Maisano faultless in Lonato KF3

Full results are available from the CIK-FIA

With four victories in the qualifying heats, the Intrepid France driver Brandon Maisano controlled the event and moved into pole position for the KF3 Prefinal.

Ignazio D’Agosto, Gerard Barrabeig and Michelle Gatting otherwise have the best shot at victory and completed the next two rows. Carlos Sainz and Henri Rajala are sixth and seventh respectively. Lorenzo Camplese and Marc Coleselli are 11th and 12th then Jonathan Helias is 13th. Nyck De Vries ranks 16th, then Guillaume De Ridder is 19th.

Prefinal
Ignazio D’Agosto made the best start, with Maisano managing to stay in his wake. Raffaele Marciello missed his braking point and lost many places. Michelle Gatting, often incisive at the start of the race, would not give way to Maisano. This didn’t please the officials, who gave her a ten-second penalty. Nyck De Vries started 16th and quickly got into tenth position. Jonathan Helias was 17th.

A few lengths behind Maisano, the battle raged between Kevin Ceccon, Gerard Barrabeig and Lorenzo Camplese and Carlos Gil soon joined the wild group. Gatting starting working on D’Agosto and eventually passed him with Maisano doing the same on the next lap. The FA Karts of Camplese and Barrabeig broke the Maranello of Ceccon.

Maisano took the lead in the race, Gatting ceded ground and Camplese was working hard in second. D’Agosto returned and passed Gatting for third place and the Prefinal winner was now chosen. De Vries had risen further to pass Rajala, but remained behind Ceccon for a few laps without being able to attempt an attack. Only on the last lap could he take sixth.

With the penalty Gatting went back from fifth to 15th position, the result of the KF3 Prefinal was Maisano first, Camplese second, D’Agosto third, followed by Barrabeig fourth, De Vries fifth, Ceccon sixth, Gil seventh, Coleselli eighth, Zimin ninth and Rajala tenth.

Final
Although we saw a slight relative decrease in speed last month from the Intrepid France driver, his performance at Lonato reset the clock. With speed and intelligence, there was no challenge for Brandon in KF3, from the heats to the final.

So to find confrontation it was necessary to look behind Maisano. Lorenzo Camplese had long appeared to be the logical second place, but he found it difficult to resist an attack from Nyck De Vries two laps from the end. It wasn’t easy for De Vries either. He started on the third row, then came back to third, then to fourth, and then came close to Kevin Ceccon. But Nyck didn’t let up with the pressure and was able to overtake. He achieved a great podium with second position.

The race was exciting back down in the pack, with a dose of aggression at every level and a lot of contact. Aaro Vainio took the advantage over his team-mate Henri Rajala, and Michelle Gatting could only regain three places to finish 13th. Jonathan Helias had to settle for 18th position and Guillaume de Ridder 20th.

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