Held over one single-event, the World Cup for KF2 will be a fine opportunity of revenging for the front-runners of the recent European Championship. After his European title won on a technicality the Briton Ben Barnicoat (ART GP-Parilla) will be very keen on going for a World Cup which would definitively make him play with the big boys who are the great international motor sport hopefuls. But he is not the only one who has this ambition. Last year’s winner of the World Cup for Juniors (in KF3), his Monegasque teammate Charles Leclerc (ART GP-Parilla) would not mind doing it again, but this time in the next category. Like the two ART GP teammates, Max Verstappen (who disposes here of CRG-TM equipment) is among the big favourites. As he missed out on the European Champion title under the abovementioned circumstances the Dutchman is craving for revenge!
The list of candidates for victory however includes many more men than these three. If we look carefully we can find approximately twenty Drivers who dream of turning this 23 September 2012 into a glorious day. The Italian Felice Tiene (CRG-BMB), who stepped on the European podium, is still chasing for a maiden major title. His compatriots Antonio Fuoco (Kosmic-Vortex), Flavio Camponeschi, Damiano Fioravanti (both on Tony Kart-Vortex) and Federico Savona (Top Kart-Parilla) will also be determined to fly the flag for Italy while on home ground, Spain’s Carlos Gil (Tony Kart-Vortex) and Pedro Hiltbrand (FA Kart-Vortex) should be real threats. An eye will also have to be kept on the Danes Nicklas Nielsen (Kosmic-Vortex) and Thomas Krebs (Maranello-TM), Britain’s Sam Snell (Energy-Parilla) or Norway’s Dennis Olsen (Energy-TM), who all ran at the front in the European competition. After his win in the W orld Cup for KZ2, the Brit Jordon Lennox Lamb will return to a direct-drive kart (a CRG-BMB) hoping to achieve this double which no one has ever done. In addition to the Dane Nicolaj Moller-Madsen (CRG-BMB), who makes a come-back after the European crown he donned in 2010, the U18 World Champion (under 18 years old) Matthew Graham (Zanardi-Parilla) also wants to land a second major title. Not forgetting Poland’s Karol Basz (Birel-BMB) and the Frenchman Anthoine Hubert (FK-Parilla), who are both fierce competitors also capable of treating themselves to this World Cup. The fight indeed promises to be very open and the public will be in for a fantastic thriller on Sunday at 15h35, the start time of a decisive Final… with quite an uncertain outcome!
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