Harpham fastest in Qualifying at Lausitzring

26 year old British driver Lee Harpham (Anderson-Rotax) will start tomorrow on pole position in each of the two races of the second event of the CIK-FIA European Superkart Championship on the Lausitzring circuit (Germany), host of a round of the DTM series for which in excess of 80,000 spectators will be present tomorrow.

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Leading a number of German drivers, Peter Elkmann (MS Kart-Yamaha) set the second fastest time only 0.135 of a second slower than Lee Harpham. Malcolm Crowe (Anderson-FPE) posted the third fastest time.

A downpour of rain during the afternoon had potentially compromised the second qualifying session with the adverse track conditions, but the progressive return of the sunshine had given drivers hope to achieve quicker speeds. At the end of the session most drivers had not even matched their times set in the morning session. The most notable exception was Benjamin Mahé (PVP-FPE), co-leader of the Championship standings, who was a revelation in transforming his thirteenth place of the morning with a good fourth place. Fifth was Mark Owens (ADE-DEA) who had equally been one of those rare cases of a driver improving his time from the morning session when he was eighth.

The first ten drivers were all timed within one second of each other which sets the stage for two competitive races. Behind the first five drivers are Carl Hulme (Anderson-FPE), John Riley (Anderson-Rotax), Damien Payart (PVP-FPE) and the defending Champion, Gavin Bennett (Anderson-FPE).

The surprise of these sessions has been the emergence of the Norwegian Martin Erik Gjertsen (PVP-PVP), a good tenth on his first appearance in the Division One Superkart twin cylinder class (he has moved up following the demise of the Division Two single cylinder motor class).
The two Superkart races are battled out tomorrow at 9.10 and 16.45.

All the results will be published live on cikfia.com.

Photo: CIKFIA

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