Active in international karting competition since 2011, the Italian manufacturer LeCont provided the tyres for the KF-Junior and KZ2 categories this year in the CIK-FIA events (World Championships, European and Super Cup). While the 2015 season has just ended, an extremely positive conclusion can be drawn, both in terms of pure performance and in terms of durability and consistency. In addition, the satisfaction index was very high from the drivers and teams.
Already the official supplier of tyres to the U18 World Championship and Academy Trophy in 2011 and 2012, then the European and World Championships for KF-Junior in 2013, the Italian manufacturer LeCont won the CIK-FIA tender in early 2015 for the KF-Junior and KZ2 categories. LeCont has used its experience in international competition to develop rubber that fully complies with the new CIK-FIA regulations. Since 2014, the “Option” type of tyres used by KF-Junior should be able to last at least 250km in race conditions, while those of the “Prime” type used by KZ, KZ2 and KF must complete 150km. As well as compliance with this rule, LeCont makes it a point of honour to design high-performance tyres with which teams can work in good conditions and drivers can take maximum pleasure.
“It’s a great reward to successfully meet such a challenge against the much more experienced manufacturers than us in this discipline,” explains Paolo Bombara, the director of marketing at LeCont. “Last year, LeCont won the Pikes Peak with the Frenchman Romain Dumas and the Norma-Honda prototype. Our technicians have relied in part on their expertise in motorsport to develop our latest generation of tyres homologated by CIK-FIA by completing many preliminary sessions on the track before participating in the CIK-FIA tests for the approval of our “Option” and “Prime” tyres. It took a lot of work, energy, resources and investment, but the result was worth it.“
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