The Mondokart.com FIA Karting World Championship – OK & Junior, which is about to get underway at Franciacorta, is shaping up to be a major event and a landmark in international competition. With 57 nations represented, 115 OKs, 126 OK-Juniors, plus 34 OK-Ns and 36 OK-N Juniors in the “OK-N Road to the 1st World Cup”, under the aegis of the Italian federation ACI Sport, the total number of entrants is 311 drivers. Not bad, is it?
We won’t go back over the many opportunities offered to competitors to prepare for the world meeting (see our article Franciacorta World Championship: the big one?). Instead, let’s look at the resources available for following the competition from a distance. Kartcom will, of course, be on hand to help you follow the event with its daily articles on the various phases, as well as links to live coverage and the publication of results, including the unofficial intermediate rankings of the qualifying heats.
The Apex Timing live-timing has already started to be broadcast this Thursday morning thanks to RGMMC, the FIA Karting promoter. It will continue from Friday morning under the FIA Karting banner. RGMMC Media will provide live video streaming from Friday afternoon for the qualifying heats, then all day Saturday and finally Sunday with the super heats and finals. Yotube FIA Karting Championships, fiakarting.com and Motorsport.tv.
Official results will be available on fiakarting.com for the WKC and on ACI Karting for the OK-N Road to the 1st World Cup.
Provisional schedule for the Franciacorta event
Thursday 5th October
07.30 – 18.45: WKC and OK-N Road to the 1st World Cup unofficial free practice sessions
Friday 6th October
07.30 – 07.49 : “OK-N Road to the 1st World Cup” warm-up
08.00 – 10.25 : WKC free practice sessions
10.30 – 13.00 : qualifying practice WKC
13.25 – 13.42 : qualifying practice “OK-N Road to the 1st World Cup
14.00 – 18.51 : WKC qualifying heats
Saturday 7th October
07.30 – 07.49 : “OK-N Road to the 1st World Cup” warm-up
08.00 – 09.25 : WKC warm-up
09.30 – 18.49 : WKC qualifying heats
13.12 – 13.52 : qualifying heat 1 – “OK-N Road to the 1st World Cup
16.57 – 17.37 : qualifying heats 2 – “OK-N Road to the 1st World Cup
Sunday 8th October
08.30 – 08.55 : warm-up “OK-N Road to the 1st World Cup
09.00 – 10.05 : warm-up
10.10 – 10.50 : “OK-N Road to the 1st World Cup” pre-finals
10.50 – 12.25 : WKC Super Rounds
13.55 – 14.55 : Finals “OK-N Road to the 1st World Cup
15.15 – 16.30 : WKC Finals + podiums
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