and was covered with many communication activities by the CRG press office. The organizational balance was very positive, also thanks to the excellent services that the Adria circuit can offer for this type of event: from the hotel rooms above the pit lane for the teams, the comfort of the pits, the over 20 cameras available to the Race Direction to monitor the action on the track and the exceptional lighting system for the night.

We will just point out for the record that it was never necessary to deploy the Safety Car (the powerful BMW M235i xDrive Gran Coupé supplied by Auto Vergiate), not even during the almost two hours of rain that fell during the night, as the race direction wanted to leave the teams the opportunity to compete on the track, as safety conditions were not missing.

For all the rankings and images of the 24 Hours Karting of Italy it is possible to visit the dedicated section of the official CRG website and follow the CRG Factory and 24 Hours Karting of Italy social channels.

POMPOSA DREAM TEAM (ITA) AND STEEL RING TRINEC (CZ) ARE THE WINNERS OF THE 24 HOURS KARTING OF ITALY 2022

The 5^th edition of the 24 Hours Karting of Italy organized by CRG which took place in Castelletto di Branduzzo (PV) on the 7 Laghi Kart circuit on 25^th and 26^th June, has been confirmed as one of the most important events in the Endurace karting scene, both from a sports point of view and for what concerns the organization.

As for the sporting part, the success went to the Italian crew called Pomposa Dream Team and made up of Michele Biffi, Gioele Bondi, Massimiliano Marchesini, Dino Masina, Gianpaolo Quaquarelli and Krzysztof Severi, who covered 1296 laps of the Lombard circuit in 24 hours of racing, while in the special Silver ranking it was the Czech Republic Steel Ring Trinec s.r.o. team of Ivo Polasek, Felipe Nardo, Filip Trombik and Jan Midrla to bring home the victory. The crew led by Martin Gregor also finished P12 in the overall standings with 1285 laps covered. The DMS Motorsport team (Claudio Biffi, Stefano Perseghin, Nicolas Russo, Davide Trombetta and Mario Villa) also made it to the podium of the overall standings, authors of an amazing race, led for many hours in the lead and finished just 32” behind the winners.

The DMS team also set the fastest lap of the race with a time of 1’04″013, lowering what was worth the pole position for Team Sugo by about 3 tenths of a second. In 3^rd place another great race was closed by the BAC PKI crew of Marco Bortoluzzi, Denis Furlan, Andrea Riva, Mauro Varotto, Erica Zago and Maicol Mattioli, who finished 1 lap from the winners, preceding another leading team of the event: Tutela Legale of Daniel Walti, Carlo Pasquino, Federico Gargano, Gabriele Gargano and Julien Delecrètaz. The top 5 was completed by the GAS RT team of Alessandro Cavallé, Cesare Cattaneo, Jeffry Macrì, Federico Bosio and Mauro Molaschi, ahead of an excellent Team Sugo (author of the pole position in qualifying), led very well from the pits by the Team Manager Giulia Ravasio among the contenders for the podium, before accusing a drop in engine during the night, then recovered before dawn. The 7^th position was also positive for the E-Team 21 crew, which came ahead of the first of the Beretta teams, the one led by Elia Minghelli, called B&CO Pro. The top ten was completed by SMO Racing Team led by Michele Ottini, who finished in 9^th place ahead of Marco Strafurini’s Miout squad. A good performance also for Flavio Ceci’s Thunderbolt team ahead of the already mentioned Steel Ring team that scored P12 overall and won the Silver Cup. Still with regard to the Silver Cup, it is worth saying that the podium was completed by Squillari Racing Team of  Massimo Cavalieri, Patrizio Barca, Ruben Gastaldi, Ivan Baronchelli, Luca Capolongo and Thomas Brundu, P2 in the Silver and P14 in the general classification behind Lhasa – Maglieria Sala, while the French team NTKART composed by Jan Frederic Hansen, Elia Salucci, Ricardo Da Rocha and Dimitri Duszynski reached the 3^rd step of the Silver podium. A beautiful race among the Silver crews was also completed by GF Racing Team, P4 in the Silver Cup and P18 overall behind B&Co. Young, as well as by the rookie team in an event of this magnitude such as the THU Karting Team, P5 in the Silver classification and P19 overall, ahead of Autovergiate Supercar.

