Maisano victorious again in KF3

Brandon Maisano (FR, Intrepid/TM) has taken another win, this time in the WSK at Sarno, after strong opposition from the unknown Russian Sergei Sirotkin (Tonykart/Vortex) in the Prefinal. In the Final Maisano was able to pull out a lead of five seconds.

Prefinal
Sergei Sirotkin was on pole alongside Brandon Maïsano. A Franco-Russian competition, or TonyKart vs Intrepid for the KF3 Prefinal at Sarno.

Sirotkin led into the first corner followed by Maïsano. Staying too far right, Sirotkin and Maïsano lost places to the benefit of D’Agosto, Ceccon, Moller-Madsen and De Vries. Vainio was seventh. Camplese, Wiman and Kyvat were out. Maïsano recovered while De Vries moved into third. Maïsano soon despatched Moller-Madsen and started on Nyck. Carlos Sainz edged into ninth position, a gain of eight places. Gerard Barrabeig was stuck in 22nd position.

Maïsano attacked fanatically and successively took third then second place.On the fifth lap, he was in the wake of the leader D’Agosto. Ceccon was the third, De Vries fourth, Sirtokin fifth and Taylor sixth, followed by Sainz and Vainio.

Maïsano took command of the race on the sixth lap: impressive! De Vries took third place at the expense of Ceccon. There was a duel between Taylor and Sainz for seventh place. On the eighth lap, Maïsano escaped, Sirotkin attacked Ceccon and Sainz passed Taylor. Two laps later, De Vries threatened D’Agosto and Sirotkin passed Ceccon who retook his place a few turns later.

A great victory for the maestro of KF3, Brandon Maïsano ahead of D’Agosto, 43 milliseconds in front of De Vries. Sirotkin was fourth, Ceccon fifth, then Vainio, Sainz, Taylor, Grenhagen and Antilla.

Final
Brandon Maïsano was on pole beside Ignazio D’Agosto, followed by De Vries and Sirotkin.

De Vries gained a place. Ceccon attempted to take another competitor, but it wasn’t serious. Maïsano was already pulling away! D’Agosto took second place from De Vries while Antonio Giovinazzi hung on in fourth position. On the second lap, a group of four drivers fought just two seconds behind the leader. De Vries got away and Sirotkin was third ahead of Giovinazzi and D’Agosto.

Lap three. Ceccon edged into sixth ahead of Vainio, Anttila and Taylor. Maïsano was on his own in the lead, 2.6 seconds from De Vries. Two laps later, Ceccon passed for fifth from Giovinazzi. Taylor was close to Anttila. There was fighting between Ceccon and Vainio and to the advantage of the latter then a fastest lap for Maïsano at halfway. Ceccon took fifth from Vainio.

Maïsano, De Vries, Sirotkin and D’Agosto were in front. Anttila was stuc between Giovinazzi and Taylor. Maïsano now had a 3.6 second lead with successive fastest laps. Sirotkin was not far from De Vries and the battle continued between Anttila, Giovinazzi and Taylor.

A strong victory to Brandon Maïsano, five seconds ahead of the second, Sergei Sirotkin who found a gap on De Vries on the last lap. D’Agosto fourth, Ceccon fifth, Vainio sixth, Giovinazzi seventh, Taylor eighth and Anttila ninth.

Report: Kartcom

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