Gara 1 Race⏱ 50 min

Circuito di Pomposa – Gara 1 – 25 July 2026
49 minutes of endurance racing on the 1,213-metre Pista Kart in San Giuseppe di Comacchio (Ferrara), with 14 karts on the grid — a tightly fought battle from lights to flag.

KART 2 takes the win after 89 laps completed, crossing the line just 1.746 seconds ahead of KART 6. The gap is minimal and reflects a genuine duel at the front throughout the race. KART 9 rounds out the podium, also on 89 laps but 17.353 seconds behind the leader. KART 12 finishes fourth, one lap down, while KART 8 and KART 11 share fifth and sixth on 87 laps, separated by only 0.025 seconds in best lap time (33.526 vs 33.551).

Further back, KART 7 claims seventh (85 laps), with KART 1, KART 4 and KART 14 all completing 83 laps to fill positions eight through ten. KART 3 and KART 10 finish 11th and 12th on 82 laps, followed by KART 5 (82 laps, 7 laps down) and KART 13 in 14th on 81 laps.

The fastest lap of the race was set by KART 6, with a time of 32.558 seconds — a detail that illustrates just how close the top two were: KART 2's best lap of 32.562 s was only four thousandths slower.

Pace analysis: classification mirrors raw speed. The on-track rhythm tells a story consistent with the final standings. KART 2 posts the best median pace of the race at 32.688 s/lap — the fastest pure rhythm overall — while KART 6 is fractionally behind at 32.699 s/lap. Both teams share an identical consistency figure of 0.21 s standard deviation, meaning neither gave away anything in terms of regularity. KART 9, third in race and third in pure pace (32.870 s/lap), is also the most consistent of the top three with a 0.18 s standard deviation.

KART 4 and KART 14 head the mid-pack consistency chart, each at 0.18–0.20 s, while KART 7 is the least consistent finisher in the analysed group, with a 0.24 s standard deviation — the widest spread among the 12 teams included in the analysis. Notably, KART 1 and KART 3 share the tightest regularity figure at 0.17 s, yet finish eighth and 11th respectively: their discipline did not translate into pace, confirming that raw speed, not consistency alone, separates the field at Pomposa.

Pit-stop counts align closely with lap totals across the field, from 90 stops for the top two karts down to 81 for KART 13, reflecting a straightforward mandatory-stop format with no outlier strategy recorded.

Key takeaways for teams. At the Circuito di Pomposa, the finishing order on 25 July 2026 was a faithful reflection of outright pace: no team was able to compensate for a slower median rhythm through strategy or consistency alone. The victory margin of 1.746 s over 49 minutes underlines that the battle between KART 2 and KART 6 was decided in pure pace — a 0.011 s/lap median advantage in favour of KART 2 proved decisive over 89 laps. For mid-field karts, the priority is clear: closing the pace gap is the only lever available, as pit-stop discipline and regularity are already well managed across the board.