This important Endurance karting meeting has once again highlighted the strength of the format wanted by CRG, both because the race remained open to 4 contenders until the final stages, and because the performances of the individual crews were incredible in terms of balance. Just think of the fastest laps in the race that see as many as 20 crews collected in 3 tenths. The strategies, the individual episodes and even a little bit of luck were decisive in decreeing the winning team. Looking back at the Pomposa Dream Team, there is a unanimous chorus of compliments for a well-deserved success, obtained without making the slightest mistake and which rewards an almost unique loyalty to the CRG event, considering that they have always attended the previous editions of the 24 Hours. Before closing the part of the sports story, it is important to talk about the success of the Lecco Racing team in the special B&Co. classification, which saw 10 teams from the Beretta food group, partner of this unforgettable 2022 edition, competing on the track.

Based on the race chronicle and the track results, it should be pointed out that once again the great organizational machine put in place by CRG made the difference for the success of the event. From the point of view of communication, the race was covered by 5 blocks of live streaming with images and rankings from the track, alternated with comments and interviews in the TV studio, as well as an excellent support to the teams from the Race Direction with video controls, the big screen with the rankings, positioned within the circuit and the services offered to the teams, such as hotel rooms and the box set up with monitors to follow the race and strategies in real time.

Finally, great applause must be attributed to the CRG technical staff, which has set up a fleet of new CRG Centurions, well prepared and managed on the track with very high standards of professionalism, allowing the teams to attend the race with the best technical support. Teams and drivers also promoted the circuit with full marks. They said the circuit was very demanding, but also fun to drive and managed by a staff who guaranteed the teams and the organization an excellent contribution to the success of the event.

For everyone the date is already for next season for edition no. 6 of the 24 Hours Karting of Italy organized by CRG and in the meantime for all the insights with the interviews of the protagonists, the curiosities and the exclusive videos, it is possible to follow the Facebook page dedicated to the event (24 Hours Karting of Italy) and the official website of CRG www.kartcrg.com 

POMPOSA DREAM TEAM AFFIRMS ITSELF AS THE WINNER OF THE 2023 24 HOURS KARTING OF ITALY

Winning a 24 Hours Karting is a very difficult sport challenge, reserved for a small number of teams in the international Endurance karting panorama, but winning it for two consecutive years places the team in question as the protagonist of an almost historic one. We are talking about the Pomposa Dream Team, a crew made up of Giampaolo Quaquarelli, Michele Biffi, Gioele Bondi, Massimiliano Marchesini Massimiliano, Dino Masina and Krzysztof Arkadiusz Severi.

After the victory in the 24 Hours Karting of Italy on the Castelletto track in 2022, this year the team has repeated its success by writing its name for the 2^nd time in the hall of fame of the event (which took place again on the Lombard track). It was not an easy or obvious success, as the SMO Racing Team made up of Michele Ottini, Wesley Bettinelli, Davide Balbo, Diego Colella, Dino Gallo and Matteo Roncaglio finished the race with only 8” of gap from the winners, outstanding in terms of pace and intensity.

The last hour of the race was simply exciting, with the two leading teams that, once the 30 mandatory driver changes had been made, found themselves separated by a few seconds in the last driving stint, reaching the finish line one in the slipstream of the other. To understand how close the battle was at the top of the race, just think that the Pomposa Dream Team won it by covering 1303 laps of the Castelletto circuit, while in the last edition, success had come by covering 7 laps less.

The balance at the top of the race between the PRO teams was incredible, also considering the race of the GAS RT team (Alessandro Cavallè, Cesare Cattaneo, Jeffrey Macrì, Federico Bosio, Marco Ferazzini and Alessandro Fumagalli), who finished in P3, coming out of the fight for victory only in the final stages, like the BAC-PKI team of Marco Bortuluzzi, Fabiano Bottosso, Andrea Riva, Edgard Kanah, Federico and Giulia Buttò and Riccardo Melas, led by the two Team Managers Denis Furlan and Thomas Bruseghin) which finished in P4, very close to the podium. Also very positive was the Formula 7 Racing performance of Lorenzo Esposito (crew made up of Sandro Anfuso, Luca Campanini, Manai Tony, Gianluca Molina, Mauro Castellani and Marco Cremona), 5^th classified ahead of Next Gen team of Michele Bartyan, Vitantonio Liuzzi, Vicky Piria , Alberto Cola, Alan Simoni, Alberto Cerqui and Sergio Campana, good in the last driving stint with Liuzzi overtaking Tutela Legale for P6. The French NTKart crew closed in P8, penalized by an engine problem during the night; they preceded the winners of the SILVER classification, the Tec-Tav team, P9 overall. The crew made up of Patrik Fraboni, Enrico Manzoni, Giovanni Antonio Sturniolo, Andrea Tonoli and Vercelloni Luigi (led by the Team Manager Nicola Dragonetti), was the protagonist of a capital performance entering the top ten, despite the five more driver changes than the PRO teams, but above all by inflicting an important gap on the 2^nd classified in the Silver classification, the team of the Czech Republic Chovtrans Frenkart (P12 overall at the finish line). Returning to the top ten, the Lhasa-Maglieria Sala team also closed an excellent race, P10 overall ahead of Onekart China, the best of the teams from China. Said of the Chovtrans Frenkart team in P12 and P2 in the SILVER ranking, the Volmar team finished the race in P13, also conquering the 3^rd  position and the podium in the SILVER category. In 14^th place was the 2^nd team from China, Run China Run, which compromised its race by going haywire with the strategies after the technical stop of the night, while in the first 6 hours of the race it had also taken the lead. P15 overall went to the MGS Racing Team A, of the Maserati Group, which also obtained P4 in the SILVER classification, close to the podium, while the Carloni Racing Team finished P16 overall, ahead of Zena Panther, Thunderbolt, Full Gaz by BKRT and Red Jaguar Oversonic.

