The International Circuit of Abruzzo in Ortona is housing the fourth round of the Italian ACI-CSAI Karting Championship that lived today its free practice Friday that already started to highlight the first protagonists of this weekend.

The conflict with official tests of the KF and KF Junior in France ahead of the championship that will take place at the track of Essay next 21 September and the recent exit for the European Championship in England only a few days ago, unfortunately reduced the number of drivers on track in Ortona's KF2 and KF3.

A total of 80 drivers are present at the International Circuit of Abruzzo, including KZ2 that will see 22 drivers on track, while 60 Mini is quite crowded with 42 drivers.


The quickest time of KZ2 has been set by classification leader Lorenzo Camplese (Maranello-Tm) in 56.266s, as Loris Spinelli (CRG-Tm) chased him closely with a 56.505s and the other protagonist of the championship, Francesco Celenta (Energy-Tm), was third in 56.450s. Giacomo Pollini (CKR-Tm) and Camplese's team mate, Marco Zanchetta, who is second in the championship came also to the fore today.

In KF2, Marco Maestranzi (Top Kart-Tm) has been once again very quick and posted a best lap of 58.276s, but his chasers are quite close to him: Andrea Moretti (Exprit-Tm) set in fact a 58.396s and Adriano Albano (Tony Kart-Tm) a 58.411s.

In KF3, Aldo Festante (Tony Kart-Lke) of team Forza Racing has been very fast setting the quickest time of 1.00.035, as did the Russian Milen Ponomarenko (Tony Kart-Lke). Current classification leader Remigio Garofano on Tony Kart-Tm, was about 6 tenths shy of the leader. Several protagonists of the championship will not be present in this round though such as Defrancesco, Sereia, Della Coletta, Travisanutto, and some others that are busy with international commitments.

The crowded 60 Mini has had only non-timed free practice so far as the timed session is scheduled for tomorrow morning. Giuseppe Fusco (Lenzo-Lke) got to Ortona leading the charts ahead of the Danish driver Dennis Hauger (CRG/Hero-Lke).

LIVE STREAMING AND TV COVERAGE ON DINAMICA CHANNEL
The event of Ortona can be followed live on web streaming from local 10.25hrs at the websites www.acisportitalia.itande www.sportube.tv at the Sportube TV channel.

Dinamica Channel will start the live TV coverage on Sunday at 11.10hrs and, due to the conflicting round at Varano de'Melegari, it will continue at 14.00hrs.

The Classifications after three rounds:

KZ2. 1. Camplese points 154; 2. Zanchetta 114; 3. Celenta 76; 4. Iglesias 72; 5. Tilloca 67; 6. Torsellini 59; 7. Ippolito 41; 8. Hiltbrand 35; 9. Mazzali 32; 10. Piccioni 31; 11. Longhi 30; 12. Giulietti 30; 13. Piccini 28; 14. Sani 23; 15. Spinelli 22; 16. Pollini 17; 17. Carlton 17; 18. Corberi 15; 19. Iacovacci 15; 20. Sportella 9.

KF2. 1. Maestranzi points 128; 2. Moretti 119; 3. Albano 76; 4. Villa Zanotti 63; 5. Martucci 52; 6. Romanucci 51; 7. Lovchaliev 46; 8. Lanza 43; 9. Bertonelli 42; 10. Gomez 38; 11. Ripamonti 22; 12. Albanese 19; 13. Cenedese 18; 14. Galbiati 14; 15. Noviello 13; 16. Luches 12,5; 17. Armand 10; 18. Leone 8,5; 19. Scaravaggi 6,5; 20. De Martini 5.

KF3. Garofano points 138; 2. Defrancesco 126; 3. Sereia 88; 4. Della Coletta 81; 5. Travisanutto 80; 6. Mosca 61; 7. Della Coletta 56; 8. Maini 45; 9. Lombardo 45; 10. Fernandez 45; 11. Moreira 32; 12. Ponomarenko 32; 13. Colombo 23; 14. Alesi 21; 15. Lorandi 20; 16. Festante 20; 17. Chinelli 14; 18. Martinez 12; 19. Lorenzo 5; 20. Gheno 4.

60 MINI. 1. Fusco points 117; 2. Hauger 96; 3. Bogdanov 93; 4. Abrusci 78; 5. Pagano 75; 6. Carenini 75; 7. Michelotto 62; 8. Serravalle 60; 9. Moretti 43; 10. Skeed 38; 11. Muizzuddin 36; 12. Marseglia 33; 13. Rosso 26; 14. De Sanctis 26; 15. Giardelli 24; 16. Crescente 22; 17. Muller 15; 18. Corso 7; 19. Cobellini 7; 20. Settimo 7.

ORTONA'S PROGRAMME 6-7 SEPTEMBER 2014 (local time)
Saturday 6 September. Warm-up at 9.00. Free practice 60 Mini from 10.05 Qualifying for KZ2, KF2, KF3, 60 Mini from 10.55. Qualifying heats from 14.00.
Sunday 7 September. Warm-up from 8.00. Repechage races from 9.35. Race-1 for all categories KF2, KZ2, KF3, 60 Mini from 10.25. Race-2 for all categories from 14.00. Live TV coverage on Dinamica Channel and Live Streaming of all finals-1 and finals-2.

CORRIERE DELLO SPORT. A special page on the round of Ortona will be published by the Sports Magazine Corriere dello Sport next Thursday 11 September.

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In the pictures: 1) Lorenzo Camplese; 2) Marco Maestranzi; 3) Dennis Hauger.