Karting World Championship finale to take place this week in Portimão
The highly anticipated finale of the FIA Karting season is set to unfold in Portimão from Thursday to Sunday (October 10-13).
With nearly 200 of the world’s top karting drivers representing 31 countries, the Mondokart.com FIA Karting World Championship – KZ promises high-octane action, alongside the FIA Karting World Cup – KZ2 and the FIA Karting International Masters Super Cup.
The event will take place at the Algarve International Karting Circuit – just a stone’s throw away from the International Racetrack in Portimão.
“Located within the superb complex dedicated to motorsport, the karting track offers a 1,531-metre-long layout, full of elevation changes, fast and spectacular,” FIA Karting says in a statement, stressing that “the site is not often used for karting competitions.”
In the main KZ category, reigning European champion Lorenzo Travisanutto (Italy) is the favourite, although runner-up Senna Van Walstijn (Netherlands) is also considered a strong contender. The 2020 world champion Jérémy Iglesias (France) won recently in Portimão, the championship organisers state, while multiple champion Pedro Hiltbrand Aguilar (Spain) was in a strong position in a group of very experienced drivers. Paolo Ippolito (Italy), 2023 world champion, and Viktor Gustafsson (Sweden), his predecessor, are also singled out as “drivers to be taken into consideration,” along with established names such as Jorge Pescador (Spain), Danilo Albanese (Italy), David Trefilov (Germany) and Marijn Kremers (Netherlands), who won the title in 2019.
Meanwhile, the KZ2 World Cup will see more than 100 participants with a wide range of experience. Three drivers – Mattéo Spirgel (France), Daniel Vasile (Romania) and Maksim Orlov (Russia) – are included among the frontrunners, along with Markus Rajak (Estonia), Artem Severiukhin (Russia), Corentin Rousseau (France); Cristian Bertuca (Italy), Nikolas Roos (South Africa) and Paavo Tonteri (Finland).
Last but not least, the KZ2 Masters will be contested by long-time rivals Anthony Abbasse (France) and David Foré (Italy), with other notable competitors including defending champion Riccardo Nalon (Italy), Kristijan Habulin (Croatia), Allesio La Martina (Italy), Roberto Profico (Italy), André Nicasto (Brazil), Daniel Bray (New Zealand), André Serafim (Portugal) and Thomas Mich (France).
The event can be followed on the official FIA Karting Championship app for mobile devices and on the www.fiakarting.com website.