The 2023 edition of the 24 Hours Karting of Italy therefore ends with a great sporting and organizational success, which confirms this event promoted by CRG as one of the most appreciated and prestigious meetings in Endurance karting. It should be said that the race was broadcast in live streaming for over 16 hours, in which the images from the track were interspersed with interviews with the protagonists and the teams challenged each other using a fleet of 40 brand-new CRG Centurion karts, made available by the organizer, who also took care of a centralized technical assistance and refuellings.

With the 2023 edition archived, the organizational machine is already thinking about next season, discussing some sporting and technical innovations with the team managers.

For further information on the event, it is also possible to follow the official Facebook page of the event by clicking here. 

The winners covered 1254 laps in the 24 hours of the race, preceding by just 20″ under the chequered flag the SMO Racing Team of Wesley Bettinelli, Davide Balbo, Lorenzo Vailati, Daniele Pozzoli and Matteo Roncaglio, also great protagonists of the event since from Super Pole, in which they achieved the best overall time with Lorenzo Vailati, a performance also confirmed with the fastest lap in the race. The Pomposa Dream Team drivers (Gioele Bondi, Michele Biffi, Massimiliano Marchesini, Dino Masina, Gianpaolo Quaquarelli and Krzysztof Severi) got on the third step of the podium and after two consecutive successes, they once again ended a beautiful race as protagonists. After them, an excellent P4 for the BAC-PKI team which was fighting for success until the final stages of the race, like the Red Jaguar squad, which did a great race, even remaining at the top of the standings for a few hours . The BTECS Young team ranked 6^th overall, protagonist of a great comeback in the final hours, after having suffered some problems at the start of the race, while P7 overall went to the Next Gen team. P8 in the general classification and an amazing race for the Marline Karting team made up of Gian Maria Gabbiani, Manuel Grandi, Domenico Ferlito, Riccardo Gasparini, Marco Ferazzini and Christian Resa, who prevailed among the SILVER crews with 4 laps ahead of the Tec-Tav Racing Kart team, composed of Enrico Manzoni, Andrea Tonoli, Patrick Fraboni, Mattia Corbetta and Maurizio Giberti, who had suffered a few laps of delay in the first part of the competition, then recovered with an amazing second part of the race.

The 3rd place of the Czech Republic team Chovtrans Frenkart of Polasek, Kostelnak, Mikulik, Vavrecka and Pehanec, who won the comparison with the other team Steel Ring from their same country, which finished in P4 place of the SILVER ranking, was also very good.

In the top ten of the PRO standings, the performances of Team Ecuador – Kartodromo Cotopaxi, P9 at the finish line, as well as  the one of Zena Panther in P10, must also be highlighted.

As usual, the 24 Hours Karting of Italy had very wide media coverage with 5 live streaming connections and a TV studio on the circuit, in which more than 20 protagonists of the race were interviewed. Among the most exciting moments, it is worth saying about the spectacular Drivers Parade with over 240 drivers and their respective national flags, who paraded on the starting straight, as well as the start of the race given with the Italian flag in Le Mans style, with the drivers who had to run across the track to their karts, which were parked on the other side. Finally, the feedback on the CRG Centurion karts that the Italian company provided to the teams was exceptional and demonstrated unprecedented reliability, just as the ecological Marline fuel used in the race was promoted with flying colours, guaranteeing top performance in every stage of the race.